The first Sonoma State University Language Festival is being planned from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 23 in the Cooperage and other selected venues on the Rohnert Park campus.
In the morning, local high school students will compete in poetry, diction, and public speaking contests in three languages, French, German and Spanish. After a short brown-bag lunch, many SSU students, faculty and family members will join selected high school groups in a cabaret extravaganza, from French and German hip hop to traditional New Orleans jazz by the Russian River Ramblers.
The ceremony to award prizes to the morning contest winners will take place immediately following the cabaret, and high school students will then be treated to a tour of SSU in the language they are studying. Admission to the cabaret is $3 at the door.
For more information, contact Christine Renaudin, Professor of Foreign Languages, at (707) 664-3159.
