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| What: |
1st
Annual Africa-Expo International Exposition |
| When: |
December
17 - 24, 2002 |
| Where: |
Las
Vegas, Nevada (USA) |
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CALENDAR
Tuesday, December 17, 2002
All participants will be
picked up at McCarren Airport and taken to their hotels on
Fremont Street where they will have dinner and retire.
Wednesday, December 18, 2002
All participants will meet after
meals during the day for an Orientation program where they
will be given information and tickets they will need for
their stay. They will be free afterward to walk around the
closed avenue and undergo the "Fremont Experience"
of bands, shops, and light exhibitions.
Thursday, December 19, 2002
All participants will meet after
breakfast and will be taken by bus to Cashman Center where
their goods will be waiting for them at their booths and
they can spend the morning arranging their booths. After
lunch, the media, press, and celebrities will be able to
tour the Expo and make their purchases until early evening.
When Cashman Hall closes, all participants will be taken to
their hotels.
On the same night at 8:30 P.M. there will be a black tie
CELEBRITY DINNER at an elegant Strip Hotel where important
government officials (whose names will be announced in the
future), celebrity actors and actresses, athletes, movers
and shakers, socialites, the rich and famous will dine on
exquisite food and wine while meeting guests from throughout
the world. Tickets for the Celebrity Dinner will be sold in
advance with the proceeds going to our charities.
Friday, December 20, 2002
All participants will be taken
to Cashman Hall where they will meet the public during the
entire day when the Expo will be open. In the evening, there
will be another gala CELEBRITY DINNER AND FASHION SHOW where
guests will dine on exquisite food and wines at an elegant
Strip hotel while seeing some of the newest and most
exciting fashions for men, women and children using African
cottons, linens, silks and woolens. Designers will be
African and African-American. Tickets for the event will be
sold in advance and proceeds will go to our charities.
Saturday, December 21, 2002
All participants will be taken
by bus to Cashman Hall for the second day of the Expo which
will be open to the public. In the afternoon, there will be
a concert of rap, hip-hop, reggae, etc., music by famous
musicians in the Cashman Theater which will be geared to a
younger audience. Tickets for this event will be sold in
advance and at the entrance. Proceeds will go to our
charities. In the evening, there will be an elegant CONCERT
at a Strip hotel with famous musicians of opera, ballet,
jazz etc. Tickets for the event will be sold in advance and
proceeds will go to our charities.
Sunday, December 22, 2002
All participants will be taken
by bus to Cashman Hall for the last day of the Expo which
will be open to the public.
Monday, December 23, 2002
After breakfast all participants
will be taken back to Cashman Hall to pack up all unsold
goods which be collected for future auction sale or shipped
back to Africa. After packing, the participants will be
taken to a luncheon reception at a hotel where they will
meet the people who made the Expo possible.
Tuesday, December 24, 2002
This day will be free for all
participants.
Wednesday, December 25, 2002
Christmas Day will be free for
all participants.
Thursday, December 26, 2002
Morning: Sightseeing of City for
Africans
Afternoon-Evening: Excursion on Lake Mead for Africans
Friday, December 27, 2002
Trip to Laughlin, Nevada for
Africans
Saturday, December 28, 2002
Participants will board
chartered bus to McCarren Airport and depart for their
homes.
Special Events
- An Art Exhibition by
distinguished African and African-American artists.
(Free to public)
- Book Festival of works
commissioned especially for the Expo and books by
distinguished African and African-American writers will
be on sale.
- Poetry and Prose readings
by distinguished African and African-American writers.
(Free to public).
- African and
African-American Film Festival. (Free to public).
- The world's first
Conference of African and African-American Nobel
Laureates, scientists, writers, artists, and
intellectuals.
- African-inspired Fashion
Show and Dinner.
- Concert for Young People
of famous artists.
- Concert of Classical
Musicians.
- African Food Festival.
- Children's Story Telling.
(Free to public).
- Meeting Room for Bankers
and Business People to meet with Exhibitors to Arrange
for Future Business Deals (By appointment only).
- A genealogy section
chaired by an experienced expert who will show people
how to research their African and African-American
ancestors.
- African wine festival.
- Flags of all African
nations will be exhibited.
- Hospitality suite for
media.
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