Family Culture Collage for the Newcastle Culture & Heritage Festival Newcastle Families, The Newcastle Culture and Diversity committee, along with the Newcastle PTSA, are hosting a Culture & Heritage Festival on February 4 th from 6-8 PM. The theme is “Roam Around the World”. We invite all families to create a Family Culture Collage to be displayed at and leading up to the Festival. This is a chance to talk about your family’s heritage and share your cultural pride with our community. Directions: Very simply, we are asking each family to make a simple one-page collage-style display of images and words that reflect aspects of their family’s culture, heritage or world experiences. Steps: 1. Start with any standard sized paper 2. Add images, phrases, descriptions, drawings or anything you want to share a. Cut and paste on a computer. b. Use family photos c. Use Google images d. Draw, color, make art Feel free to use the examples below as templates or inspiration (including the Mellish family collage). 3. Return your Family Culture Collage to the teacher at any time but no later than February 2 nd . These will be sent to the office to be included in our displays around the school and at the event. If you do not have a printer at home, you can email the document to [email protected] to be printed and turned in for you. IDEAS: Things you could include: Images or descriptions of… Travels, travel pictures Cultural sites Celebrations and holidays or traditions Favorite family activities Cultural heritage artifacts or symbols Maps Flags Phrases in home language Foods Favorite sports teams Religious traditions and symbols Be creative and have fun together. Share what you want to share about your family, heritage, culture or world experiences!