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2007 Fort Lauderdale Youth ConferenceConnecting Cultures: Building Peace through the Arts
Fort Lauderdale, July 18-21, 2007 View the Youth Conference Flyer! Schedule at a glance!  About the ConferenceThe arts are a wonderful and accessible way to begin to understand and appreciate another culture. Arts exchanges are a hallmark of the sister city movement, and at the 2007 Sister Cities International youth conference, Connecting Cultures: Building Peace through the Arts, American and International youth spent four days bridging cultural differences through art, music, food, and dance.The 2007 youth conference took place in Fort Lauderdale, Florida at the Bahia Mar Hotel and the Broward County Convention Center. It provided students an opportunity to learn from each other through activities like belly dancing and Hawaiian dancing, African story telling, mask making, and Indian drumming. Participants also viewed International films, attended a Best Practices Showcase at the annual conference, and brainstormed how to jumpstart their organization's youth programs. In Fort Lauderdale, youth delegates:
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