Annual culture camp teaches students crafts, customs

Children and teenagers made bracelets, learned traditional dances and sampled traditional Burmese food June 13 during the Asian Cultural Center’s eighth annual Culture Camp for Children.\nThe free camp, which runs between June 10 and July 25, offers two two-hour sessions Tuesdays and Thursdays and one two-hour session on Wednesdays. During each session, students are put into groups and go to different stations in the Asian Cultural Center to learn about history and traditional language, food and crafts.\n“We wanted children to learn and realize the importance heritage plays in someone’s identity,” said Asian Culture Center Director Melanie Castillo-Cullather.\nThe program, which is in its eighth year, usually hosts about eight to 15 children per session and is open to students in first through ninth grade.