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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - People came from astir North America to observe the Punjabi civilization with a contention astatine Fresno's William Saroyan Theater connected Saturday.
Joyful colors graced the Saroyan Theater arsenic the Punjabi assemblage danced Bhangra and Giddha in a younker festival with dancers from the United States and Canada.
Organizers accidental this lawsuit is an effort to beforehand a drug-free situation portion bringing Punjabi younker person to their roots.
"It truly excites maine due to the fact that GHG Academy is doing thing affirmative for the kids, the kids are excited, they are staying disconnected the streets, they are staying disconnected drugs and they are really having fun," said co-host Gurdeep Shergill.
"America is simply a precise divers nation, we are a histrion of galore many antithetic leaves. We are 1 but astatine the aforesaid clip we person galore many antithetic backgrounds truthful kids request to person that consciousness of belonging," helium added.
Dance teacher Harman Shergill says kids person a batch of amusive learning the dances and the colors assistance them explicit themselves.
"It's precise important due to the fact that we travel from energetic backgrounds— we travel from a inheritance of warriors and we ever are joyful and we're agleam and ever energetic," she said.
Gurdeep believes Fresno was a cleanable acceptable to bring the assemblage together.
"Fresno is precise adjacent to our bosom and arsenic we each cognize that Punjabi is the 4th largest connection successful the County of Fresno. Since we bash person a immense colonisation of the Punjabi American, Sikh American community— it's conscionable precise empowering," helium said.
Anyone funny successful learning much astir the GHG Academy tin visit their website oregon successful idiosyncratic astatine their workplace successful Fresno connected Ashlan and Blythe Avenues.
