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Kids' World, The Children's International Festival
Dates:
November 2008

Where:
Tulsa Fairgrounds, Expo Square, Upper Level, IPE Building,
4145 E. 21st. Street.

Festival Hours :
Thursday, 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, Noon - 5:00 p.m.

Admission:
$3 Children 12 and under
$4 Adults (includes $1 Expo surcharge)

Kids' World is produced by Tulsa Global Alliance.
2006 Presenting Sponsors are The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and Tulsa World.

Kids' World Mission: "To promote understanding and peace by creating an inspiring, entertaining and educational international children's event which increases tolerance and appreciation of all cultures."

Festival Details: Experience the world's cultures in a child-friendly environment that appeals to your sense of imagination and wonder. Through hands-on activities, story-telling, entertainment, food and conversation with people from nearly every corner of the globe, you will celebrate the diversity that makes up our world.

Kids' World began in 1993 with a vision of uniting Tulsa's diverse ethnic communities under one roof to provide children with a cultural perspective and unique understanding of our world. Since then, the festival has blossomed into the premier international educational festival in the region.

Field trip reservations are required for Thursday and Friday for groups of 10 or more students. Field trips are open to any public, private or home school. Participating classes will receive a Kids' World International Curriculum.

Contact Information:
Tulsa Global Alliance
Phone: 918-591-4750
Fax: 918-591-4755
info@tulsaglobalalliance.org

Kids' World 2004 Impact Statement: (2006 statement coming soon)

	20,000 participants attended Kids' World and learned about 30 countries;
	140 public, private and home school groups from Tulsa and Northeastern Oklahoma participated in field trips;
	6,608 students attended Kids' World on scheduled field trips; 300 copies of the Kids' World curriculum were distributed to Tulsa area teachers and parents who home school;
	56 ethnic, business and civic groups participated as exhibitors, occupying 100 booth spaces;
	1100 volunteers participated at the festival;
	TGA designed and wrote an 8-page tabloid that was distributed in the Sunday Tulsa World to 522,556 readers;
	40,000 students received copies of "Greet the World" a 16-page geography supplement written and designed by TGA and printed and distributed by the Tulsa World Newspaper in Education program;
	Five exchange students from Zelenograd, Russia, visited Kids' World and volunteered at the Zelenograd booth Thursday and Friday of Kids' World;
	500 entertainers provided in excess of 30 hours of live entertainment on the Kids' World stage;
	22 classrooms participated in the Kids' World Geography Contest in which students were asked to design a game using simple inexpensive items, a map, and their imagination.
	296 Eisenhower International School students performed on the Kids' World stage by grade level;
	700 low income students and agency children received free admission to Kids' World (Street School, Sapulpa Head Start, Houston Elementary, Youth at Heart, Indian Health Resource Center, etc.).
	TGA designed and produced a 12-page "Tolerance, Appreciation, Acceptance - Paving the Path to Peace" tabloid. The Tulsa World distributed 40,000 copies of tolerance tab to area classrooms in April 2004. The supplement also was used in packets for the Community Service Council Youth Summit for High School students that took place in April.