29th Annual International Festival of Raleigh is Getting Early Media Attention

Melissa Beard, executive director of International Focus has finished taping two interviews for local TV.

Bill LuMaye, host of Community Matters on MYRDC, and Jayne Kirkpatrick, host of The City Show on RTN 11, interviewed Beard about the upcoming International Festival to be held September 19-21 at the Raleigh Convention Center.

This is one phase of a muti-level publicity and media relations campaign Articulon is managing to increase attendance at the Festival.

In it 29th year, the International Festival is three days of food, music, dance, shopping and education activities representing 63 different cultural groups that make up the population of Wake County. It kicks off with a naturalization ceremony where each year as many as 300 foreign-born residents become citizens.

Community Matters Set