Reception for the Minorcan Cultural Exchange Program at the University of Florida

Special events

Universities and colleges

Choir singing

Choirs (music)

Dancers

Minorcans

Performing arts

Folk dance

Singers

Fifty-one color slides. The Minorcan Cultural Exchange Tour, which ran from 10/6-13/1983, was created through an agreement between Florida Dept. of State and Minorca to celebrate Florida's two hundred year Minorcan heritage. First brought over as workers for a British plantation in the 1770s, most soon escaped the harsh working conditions and settled in St. Augustine. The tour was organized by Secretary of State George Firestone, the Bureau of Florida Folklife (Bulger, Belland, Loomis), Division of Historical Resources (Jean Lee and Paul Weaver) and the Florida Museum of History (Pat Wickman). With 140 performers and delegates from Minorca, the tour consisted of a series of public performances and emerged out of the smaller program, the Minorcan Heritage Week held in May 1983. The tour traveled from St. Augustine, to the University of Florida, to EPCOT, to Cypress Gardens, then finally to Miami for departure back to Spain. Some records for the tour can be found in S 1578, Box 3, folder 81.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1577

1983-10-06

Florida Folklife Program

University of Florida (Gainesville, Fla.)

Still Image

S1577

v. 24

Color slides

S84-269 - S84-271, S84-273, S84-275 - S84-288, S84-404 - S84-407

Minorcan Cultural Exchange Tour

Bulger, Peggy A.

Capella Davidson choir

Minorcans

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