Students work hard behind the scenes of the Peach Blossom Festival

February 23, 2018.Reading time 8 minutes.

Fresno State students from the Communication Department are in full work mode preparing for this year’s Peach Blossom Festival, which will take place March 8 and 9.

Peach Blossom memories span generations

November 27, 2017.Reading time 8 minutes.

From left, Cassidy Smith and her mother Stacy Batrich-Smith

Stacy Batrich-Smith and her daughter Cassidy Smith (pictured above) have deep ties to Fresno State. Both are Arts and Humanities alums — Stacy graduated from the then-Radio and Television option in 1976; Cassidy was a Smittcamp scholar and a dean’s medalist from the Department of Media, Communications and Journalism in 2011. And both participated in Peach Blossom, the annual oral interpretation festival hosted by the Department of Communication.

Thousands of K-6 students came to Fresno State for Peach Blossom Festival in March

March 9, 2017.Reading time 3 minutes.

~ By Lisa Maria Boyles, communications specialist for the College of Arts and Humanities It was 9:15 a.m. – just enough time for a last-minute potty break before performances began 15 minutes later in the Wahlberg Recital Hall. As 19 students from Neutra Elementary School in Lemoore tromped toward the restrooms down the hall of the […]