The Peach Blossom Festival goes Virtual
This year, Fresno State brings the Peach Blossom Festival back to these resilient students on March 25-26, entirely online.
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Former Peach Blossom performer helps organize 62nd year of festival
In 2007, Pader Vue stepped foot on Fresno State’s campus for the first time for the Peach Blossom Festival. Thirteen years later, Vue is now one of the Communication Department students hosting the 62nd annual Peach Blossom Festival on March 12 and 13.
Read MoreDinuba teacher has been bringing students to Peach Blossom Festival for over 40 years
“It is probably one of the best experiences an elementary student can have,” said Olson. “The benefits of this festival reaches our young people in ways that cannot be duplicated anywhere else. The effects of this experience go beyond our imagination.”
Read MorePeach Blossom Festival brings 5,000 youth to Fresno State campus
About 5,000 children representing nearly 145 elementary schools from the San Joaquin Valley will participate in the 60th annual Peach Blossom Festival of Oral Interpretation on Thursday and Friday, March 8 and 9, in various locations on the Fresno State campus. The festival, which attracts schools from Livingston to Delano, was created to help young people gain knowledge and appreciation […]
Read MoreStudents work hard behind the scenes of the Peach Blossom Festival
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.
Read MorePeach Blossom Diamond Jubilee celebrates festival’s 60 years
The Peach Blossom Festival has touched the lives of many in Fresno over the past 60 years. The festival, presented by Fresno State’s Department of Communication, helps young people realize the importance of reading literature aloud and teaches them about interpretation, performance and being an audience member. Each year, Fresno State communication students spend months planning […]
Read MoreThis month in the Arts and Humanities — a December review
Wrapping up fall 2017, we look back on the final month of this semester. Here are the top five stories from December.
Read MorePeach Blossom memories span generations
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.
Read MoreThousands of K-6 students came to Fresno State for Peach Blossom Festival in March
~ 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 […]
Read MoreFresno State Focus highlights Peach Blossom Festival
This week on Fresno State Focus, a public affairs program produced by Media Communication and Journalism students, anchors Mary Kate Paquette of Bakersfield and Juan Avila of Porterville will speak with the a Fresno State student involved in the upcoming Peach Blossom Festival, which hosts elementary students from around the Valley. The Peach Blossom Festival is presented […]
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The College of Arts and Humanities at Fresno State 