Once they get some rest after a night of haunting on Halloween, MSU students and Lansing area residents will have an opportunity to celebrate different cultures.
Seoul Train and The Great Lakes Anishnaabek Traditional Pow Wow will both be held Saturday.
Korean Students United will present Seoul Train at 8 p.m. in the Kellogg Center's Big 10 rooms B and C.
"It's there as a social event with a lot of Asian people, but not just catered to Asian people," said Lucia Yi, an executive board member of Korean Students United. "There's a lot of different music - hip-hop and some Korean music will be in there."
Organization President Thomas Cho said the event has been presented since 1996 and more than 300 people usually attend.
"It started as a way for the Korean and Asian Pacific American community to get out and have fun that was inclusive for them," he said.
Tickets for the dance are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. For more information, visit www.msu.edu/~ksu.
But Seoul Train is not the only cultural event this weekend.
Dancing, drumming and a flautist will be featured throughout the 11th annual Great Lakes Anishnaabek Traditional Pow Wow, sponsored by the Lansing Community College Multicultural Center.
"The word that we use, Anishnaabek, means the first people in this part of this land," powwow coordinator Eva Menefee said. "It's a word Potawatomi, Ottawa and Chippewa people use to identify themselves."
Almost 1,000 people are expected to attend the pow wow, which begins at noon with a grand entry, where dignitaries and elders lead the participants through an invocation, songs and intertribal dancing, Multicultural Center counselor Dick Eicher said.
Flautist Juan Cruz will perform at 4 p.m.
Vendors and a flint napper making arrowheads will be present all day until the second grand entry at 6 p.m.
"It gives people a better understanding of Native-American cultural traditions and is important in terms of creating a greater sense of cohesiveness among that community," Eicher said. "It's a social event, but it's a spiritual event too."
For more information on the powwow, call (517) 483-1059 or visit lcc.edu.
