Review Himasad VolksFest 2011

The Convergence of Wertern and Eastern Culture

HIMASAD Volksfest (HVF) is the first cultural event that orginized by German Department of Padjajaran University student. HVF is inspired by OktoberFest (a Volksfest that held on October) that held annually in German but its steering committee has set it in such a way in order to present the mixture of Indonesian and German culture.

There are a Photo contest and seminar that held as a pre event and the theme of both events is the cultural acculturation in Indonesia. There are tens of photograph that has capture the cultural acculturation in indonesia and successfully mesmeraize all visitors that came from the contest.The seminar is talk about how to capture culture journalistically with Han Han Subhan (photography expert), Idhar Resmadi (Rolling Stone magazine) and Adhi Rachdian (BUDPAR photograpy community) as the Judges and the speakers of the seminar.There is also a German education and cultural seminar that its speaker from Goethe Institue, Bandung and German department of Padjajaran University lecturer.

HVF main event was out standing, there are several bands and performers that jazz up the event. The bands and performers list are The Bon and the Don, Saturday Night Karaoke, DM Project, Mr. Sonjaya Tanzen, Adyasa Devindra, Lises and closed by the performance of Deugalih and Folks.