North Atlanta Celebrates International Night

North Atlanta High School students and faculty Thursday night celebrated the school's rich cultural and ethnic makeup.

Food, fashion, dance, poetry, music and theater at North Atlanta's 27th International Night showed the variety of nationalities represented at the school.

Countries represented included Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Iran, Wales, Vietnam, Portugal, Spain, Mexico, Britain, United Arab Emirates, China, Germany, Greece and the Czech Republic.

After folks sampled a sumptuous banquet of tastes at a swirling international food court, a lineup of young performers entertained the appreciative crowd with numbers ranging from China and Korea to Iraq, Africa, Spain and France. The evening concluded with an international fashion show.

Douglas Frutiger, retired head of the school's pioneer International Baccalaureate program, said in an address that the school's International Night showed the reality that the world has become interconnected globally. He cited how much more ethnically diverse Atlanta has become since the school's first International night.

"It's a little bit of a taste of reality for us in a busy world," Frutiger said about the event.