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First Annual Cherry Blossom Walk - March 27th

Co-Hosted with Sister Cities of Nashville

Mayor Karl Dean, Consul General of Japan Hiroshi Sato, and Sister Cities of Nashville ("SCN") Board President David Briley will lead the First Annual Cherry Blossom walk, a free community event hosted by SCN and JAST, to kick off Nashville's Second Annual Cherry Blossom Festival, co-sponsored by the Consul General's office and the Japan-America Society of Tennessee.

The festival will follow the walk and take place at Riverfront Park from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Walk participants are asked to convene at Riverfront Park. The procession will begin promptly at 9:00 a.m. and continue along Nashville’s Cumberland River Greenway for two, three or four miles, with the four-mile round trip route looping at Sister Cities’ Magdeburg Connector to Morgan Park in Germantown. (Map - http://tinyurl.com/yao35c2).

The purpose of the walk is to raise awareness throughout Nashville about the Second Annual Nashville Cherry Blossom Festival and highlight Nashville's unique relationship with Japan, which includes the cooperation of SCN and the Japanese Consul General's Office in developing a special relationship with a potential sister city in Japan.

The walk is also designed to promote the mission of Sister Cities of Nashville and JAST as well as raise money to support scholarship opportunities for Nashville students to study abroad in one of Nashville's many sister cities.

The event is free and open to all in the community. Commemorative t-shirts will be available for sale.

Donations in support of this event may be made to SCN, P.O. Box 120555, Nashville, TN 37212 with "Cherry Blossom Walk" on the memo line.

For more information about events leading up to the March 27th Cherry Blossom Festival and to contribute in support of the festival project, please visit the event website: www.nashvillecherryblossomfestival.org