This celebration promotes cultural awareness of the Asian Pacific American communities and celebrates the diversity of Long Island’s population. Featured will be multicultural booth display, arts and crafts, costumes, dance, featured presentations, photo exhibit, tea ceremony, vendor and corporate displays and workshops. There will be multicultural dance and musical performance, open theater, Presentation of Awards for Distinguished Asian Americans and Awarding Ceremonies for the Social Harmony contest. Triveni Rao, a senior physicist at BNL, will be honored. Rao, the head of the Laser Applications Group in the Instrumentation Division, is developing new lasers and photocathodes for critical experimental programs in accelerator technology and materials science.