05/18/2009 02:00:00 PM storyThis year’s International Week events brought students, faculty, staff and the community together to watch films, celebrate two traditional celebrations of spring, the Japanese Sakure, a cherry blossom festival and the Pakistani Bassant, a kite flying festival, experience authentic cuisine and listen to music from some of the nations represented by UNT’s 2,500 international students. A new event, “Renewing Material and the Handmade: The Story of Ugandan Bark Cloth,” celebrated the centuries-old process of making cloth from the bark of mutuba trees in Uganda, Africa. Participants contributed to a mural that elementary school students in both Uganda and the U.S. began last fall.