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Asian Heritage Month 2009

Asian Heritage Month Activities

Here are some of the events taking place in the month of May to celebrate Asian Heritage Month...


MANGO CHERRY MIX

Press release

Dance

From May 7 to May 9, 2009 at MAI, 8:00 pm

MAI, Montréal Arts interculturels
3680, rue Jeanne-Mance, Montréal

Tickets MANGO CHERRY MIX: 514-982-3386
Reservation online: http://ticket.boxxo.info

NORTH INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC AND SUFI INSPIRED PERSIAN MUSIC CONCERT

Friends!

Come celebrate spring with a concert of North Indian classical music and Sufi inspired Persian music on May 9, 8 pm.

CATHERINE POTTER - bansuri
HINDOL MAJUMDAR - tabla

and Sufi inspired Persian music (first part of the evening)

SIAMAK NASR - setar
CATHERINE POTTER - bansuri
HINDOL MAJUMDAR - tabla


Saturday, May 9, 2009, 8:00 pm

EQUILIBRIUM
4812, blvd Saint-Laurent, Montréal (coin Villeneuve)

For more information: www.equilibriumyoga.ca
514-843-9642

$15 ($12 students)

For all information contact: info@productionsshadaj.com

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPRESSIONS OF ASIA

Press release

Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 7:30 p.m.

Library and Archives Canada (Auditorium)
395, Wellington Street, Ottawa

Free Admission

SOMEONE BETWEEN

Someone Between, Apsara Theatre Company's inaugurating production, is the journey of a young woman who finds herself between two worlds: old and new, family and the individual, Cambodia and Canada. It is a story of growing up bicultural, adding another voice to Canadian cultural mosaïque.

May 15 at 8:30 pm
May 16 at 2:30 pm and 8:30 pm
May 17 at 2:30 pm and 6:00 pm

Le Monument National
1182 boul. Saint-Laurent, Montréal

Contact telephone numbers:
Box office: 514-871-2224
Company: 438-275-2267 or 514-768-3042

Contact Name: Chantria Tram or Milena Buziak

Contact email address: ApsaraTheatreCompany@gmail.com

SPECIAL EVENT FOR THE ASIAN HERITAGE MONTH WITH HON. VIVIENNE POY

Press release

Date: May 16th, 2009

CINÉ-ASIE’S 2ND ANNUAL 2009 ‘NATIONAL VIDEO PORTRAIT CONTEST’

Press release

On May 22nd 2009, Ciné-Asie will be holding it’s annual ‘National Video Portrait Contest,’ showcasing a variety of Asian Canadian films & videos made from all over Canada, taking place in Montreal.

Date: May 22nd, 2009.

Place: Cinémathèque Québécoise Café-Bar
335 blvd. De Maisonneuve Est, Montréal, Québec.

Time: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Entrance Cost: Admission is free

Contact telephone number: (514) 544-5865

For more information: http://www.cineasie.ca



OTHER ASIAN HERITAGE MONTH EVENTS IN CANADA:

Halifax: Asian Heritage Month
http://asianheritagemonth.halifax.chebucto.org/

Fredericton: Asian Heritage Month Committee
Email: madhuverma@rogers.com
rverma@unb.ca

Ottawa: Ottawa Asian Heritage Month Society
http://www.asianheritagemonth.net/

Toronto: Asian Heritage Month
http://asian-heritage-month.org/
asianheritagecanadian@yahoo.ca
karen@ccnctoronto.ca

Winnipeg: Asian Heritage Manitoba
http://www.asianheritagemanitoba.ca/

Edmonton: Edmonton Asian Heritage Month
http://www.asian.ca/heritagemonth/

Calgary: imaginAsian
http://www.asianheritagecalgary.ca/

Vancouver: explorAsian
http://www.explorasian.org/