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/