ASIAN HERITAGE MONTH FESTIVAL 2017

INVITATION | ASIAN HERITAGE MONTH-CANADA 150 | AUTHORS READINGS + CONCERT

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Date: Wednesday, May 31, 2017, 7 pm

Time: 7:00 pm. Please be seated by 6:45 pm.

Venue: Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto

Map at http://www.utoronto.ca/townhall/contact.html

Reception follows - sponsored by Mr. Justin Poy

Details and poster at: http://www.vmacch.ca/alpha/events/index.html

UNITY IN DIVERSITY: FUSION OF COMMUNITIES IN CANADA

OPENING ADDRESS: Mr. Justin Poy, Honorary Patron, Asian Heritage Month‐‐CFACI

Readings + Performances:

A Rendition of Classical Kathak

Mushtari Afroz

Gently to Nagasaki by Joy Kogawa | A Video Presentation

Sakura - - - Japanese Folksong

Erica Iris, mezzo-soprano |Teresa Suen, harp |Alice Ho, piano |

Chan Ka Nin, guitar

“A Drop of Water”| Poetry by Lien Chao & music by Amin Honarmand

Erica Iris, mezzo soprano | Alice Ho, piano

An Excerpt from Dragonfly | A Play by Robert Fothergill

Erica Iris, Robert Fothergill, actors

Shakeil Rollock and Shaylin Williams, dancers

Tribute to Jean Lumb | Arlene Chan

In a Landscape - - - by John Cage

Teresa Suen, harp

Interpretation of John Cage’s 4’ 33” | Patria Rivera

Patria Rivera, reader | Alice Ho, piano| Teresa Suen, harp|

Chan Ka Nin, guitar

An interpretation of a Tagore poetry

Mushtari Afroz

RECEPTION FOLLOWS (sponsored by Mr. Justin Poy)

Co-organizers:

Asian Heritage Month—Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) Inc., York Centre for Asian Research, York University; Richard Charles Lee Canada Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto; Social Services Network

Acknowledgements:

Mr. Justin Poy for sponsoring the Reception

Steinway Piano Gallery, Toronto, for sponsoring the Steinway piano

Asian Heritage Month Festival is partially funded by the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council