ASIAN HERITAGE MONTH | CANADA 150 CONCERT AND AUTHORS' READINGS
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ASIAN HERITAGE MONTH FESTIVAL 2017
INVITATION | ASIAN HERITAGE MONTH-CANADA 150 | AUTHORS READINGS + CONCERT
FREE ADMISSION: Please register on Eventbrite
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
