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Asian Heritage Symposium 2010 | ===History of Asian Heritage Month in Canada=== | ||
1995: The first Asian Heritage Month (AHM) meeting in Toronto initiated by Toronto Asian Heritage director,Saheed Khan. This event was supported by the Canada Council Head of Music section, Gary Christall, and included AHM partners from Vancouver, Jim Wong Chu, Zainub Verjee, Toronto’s Desh Par Desh team and Accès Asie’s team with Janet Lumb, Bernard Nguyen and Attif Siddiqi. | |||
2003: A four-day meeting occurs between Montreal Asian Heritage Festival with the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month group. This exchange meeting was supported by Canada Council through its Outreach section and included William Lau as a representative from Toronto’s Little Pear Garden Collective. | |||
2005: Accès Asie organized a national AHM team meeting in Toronto that was sponsored by the Harbourfront Centre with representatives from Asian Heritage Month groups from Toronto, Ottawa, Halifax, Montreal and Calgary. | |||
2006: A teleconference call was organized with Senator Poy and with Asian Heritage Month groups across Canada consisting of representatives from Montréal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Halifax and Ottawa. | |||
===Asian Heritage Symposium 2010=== | |||
Accès Asie (aka Montreal Asian Heritage Festival) is hosting a national Asian Heritage Month(AHM) symposium for Fri., Sat. Sun. Sept. 17, 18, 19, 2010 in Montreal. Building into, during and after the symposium in a participatory national momentum towards an network, Accès Asie is initiating an Asian Canadian wiki, www.asiancanadianwiki.org. Documents, notes and comments, of the symposium will be available on the wiki for all to access and to add. | Accès Asie (aka Montreal Asian Heritage Festival) is hosting a national Asian Heritage Month(AHM) symposium for Fri., Sat. Sun. Sept. 17, 18, 19, 2010 in Montreal. Building into, during and after the symposium in a participatory national momentum towards an network, Accès Asie is initiating an Asian Canadian wiki, www.asiancanadianwiki.org. Documents, notes and comments, of the symposium will be available on the wiki for all to access and to add. | ||