Toronto Multicultural Calendar, Blog and Event Photography

662. Heritage Toronto’s Neighbourhood Tours – May 21 and June 11, 2016

19 May

Categories: Multicultural

Migration, Food and Identity in North York’s Little Manila. May 21, 10:30am-12pm. $20. ($10 for Heritage Toronto subscribers).Taste Bathurst-Wilson’s emerging Little Manila and experience the ongoing transformation of the neighbourhood’s vibrant culture and food market. Learn about the migration experiences and the thriving entrepreneurship of Toronto’s Filipino community, one of the city’s fastest-growing, and most diverse cultural groups.

Bonus: FV Foods will be providing samples of a Filipino dessert on the tour. Start Point: Bathurst and Wilson Parkette, (3749 Bathurst Street); End Point: Heaven’s Grill (424 Wilson Avenue).

The Layers of Thorncliffe Park. June 11, 1:30-3pm.  Thorncliffe Park is currently home to over 30,000 people who have come to Canada from all over the world, but especially from South Asia. Cost: by donation $5-$10.
For more information and registration: http://heritagetoronto.org/events/.
Image from Thorncliffe Park demonstrations about sex education, 2015. Copyright ©2016 Ruth Lor Malloy

Image from Thorncliffe Park demonstrations about sex education, 2015. Copyright ©2016 Ruth Lor Malloy

For our 2015 blog about Thorncliffe Park, see: http://bit.ly/1NzDRov.
 
For our 2014 blog about the Filipino tour of St. James Town, see: http://bit.ly/1TICQHf
 
Cover image: of Diana Marie Roldan, tour guide of 2014 Filipino tour of St. James Town.
Please send us information and preferably posters about free or almost-free events expressive of Toronto’s cultural diversity to ruthlormalloy@gmail.com.  Deadline for all June events on June 5.
 
 

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