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651. Beit Zatoun – May, 2016

This month Beit Zatoun’s events Include Tibetan music, and a photography exhibition called In/visible Scars – Torture Survivors in Canada. You’ll find  four stages

650. First Nations Pow Wows and Events – May 14-16,  21 & 22, and June 17-19, 2016

Our First Nations neighbours are busy this summer.  Here are opportunities to meet and enjoy them.  Do ask them questions about their culture, regalia,

649. Portuguese Week May 13 – June 26, 2016

It’s a special week that goes on for over a month, with our big, colourful Portuguese parade on June 12. For details, see: http://acapo.ca/portugal-week.

648. Asian & South Asian Heritage Month – May 13, 16, 19, 22 and more, 2016

Definitions and list of events: http://bit.ly/1VHjUyr and links. The following events are described in the Asian Heritage Month website: http://www.asian-heritage-month.org/alpha/events/index.html#event1 Asian Heritage Month Opening

647. Festival of Literary Diversity – May 6-8, 2016

This is not a group of authors from diverse cultural backgrounds reading from their works.  It is over 30 authors from diverse cultural backgrounds

646. Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration – May 5, 2016

Culture at the J sent us this notice about the Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration Thursday May 5 Doors open: 1:00 pm. Miles

645. Blue Like Me – Jewish Film Festival – May 9, 2016

Just saw a fascinating trailer about the work of an artist born in Mumbai, India to a Jewish family. Her images combine Jewish, Muslim,

644. Concert Young Bulgarian Musicians – May 1, 2016.

Bulgarians in Ontario is promoting a concert by two talented young classical musicians. Watch their videos and be amazed. For coloratura soprano Lizzie Naumova 

643. Hot Docs Festival – April 28 to May 8, 2016

232 documentary films from Africa, Australia, Central, South and East Asia,  Europe, Latin America, Middle East, Russia and Eastern Europe;  for list by country,

642. High Park’s Cherry Blossoms – May, 2016

 High Park’s famous Japanese cherry blossoms may or may not be fully blooming May 7 or 8. It depends on the weather. If it’s