Experience Asia 2024

Take part in the Experience Asia 2024 event on May 18!

Gatineau is celebrating Asian Heritage Month in style with its Experience Asia event. This year, the 17th edition of the event will be held at Maison du citoyen on May 18, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., with a diversified program to please the whole family. Activities include music, song, dance, traditional food and crafts, as well as a variety of opportunities for cultural exchange. The event is an opportunity to discover the communities that make up Gatineau's cultural fabric, to meet new people and to live together. Some 15 countries will be represented.

See the programme below.

SHOWS (Salle des Fêtes)

11:00 am: Welcome of participants and First Nations welcome ceremony

11:20 a.m.: Musical performance by the Playboy Band and Oto-Wa Taiko: From Generation to Generation

11:30 a.m.: Filipino dance troupe from Ottawa

11:45 a.m.: Cambodian dance

12:00 p.m.: Angklung music and dance from Indonesia

12:20 p.m.: Laotian-style line dancing accompanied by the Playboy Band

12:40 p.m.: French-Canadian square dance by David Finkle & Anthony Brascoupe

1:00 p.m.: Music and dance from Korea

1:15 p.m.: Dance from Iran

1:30 p.m.: Dance and Zumba from Turkey

1.45pm: Dance from Afghanistan

2.00 pm: Traditional dance from Sri Lanka

2.15pm: Dance from India

2.30 pm: Japanese group Oto-Wa Taiko

2.50 pm: Playboy Band

3:00 pm: Closing with the song Saturday Night in Gatineau

EXHIBITORS:

Salle des Fêtes

- David Finkle and Laura Leonard: Aboriginal crafts and workshops

- The Great India Festival: Henna crafts and painting

- PAND Settlement Services: Crafts, tourist information on Iran

- Indonesian Canada Angklung Society (ICAS): Crafts, information, local food

- Minh Dao et Vérité - Bonté - Patience: Crafts and demonstration

Espace Montcalm

- Korean Community Association of Ottawa (KCAO): Typical Korean food, crafts and tourist information

- The Great India Festival: Typical food from India

- PAND Settlement Services: Typical Iranian food

- Titoleosbbq : Typical food from the Philippines

- Khao Thai : Typical Thai food

- Yi Chang : Typical Chinese food

Hall of Nations

- Canadian-Vietnamese table: welcome table

- Yi Chang: Traditional Chinese medicine

- Pranee Korth: Fortune-telling by face and palm reading

- Supamas Damkam: Umbrella painting workshop

- Pat Vanasse: Traditional Thai massage

- Home Outfitters, Canadian Natural treasures