The festival
About Festival Accès Asie
Festival Accès Asie is an interdisciplinary, intercultural and intergenerational festival that has been celebrating Asian heritage month in Montreal every year since 1995. It amplifies the voices and practices of artists from the Asian continent and its diaspora working in a wide array of disciplines, including performing arts, visual and media arts, literary arts, interdisciplinary arts, and culinary arts.
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1995 Festival Accès Asie celebrates its 30th edition in 2025, remaining the oldest Canadian-Asian multidisciplinary arts festival
3 festivals - Throughout the year, you can take part in our three festivals: Confronting Racism Together (March), Festival Accès Asie (May), and Fleur de Lys, Fleur de Thé (September).
Over 20 countries - The Festival has showcased artists from more than twenty countries across the Asian continent, including East Asia (Japan, China, Korea); Southeast Asia (Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore); South Asia (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka); as well as Central Asia and the Middle East (Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Armenia).
News
As part of the démART–Mtl (Artistic stream) program of the Conseil des arts de Montréal, Festival Accès Asie is launching a call for applications to host a visual artist in a six-month immersion residency (January to June 2026)..
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The selected designer will be responsible for developing a main visual, which will be adapted and declined for the 31st edition of Festival Accès Asie (May 2026).
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Volunteers Needed for the 30th Anniversary of the Accès Asie Festival! 🎉 Become a volunteer for the launch event on […]
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