The festival
About Festival Accès Asie
Established in 1995, Festival Accès Asie is Canada’s longest continuously running Asian heritage arts festival. Festival Accès Asie is a Montréal-based arts festival that promotes Asian arts, cultures and histories through a diversity of artistic disciplines including the visual arts, dance, theatre, video, film, music, comedy, poetry, literature, performance, new media and culinary arts.
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27 years - Festival Accès Asie celebrates its 27th anniversary edition, marking a milestone as Canada’s longest continuously running Asian heritage month festival.
More than 20 countries - The Festival has presented artists of Asian origin from more than 20 different countries including East Asia (Japan, China, Korea); Southeast Asia (Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore); South Asia (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka); Central & Middle Eastern Asia (Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Armenia).
1000 artists - To date, it has presented works of over 1000 artists of Asian origin from various disciplines.
News
After more than 25 years of service, our beloved artistic director Khosro Berahmandi is leaving us to enjoy some well-deserved rest! Which is why we are currently looking for someone dynamic to fill his role.
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Another edition of Festival Accès Asie has come to an end! In total, 4097 of you attended this year’s events!
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You’ve all been waiting for it: our 2022 program has finally been revealed! Discover the 19 events that will make up our 27th edition.
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