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Fleur de lys, Fleur de thé arrives at Baie-Saint-Paul!

Fleur de lys, Fleur de thé is coming back back for 2026!

This year, we will bring the festival to Baie-Saint-Paul to present 12 activities and shows for the whole family. The Festival Accès Asie’s team, accompanied by 10 remarkable Asian artists, will settle in Charlevoix, at Maison Mère Baie-Saint-Paul from August 20 to August 23 2026

We’ll introduce the public to the best of our program! Fleur de lys, Fleur de thé offers to artists of Asian origin, whose activities are mostly based in the metropolis, the opportunity to present their works and their artistic disciplines regionally, and allows a cultural sharing with the public and the artists of a particular region of Quebec. This component is an essential part of our mission as an organization, as it allows us to present our work to an audience that would not have been exposed to the art of the Asian diaspora, to build relationships across the province, and to increase understanding of our communities in order to combat stereotypes through exposure and dialogue. 

We count on you to join us in large numbers! For this edition, the activities are suitable for a public of all ages. Discover our program in detail here and the press release below. See you soon!

Program Summary

Tuesday, July 28 – Monday, August 24 2026

EXHIBITION – LABYRINTH EYE | Khosro Berahmandi | Visual arts

Thursday, August 20 2026

5 PM – OPENING CEREMONY 

6:30 PM –  LABYRINTH EYE’S OPENING | Khosro Berahmandi

Friday, August 21 2026

9:30 PM – IYENGAR YOGA SESSION | Emmanuelle Marion

2:30 PM – VISIT AT THE MACBSP WITH FAA | Ari Bayuaji | Visual arts

7:30 PM – DANCE SHOW – KRISHNA PANCHAKA MALLARI & SHIVOHAM / SALAM TATA | Sasha Ashwini et Natsumi Sophia Bellali | Dance

9:30 PM – DANCING EVENING WITH SHEENAH KO | Sheenah Ko | Music

Saturday, August 22 2026

10 AM – ORIGAMI WORKSHOP | Ryunosuke

11:30 AM – MOVEMENT WORKSHOP: ON DAAAAANSE | Natsumi Sophia Bellali

4 PM – MUDRA WORKSHOP | Sasha Ashwini

7:30 PM – BEST OF ASIATE EN COURT 2026 | Laurence Ly et cinéastes | Cinema

Sunday, August 23 2026

11 AM – CORDES EN SOIE | Ran Wang et Sareh Borna | Music

1 PM – ROAMING JUGGLING PERFORMANCE | Ryunosuke | Circus

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Fleur de Lys, Fleur de thé is back!

The regional component of the Festival Accès Asie, Fleur de lys, fleur de thé, is back in Gaspesia! We look forward to presenting our new lineup of six events.

Our Festival team will accompany 10 artists from the Asian diaspora at La Vieille Usine in L’Anse-à-Beaufils from August 17 to 20.

Fleur de lys, fleur de thé is an opportunity for artists from the Asian diaspora to share their works in rural communities in Quebec. Its objective is to promote understanding and appreciation of Asian stories, art, and culture, by addressing audiences who are still too little confronted with them. We want to help build relationships across the province, help fight stereotypes and amplify minority voices.

Find the whole program on our website: https://accesasie.com/en/special_projects/fleur-de-lys-fleur-de-the-2023/

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March 20 to 25 – Let’s Confront Racism Together!

For the second year in a row, Festival Accès Asie is committed to taking part in the fight against systemic racism.

We are therefore developing our anti-racist component through the arts in March 2023, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the Semaine d’actions contre le racisme au Québec.

For this second edition, Festival Accès Asie is organizing four activities that delve on the racism experienced by racialized and indigenous artists throughout their careers.
The activities proposed during 2nd edition will take place from Monday, March 20 to Saturday, March 25, 2023, including an evening of screening and discussion dedicated to racialized filmmakers whose work address racism,

📌 A screening of 4 short films followed by a discussion with the filmmakers around their questioning of identity,

📌A screening of indigenous short movies that draw on the links among identities and lands,

📌 A conversation among asian artists on the role played by stories in reclaiming Chinatowns,

📌 A concert and a party that celebrates the solidarity among artistic communities and the people involved in interconnected antiracist struggles.

Find the entire program here ➡️ Event for Let’s confront racism together !

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Cinema – Big Fight in Little Chinatown

In the early 20th century, Chinatowns began to appear in North American cities. Often bordered by affluent neighbourhoods, they are threatened by developers keen to exploit the land for its real estate value. Big Fight in Little Chinatown exposes attempted evictions and highlights the fighting spirit of communities defending their heritage. In today’s context, where anti-Chinese racism has been exacerbated by the pandemic, this intelligent film, brimming with emotion and levity, sets the record straight. (RIDM)

Country: Canada | Language: Mandarin, French, English | Subtitles: French

Co-presented with Cinéma Public.

📍Friday February 3 at 6 p.m. at Casa d’Italia, in the attendance of the director Karen Cho

📍Sunday February 5 at 4 p.m. at Casa d’Italia

Tickets: https://urlz.fr/ksDF

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We are going to Japan!

As part of our collaboration with the Image Forum Festival in Tokyo, we present during their 36th edition From Montreal to Tokyo, 9 short films by 7 Asian-Canadian directors. Our artistic director, Khosro Berahmandi, is currently in Japan to support this programming and meet the country’s artists and presenters. A beautiful trip, full of discoveries!

Here is the program:
Alisi Telengut (Mongolia/Canada) | Long Live Forest | 2019 | 5:00
Ivetta Sunyoung Kang (South Korea/Canada) | The Evanescent | 2017 | 5:12
Jinyoung Kim (South Korea/Canada) | Leave Me Don’t Leave Me | 2019 | 11:47
Xiaoxiao Yan (China/Canada) | How Do You Eat When You Are Eating | 2018 | 0:53
Pavitra Wickramasinghe (Sri Lanka/Canada) | Last Syllable of Time | 2012 | 3:20
Kim Sanh Châu and Ray Lavers (Vietnam/France/Canada) | Inner Smoke | 2016 | 11:00
Alisi Telengut (Mongolia/Canada) | The Fourfold | 2020 | 7:13
Kim Sanh Châu (Vietnam/France/Canada) | Midland | 2020 | 6:59
Tigris Sakda (China/Canada) | Not Your Panda | 2018 | 5:19

As a reminder, as part of this collaboration, five short films by Japanese directors were presented last May, followed by a discussion with Koyo Yamashita, curator of programming who came straight from Japan.

Koyo Yamashita and Khosro Berahmandi at the first broadcast of the program “From Montreal to Tokyo”
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