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Call for Volunteers

Volunteers Needed for the 30th Anniversary of the Accès Asie Festival! 🎉

Become a volunteer for the launch event on May 1, 2025, from 3:00 PM to 9:00 PM! We are looking for motivated volunteers to help us celebrate this 30th edition of the Accès Asie Festival.

The Accès Asie Festival showcases the work and efforts of creators from Asia and its diaspora every May, during Asian Heritage Month in Canada. It focuses on amplifying the voices and experiences of these artists through a variety of artistic disciplines, including visual arts, dance, theater, cinema, music, literature, performance, new media, and culinary arts.

Launch event program:
A mix of performances ranging from circus acts by Ryunosuke Yamazumi to a tribute to Indigenous Peoples by Nina Segalowitz, followed by the captivating rhythms of DJ Maya Tayyara. The cocktail will be hosted by Big Daddy Queen Power.

Experience in catering is a plus.

Candidates must be available for the information session on Monday, April 28.

Interested? Please sign up before April 21 via this Google Form.

Find the full program on accesasie.com and follow us on Instagram (@festivalaccesasie) and Facebook (Festival Accès Asie).

Looking forward to seeing you there! ✨

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Call for volunteers

© Kathy Poire and Maureen Pasquier

Become a volunteer for Festival Accès Asie ! 

For this 29th edition, we need motivated volunteers to help us with the opening cocktail on Thursday May 2, 2024, from 3 to 9 pm!

Through performances, exhibitions, concerts, and workshops, the Festival showcases artists from Asian communities and collaborations with artists from other communities. It builds bridges between Asian artists and the rest of society, and offers cultural mediation activities.

On the program for this evening: Indian choreographer Amrita Choudhury and Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk) dance artist Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo will come together to celebrate the festival’s launch through a sacred ritual, followed by Indian classical Odissi, Indigenous Fancy Shawl (a powwow dance), and the rhythms of folk  Bollywood. Afterwards, DJ Ziad Nawfal will have the audience dancing to the beats of the Middle East.

Interested?
Register before April 23, 2024 at [email protected]

In the meantime, find the full schedule of the Accès Asie Festival on our website accesasie.com/ and follow us on Instagram (@festivalaccesasie) and Facebook (Festival Accès Asie).

We hope to see you there!

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