During COVID-19, settlement services, including English groups, information sessions, and activities, are available online and by appointment.
Whistler Multicultural Festival
Every June, since 2013, the Welcome Centre, in partnership with the Whistler Multicultural Network, Whistler Public Library and Whistler Museum, has run the annual Whistler Multicultural Festival. This is a local event – by locals, for locals – celebrating the huge diversity we now have in Whistler.
In 2020, it was a little different and we went online! From September 28 to October 2 we invited the community to share the diverse cultures in Whistler.
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- Traditions and customs
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- Interviews
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- Food
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- Crafts
You can check out all the videos from 2020 on our youtube channel.
We showed videos of cultural activities, customs and other traditions including…
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- Bento box
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- Japanese tanabata
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- Crafts
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- Moroccan dress
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- Japanese writng
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- Brazilian fuxico
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- Arabic writing
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- Tanabata
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- Kimono – Japanese dress
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- Jubako
Immigrants shared food from their home countries and showed how to cook it… Check out the full recipes in our online cookbook…
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- Moroccan tagine
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- Mexican tacos
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- Green salsa
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- Food
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- Takowinah
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- Onigiri
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- Tamagoyaki
Performances and we shared included….
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- Flamenco workshop
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- Interviews
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- Interview with Fayssal
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- Interview with Yuan Yuan
In 2020, our thanks go to
Partners:
- Whistler Public Library, who let us broadcast from the library
- Capilano University, Community Development & Outreach, who program manage the Welcome Sea to Sky project, Whistler Settlement Services, and the Whistler Welcome Centre
- Sea to Sky Community Services, whose staff work in the Welcome Sea to Sky project and help run the Whistler Welcome Centre
- Whistler Multicultural Society who source funding each year to support the Festival, and lend us their connections into local immigrant communities to find performers, cultural representatives, volunteers, cooks, crafters etc.
- Whistler Community Services foodbank and the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre who partnered to share their own services and cultures.
Funders: the Province of BC and Canadian Heritage
Want to see more? Check out the Whistler Multicultural Festival over the years…
