Edmonton Multicultural Coalition

Culture Day Celebration - 2022
2022-09-24 15:00 - 2022-09-25 18:00 (America/Edmonton)
Edmonton Multicultural Coalition Association (EMCA) strongly believes that literary and cultural exchanges can be a powerful tool to combat racism, prejudice, and stereotypes and cultivate mutual transformation.
Culture is one of humans’ unique tools to express their intrinsic and extrinsic norms and values. EMCA provides a platform for diverse cultural groups to show some of their elements on this cultural day celebration. A natural outcome will be to appreciate, understand, and embrace each other’s culture, supporting our unique identity of multiculturalism.
This September, in collaboration with Alberta Culture Days, we will bring together diverse and vibrant ethnocultural communities to translate and recite excerpts from their favourite poems, stories or songs. By reading and translating texts together, we aim to engage communities in exploring the most profound emotions and vulnerabilities hidden in our artistic expressions so we better understand each other – we aim to walk the talk, not just talk the talk.
Come jump on this joyous literary and cultural bandwagon. Let’s come together to share food, sing, read, and dance to this sweet song of diversity that makes us so unique and vibrant.
As the philosopher, Nietzsche says: “those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music”.

Join us if you hear this music!

September 24, 2022 – 3.00 PM – 6.00 PM
September 25, 2022 – 1.00 PM – 3.00 PM
Light refreshments will be served on both days.

Edmonton Multicultural Coalition and Greater Edmonton Alliance - Fundraising Kickoff event
2022-05-04 02:00 - 2022-07-04 11:00
Edmonton Multicultural Coalition and Greater Edmonton Alliance – Fundraising Kickoff event
Virtual Kickoff Fundraising Event

Dear friends and members of the Coalition,

On May 4th, 2022, from 6:00 PM -7:30 PM, the Edmonton Multicultural Coalition (EMC) and the Greater Edmonton Alliance (GEA) invite you to a virtual fundraising kickoff event.

The EMC and GEA share similar goals in their ongoing desire to build the capacity of everyday civic leaders to stand for the change they wish to see in their respective communities and have decided to join forces to raise funds.

Your donations are greatly appreciated in advance and will support the following initiatives:

Educational programs for community members
Leadership initiatives that train new leaders to participate in public action
Building capacities for the ethnocultural communities to make informed decisions
Action campaigns that have real impacts on members of our community.

Donation link : https://www.emcoalition.ca/donate/

We ask that you please register via the google form as below:

Google Registration Form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NSsWOpi9LtFJECJH1nE2hhFaSVMeen2ETxb0WwEf2C8/edit

All REGISTERED participants will receive the ZOOM Link.

Please feel free to contact us at tania@emcoalition.ca if you have any questions or concerns.

Thank you for your ongoing collaboration.

Annual General Meeting 2021
2021-11-13 04:00 - 06:00
Recruiting 5 Board members. Click here for the application form.

Culture Days Celebration
2021-09-29 13:00 - 14:30
The two part-evening event “Mapping Cultural Diversity Together” explores community storytelling through art forms. Six Edmonton communities with roots in South Asia, the Middle East and Africa will come together to share food, costumes, culture, tradition and stories to weave a narrative of multiculturalism in Alberta. Our aim is to uphold and preserve the cultures of different communities while presenting it to the public during the course of the events and to give an opportunity to all participants to learn from one another and understand the cultural differences and similarities.
DAY 1. Friday, 24 September, 2021, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – by Zoom
The focus of our first day is to introduce participants to the meaning behind the foods and fashion our cultures represent. There will be a presentation exploring the bread/staple grains and fashion of Azerbaijan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Nepal, Sierra Leone and Turkey followed by small group break-out rooms to share together about our own cultural experiences with food and fashion. The evening will be peppered with songs from around the world.
DAY 2. Wednesday, 29 September, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – by Zoom
Drawing on the same cultural traditions as Day 1, Day 2 will focus on dance, instrumental music, and fashion through shared videos produced locally as well as from participants’ communities back home. Between the performances, we will learn about the Ethiopian tradition of coffee ceremony and hair-braiding, and the Sierra Leone art of scarf tying.
