Special Park Board Events Kick Off Asian Heritage Month

May 1, 2006 (No. 30) - May is Asian Heritage Month across Canada and the Vancouver Park Board, in partnership with ExplorASIAN, is joining in the celebration with performances, workshops and special readings at community centres across the city.

You'll laugh at the antics of animals, wise people, and fools during the telling of Taiwanese Tales in Tandem entitled "When Two Suns Lit the Sky". These stories have been told for centuries by Taiwan's aboriginal people describing how their beautiful landscapes came to be. At the event, one storyteller speaks Taiwanese or Mandarin while the other speaks English. Together, the speakers weave a spell no matter what your language! This is a new and exciting collaboration between the Taiwanese Canadian Cultural Society, the Vancouver Society of Storytelling and ExplorASIAN.

Excellent for families ages 6 and older.

Date	Community Centre	Time	Location
May 6	Kensington	2:00 pm	Multi-purpose Room
May 20	Renfrew Park	2:00 pm	Room 110
May 27	Kitsilano	2:00 pm	Lobby Room

Workshop - "Fused Cultures"
This is a workshop and discussion on how traditional music from Asia meets electronica. Professional Asian-Canadian DJs will demonstrate and discuss their use of current software and hardware to create new hybrids of traditional music (ie. Panjabi Folk Music, Indian Classical Music) with modern electronica.

May 20, Hastings Community Centre, 2:00 to 4:00 pm

Visit www.explorasian.org for additional Asian Heritage Month program information.

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For information, contact: Megan Stuart-Stubbs , Community Arts Programmer, at 604-257-8479.

The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation maintains 200 parks and 40 major facilities throughout the City of Vancouver. The Park Board's mission is to provide, preserve and advocate for parks and recreation services to benefit people, communities and the environment.

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