New Canadians Centre Launches Inaugural Week-Long Canadian Multiculturalism Festival
/In honour of Canadian Multiculturalism Day on June 27, the New Canadians Centre (NCC) is organizing a week-long inaugural Canadian Multiculturalism Festival in Peterborough beginning Monday to June 27 announced Wednesday morning.
(from left to right) Andy Cragg, NCC executive director; Zebiba Sultan; Brisham Ramoutar, NCC communications and community engagement specialist and Hilary Flood, DBIA communications and marketing manager. Flood samples Ethiopian cuisine made by Sultan. The vegetarian dish contains red lentils, split peas, beets and a salad atop a large piece of injera (Ethiopian sour flatbread).
The festival aims to display multiculturalism within Peterborough through performance, storytelling, film and food.
“Celebrating multiculturalism in Peterborough creates community and helps people to feel like they belong,” says Andy Cragg, Executive Director. “We are proud to showcase the richness of experience in our community. It’s an underappreciated and unrecognized day in Canada.”
A food crawl with six downtown restaurants can earn you tickets towards Boro gift cards. Every $10 you spent from June 20 - July 1, gets anyone a stamp towards a Multicultural Food Passport. Collecting six earns a draw for the gift cards and participants do not have to visit all six restaurants to earn an entry.
Stamps and passports are available at the NCC or the following restaurants:
Curry Mantra
Levantine Grill
Hanoi House
Real Thai Cuisine
Dirty Burger
Milk + Tea
“Downtown Peterborough is a culinary hotspot for multicultural cuisine in the region,” said Hillary Flood, Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area communications and marketing manager. “We are so excited to be partnering with the New Canadians Centre for the Canadian Multiculturalism Festival to acknowledge and celebrate the significant contributions of our international cuisine and newcomer-owned restaurants and how they have shaped our culinary fabric downtown."
The following is a list of events occurring throughout the week:
Flavours of the World Sampling Day
All six restaurant will offer free samples of their food on June 25 between noon and 7 p.m.
Try It Series
The community can get their feet wet and participate in music, dance, cooking and sports from across the world:
Indian Spices - Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the NCC
Peruvian Flower Making - Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at the NCC
Taekwondo - Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at King Edward Park
Ethiopian Cooking - June 23, 6 p.m. via Zoom with Zebiba Sultan (ingredient kits can be obtained at the NCC from Monday to next Wednesday)
Zumba - June 24, 6 p.m. at the Silver Bean Patio (Millennium Park) by Dianely Hernandez
