Edmonton Heritage Festival
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The Edmonton Heritage Festival is an annual celebration of Alberta's ethnic diversity. It was first celebrated in 1974, when then Minister of Culture, Horst Schmidt, declared the first Monday of August an annual holiday to recognise Albertans' cultural heritage. That year, the first Heritage Festival was held at Fort Edmonton Park.
In 1976, eleven cultural communities combined their resources to hold a one-day display of their traditional dances, foods, and crafts in Hawrelak Park, and in the intervening years, the celebration has grown to occupy all three days of the long weekend. Except for occasional declines due to poor weather, the festival has seen a steady increase in the number of attendees, and nearly thirty years after its inception, the most recent version drew almost three hundred and fifty thousand people[1] to celebrate over 60 different ethnicities and cultures.
Admission is free; however, people are requested to bring a donation for the Edmonton Food Bank. The Edmonton Heritage Festival is the largest contibutor to the Edmonton Food Bank. [2]
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Scandinavian Pavilion
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Scandinavian dancers
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Mexican dancers
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Ukrainian dancers
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[edit] Current and Historic Ethnic Pavilions
Aboriginal
Afghani
Afrika OYI
Arabic
Azerbaijani
Bangladeshi
Bornean
Bosnia-Hercegovinian
Cambodian
Caribbean
Chilean
Chinese
Congo
Croatian
Dutch
Ecuadorian
English
Eritrean
Ethiopian
Fijian
Filipino
French
German
Greek
Guatemalan
Hong Kong
Hungarian
Ibero American
Indian
Indonesian
Iranian
Iraq
Irish
Israeli
Italian
Japanese
Kenyan
Korean
Laotian
Malaysia - Singaporean
Mexican
Nepali
Nicaraguan
Nigerian
Pakistani
Peruvian
Polish
Polynesian
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Somali
Scandinavia
Serbian
Sudan
Sri Lankan
Taiwanese
Tanzania
Thai
Turkish
Ugandan
Ukrainian
Venezuelan - Brazilian
Vietnamese
Welsh
Zimbabawe
[edit] Green Event
As part of its green commitment, the festival uses only recyclable dishes and utensils, has foot, bike and bus access, [3] and, in an effort to reduce paper consumption, the festival has introduced an "app" that replaces paper maps and menus.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ http://heritage-festival.com/the-festival-history
- ^ http://www.edmontonsun.com/2011/08/01/heritage-festival-likely-an-attendance-success
- ^ http://www2.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=92ca31de-832b-48c0-835a-d18aa746a4d9
- ^ http://www2.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=40c30863-b6d6-472e-8a07-376cddcc0eec
