CFAC Upcoming Events....
July 1, 2012 Multicultural Canada Day Celebration - Yonge Dundas Square.
Please view our video montage of last summer's Canada Day Celebration July 1st, 2011
This Multicultural Canada Day Celebration serves as a catalyst and is a means of creating awareness that a learning concept exists. Our Celebration will showcase Folklore. This celebration will feature the many cultures and ethnic groups that makes Toronto a great place to live.5th Annual Multicultural Canada Day Celebration
Friday, July 1, 2011 @ Yonge Dundas Square
Folklore news in canada
Quebec adopts law to safeguard intangible cultural heritage....
In Québec (Canada), the Minister of Culture deposited a draft bill before the National Assembly, the Cultural Heritage Act, inspired by the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. With this law, the government of Québec intends to officially designate certain elements of the national intangible heritage and commit financial support for this specific heritage transmitted from generation to generation. Municipalities will also be conferred the power to grant a status of recognition to elements of local intangible heritage.
The Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant (CQPV – Quebec Council for Living Heritage) was pleased to present the international conference Measures of Support for Intangible Cultural Heritage: Governments, Institutions and Municipalities. The event was held in Québec City April 14-17, 2011, with the support of the Culture Sector of UNESCO. We attended this conference, and our CFAC report on this very important conference will be coming soon....
For more information on this conference please click here
The Community Folk Arts Council of Toronto Mission:
To promote the preservation, development and advancement of the cultural and artistic heritage of the people of Toronto
The Community Folk Arts Council of Toronto runs five main programs that fulfill its mission:
- Multicultural Canada Day Festival is hailed as the largest multicultural Canada Day festival in Toronto. Held annually at Yonge Dundas Square with over 50,000 in audience attendance; the CFAC showcases the food, song and dance of the diverse ethnic communities that make up Toronto.
- Footsteps Project A new federally financed project that will gives several Toronto retirement homes the opportunity to see and experience CFAC member groups performing in their facilities. This project runs annually between the period of September to April.
- The Stage for Learning Diversity in your Community is an educational program that brings multicultural Educators and teachers, entertainers, artisans and storytellers to classrooms and community centres throughout Toronto.
- Celebrating Easter and Christmas Around the World is an annual festival held at Toronto's City Hall in the first week of December and Palm Sunday. 20 of Toronto's diverse communities celebrate and display their foods, arts and crafts and traditions of these religious holidays.
- CFAC Membership Groups; a full-service entertainment booking agency that represents multicultural and contemporary performers, plans special events, conventions and so much more.
The Community Folk Art Council of Toronto invites you to enjoy the performing arts, visual arts, crafts, dancing, information and foods representing cultures from around the globe.
Funded on Local and Federal levels:
Our Resource Centre:
The CFAC also acts as a resource
centre for our member groups. We have a documentation centre and
office staff experienced in dealing with the issues faced by
members. We organize workshops to assist our groups develop various
skills and expertise.
We help with
providing contacts and intervene in setting up networks among the
various member groups. We keep abreast of the many issues which
affect our members and ensure their best interests are represented
in all cases. We also provide marketing and publicity assistance to
groups looking for help in promoting local events.
