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Festival Accès Asie

Montréal, QC, CA • 20 - 49 Employees
Arts and Crafts

Established in 1995, Festival Accès Asie is Canada's longest continuously running Asian heritage arts festival. To date, it has presented works of over 900 artists of Asian origin from more than 20 different countries including East Asia (Japan, China, Korea); Southeast Asia (Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore); South Asia (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka); Central & Middle Eastern Asia (Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Armenia).he Festival presents events that feature artists of Asian origin and artists whose work is inspired by Asian arts, cultures and histories. The Festival also offers cultural mediation activities, conferences and training workshops as part of its recently launched educational component.In addition, the festival deploys its mission at different scales (provincial, national and international) through special projects that allows it to expand its activities beyond the month of May and build relationships between Asian communities across the world.