Culture Days Event Schedule
Day 1 - Sep 19
A public preview of a performance to be performed for Residential School Survivors On September 30, 2026.
Day 2 - Sep 20
Visual artist and educator Danielle Dumelie will offer a series of three two-hour workshops. Azura, Annissa, and special guest dancers will teach the art of raks sharqui (better known as belly dance)!
Day 3 - Sep 24
In anticipation of Orange Shirt Day, award winning N'lakap'mux playwright, Kevin Loring, will read from his play, Where the Blood Mixes, which focuses on the experience and impacts of residential schools.
Day 4 - Sep 25
A public preview of a performance to be performed for Residential School Survivors On September 30, 2026.
Day 5 - Sep 26
Visual artist and educator Danielle Dumelie will offer a series of three two-hour workshops focused on giving participants an opportunity to explore multiple visual arts media and complete three small projects in each of these media.
Eddy Alvaro, co-creator, instructor and MC along with instructor Laura Milliigen, both with the street dance collective Vibes YQR will lead a demonstration and street styles workshop to introduce the basics of a few different styles over the course of two hours.
Day 6 - Sep 27
Flany invites participants to explore African approaches to learning. Drawing inspiration from Malian traditions of embodied knowledge and apprenticeship, participants will learn simple movement sequences by watching, doing, practicing, and learning from one another.
Visual artist and educator Danielle Dumelie will offer a series of three two-hour workshops focused on giving participants an opportunity to explore multiple visual arts media and complete three small projects in each of these media.
Day 7 - Sep 28
A monthly gathering of playwrights, theatre people and others interested in the development of new dramatic work for stage, screen and new media. Writers bring drafts of their work in progress to be read by professional actors, and the reading is followed by responses and feedback from other participants.
Day 8 - Sep 30
This performance of Have You Seen nikosis? is a remounting of a new work created by an artist collective commissioned in 2024 by On Cue Performance Hub to create a response to racism and colonization as part of a year long program called Recreating Community Together.
Day 9 - Oct 2
Curious about Latin dances? Join Regina Salseros for a fun class sampler and learn the basics of salsa and bachata. Get a taste of the rhythms, movements, and energy that make these dances so much fun!
Day 10 - Oct 3
Northgate Mall will feature a day-long craft and vendor market with displays and demonstrations throughout the mall.
As an award-winning classical dancer, artistic director, and founder of Nirvana Dance Creations, Mohana Das will bring a broad knowledge of Indian classical and contemporary dance forms to this two-hour workshop.
Spoken word poet Eric Gabriel will offer two, two-hour workshops for people interested in experimenting with spoken word poetry.
Day 11 - Oct 4
Spoken word poet Eric Gabriel will offer two, two-hour workshops for people interested in experimenting with spoken word poetry.
Subtle Practice is a somatic improvisation approach inspired by Daoist philosophy. I-Ying Wu will invite participants to slow down, tune in, and rediscover improvisation as a natural, embodied way of being.

