literacy

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The Culture Chats Intercultural Women’s Writing Group presents featured readings on Saturday October 19th at 2:30 pm at the Tommy Douglas Library, 7311 Kingsway. The writing program offered training and support to a second cohort of participants to present their...

Confronting the Disinformation Age The SFU Public Square organized their annual community summit between April 10-18, 2019. This year’s theme was ‘Confronting the Disinformation Age’. There is a growing concern around the world about the manipulation of information and the use...

Culture Chats celebrates International Women's Day Culture Chats invites you for a community event on March 9th, 2019 at 11 am at the Tommy Douglas Library, 7311 Kingsway in Burnaby. The Culture Chats Women’s Writing Group is presenting a Reading...

Intercultural Women's Writing Program Culture Chats BC Association piloted a new Intercultural Women’s Writing Program for six months between October 2018 and March 2019. A selected group of women from diverse cultures participated in a series of weekly workshops to...

June 14, 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A free family festival to engage with intercultural community arts Celebrating Canada’s Multiculturalism Day Burnaby, B.C. - The Intercultural Community Arts Festival will be held on June 27th 2018 from 4 pm to 7 pm at the...

The Intercultural Community Arts Festival to be held on June 27th 2018 from 4 pm to 7 pm is a free community event.  The event features an Immigrant Art Exhibition, Literary Games, Intercultural Story Corner, Children’s activities, Multicultural performances and much...

Intercultural Story time 28 October 2017, 2 pm to 4 pm Venue: Tommy Douglas Library, 7311 Kingsway Discover children’s folk and fairy tales from diverse cultures Read and/or share your stories Recommended age of children 3 years to 10 years Facilitator: Naomi Steinberg Free Event...

Venue: Tommy Douglas Library, 7311 Kingsway 26 October 2017, 10 am to 12 pm Community event to explore language and culture through fun word games and readings based in local literature Facilitated introduction to expressive writing and multicultural discussions The word games/board games...

This year January 27th is celebrated as Family Literacy Day across Canada. In BC the importance of literacy is highlighted over a week from January 22 to January 29. Literacy is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate, compute and use...