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五月是加拿大亚裔传统月（explorASIAN - Celebrating Asian Heritage）。

从5月1日至5月底，大温的亚裔社区将奉上精彩的各族裔的文化和演出。不少活动免费对外开放，有时间的朋友可以趁此机会令略亚洲丰富的文化艺术。

今年亚裔传统月将透过歌舞表演、艺术文学展览、诗歌电影讲座、音乐会、华埠观光等丰富的庆祝活动，让市民了解亚裔文化和传统。

庆祝活动有演员、艺术家、诗人、作家举办的讲座和展览，也有散布在低陆平原多个社区的音乐会和舞蹈表演。本月每个周日，还组织温市华埠观光游览。

详情请浏览亚裔传统月活动官方网址，浏览节日活动时间表：
www.explorasian.org

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以下是近期的一些活动：

MAY 22 - Thursday - 7pm
(Literary) Book Launches: Michiko Midge Ayukawa & Patricia E. Roy

MAY 22 - Thursday - 7pm
(Lecture) Shubhendra Rao & Cellist Saskia Rao de-Hass

MAY 23 - Friday - 6:30pm
(Music/Dance) Roots, Rhymes and Resistance 2008: Balik sa Komunidad, Balik sa Ugat

MAY 23 - Friday - 7pm
(Visual Arts/Literary) Japanese Canadian National Museum presents The Sakura Tree

MAY 23 - Friday - 8pm
(Music) CARAVAN Presents Shubhendra Rao & Cellist Saskia Rao de-Hass

May 23 to 25
(Film) New Asia Film Festival

May 24 - Saturday - 1pm
(Lecture/Workshop) How Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese Traditional Martial Arts
(Kung-Fu) are inter-related and how they both are fundamental roots of Chinese Culture

MAY 24 - Saturday - 2pm
(Visual Arts/Literary) Japanese Canadian National Museum presents The Sakura Tree

MAY 24, 25 and JUNE 1
(Children/Other) The 2nd FORMOSA CUP – Storytelling Competition

MAY 24 to JUNE 1
(Exhibition/Music/Dance/Theatre/Workshop/Lecture) Pangaea Arts presents THE LIFE OF PAPER

MAY 24 - Saturday - 8pm
(Music) Yoshida Brothers

MAY 25 - Sunday - 2pm
(Lecture/Music) A Musical Atlas of Asia: China & Beyond

MAY 25 - Sunday - 7pm
(Music/Dance) SULYAP - Kababayang Pilipino's 15th Anniversary Performance Celebration

MAY 25 - Sunday - 9pm
(Film) Shaw Multicultural Channel/explorASIAN First Annual Filmmakers Showcase

MAY 26 - Monday - 6:30pm
(Workshop) Scripting Aloud

MAY 26 - Monday - 7:30pm
(Literary/Music) WORLD POETRY Presents The Fifth Asian Heritage Night

MAY 27 - Tuesday - 7:30pm
(Music) Burnaby Asian Musical Heritage Night

May 28 - Wednesday - 11am
(Film) Tailor Made: Chinatown's Last Tailors

MAY 28 to 31
(Lecture) Tracing the Lines Symposium

MAY 29 - Thursday - 12 Noon
(Dance) The Dance Centre presents Discover Dance! Showcasing the Vancouver Korean Dance Society

MAY 29 - Thursday - 7pm
(Literary) Book Launch & Reading: Bowling Pin Fire by Andy Quan

MAY 29 - Thursday - 7:30pm
(Comedy) Etch-YOUR-Sketch 2! SKETCHOFF!#$%!! encore in Richmond

MAY 29 - Thursday (to June 21)
(Visual Arts) Hidden Rivers: Exhibition by local Ismaili Muslim Artists