Franco Festival Calgary is a celebration many Francophone cultures, Africa to Europe, through Asia and the Americas, through music, dancing, cooking, crafts and other aspects that demonstrate the breadth and diversity of Canadian Heritage.
Franco Festival Calgary (FFC), Calgary's first multicultural francophone festival was created in August 2011 and is an initiative of the Portail de l'Immigrant Association (PIA), a non-profit organization based in Calgary, Alberta . PIA launches a series of projects in different fields such as education; awareness and promotion of diversity, socio-cultural and economic integration. Visit www.pia-calgary.ca to learn more about the PIA.
THE OBJECTIVES OF THE FESTIVAL:
Create a sustainable event dedicated to artists who share the French language.
French music floods the world with its sounds because it is of diverse origins such as
Caribbean, African, American, European to name just a few.
However, given that Calgary is not a city known for its French culture, a new festival was born: The Franco Festival of Calgary.
The main objective is not only to be a sustainanle event, but above all, to be a place where all cultures meet thus,
Allowing its actors to value, promote, and share it.
Promote Francophone cultures through our art and music
Of course, the creation of a Francophone multicultural festival, invites the connoisseur or layman to come and discover this event. Important vector in the promotion of any human activity, the art and the French music contributes to make people discover our culture, rich of its diversity.
Develop a social network between Francophones, Francophiles and Anglophones
Generally festivals are opportunities for people to meet and exchange.
Yet it also gives a chance to artits to connect and network with their audiance.
The festival will give you achance to discover our artists and allow a better diffusion of our culture in Alberta, in Canada and why not in America.
Recognize the know-how of our artists, producers and cultural stakeholders;
This festival will also be an opportunity to honor all our artists or people working in the shadow of artists and who contribute by their effort to the development of French culture. Unique and exceptional, this festival will also promote the talent of local artists, not to mention the many people working to vitality and the influence of our culture.
Franco Festival Calgary (FFC), Calgary's first multicultural francophone festival was created in August 2011 and is an initiative of the Portail de l'Immigrant Association (PIA), a non-profit organization based in Calgary, Alberta . PIA launches a series of projects in different fields such as education; awareness and promotion of diversity, socio-cultural and economic integration. Visit www.pia-calgary.ca to learn more about the PIA.
THE OBJECTIVES OF THE FESTIVAL:
Create a sustainable event dedicated to artists who share the French language.
French music floods the world with its sounds because it is of diverse origins such as
Caribbean, African, American, European to name just a few.
However, given that Calgary is not a city known for its French culture, a new festival was born: The Franco Festival of Calgary.
The main objective is not only to be a sustainanle event, but above all, to be a place where all cultures meet thus,
Allowing its actors to value, promote, and share it.
Promote Francophone cultures through our art and music
Of course, the creation of a Francophone multicultural festival, invites the connoisseur or layman to come and discover this event. Important vector in the promotion of any human activity, the art and the French music contributes to make people discover our culture, rich of its diversity.
Develop a social network between Francophones, Francophiles and Anglophones
Generally festivals are opportunities for people to meet and exchange.
Yet it also gives a chance to artits to connect and network with their audiance.
The festival will give you achance to discover our artists and allow a better diffusion of our culture in Alberta, in Canada and why not in America.
Recognize the know-how of our artists, producers and cultural stakeholders;
This festival will also be an opportunity to honor all our artists or people working in the shadow of artists and who contribute by their effort to the development of French culture. Unique and exceptional, this festival will also promote the talent of local artists, not to mention the many people working to vitality and the influence of our culture.