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  • Connecting Through Dance

    Soni Dasmohapatra

    Soni Dasmohapatra shares her collaboration with Sissy Thiessen Kootenayoo and Felipe Canavera. — amiskwaciywâskahikan is “Beaver Hills House” It is…

  • From Edmonton Chinatown: The All-Girls Cultural Troupe

    Lan Chan-Marples

    Have you ever heard of the China Dolls?  Not the glazed porcelain dolls or the 2015 novel written by Chinese-American…

  • Cariwest: The Caribbean Community’s Gift to Edmonton

    Donna Coombs-Montrose

    CARIWEST – Caribbean Arts Festival was introduced to Edmonton in 1984. It was created by Western Carnival Development Association (WCDA)…

  • Vivacious Caribbean Teachers

    Etty Shaw-Cameron

    During the 1960s, school jurisdictions in Alberta advertised for teachers in leading newspapers and at teacher training colleges in the…

  • Womonspace: Creating Space for Edmonton’s Lesbian Community in the 1980s

    Josephine Boxwell

    Womonspace was a social and recreational group for lesbians founded in 1981. Part of Edmonton’s LGBTQ landscape for over thirty…

  • “It’s in our veins,” Part 2: Edmonton Dance Schools and Latin American Identity

    Miguel A. Priolo Marín & Nieva W. Srayko

    Read “It’s in our veins,” Part 1 Immigration to a new community involves a dramatic change that can affect nearly…

  • “It’s in our veins,” Part 1: Edmonton Dance Schools and Latin American Identity

    Miguel A. Priolo Marín & Nieva W. Srayko

    Alejandro (Alex) Rojas, the founder of ETOWN SALSA Latin Dance Studios, moved from Chile to Edmonton with his parents in…

  • Friday Nights: Love & Music at the Rainbow Ballroom

    Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

    Every Friday a thousand teenagers would line up under the red neon sign to hear local bands like The Lords…