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  • Four people posing for a photo on the side of a two lane paved bridge on a sunny day, with heavily forested mountains behind them.

    Bridging Alberta: Dilip Dasmohapatra’s YEG Origin Story

    Soni Dasmohapatra

    Lots of parents tell their kids stories on family road trips around Alberta, but Soni Dasmohapatra’s dad tells stories about the bridges he built along the way. In this addition to ECAMP’s labour history series, Soni celebrates Dilip Dasmohapatra’s career as a civil engineer and community organizer.

  • Connecting Through Dance

    Soni Dasmohapatra

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

  • Colours of the Vaisakhi Nagar Kirtan Sikh Parade

    Gagan Kaur Hoonjan

    If you come to Mill Woods on the Sunday of Victoria Day long weekend, you’ll join thousands of people coming…

  • Judi Singh: A Black & South Asian musician from 1950s-70s Edmonton

    Poushali Mitra

    Last year, while exploring South Asian music history in Edmonton, I randomly searched “Singh + artist + 70s Edmonton” and…

  • Edmonton’s South Asian Community

    Sam Singh

    Today, Edmonton is home to more than 60,000 people of South Asian heritage.  Speaking Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati, Bengali, Malayalam,…

  • From There to Here: Reflections and Storytelling

    Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

    Monday, July 27 was warm, as you’d expect on a summer day in Edmonton. In the open space of the…