No matter how much you know about India, come and immerse yourselves, over two weekends in October, and expose yourselves to new horizons in Indian cinema. Hidden Gems audiences will be evaluating and awarding the Hidden Gems Trophy to the Movie that displays the best Hidden Gems quality.

Calgary’s Marathi Association has been first out-of-the-gates by offering its members special discounts on Ganesh Chaturthi, i.e. Sept. 18- (for details call Jayant Torne Ph.403-640-1906.)

Another corporation is considering purchasing tickets at Group Rate and then auctioning it and donating the proceeds to United way, Calgary. This is a win-win situation. We invite all of you, whether you work for a small or large business, to unite and get tickets at upto 20% off the ticket price of $10. Groups of friends can also avail themselves of the same opportunity. Tickets: $10 in advance and $12 at the door Group Discount – 20-30 tickets Discount 10 % i.e. $9 each 31 & up “ “ 20% i.e. $8

Membership Discount – 7 for the price of 6! $60 gets you Festival Pass.

Membership, normally $5, free with Festival Pass.



The Colour of Beauty was made as part of “Work For All” http://workforall.nfb.ca/ series about racism in the workplace.

Crayola® Large Multicultural Crayons now offer an assortment of eight different skin hues that give a child a realistic palette for coloring their world.

http://www.crayolastore.com/product_detail.asp?T1=CRA+52%2D080W&.

http://www.pjads.com/ncpd-hatevideo.htm

The full Annual Report is now posted on Citizenship and Immigration’s Multiculturalism webpage and can be accessed by clicking on the above link. This year, for the first time, the Report is also available in booklet format with CD. I encourage you visit this site and download a copy of the Annual Report.

If you have any questions and/or you would like a copy of the booklet and CD, please contact:

Laura Bondy, Program Officer, NHQ – Citizenship and Multiculturalism, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, email Laura.Bondy@cic.gc.ca, 613-991-2097

The Calgary Public Library and CCCED are thrilled that the Living Library has been recognized for innovation amongst large urban libraries [those serving over 15,000 residents]. The success of this project is due to the hard work and dedication of library and CCCED staff, and the contributions and support from the Calgary Public Library’s Building Bridges project funders.

We look forward to continued achievements with the Living Library partnership through 2010 and beyond!

* Further information about the this award can be found at: http://www.municipalaffairs.gov.ab.ca/1331.cfm

]]> http://www.calgarycentreforculture.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1270 0 http://www.calgarycentreforculture.org/blog/?p=1320 http://www.calgarycentreforculture.org/blog/?p=1320#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 21:10:13 +0000 admin http://www.calgarycentreforculture.org/blog/?p=1320 To open national Crime Prevention Week, Mayor Dave Bronconnier in Calgary and Mayor Stephen Mandel in Edmonton have declared May 10, 2010 as Hate Crime Awareness Day.

The Hate Crime Awareness event in Calgary Monday May 10th will highlight how police and communities can report and respond to hate crime and incidents in our communities. CCCED will be a featured panelist at this event, discussing “How to report hate crime in your community”
Opening Remarks:

• Chief Rick Hansen, Calgary Police Service
• David Blair Mason, Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission Chief Commissioner

Panelists:

• Ed Yuen, Native Counselling Services “Responding to hate in Aboriginal communities”
• Brian Denison, Hate Bias Crime Coordinator, Calgary Police Service “How Police respond to hate crime, what to expect”
• Vilma Dawson, Calgary Centre for Culture Equity and Diversity (CCCED) “How to report hate crime in your community”
• Elizabeth Cook, Don’t Buy In program – Calgary Police Service “How youth can remain safe from victimization or recruitment”
• Doug Jones – Co-Chair, Alberta Hate Crimes Committee “How to respond to a hate crime or incident”

* To download a PDF poster and event agenda please click here

* For further information, please see the Alberta Hate Crimes Committee’s recent reports, “Hate Crimes: What you should know and what you can do!“ and “Alberta Hate/Bias Crime Report 2009.”

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The ethnocultural diversity of the Canadian population

Approximately 3 in 10 Canadians (between 29% and 32%) could be a member of a visible minority group in 2031, regardless of the projection scenario. Canada would then have between 11.4 million-14.4 million visible minority persons. The visible minority population would be over-represented in the younger age groups. Thus, according to the reference scenario for these projections, 36% of the population under 15 years of age in 2031 would belong to a visible minority group, compared to 18% of persons aged 65 and over.

In 2031, among all the visible minority groups, South Asians and Chinese should still be the largest visible minority groups in Canada. The South Asian population would number between 3.2 million-4.1 million in 2031, compared to 1.3 million in 2006. The Chinese population would go from 1.3 million in 2006 to between 2.4 million-3.0 million in 2031. Arabs and West Asians are the visible minority groups that would grow the fastest between 2006 and 2031. Depending on the scenario, Canada’s Arab population would thus number between 806,000-1.1 million in 2031 and its West Asian population, between 457,000-592,000, compared to 276,000 and 164,000 respectively, in 2006.

The number of persons having a non-Christian religion would more than double by 2031, reaching 5.3 million-6.8 million in 2031 compared to 2.5 million in 2006. From 8% of the population in 2006, the proportion that they represent in 2031 would rise to 14%. Within the population having a non-Christian religion, approximately 1 in 2 would be a Muslim in 2031, whereas the corresponding proportion in 2006 was estimated at 35%. According to the scenarios developed for these projections, 2 in 3 Canadians (66%) would have a Christian religion in 2031. In 2006, 3 in 4 Canadians (75%) had a Christian religion. The corresponding proportion in 1981 was 90%.

Persons whose mother tongue was neither English nor French accounted for less than 10% of Canada’s population in 1981. By 2006, that proportion had risen to 20%, and the projections indicate that it would reach between 29% and 32% in 2031.

Ethnocultural diversity from one generation to the next

Depending on the projections chosen, the proportion of persons who are foreign-born would reach between 25%-28% in 2031, a record in Canada since Confederation. In 2006, the corresponding proportion was 20%. If immigration were to continue to come mostly from non-European countries, the population of foreign-born persons residing in Canada would continue to change over the next 25 years. In 2031, the percentage of visible minorities who were foreign-born would reach 71%, the percentage of allophones more than 77% while the percentage of persons having a non-Christian religion would be approximately 32%. The corresponding proportions were respectively 54%, 70% and 24% in 2006. According to the reference scenario, in 2031 nearly 1 in 2 Canadians (46%) aged 15 and over would be foreign-born or would have at least one foreign-born parent, compared to 39% in 2006.

Under the combined effect of the fertility of immigrants and their Canadian-born children and the intergenerational transmission of certain characteristics—e.g., belonging to a visible minority group, mother tongue and religious denomination—the diversity related to these characteristics would also be likely to increase substantially within the Canadian-born population in the coming decades. According to the projection scenarios chosen, the proportion of visible minority persons, those having a non-Christian religion and those with neither English nor French as their mother tongue is likely to double within the Canadian-born population between 2006 and 2031.

Within two decades, nearly 1 in 2 Canadian-born persons (47%) belonging to the 2nd generation would belong to a visible minority group, compared to 24% in 2006. Within the 3rd or higher generations (those consisting of persons born in Canada of Canadian-born parents), the proportion belonging to visible minorities, although low, would almost triple, going from 1% in 2006 to 3% in 2031.

Ethnocultural diversity in census metropolitan areas (CMAs)

New Canadian immigrants’ propensity to settle in metropolitan areas, along with their birth rate, has contributed, in recent decades, to the concentration of ethnocultural diversity in metropolitan areas. Almost all persons belonging to a visible minority group (96%) would continue to live in 1 of the 33 census metropolitan areas between now and 2031. More than 71% of all visible minority persons would live in Canada’s three largest CMAs: Toronto, Vancouver and Montréal. Approximately 55% of persons living in CMAs in 2031 would be either immigrants or the Canadian-born children of immigrants. In Toronto and Vancouver, these proportions would reach 78% and 70%, respectively. They would be at most 10% in the St. John’s, Saguenay and Trois-Rivières CMAs.

According to these projections, approximately 3 in 5 persons would belong to a visible minority group in the Toronto and Vancouver CMAs in 2031. The corresponding proportion would be no more than 5% in the St. John’s, Greater Sudbury, Trois-Rivières, Québec and Saguenay CMAs. Nearly 1 in 4 persons (24%) living in the Toronto CMA in 2031 would belong to the South Asian visible minority group, which would continue to be the largest visible minority group in this CMA. The number of South Asians living there would be approximately 2.1 million. In 2031, Chinese would be the largest visible minority group in the Vancouver CMA. With a population of approximately 809,000, this group would account for approximately 23% of the population of this CMA, compared to 18% in 2006.

In the Montréal CMA, visible minority persons would account for 3 in 10 persons (31%), up from 16 % in 2006, but this proportion would remain considerably lower than the corresponding proportions in Toronto and Vancouver. By 2031, the population of the Arab visible minority group would almost reach the Black population in the Montréal CMA. Each of these groups would then account for close to 8% of the total population of this CMA.

The report can be viewed in its entirety at:

• http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-551-x/91-551-x2010001-eng.pdf
• or downloaded as a PDF by clicking here.

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Professional and emerging artists and poets living in Alberta are invited to submit their work to the Second Annual Cultural Intersection Art Exhibition, presented by the Calgary Multicultural Centre and partners.

This exhibition is open to most artistic disciplines, including visual art and design (painting, printmaking, photography, and mixed media). The poetry night will be held June 24th at the EPCOR Centre, as part of the Silk Road: Tapestry of Poems series. Submitted poems (up to 500 words) to be written in English.

Last year’s exhibition was an overwhelming success (click here for more information) and featured over 160 artists from 121 countries.

• For more information and submission form visit: www.calgarymulti.com
• Or call 403-283-5850, or email cmcres@calgarymulti.com
• Deadline for entries: April 16th