The Vietnamese Cultural Centre of Canada is launching a new community project in celebration of Tết, complementing its annual flagship event, the Vietnamese Cultural Weeks.
While the Cultural Weeks spotlight professional artists through performances and exhibitions, this new project takes a participatory and inclusive approach. Here, knowledge is passed not by artists on stage, but by cultural mediators who guide the public through a creative and collective process.
Over four weeks of activities and two days of celebration (in Côte-des-Neiges and Saint-Michel), participants will be invited to explore Tết traditions through hands-on workshops:
- Dragon Dance: Introduction and group rehearsals, led by performer-cultural mediators;
- Vietnamese Calligraphy: Learning and creating New Year wishes in Romanized Vietnamese characters;
- Artistic Folding: Making lucky charms, red envelopes, flowers, and spring insects to decorate the celebration spaces;
- Tales and Legends: Discovering Tết symbols and rituals through traditional stories and testimonies from Montrealers of Asian descent about how they celebrate here.
This project aims to make Tết a moment of exchange, creation, and transmission, where intergenerational and intercultural connections take center stage
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This project is made possible with the financial support of the Government of Quebec and the City of Montreal, under the Montreal Cultural Development Agreement.
