Lantern Festival Celebration
We have rich diversity, we share traditions and we honour individual cultural heritages, especially in the Year of the Dragon, we come together and celebrate the essence of an intercultural Canadian society.
Here we sincerely invite you to our Lantern Festival Celebration 2024.
Seats are very limited. Visit our website and register for more details:
On the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar's first month (Yuan), people in China and other Asian nations, including Vietnam and Korea, celebrate the Lantern Festival, a holiday honoring their departed ancestors.
The Lantern Festival is a traditional festival that changes every year with the Lunar calendar. It usually falls in February and this year, it takes place on February 24, 2024. This day marks the first full Moon of the new lunar year and it signifies the last day of the traditional Lunar New Year celebrations. Even as early as the Western Han Dynasty, it was already celebrated as a festivity with great importance.
The main objective of celebrating the Lantern Festival is to encourage forgiveness, peace, and reconciliation.
During the Lantern Festival, also known as Floating Lanterns Festival or Shangyuan Festival, houses are decorated with vibrant lanterns, with riddles written on them. The first person to solve the riddle wins a gift. Known as ‘yuanxiao’ or ‘tangyuan’, the little balls of sticky rice stuffed with fruits and nuts are consumed throughout the celebration. The balls' rounded shapes stand for the family's oneness and wholeness.
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WS Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society (WSIMS) est une organisation à but non lucratif constituée en société et un groupe de bénévoles. Au fil des décennies, il a fourni des services d'établissement aux immigrants et aux réfugiés ainsi que des services interculturels, notamment une formation linguistique et informatique gratuite, un soutien gratuit aux personnes âgées, aux femmes, aux enfants, aux jeunes, aux Autochtones, aux personnes handicapées, aux personnes vulnérables et aux autres groupes en situation de marginalité. Nous avons également planifié, organisé et accueilli des centaines et des milliers d'événements interculturels, d'ateliers, de séminaires, de conférences, de lancements de livres, de séries Discover World Culture et plus encore pour créer une prise de conscience, une compréhension et une appréciation du multiculturalisme, pour construire des familles plus heureuses, des communautés plus saines et favoriser l'harmonie interculturelle.
文思移民与多元文化服务协会（WSIMS）作为正式注册的非营利组织和志愿者组织，始终以 “怀大爱、做小事” 为宗旨，秉承 “点燃激情、放飞梦想、感悟人生、分享美丽” 的理念，积极推动民族文化的传承、多元文化的融合及创新，激励人们实现各自的人生梦想。十多年来，一直提供力所能及的移民和难民安顿服务以及跨文化服务，包括免费语言和计算机培训、翻译服务、并为长者、妇女、儿童、青少年、土著人民、残疾人、弱势群体和其他处于边缘地位的群体提供公益服务；策划、组织和举办成百上千的跨文化活动、研讨会、鉴赏会、庆祝会、新书发布会、探索世界文化系列讲座等，以进一步提高对多元文化的认识、理解和欣赏，帮助建立更幸福的家庭、更健康的社区和进一步促进多元文化和谐发展。
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