Dufferin County Multicultural Foundation

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2023 Dufferin County Community Grant Recipient
$5,000

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Thank you for your support! The event was an amazing event again this year.  We are very happy to be able to celebrate with all of our community members. 

We had:

Steel Pan 
The steel pan (also known as steel drums, or ‘pan’) was created in Trinidad and Tobago in the 1930s and is enjoyed throughout the Caribbean today.

Orange Peel Morris                                                                                  
Morris is an old English folk dance performance form that includes several types of dance from various regions: Cotswold, Northwest, Border, Molly, Long Sword, Rapper, and Clog.

Kathak Bollywood Fusion                         
Kathak is a dance originating in northern India, and is one of the eight most popular forms of Indian Classical dance. The main purpose of Kathak is to tell ancient stories, through physical expression and tons of emotion. Kathak is a graceful dance form, especially known for its integration of intricate footwork and variety of spins. 

African drummer                                        
Interactive African drumming.  

Bhangra dance
Bhangra is the traditional dance of Punjab. It is native to the Punjabi nation. A long ago, Punjabi-Sikh farmers started to use different farming activities to create a dance form to celebrate food-growing, harvesting and relationship to the land, which later they starting calling Bhangra.

Display of art work from amazing artist featured in the MOD.

Special thank you to our dignitaries, MPP Sylvia Jones, Orangeville Mayor Lisa Post, Dufferin County’s Director of People and Equity Rohan Thompson and Dufferin OPP for attending this year’s event in support of multiculturalism.

 A very special thank you to our Foundation team, our volunteers, the MOD team for the great partnership over the years, the amazing artists, performers, vendors and to our supporters.

Dufferin County
Townships of Dufferin County
Township of Caledon
Home Hardware Shelburne
Trillium Ford
Harmony Whole Foods
Orangeville Nissan
Shelburne Foodland