(Cam Lee/northeastNOW Staff)

By Cam Lee

Culturama 2024

Variety of cultures and groups featured at Melfort Culturama 2024

Oct 8, 2024 | 3:00 PM

Celebrating culture and diversity in Melfort.

Culturama 2024 was held at the Kerry Vickar Centre (KVC) on Saturday, as hundreds of people came to enjoy entertainment, demonstrations, and food from different cultures.

Melfort Museum curator Brenda Mellon told northeastNOW she was thrilled with how the event turned out.

“We were so pleased with all of the different groups that chose to participate and all of the people that came out to partake in the day,” Mellon said.

The KVC gym housed cultural displays from India, Pakistan, Les filles de Madelaine, Eastern Region II Métis women, Nigeria, Philippines, Scotland, Ukraine, and Canada. The displays featured traditional artwork, clothing, and food, along with information about the cultures.

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Mellon said it’s important to get to know all the cultures and groups that live in the area, and the event highlighted the increasing diversity of cultures in Melfort and area in the past couple of decades.

“We want everybody to feel welcome and represented in the community.”

Meanwhile, demonstrations in the gym included the Northern Lights Quilters Guild’s jelly roll race, along with the Northern Lights Woodcarvers, aspiring artists, Ukrainian Easter Egg demos, and information from the Northeast Newcomer Services.

The CJVR Performing Arts Theatre saw several performances from the Northeast Community Band, Highland dancers, the Nipawin Veselli Ukrainian Dancers, the drum group Digging Bear and dancers, and Filipino dancing and singing.

Other activities included a Melfort Arts Council workshop, bookmark making with the Wheatland Calligraphy Group, book spine poetry with the Melfort Public Library, a world colouring map, glitter tattoos, face painting, and a children’s quiet room with movies.

Several food booths and food trucks were also on-site.

Mellon said they would love to expand the number of cultures and groups represented at next year’s Culturama, and any group or individual interested can contact her at the Melfort Museum.

“We’ll start planning (for Culturama) early in 2025, so if somebody’s interested, I encourage them to get ahold of me.”

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