On Friday, May 17, 2019 staff members of AHC were present at NorQuest college to support two AHC nominees for this year’s 4th annual Diversity Awards, presented by Diversity Magazine. AHC Executive Director, Aftab Khan and Settlement & Integration Manager, Suzana Dumo received awards under the Friends of Diversity Category. This category represents an Albertan…
On Saturday, May 4th EAC/AHC Artist in Residence Luciana Errugue hosted a spoken word session with fellow poets Brandon Wint, Liam P. Coady and K’alii. View images from the event below.
To create a welcome and fun learning environment as well as to facilitate our students’ cultural understanding, on March 28, the Adult Literacy and Skills Develop program held an “Intercultural Learning – Celebrate Spring”. Partnering with Immigrant Community Alberta Network Association (ICAN), AHC’s 7 classes from English, computer and math courses joined the celebration. Around…
On Thursday May 2nd. Women from the settlement team held a Mother’s Day celebration for the Syrian/Arabic clients at AHC. Mother’s Day is an important holiday everywhere. We wanted to do something special to honour mothers and their families who will be celebrating their Mother’s Day in Canada and for those who still remain in…
On Saturday, April 13 Luciana Erregue-Sacchi, EAC Artist in Residence at A4HC organized the multilingual reading event Reading as Place. Edmonton Poet Laureates Alice Major and Anna Marie Sewell were amongst the appreciative audience. Writers Yasser Abdel-Latif, Leilei Chen, Lisa Dublin, Mila Bongco, and Luciana herself read works in Arabic, Tagalog, Mandarin, Creole, and Spanish.…
On Saturday, April 6, EAC/AHC artist in residence Luciana Erregue hosted an art workshop for kids at AHC. The theme was Edmonton’s street art. Each child made a large piece of graffiti-inspired artwork to take home. Grafitti with its use of words and images is an excellent tool to teach early literacy. View the images…
On Thursday, March 28th, the Networking Empowerment of Women Program coordinated by Joelle Kacou and facilitated by Ninfa Castellanos, visited the Art Gallery of Alberta. There they met with Edmonton Art Council and AHC’s Artist in Residence Luciana Erregue-Sacchi, who works at the AGA. The gallery was packed and all sorts of events were taking…
A special thanks to PC Children’s Charity who has supported AHC’s HACK program with funding for its snack program and culinary arts. Staff have been actively engaged with the children in cooking, assisting the children in the cutting of vegetable and fruits, baking and even some cooking on the stove! View images of the children…
On Friday, March 8, 2019, AHC participated in City of Edmonton and Women’s Initiative Edmonton to celebrate International Women’s Day at City Hall. AHC joined several other service providers and community members to celebrate International Women’s Day at City Hall. The event saw many Edmontonians stop by to learn about various resources and initiatives being…
On Friday, March 1st, Samya Hasan, Executive Director of the Council of Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA) led a presentation about their Intercultural Collaborative project to foster anti-racism and anti-discrimination in communities around Toronto. AHC alongside several other local community-serving agencies were able to engage in a discussion with Samya in order to learn more about…