Whistler Intercultural Festival

Dancers from Whistler’s Filipino community perform at the festival.

The Whistler Intercultural Festival (renamed from last year’s Multicultural Festival). Representatives of ethnically diverse communities from all across the world gathered on Main Street on June 28th to showcase their cultures through food, music, and dance. Photos by David Buzzard

Ghazal Tohidi wears a Kurdish costume from Iran.

Meg (Ms. Re-Use_it) Pratt-Johnson wears a cosume made up entirely of items found at the Whistler Re-Use-It Centre.

Local restaurants put on a range of tasting menus.

Wayne Yang gives a Chinese diabolo demonstration. A diabolo is a kind of Chinese yo-yo that’s popular in Wayne’s home country of Taiwan.

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