CUPE BC Sponsors DTES Festival for National Aboriginal Day
A four-day celebration of aboriginal culture and communities in the Downtown Eastside – culminating in National Aboriginal Day on June 21 – promises to be an empowering event for the Lower Mainland’s First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples and an eye-opener for the non-native population, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
The June 18-21 festival at Oppenheimer Park (440 Powell Street), partly sponsored by the B.C. division of CUPE, will be especially poignant for aboriginal people as it is being organized entirely from within the community.
“There’s been a lot of interest,” says CUPE 951 member Dale Whitford, co-organizer of the event and a member of CUPE BC’s aboriginal working group. “For native people who will be there, it’s important for us to know who we are and who we have been, and this event is a way to remind us of that.”
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