Lieutenant Governor's Winter Festival 2013

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SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT

JAN.31,FEB.1-2,2013

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L I E U T E N A N T G O V E R N O R S


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On behalf of the City of Brandon, it is my pleasure to extenda warm welcome to everyone attending the 10th Annual Lieu-tenant Governors Winter Festival. It is a rich and vibrant cele-bration of Brandons cultural diversity.

On January 31, February 1 and 2, 2013, Brandon will betransformed into one of the biggest stages on the prairies,drawing performers and visitors from far and wide. Last year,there were more than 60,000 pavilion visits, and the WinterFestival continues to grow!

The Festival remains squarely a grassroots event, drivenby the enthusiastic support it receives from Brandons multi-cultural communities. The Winter Festival is the result ofcountless hours of hard work and the commitment of over 600

volunteers. I would like to extend my thanks to those volun-teers, City staff, individuals, and groups who have worked sohard to bring us thirteen outstanding pavilions.

My sincere thanks is extended to all these people and tothe festival sponsors who support the Lieutenant GovernorsWinter Festival in staging this marvelous celebration of inclu-siveness, unity, harmony and goodwill.

Mayor Shari Decter Hirst

As The Queens representative in Manitoba, andhonorary patron, I am pleased to welcome every-one to the 10th annual Lieutenant-GovernorsWinter Festival.

For 10 years, Brandon has celebrated multi-culturalism within its vibrant community with theannual winter festival. Although winters in Mani-toba can be challenging, this festival provides

warmth and passion through the gifts of food,music and dance. This year proves no different

with an impressive selection of pavilions showcas-ing many ethnic backgrounds.

With over 600 volunteers participating andthousands of people planning to attend, Brandons

winter festival has grown into a wonderful eventwhere family and friends come together and enjoya Manitoba winter weekend.

I commend the organizers, sponsors and vol-unteers of the Lieutenant-Governors Winter Festi-

val on a decade of success. Best wishes foranother enjoyable, memorable festival.

The Honourable Philip S. Lee, C.M., O.M.Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba

Greetings from the

Lieutenant-Governor

THE BRANDON SUN 10th ANNUAL WINTER FESTIVAL THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 20132

Greetings from

the Mayor


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Brandonites crowd into the Global Village site at a previous Lieutenant-Governor's Winter Festival in The Town Centre. (File)

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BY GRAEME BRUCE

The world is coming to Brandon on Jan. 31 whenLieutenant Governors Winter Festival kicks off,marking its 10th year.

The three-day mid-winter celebration will feature13 pavilions across the city each with its owncultural flavours, sights, and sounds.

In past, the winter festival has recognized onehost pavilion, but this year, the festivities will begin

with a nod to those pavilions which have partici-pated every year since the festivals beginnings The Irish, Metis, First Nations, and Ukrainian.

The ceremonies will begin at 6 p.m. in the mainfoyer at Brandon Ciy Hall.

Esther Bryan, past chair of the festival, attrib-

utes the growth in the citys industry which in-cludes aggressive hiring of foreign workers byMaple Leaf Foods, Inc. to the growth in the festi-

val.It has become very diverse, she said. Ten

years ago our city did have a diverse population,but as our industries have grown here, so has thediversity of people, and that is reflected in our fes-tival.

In the last five years, the pork packing plant hasattracted an enormous number of workers interna-tionally, which includes company's most recent ef-fort to bring in 200 workers from El Salvador andHonduras in the summer of 2012.

Bryan expects this years events to surpass lastyears visitor count of more than 60,000, and hote-

liers in the city have seen an increase conferencesheld on the weekend in an attempt to schedulestays with the festival.

Conferences and conventions will deliberatelybook during our time, so that in the evening their

participants can go and take part (in the festival),Bryan said.Although there is a clear economic spinoff from

the festival, Bryan said festival officials dont keeptrack.

It has become significant enough that it is im-pacting our hospitality industry, but we dont trackthat.

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13 fun filled pavilions to enjoy


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COLOMBIACentral United Church

327 Eighth St.

BRAZILUkrainian National Home

1133 Stickney Ave.

UKRAINIANUkrainian Reading Hall

1005 Assiniboine Ave.

FIRST NATIONSLittle Teaching Lodge205 College Ave.

ETHIOPIAShriners Hall

1110 McTavish Ave. East

MAURITIUSKnights Inn

150 Fifth St.

GLOBAL VILLAGESt. Matthews Cathedral

40313th St.

EL SALVADORKnox United Church

45118th St.

SCOTTISHVictoria Inn, Imperial Ballroom

3550 Victoria Ave.

GERMANVictoria Inn, Salons A&B

3550 Victoria Ave.

IRISHRoyal Oak Inn

3130 Victoria Ave.

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20520th St.

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Dancers with Folklore de miTierra Dance Group repre-senting the Columbian Pavil-ion perform during aprevious opening ceremony.(File)


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The increased participation in the festivaldoes mean finding a venue is tough.

The venues are a challenge, theres nodenying that, she said, but added participat-ing pavilions are always able to find a venue.

John Arrell, vice president of the Irish Soci-ety of Western Manitoba, has been involved inorganizing the Irish pavilion for the last nine

years, watching the festival grow and changefrom a way to break up the winter blahs, to afull-on cultural showcase.

The biggest problem I see right now is thelack of accommodations, he said. Its just amatter of trying to accommodate everybody,

we could probably have another five or six dif-ferent ethnic groups if they can five facilitiesbig enough.

Arrell remembers about 2,000 visits to the

Irish pavilion in 2004 at its Park CommunityCentre location. The Royal Oak Inn marked6,700 visits, where the Irish society has beenset up for the last five years.

Its quite a growth, he said. Its justadded a great deal to the importance and theexcitement about being here.

The work of more than 1,000 volunteersacross all the pavilions are responsible forputting the weekend together.

During the weekends celebration, MayorShari Decter Hirst will also be awarded a Dia-mond Jubilee medal on Saturday Feb. 2 at 2p.m., by Lt.-Gov. Philip Lee.

To make pavilion-hopping easier, BrandonTransit bus service will be free as always, and

visitors can park at city hall.

[email protected]


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BY GRAEME BRUCE

Along with perennial pavilions at Brandons annual Lieu-tenant Governors Winter Festival, the Global Village pavilionis back after an absence in last years events.

This year, Global Village has more nations than ever withMexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Cuba, Iceland, Chile, Egypt,and Kenya all showing off their wares under one roof.

Esther Bryan, past chair of the festival said the global vil-lage pavilion gives those smaller communities that cannot puton a standalone pavillion a chance to participate in the festivi-

ties.Theres comfort in a global village, youre not responsiblefor all of the events, she said.

While there isnt a Global Village every year, this year hasproved to be the biggest in the festivals 10-year history.

There has been years in which there has been no GlobalVillage, she said. Part of that is some groups in the pasthave had the capacity to go directly into their own pavilion.

Westman Immigration Services is the co-ordinator for thevillage, which has direct contact with many newcomers look-ing celebrate their cultures in the three-day festival.

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Festival celebrates our many cultures

Volunteers help set up the Chinese pavilion, as part of the Global Village site in the Lieutenant-Governor's Winter Festival in the Town Centre. (File)

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festivals of Manitoba De La Rosa creates a fusion mix of Cuban and

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Competitors fill their faces with german fare during the Man Versus Meter Wurst Competi-tion at the German Pavilion during a previous Lieutenant Governor's Winter Festival. (File)

Janet Johnston sells English sweets to patrons of the Englishpavilion during last years Winter Festival. (File)


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They come through their doors, and one ofthe things in my opinion thats so great aboutimmigration, is that they immigrate to be-come Canadians, they like their history,theyre proud of their history, but they really

want to be part of the Canadian culture, andthis is Canadian culture at its finest becauseits diverse, Bryan said.

Jaime Chinchilla, cultural diversity facilita-tor for WIS, has been the main conductor ofthis partnership.

Its about giving the chance to smallergroups, who otherwise would not be repre-sented in the Winter Festival, he said. Wehope we can have these groups learn theprocess and experience the festival and growthemselves to be able to do a (standalone)pavilion on their own.

With this pavilion, we gave these people achance to put up a display, a presentation, en-tertainment, food the co-ordinators takecare of the logistics.

And these are small groups.Representing Kenya for the first time in the

festivals history, is a group of three BrandonUniversity international students that werekeen to participate.

Same goes for Costa Rica. There are only

about five Costa Ricans in Brandon, which in-cludes Chinchilla.

Were really excited to be able to partici-pate because you see this wonderful festival,and you see all this colourful presentationsand happiness, and you wish your culture

would be represented too, he said.

There will also be one BU student repre-senting Chile.

Ten to 15 families in Brandon are repre-senting Egypt another first-time nation.

They were really excited when we reachedthem and told them it was a possibility to par-ticipate because these are really busy people,and cant do everything it takes to put up apavilion, Chinchilla said.

He said the global village this year is areal upgrade from those in the past.

There will be full meals this year, eachcourse coming from one of the pavilions na-tions.

It will be nice to see how it evolves frompast festivals.

The festival starts on Jan. 31 and theGlobal Village will be at St. Mathews Churchat 403-13th St. from 6 p.m. until 11 p.m. onThursday and Friday and 1 p.m. until 11 p.m.on Saturday.

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