{"id":23795,"date":"2023-03-20T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=23795"},"modified":"2023-03-28T09:19:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T16:19:42","slug":"camosun-cultural-showcase-event-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2023\/03\/20\/camosun-cultural-showcase-event-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun Cultural Showcase Event returns"},"content":{"rendered":"

This month, Camosun\u2019s annual Cultural Showcase Event returns to the stage. The showcase aims to celebrate its participants\u2019 different cultures in a loving and moving way, this year featuring acts ranging from Hawaiian dancing to a acrobatic mother-and-daughter performance. Second-year Community, Family & Child Studies student and Cultural Showcase Event volunteer coordinator and performer Dana Pankowsky says that the event aims to celebrate the culture and traditions of everyone who participates.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the 14th edition of the Cultural Showcase,\u201d says Pankowsky. \u201cIt started like a talent show. [The original organizer] wanted some students to share their personal talents or skills, in terms of artistic skills, of course. So every year, our wonderful instructor and counsellor Brian Herron decided that we had to carry on with this tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Participants at a previous year\u2019s Cultural Showcase Event at Camosun College (photo by Camosun College A\/V Services).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pankowsky says that this year\u2019s showcase celebrates culture in numerous ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor some years, the Cultural Showcase took place in a theatre in downtown Victoria, but then they decided to bring it back home, and ever since it\u2019s been taking place at the Gibson Auditorium in the Lansdowne campus. It\u2019s very special that it\u2019s usually around the third week of March, because it aligns with the day of racial elimination, which is on March 21. We try to celebrate diversity, celebrate culture, celebrate all the traditions that we all bring from our home countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

The show has a lot of interesting performances, says Pankowsky.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are free to bring your own roots to the event or you can do something different,\u201d says Pankowsky. \u201cFor example, we have an amazing Japanese student who will be dancing a Hawaiian dance, which is not part of her personal history but this is something she\u2019s learned since she was a kid, so that\u2019s wonderful. Then, we also have a mother from Brazil, with her four- or five-year-old daughter, they\u2019re going to be dancing together, this is going to be like an acrobatic kind of performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the hosts of the event, second-year Office Administration student Yamano Montero, says that what drew her to be a host is the chance of helping out international students.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs an international student, being in a place that\u2019s not familiar to you can be overwhelming,\u201d says Montero. \u201cNot only that\u2014it is a bit hard to balance, you have academics, you have your social life, you have work, too. But then, I think the Cultural Showcase is one of the avenues where international students can stay in touch and connect with their roots and their culture, of course, and it also gives them an opportunity to share it with others, to show it to other international students and other groups there in the audience. I want to be part of the foundation wherein the students have that avenue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Montero says that the main thing students can expect from her as a host is energy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I can say about us hosts is that we have the energy,\u201d says Montero. \u201cWe are able to deliver our lines in a manner that connects with our personalities, and the three of us have different personalities. You can expect that it will, of course, be diverse. I am from Philippines, [host] David is from Mexico, and [host] Annie is from Vietnam, so you can see the sides of these cultures in one group during this showcase.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cultural Showcase Event
\n7:30 pm, Thursday, March 23
\nGibson Auditorium,
\nLansdowne campus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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