Looking Back at 2020

Nipissing Culture Days Opening

COLOURS of the WIND  

Art Exhibit & Pop Up Picnic

Saturday, September 26, 2020 12:00-2:00 PM North Bay Museum outdoor area.

North Bay, September 24, 2020 – The National Celebration of Culture Days opens with our live open air event “Colours of the Wind” featuring outdoor exhibits by 5 local artists. The Nipissing Culture Days Committee will host the art opening and POP Up Picnic,  Saturday, September 26, 20212:00 PM at the North Bay Museum outdoor area to celebrate the power of culture to bring us together during the COV crisis and lift our spirits. 

In 2019 Nipissing Culture Days energized North Bay with a multicultural parade, performances by over 50 musicians at ARTJAM, an international food festival at 176 Lakeshore, and more successful and well-attended events free for all ages. The feedback from participants and audience members was enthusiastic and inspiring. Founded in 2009, “Culture Days” is a national non-profit organization dedicated to building a national network devoted to all forms of arts and culture. Through an annual national celebration each September, hundreds of artists and dozens of cultural organizations across Canada invite the public to participate in free activities to discover their cultural spirit and passion. 

The Nipissing Culture Days Committee has more information on Facebook and online at culturedays.ca and nipissingculturedays.com. Join us for 20 local events and many more virtual experiences.

 Ecuador is located in the western corner at the top of the South American continent. Ecuador is named after the Equator, the imaginary line around the Earth that splits the country in two. Most of the country is in the Southern Hemisphere. Ecuador is bordered by Colombia and Peru. 

Your donation for this event helps to support our local artists and presenters for their time, dedication and commitment to Nipissing Culture Days as we seek to eliminate barriers to access and participation, and stimulate understanding, appreciation and exploration of arts and culture—so that every person in our region has a deeper connection with themselves, our community, and our country.  There is no minimum required donation.  

Nipissing Culture Days supports the fair payment of artists for their participation in all arts and culture programming, including the Culture Days Events that they host. We thank you for your support. 

Culture Days is a national celebration of arts and culture. At the end of each September, millions of people attend thousands of participatory arts and culture events across the country. Culture Days programs invite the public to get hands-on and behind-the-scenes to highlight the importance of arts and culture in our communities. This year the celebrations have been extended to a 4-week run.

 Located at the crossroads of Asia and Europe, Armenia’s cuisine has been influenced by traders and conquers from the Mediterranean, Middle East and Eastern Europe. 

Armenia cuisine is full with delicious vegetarian and vegan dishes.  Join us as we venture into the Armenian world of delicious flavours!

 Chances are you’ve come across a Filipino and wondered why they have Spanish-sounding last names, like Garcia or Rodriguez. They have brown skin, eat rice with everything while praying the rosary.  Well, why do Canadian have complexions of all races, have Scottish or French sounding last names like Mc Ferguson or Champlain, eat maple syrup with everything  while praying to the god of hockey?  Because that's just how it it.  Just come and eat the food and quit worrying about it. 

Okay so here's why:

 The Philippines were claimed in the name of Spain in 1521 by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. He named the islands after the King Philip II of Spain and were then referred to as Las Felipinas

 A catalogue of family names was therefore compiled, incorporating both Spanish surnames and native names earlier collected by the religious orders in order to  regulate the  administration of justice, public service, finance and public order. The colonialists needed a way to prove the degree of blood relations between parties to a marriage.

As a result of traditional indigenous flavours that have blended with the history of colonialist rule, their style of food has evolved over many centuries from their Austronesian origins (shared with Malaysian and Indonesian cuisines) to a mixed cuisine of Indian, Chinese, Spanish and American influences, in line with the major waves of influence that had enriched the cultures of the archipelago, as well as others adapted to indigenous ingredients and the local palate.[1]

Dishes range from the very simple, like a meal of fried salted fish and rice, to fish curry, chicken curry, complex paellas and cozidos of Iberian origin created for fiestas.
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 Mongolian cuisine is much influenced by the continental climate that dominates the region, and also a bit by the Russian and Chinese cultures.  Learn to cook a wonderful Mongolian dish while Ankha shares stories of life in this rich cultural region. - Live Streaming YouTube Event

 Medussah is an original live music performance duo originating from Ecuador now living in North Bay, Ontario.   

Specializing in live Latin electronica with a wide, mixed repertoire of original and cover music, Medussah has been featured in festivals throughout North and South America and Europe.