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The IFR
Presentation
The intercultural Festival is a four day event ( August 10th to August 13th 2011)
In 1824, Rawdon was home to 475 inhabitants of which 75% came from Ireland. By 1850, the majority of the community was francophone, with its numbers constantly increasing. Businesses and industries also started to crop up.
After the two World Wars, several eastern european families, attracted by the charm of the landscape, set up house in Rawdon and brought with them their contribution to the cultural and economic life of the town.
Today, Polish, Colombian, Irish, Chinese and Russian make up some of the 52 cultural communities that cohabit in harmony in this municipality of 10,250 residents in the heart of the Lanaudière region.
It is from a desire to showcase and share our differences that the Intercultural Festival was born.
The festival-goers are invited to participate in our workshops, taste our traditional dishes, dance and sway to the international sound of our music, compete in our Dragon Boat races, be swept away by our storytellers, to picnic in a picturesque setting. For the pass seven years the festival attracted more than 35 000 people.
'In organizing the Intercultural Festival, we bring down the borders between cultures. When we learn all the while having fun, we open ourselves up to others and their reality.'
