KJL Garden - Decolonial Thanksgiving Day in Chinatown
“For a Decolonial and Inclusive Chinatown”
The Montreal Chinatown Round Table (TRQCM) is organizing a “Decolonial Thanksgiving Day“ on October 12th in Chinatown.
Building on the Chinatown Round Table’s success with previously held editions of Decolonial Lunar New Year activities, which brought together Chinatown’s diverse communities, including Indigenous members.
Schedule:
An Indigenous and Asian co-led celebration of food ways and movement (10AM - 12PM)
Sound bath, movement workshop with Akhyra
Bannock and soup tasting with Alan
Congee stories + Congee tasting
Visioning Exercise for Chinatown Seniors (12:00PM to 12:45PM)
Workshop on Harm reduction practices (12:30PM to 1:30PM)
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The Kahéhtaien Jardin Lumb is Montreal’s first Indigenous-Asian community garden, located at the corner of Viger and de Bullion streets in the Chinatown district.