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Join us for a wonderful day of Tibetan culture and arts hosted by the Tibetan Cultural Society of BC and Tsengdok Monastery.

Date:  Saturday, August 18^th, 2012

Location: Van Dusen Garden, Floral Hall, 5251 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC

Marketplace:     10am – 7pm

Events:              11am – 7pm

Talented artists will demonstrate Tibetan Thangka painting, sacred sand mandala art, and beautiful butter sculptures.  Enjoy delicious Tibetan food, arts, music, dance and movies.  Bring your family and friends to join us for a day of fun events.  There is something for everyone:  families, young and old.

Suggested entry donation is $5.00 with all proceeds going to the Canadian Tibetan Resettlement Program and the Tibetan Cultural Society of BC.

Be sure to visit the TRAS table and have a look at our beautiful Tibetan, Nepalese, and Indian handicrafts.

Past years have attracted large turnouts with the event being enjoyed by all.

This year features:

• Marketplace and food
• Traditional Music and Dance
• Art displays
• Meditation Workshop
• Healer and Astrologer
• Lots more……..

For more information, please contact the Tibetan Cultural Society of BC at tcsofbc@gmail.com or 604-248-4930 ext 231.

 

 

 

We are thrilled to announce TRAS’s 50^th Annual General Meeting and hope you can join us!

Date: Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Start time: 7:00pm

Doors open: 6:30pm

Location: Tsengdok Monastery, 1502 Angus Drive (at Granville St, 2 blocks south of 16^th Ave), Vancouver

Seating is limited so RSVP by June 1 to TRAS Event Coordinator Marina Guy: marina.guy@tras.ca

Details:

TRAS President Jennifer Hales recently returned from India and Nepal where she visited a number of TRAS partners and project sites.

After a brief business meeting, Jennifer will share stories and photos of these exceptional organizations and the way your donations make a difference.

We will also celebrate the contributions of young TRAS supporters from UBC and Sutherland Secondary School in North Vancouver.

Street parking available on Angus St.

By Marina Guy, TRAS Events Coordinator

After five engaging and inspiring Vancouver-based Nepali Film Festivals we are excited to introduce the travelling Nepali Film Festivals.

Now TRAS supporters across Canada can host their own Nepali Film events, showing their friends and families our most popular films while raising awareness and funds for TRAS.

We will provide travelling Nepali Film Festival organizers with everything they need to host their own event –a checklist for running an event, films (in DVD format), along with posters, promotional material and intro video if you need them. Hosts have the choice to charge a small admission fee or accept donations for TRAS projects.

Invite a few friends to your home to view two or three short films, find a meeting which needs a program (a service club, social group, Elder College, etc) or team up with a like-minded friend and find a venue where you can show a few films to the public.

TRAS member Pippo Damiano did just this in Tofino: booked the local hall, put up a few posters, borrowed a couple of DVDs of the Nepali films – and had a sell-out crowd. They turned people away!

These amazing films (documentaries and feature films) made by Nepali filmmakers are part of the emerging and vibrant movie scene in Nepal – and what material they have to work with: the world’s most beautiful mountain scenery, colourful pageantry, inspiring stories of difficulties overcome, realistic looks at some of the country’s age-old problems, and women making their mark in a traditional society.

For a taste of the films we have to offer in this exciting program, check out the previous Nepali Film Festival websites and look at the list of films: http://tras.ca/nepali-film-festival

Exciting news! The 1st travelling Nepali film evening, hosted by TRAS members in Hamilton, Ontario, on November 30, 2011, has raised $1,900.  Thanks to a generous donor who is matching project donations until January 31, 2012, this amount will be doubled to $3,800!

The 2^nd travelling Nepali film evening took place in the home of a TRAS member in Chemainus, BC on December 16, 2011, has raised $200 – doubled that’s $400!

Thank you to these partners for their support!

Contact Marina if you’d like to host a film evening in your community: marina.guy@tras.ca

The 49th Annual General Meeting of the Society was held on June 20, 2011, at the Tsengdok Monastery in Vancouver.   Forty-seven members and guests filled the hall as Jennifer Hales, president, welcomed them and called the meeting to order.  To read more, please see the Summer Newsletter

The sun was shining and residents of South Surrey/White Rock were in the spending mood at a recent garage sale hosted by TRAS Board Director, Cheryl Sullivan.  With the help of family and friends, most of the donated items were sold off in short order.  Sales for the day totalling  $472.00 will be donated to TRAS general funds.