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Asian Heritage Month is underway, and what better way to celebrate culture than over tasty food? Hosted by Foodtrip Market and with the Asian Heritage Society of Manitoba, Taste of Asia on May 25-26 will be a delicious time. 🍜🍲🍛

What can we expect, why is Asian Heritage Month important, and what is the role of the Asian Heritage Society of Manitoba? We explore these questions on this episode of U Talk.

Pride Month is on the way, and events hosted by Pride Winnipeg and other organizations aren't only a celebration of the vibrancy of the human experience; they're a chance to educate.

With recent policies across the country hurting the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, particularly those who identify as trans, education is more important than ever. 

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The Filipino community is one of the fastest-growing diasporas in Manitoba, with over 100 thousand individuals living in the province. With this growing population, Manitoba now recognizes June as Filipino Heritage Month.

There's so much happening, and we have Perla Javate from the Philippine Heritage Council to share everything Filipino here in Manitoba. 

You never know where life will take you. Opportunities can come at any moment, and even if they take you out of your comfort zone, they could be life-changing. That's what Shanley Spence has done: taking chances and exploring possibilities. 

There are dozens, hundreds even, of organizations that support newcomers arriving in Canada. There's a lot of information one needs when starting a life in a new country. However, we can also learn a lot from immigrants and newcomers and new ideas and perspectives we may never have thought of before. 

That's an essential component of the Islamic Social Services Association, providing social services to the Islamic and broader Manitoban community and learning from the diversity of people we have in this province.  

Winnipeg has a growing African community, with many creating various organizations to represent the vast number of countries within the continent.

Pan African Legacy unites the cultures of 14 countries from Southern Africa. Although those countries have many differences, they also share some similarities, and Pan African Legacy is looking to celebrate those differences and similarities while engaging younger generations with their culture and heritage.