Support Us
As a non-profit organization, we rely on our sponsors and donors to ensure we are able to deliver a truly grassroots community event each year. Without the support of sponsors and donors we would not be able to ensure the festival is free for all or to recognize and provide our amazing volunteers, performers and activity leaders the resources they need to participate.
Your support will help us
create opportunities for local Canadians and immigrants to learn more about each other’s cultures and traditions
provide opportunities to acknowledge and celebrate the contributions of diverse groups and individuals to our local community
build intercultural interaction and cross-cultural understanding for a more inclusive community
About the Festival
The Festival provides a fun, educational, free, interactive, inclusive, low-barrier opportunity for local residents and diverse local groups to cross cultural/social boundaries building a more inclusive and equitable community. Every year we have 90 -120 volunteers who help us deliver a truly local, interactive, participatory Multicultural Festival where local community members can enjoy free cultural sharing activities and performances (see our gallery). All activity facilitators and performers are volunteers from local communities. In 2023, volunteers participated from Switzerland, the Philippines, Japan, China, Ukraine, Chile, Brazil, Mexico. We were honoured to welcome a drum circle from Tipella and the Xa’Xtsa Nation, and we enjoyed food from Taiwan, Syria, and Slovakia. 800+ local individuals of all age groups but especially families and children participated.
In 2024, Whistler Multicultural Network is partnering with Arts Whistler to showcase immigrant contributions to the Sea to Sky art community in conjunction with the Festival.
Donate
Volunteer appreciation items. All our Festival performers, activity leaders, and day-of-Festival workers are volunteers and we ask donors to help us thank them whether it's providing refreshments, vouchers, Festival badges or clothing, or other items we can put in a draw for them to receive. Every year we have approx. 90 -100 volunteers who help us deliver a truly local, interactive, participatory Multicultural Festival.
Contact us if you are able to donate appreciation items for our volunteers.
Should you make a donation, your business will be recognized on our Festival website: https://festival.wmsociety.ca/, on our social media: Facebook and Instagram and on fliers at the event.
Online auction items. We are gratefully receiving items to be auctioned online (32auctions.com platform) to raise funds for intercultural community building activities including the Festival and art show in June 2024. Funds raised through the auction will go toward equipment rental, supplies (costumes, materials), space rental, delivery costs, and honoraria.
Contact us if you are able to donate online auction items to help fund Whistler Multicultural Society intercultural community building activities. Should you make a donation, your business will be recognized on our Festival website: https://festival.wmsociety.ca/, on our social media: Facebook and Instagram, on fliers at the event and feature on the 32auctions.com platform.
Sponsor Us
Whistler Multicultural Society is also seeking sponsors for this event. Join us in building a more inclusive, welcoming community by bringing together all members of our increasingly diverse community to celebrate local multiculturalism, and to build intercultural awareness, understanding, and connections.
Contact us if you would like to sponsor the Whistler Multicultural Festival 2024 on June 7. Should you sponsor the event, your business will be recognized on our Festival website: https://festival.wmsociety.ca/, on our social media: Facebook and Instagram, as well as recognized on all promotional materials (posters, online (SM) and print advertising). Plus you will have the opportunity to have signage and a booth at the event on June 7.
Thank you to our 2024 funders and partners
