Commemorating Mississauga’s Cultural Heritage: THEIRstories with Gaya Nagendra - Part Two

This week Heritage Bytes returns for part two of Commemorating Mississauga’s Cultural Heritage with Gaya Nagendra. 

 

In this three-part series featuring Gaya Nagendra, we hear the inspiring immigration story of Gaya and her family from escaping persecution and the riots of 1983 in Sri Lanka, to settling into Canada and all of the challenges that Gaya and her family faced in adapting to a new country, language, and culture.

 

This program was made possible with funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation and provides opportunities for the cultural communities of Mississauga to preserve and celebrate their heritage contributions to the city and to develop ideas for ways to animate these important community milestones, and share them with the broader community. 

 

Heritage Mississauga Outreach Coordinator, Meghan Mackintosh interviewed many individuals from the diverse communities across Mississauga to capture THEIRstories. In this episode, Heritage Mississauga Social Media & Program Coordinator Kelly Ralston also speaks with Meghan on the inspiration, process, and outcomes of this important project.

 

We would like to thank Gaya for her willingness to share her personal stories with Heritage Mississauga. If you would like to share your stories, please contact Meghan at outreach@heritagemississauga.org.

 

Visit our website https://heritagemississauga.com/booklets-and-guides/ for your copies of our Cultural Heritage Guides as well as our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/HeritageMississauga for some of the many resources derived from our Cultural Heritage programs.

 

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