Music program helps kids embrace heritage
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Small Grant Accessibility Program
Advocacy comes in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes, all it takes is one educator with the commitment to give children a way to embrace and understand their culture through music.
Through the Bayanihan Filipino Arts and Culture Club, youth in the Yorkton area have a space to engage with their culture while helping to preserve and promote Filipino identity.
With about ten participants at a time, the program has a big impact on kids, their families, and their community.
"We have to nurture [youth] because they are our future. They will be the cultural bearers."- Jhonnette Derkatch, director and co-founder, Bayanihan Filipino Arts and Culture Club
Watch the video story online for an inside look into the only Filipino youth band in the province, and how young people are connecting to their cultural identity through music.
The Bayanihan Filipino Youth Band Workshop received support from SaskCulture’s Small Grant Accessibility Program, with funding from the Sask Lotteries Trust Fund.