Multicultural Kids Camps
a fun, healthy, and engaging exploration of other cultures
About our Multicultural Camps
We believe that by experiencing aspects of different cultures in a fun and supportive environment, children will gain a different perspective which will help them develop a life-long curiosity and interest in valuing and promoting diversity and inclusion.
Our goal for the Multicultural Camps is to introduce children to different cultures represented in our communities in a fun, safe, and enquiring environment. Each Camp is led by a Cultural Ambassador; local immigrants who customize each day's activities with their own cultural heritage that can include their language, food, games, crafts, music, song, and dance.
Camp Content
Core to all our camps are hands on experience of the culture and traditions of the cultural ambassador's country. Most important is experiencing these through food, not simply tasting the food, but cooking and eating food from each camp's focus culture.
Summer Camp Video.mp4In 2024, we enjoyed learning about Nepal, Slovakia, Japan, India and the Philippines...
On Philippines day, we are making Bandaritas. We tried Filipino traditional drinks - Palamig Black jelly juice, During our cooking segment, we learned how to cook Tinola and rice. We had so much fun dressing up a tradition Filipino costume and did a fashion show.
Meet our 2024 Cultural Ambassadors
Yami Yeung, Lead Ambassador
My name is Yami and I'm from Hong Kong. I love snowboarding and hiking. I have a few years of experience working with kids and now I am working for Whistler Multicultural Society.
Emi Yoshihara
Hello, My name is Emi Yoshihara.
I am from Japan and lived in Canada from 2003. I am an ECE educater working at daycare center. I started karate 7 years ago. Recently I finish NCCP course for karate and became BC certified karate coach.
I love to hiking and biking summer time and snowboard in whistler. I am looking forward to seeing you at summer camp.
Aruna Neupane
My name is Aruna Neupane. I am from Nepal, and I have been living in Whistler for 2yrs now. I love meeting new people and making new friends. I enjoy learning new things about anything and everything. I am thankful to the Multi-Cultural Society for giving me many opportunities to meet new people and learn something new every time. I am not an outdoor person, but Whistler sure is turning me into one, and I’m loving it.
Nisha Khatkar
Nisha is originally from India. She works in the hospitality industry (Crystal Lodge) in Whistler. She usually spends her spare time cooking, swimming and participating in volunteer activities mainly to explore new cultures.
Barbora Vaneckova
My name is Barbora Vaneckova. I'm originally from Slovakia. I've been living in the Sea to Sky corridor since 2011. I love to share my culture with other people, cook and bake our traditional food, celebrate the holidays, play the music (from my speaker :)) and dance. I love my job as a (Squamish) Multicultural outreach worker and children's camp facilitator.
Join the fun in 2025...
Our thanks to the Resort Municipality of Whistler for supporting this program through the Community Enrichment Program 2024.