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International Mother Language Day (IMLD)

Wed, Feb 21, 2018

KPU’s Department of Language and Cultures invites you to celebrate International Mother Language Day on Feb 21, 2018 (Wed) from 12 to 4pm at the Melvin Centre KPU Richmond Campus.

Everybody is welcome!

Media Coverage: http://thelasource.com/en/2018/02/19/mother-languages-a-key-role-in-ide…

 

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We at Kwantlen Polytechnic University respectfully acknowledge that we live, work and study in a region that overlaps with the unceded traditional and ancestral First Nations territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), qi̓  cə̓  y̓ (Katzie), SEMYOME (Semiahmoo), scə̓  waθən (Tsawwassen), qiqéyt (Qayqayt), and kwikwəƛ̓ə̓  m (Kwikwetlem); and with the lands of the qw̓  ɑ:nƛ̓ə̓  n̓ (Kwantlen First Nation), which gifted its name to this university.