Lorraine Klaasen Receives the 2020 Forest City London World Music Award - EMBASSY CULTURAL HOUSE

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Lorraine Klaasen Receives the 2020 Forest City London World Music Award

11/7/2020

Lorraine Klaasen

The Embassy Cultural House community is thrilled for Lorraine Klaasen for winning the annual 2020 award for world music at the Forest City London Music Awards in September 2020. Now living in London, Lorraine is a 2013 Canadian JUNO Award winner. She has been performing and recording music in Canada for over 30 years and she’s also conducted music workshops in schools all over Canada, the Caribbean and the United States. Her outreach program focuses on South African music, arts and culture with an emphasis on how immigrant cultures have enriched Canada. See Lorraine's virtual living room performance here. Lorraine is a recent addition to the ECH community connecting with co-founder Jamelie Hassan via their children who work together in Global Affairs Canada.

Lorraine said on her recent Forest City London Music Award : "It is wonderful to be receiving this award and thank you to FCLMA for their continued support of arts and culture. Music plays a vital role in the face of racism and oppression and I just want to make people happy with my gift of music."

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CURATORIAL ADVISORS: Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner
WEB DESIGN: Tariq Hassan Gordon & Jade Williamson
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Andreas Buchwaldt, Charlotte Egan, Shelley Kopp, Olivia Mossuto, Mackenzie Smith, Jade Williamson
EMBASSY CULTURAL HOUSE ADVISORY CIRCLE:
Samer Abdelnour, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner and Lucas Stenning

OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White.

In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website.

London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.

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