By James Dunn

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French culture celebration Saturday in Red Deer

Feb 18, 2020 | 12:06 PM

An annual event celebrating French culture returns this weekend as the 2020 Carnaval de Red Deer takes place at Festival Hall on Saturday, February 22.

The festival replicates some of what goes on at the real Carnaval de Québec in Québec City, including circus acts, popular food items like maple taffy and poutine, and live fiddle and jazz music.

Serge Gingras with the Red Deer chapter of the French Canadian Association of Alberta (ACFA) says this is the tenth year of the Red Deer winter festival, and it has been growing in the last two or three.

“One of the things we’ve been doing is expanding the role of the organization (ACFA) and to include more different cultures from the Francophonie,” he says.

“It’s about spreading French culture, but it’s also about promoting French language and French-Canadian culture. But also we look at the different cultures from the French speaking world, because French-Canadian culture is different than French culture in France, or in francophone countries in Africa,” Gingras adds.

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Carnaval de Red Deer is on from 10 a.m until 4 p.m, and is free to attend with everyone welcome. You can learn more at reddeer.acfa.ab.ca