SUMMARY FOR ARTICLE

Multicultural arts education in the post-secondary context?: Positing the significantly multilingual community of Surrey as a microcosm of the emerging national reality, the author discusses the challenges of representation, the concealing art that unchallenged official bilingualism represents, as well as the social benefits of making centralized public arts space a legitimate venue for multicultural arts education and student-based expressions about language and identity. The project as a whole created a powerful Vol. As a result it yielded unusual insight into the perspectives of youth culture on national and linguistic identities views that are often under-represented and diverge from visions that have been offered by professional artists and academics. The Explorations Program is an interdisciplinary cohort program at Simon Fraser University Surrey and Explorations is designed to challenge students to take their theoretical knowledge into the community and have it confronted and enriched by lived experience.