Culture & Heritage Awards 2024 - Annalise Lam (Emerging Cultural Leader) 

Annalise Lam won the 2024 Emerging Cultural Leader Award. Annalise is a dedicated, passionate, and talented young Highland dancer. In 2022, Annalise was the first dancer from Vancouver Island to win the World Highland Dance Championship in forty years. Until Annalise, a dancer from Nanaimo had never won a World Highland Dance Championship!
Annalise has represented Highland Dance nationally and internationally. Among her many accomplishments, she represented BC at the Canadian Championships becoming the national champion for two consecutive years in 2022 and 2023; she was selected to represent Canada in the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo and perform 26 shows in Edinburgh Castle; and she competed in the 2022 Commonwealth Championship in Scotland.
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