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It’s billed as a “breathtaking” display of Tibet’s culture, but Canadian-Tibetans are denouncing programs about the contested region as an “insulting” and “deeply disrespectful” display of propaganda.

The Canada China Tibetan Culture Week opens in Toronto Tuesday at the TIFF Bell Lightbox with a documentary screening, followed by traditional song and dance performances by a Tibet-based troupe at the Bluma Appel Theatre. Events are also being held in Vancouver.

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It is part of an international touring exhibition co-sponsored by China’s State Council Information Office, which has made stops in Australia, Germany and Spain, among others, since 2001.

Toronto’s event is organized by the Justin Poy Agency, but critics consider it to be as part of a “well-oiled and insidious” propaganda campaign by the Chinese Communist Party.

It comes days after the Toronto District School Board cancelled its planned partnership with the Confucius Institute, a Chinese government-funded non-profit, amid concerns about how it would promote the ruling party.