As part of Asian Heritage Month we invite you to an afternoon with a double reading from V6A: Writing in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (Arsenal Pulp Press: 2012) + Ricepaper Special Aboriginal and Asian Canadian Writers Issue Winter 2012.
V6A is … more »
Globalization: Cultural Disconnects or Shared Destiny?
February 20, 2013 – Vancouver & Richmond | Extremely timely in light of recent backlash against the China-Canada FIPPA agreement and the presence of Chinese miners in Northern BC, the upcoming 4th DocuAsia Forum … more »
Productions Multi-Monde, a Montreal-based company who has created and produced many social and political documentaries, in association with Diffusion Multi-Monde is releasing a new documentary called Être chinois au Québec (Being Chinese in Quebec): A Road Movie. This … more »
For the fifth year, the Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (VACT) is presenting Etch-Your-SketchOff, a sketch comedy competition with a cultural twist. Participating teams will pull all their funny wits together and come up with eight to 10 minutes sketches … more »
David H.T Wong, a former Ricepaper art director and now well-known Vancouver architect has published a graphic novel with our friends Arsenal Pulp Press. The book launch is Sunday November 18th at 2:00 pm @ Dr Sun Yat Sen Chinese … more »
Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre is hosting “MSG Theatre Lab – Play Development Readings”. The MSG Theatre Lab is a development program where three playwrights (emerging or established) are chosen yearly to work with a dramaturge on their manuscript for 5 … more »
Happy Too Asian: Celebrating Activism Against Racism in Media
Talks, Media Workshop and Intergenerational Dialogue, Two Years After the Maclean’s Too Asian article
Live streaming event between Vancouver and Toronto
This November 10, 2012 marks two years since Maclean’s magazine … more »
Blim and Powell Street Festival Society present:
Sunday October 28 | 7:30 – 10 PM | $15/12 (advance tix available at Blim) | @ VIVO Madia Arts Centre
Welcome to an expose of recent video works … more »
A Special Tribute Evening to Wayson Choy in support of Project Bookmark Canada
Jointly presented by The Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop, Gung Haggis Fat Choy, Historic Joy Kogawa House Society and Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society/explorASIAN
On October 15, 2012 … more »
The Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop, publisher of Ricepaper magazine is working together with the Aboriginals West Coast Writers Collective to host a series of writing workshops and reading events on Saturday October 13 and Sunday October 14th at the Strathcona … more »
Title: ”Trauma and Diaspora”
Speakers: Janet MacArthur, Creative and Critical Studies, UBC-O; Judy Fong Bates, writer, storyteller; Tamio Wakayama, photographer; YaliniDreams, poet, playwright
Lecture Series:Writer-in-Residence Series
Date: September 27, 8-9 pm
Location: Coach House, Green College, UBC (6201 Cecil
The Origin of the Lion Dance
When I was 10-years-old my mother enrolled me in kung fu lessons. She was hoping I would develop some valuable characteristics, get some exercise and most importantly have the confidence to protect myself. Choy Li Fut was a form of … more »