Be there for the opening of Paul Wong’s “Made in China” 3 Day Exhibition & Sale. Opening Wednesday, June 23, 6:00pm to 10:00pm

From facebook page:

As a self-invented video pioneer and one of Canada’s most renowned multimedia artists, Paul Wong is an award-winning artist, curator, and organizer of events and public interventions since the mid-1970s. Known particularly for his tough engagement with issues of race, sex and death, Wong’s work is varied and eclectic, ranging from conceptual performances to complex narratives, meshing video, photography, installation and performance with rare Chinese-Canadian meets cutting edge counter culture perspectives.

For more information:

Tel: 604 872 7713
email: onmain@gmail.com
More details and pictures at Paul Wong Projects

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SACHIKO MURAKAMI
Date: July 6-12
Where: The Scream Literary Festival

Governor General’s Award-nominated poet Sachiko Murakami, featured in Ricepaper 14.3 will be taking part in the Scream Literary Festival, check out: Scream Festival 2010 for more information.

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34th ANNUAL POWELL STREET FESTIVAL
Date: Saturday, July 31st and Sunday, August 1st
Time: 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Where: Oppenheimer Park

Your favourite Asian Magazine is attending the 34^th Annual Powell Street Festival. As well, we will have a booth set up so please come by and say ‘hi’!

Also, see Neworld and Playwrights Theatre Centre present the first edition of PodPlays. The Oppenheimer Incident by Tetsuro Shigematsu with music composed by Yota Kobayashi, skirts the edges of the park and examines the competing histories that inhabit it.”

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Photo by: William W. Ting

Go to the Kaori Kasai: Ura Monchan exhibition and view her “storyboards of short vignettes about kinship, alienation, emotional boundaries and our interactions with physical environments.” Ongoing until March 27th, Blim, 197 E. 17th Ave, Vancouver

Photo: Canada Council

Visit Celebration Hall at Mountain View Cemetery, where you’ll be able to view Paul Wong’s fourth in a series of 5 weekly events , One More Than Three, whic“will bring together light and dark, silence and sound, living with the dead, and the 4 virtues: truth, bravery, non-violence and generosity, all transforming the modernist Celebration Hall into an installation space for encountering video art.Saturday, March 6th, 5pm to 10pm, 39th+Fraser St., Vancouver, $10 at the door (cash only)

See Last Train Home, a documentary by acclaimed Montreal filmmaker, Lixin Fan, opening today. Lixin Fan will be there himself to speak about his film on Friday and Saturday (March 5 and 6) at the Ridge Theatre 3131 Arbutus Street. Ridge Theatre is the only theatre in Vancouver that is currently showing this film. Look for a profile on Lixin Fan by David Eng in the upcoming Ricepaper 15.1 and read David Eng’s review of the film here.