I keep a faded box of Chinese language cards on the bottom shelf of a basement bookcase. The box is almost as old as me, the cover once bright …
Allan Cho
Allan Cho
Engaged in a number of initiatives in the local community, Allan serves on the board of the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop and Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society. He has written for the Georgia Straight, Diverse Magazine, and Ricepaper. His fiction has appeared in anthologies, The Strangers and Eating Stories. He is one of the founders of LiterASIAN Writers Festival,the first Asian Canadian literary festival and is co-editor of the anthology, AlliterAsian: Celebrating Twenty Years of Ricepaper Magazine.
1 At age four, I entered a world completely foreign to my Chinese roots At the long dining room table of my Argentinian babysitter’s home I sipped mate through a …
It is with deep sadness that we acknowledge the passing of Dr. Eury Chang. Eury, a Vancouver-born theatre artist, and scholar completed his MA in Theatre Studies in 2013 and …
I Cumulus clouds drift above the canopy of leaves shading tireless workers. Rows of bountiful produce in a pastoral landscape where the passage of light measures time. Thrifty, makeshift furrows …
“If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus …
……………….. ……………after Amy Chua An accent is a sign of bravery, of journey, celebrated or unsung— a mark of freedom from the slavery of thinking in a single siloed tongue. …
How did I get so blue? Events, free food, and friends galore. It infects my fingertips and rushes through. This novelty lasted until nothing was true— the college kid’s book, …
when my poems come in english, i wonder maybe i could dance in these. big mistakes white english has a way to police the foreign tongue every sentence a battleground. …
I am the sorrow of the perpetual outsider, Carried on through centuries of pain. Still hearing the echoes of souls once silenced, From signs that read, “No Indians, Chinese, or …
“Forgiveness” by Mark Sakamoto at Arts Club Theatre Company (January 12-February 12, 2023)
ARTS CLUB THEATRE COMPANY ANNOUNCES CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM FOR FORGIVENESS By Mark Sakamoto Stage adaptation by Hiro Kanagawa A joint production with Theatre Calgary (Calgary) January 12–February 12, 2023 (Media …