When my father died, I stopped cutting my hair. In numerous cultures around the world, cutting one’s hair, shaving one’s head, pulling, or rending one’s hair is a ceremonial or …
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.
So this is how it feels, ears an errant visitor amidst hushed conversations under the orange lamp whose glow glances your skin, shimmering ever so slightly. Like the kumquat in …
look at this rocky playground, where we scraped knees to leave them bleeding, then outgrown the stagnant navy blue and white uniforms, blown into different directions, flying away- until divine …
i twist the spines of my mother’s green onion stems products of caramelized trauma spun into salted relationships through my busy thumbs gluing her past to my present in a …
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and …
Return of the Jedi was the first thing that came to mind when prompted by “return.” But is it worth contracting Long COVID for? Many would like to return to …
“The Table” in celebration of Mother’s Day and Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Our concept was based on how we wanted Asian people to be seen through the media in the 80s. Oftentimes, Asian identities are portrayed as one-dimensional characters such as the …
“Thank You Grandma” is an intimate portrayal of a lifelong relationship between a grandson and his grandmother. Drawing from my own experiences with my grandmothers, the film offers a soul-stirring …
Not long after we found out that we couldn’t have children, we found the flat. We were visiting our friends’ place one night, and on our way out, a young …
“Mind, Body, and Healing” (MBH) at first seems disparate in its collection of scenes and sequences, but underlying it all is the theme of self-healing from the main perspective of …