As part of the Powell Street Festival, a screening of Hafu will be featured at the Firehall Arts Centre on August 3. According to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, one in forty-nine babies born in Japan today are born into families with one non-Japanese parent. This newly emerging minority in Japan is … Continue reading
Shun Li works in a textile factory in the outskirts of Rome in order to get her papers and enable her eight-year-old son to come to Italy. She is suddenly transferred to Chioggia, a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon, to work as a bartender in a pub. Bepi, a Slavic fisherman, nicknamed “the Poet” … Continue reading
With the return of the summer, the 8th annual Vancouver Taiwanese Film Festival is ready to make a mark in Vancouver’s cultural scene once more. The festival presents its 2014 theme “Breakthrough” with six selections that focus on a mental state that many joyously encounter at the darkest moments of their life. The 6 films … Continue reading
Dr Asef Bayat, University of Illinois, will speak to his broad research areas ranging from social movements and non-movements, religion-politics-everyday life, Islam and the modern world, to urban space and politics, and international development, focusing primarily on the Middle East. His lecture will also address themes in his latest book, “Life as Politics: How Ordinary … Continue reading
In February 2012, the New York Knicks, mired in a disappointed season and out of desperation, looked to the end of their bench and found Jeremy Lin, an undrafted free agent from Harvard. On the verge of seeing his lifelong NBA dream vanish, Lin – at, or near what was believed to be his last … Continue reading