We have some exciting announcements to pass along! This year marks the exciting 50th anniversary of the oldest Punjabi Market in North America – and last year, City Council passed a unanimous motion declaring May 31, 2020 as the celebration date. To honour this significant anniversary, City Hall will be illuminated in orange tonight, and a webpage to mark the 50th … Continue reading
As part of Virtual explorASIAN 2020, the Interconnected Project continues its celebration of Asian Heritage Month online, casting a light on art that focus on Pan-Asian heritage and culture. In this article we feature the work of photographer Gloria King. The confluence of two cultures implied by the identity to which Gloria King willingly ascribes … Continue reading
Necessity is…the Mother. As BC restarts, join Scripting Aloud for their first #covidlife online edition and last reading until the fall! Whether you want to read, or watch/listen and give feedback afterward – we’d love you to be with us. Short and sweet – Scripting Aloud’s next event on Saturday, May 30 reads THE FOURTH … Continue reading
The Vancouver Public library is offering two virtual events this week as part of their special Asian Heritage Month programming. First up: From Du Fu to Bai Juyi: Scholars’ Spirit – 杜甫與白居易:從仗劍天涯到煮酒園林. The An Lushan Rebellion (755-763) changed Ancient Chinese Culture dramatically. Join the VPL for an introduction to the two greatest Chinese poets of that … Continue reading
REPOST FROM: Fuyubi Nakamura, Curator, Asia, Museum of Anthropology, May 20, 2020 LINK TO ORIGINAL POST: https://moa.ubc.ca/2020/05/viruses-have-no-nationality-images-of-asia-during-the-pandemic/ “Be kind, be calm, be safe.” With these words, Dr. Bonnie Henry, British Columbia’s health officer, ends her daily COVID-19 update. Have we all been kind to each other? The COVID-19 virus poses a risk to all of us, but … Continue reading
Have you checked out all the free webinars on offer from the Vancouver Art Gallery? If not, you should take a look because there is a lot of great content happening this month, including this talk with Steven Dragonn who explores how modern Chinese art lost its global connections during the end of the Qing dynasty, which continued into … Continue reading
The Lorita Leung Dance Academy 梁漱華舞蹈学院 was established in 1970 and is one of North America’s oldest Chinese dance schools. They offer the complete Beijing Dance Academy Chinese Dance Examination Syllabus and repertoire in Chinese Classical, Folk and Ethnic dance. We had planned to present their performance as part of our Recognition Awards Gala this … Continue reading
Uzume Taiko Drum Group and Silk Road Music have a new musical collaboration featuring cross-cultural repertoire, “Silk & Skins” that we are thrilled to present as part of #virtualexplorASIAN! Silk and Skins embodies this year’s explorASIAN Festival theme “Pan-Asian Cultural Connections” which celebrates our diverse multicultural Canadian identity with stronger efforts to increase cross-cultural integration. … Continue reading
In response to the rise of acts of racism against Asian communities amid the COVID-19 pandemic, local musician Son of James has written and recorded a song called “I Found It All Inside,” featuring musicians from all across the Lower Mainland. The song, which has been pieced together from contributions recorded while the musicians practised … Continue reading
For the next four weeks you can find our beautiful explorASIAN posters on various transit shelters around metro Vancouver. This year’s poster was designed by our previous festival coordinator Martin Prijatna and features Sujit Vaidya, one of Vancouver’s leading exponents of the classical Indian style of bharata natyam. Sujit was booked to perform at our … Continue reading