Archive | July, 2009

Powell Street Festival

30 Jul

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On Saturday, August 1 and Sunday, August 2, the 33rd Annual Powell Street Festival will be taking place at Woodland Park located at 700 Woodland Drive.

The Powell Street Festival is an annual celebration of Japanese Canadian arts, culture and heritage that features something for everyone: dance, music, film and video, visual arts, martial arts demos, amateur sumo tournament, craft vendors, traditional displays, and of course, tons of scrumptious Japanese food.

PSF is the largest event of its kind in Canada and the longest running community arts festival in the Lower Mainland. They provide a much-needed venue for emerging and established, professional and amateur, and traditional and contemporary artists in the Japanese Canadian and Asian Canadian communities.

So, go check it out this weekend! It’s sure to be a blast.

For more information, please visit: The 33rd Annual Powell Street Festival

RBC Desifest 2009

23 Jul

DF_VAN_poster_VERTICAL_8.5x11_FNLOn Saturday, July 25th, 2009, Desifest – a free concert celebrating Canadian South Asian Artists and culture- will be taking place at the Plaza of Nations from 12pm until 8 pm.

There will be over a dozen performers not to mention a dozen vendors. The weather should be wonderful on Saturday too, so grab some friends and family and head to False Creek! It should be a lively event!

For more information, please go to RBC Desifest 2009

Bollywood Wedding in the Park

19 Jul

bollywoodFrom July 23-26, there will be a Bollywood Wedding in the Italian Park at the PNE grounds and everyone is invited!

New Works in partnership with South Asian Arts and the Pacific National Exhibition will present Bollywood Wedding, an outdoor, interactive opportunity for the audience to experience traditional Indian wedding customs, in the form of a wild and hilarious event, bringing the whole dysfunctional family together for an evening of fun and melodrama.

The event begins at 8pm on all nights and extra 2pm shows on Satruday and Sunday. The best part is that this is completely FREE!
For more information, please visit: New Works presents Bollywood Wedding

Free Film Screening of The Iron Road

11 Jul

nonamePlease join us for a preview screening of IRON ROAD, a gripping love story set against the historical contribution of Chinese immigrants whose lives and personal sacrifice made the construction of Canada’s transcontinental railroad through the Rockies possible. The screening is followed by a youth response to the movie and a Q&A with Producer Raymond Massey and Executive Producer Tiger Hu.

Thursday JULY 16, 2009 at the Victoria Learning Theatre (Room 182)
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre,  [map]
1961 East Mall, UBC
Doors open: 5:45 PM | Screening begins: 6:00 PM
Panel Discussion 7:45 – 8:15 PM
Admission is Free, RSVP required. Please RSVP at http://www.naaap.bc.ca/events.php
This epic film stars Oscar-winning Peter O’Toole, Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, Wimbledon), Sun Li (Fearless with Jet Li), Chinese mega-star Tony Leung Ka Fai (The Lover),  Luke Macfarlane (Brothers and Sisters, ABC), Ian Tracey (Intelligence, Da Vinci’s Inquest),  Kenneth Mitchell (Jericho, NBC) and Charlotte Sullivan (MVP, Alice in Wonderland).
IRON ROAD has been winning awards at international film festivals: Best Actress in Rome, Audience Favourite in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Best Cinematography, Production Design, Costumes and Makeup at the Leo Awards this year.
Visit the website www.ironroadthemovie to view the trailer and the Behind the Scenes video
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IRON ROAD is the first film co-production between Canada and China since Bethune with Donald Sutherland.  It is co-written by Barry Pearson and Raymond Storey, directed and edited by David Wu. Vancouver casting by Sue Brouse and Lynn Carrow. Financial support from the CTF, through Telefilm Canada, the CBC, Astral Media The Harold Greenberg Fund, Cogeco Fund, and the Shaw Rocket Fund, and FIBC and OMDC.
This community-sponsored screening is co-presented by CBC, the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC (CCHS) and the UBC Community Partners for Internationalization (CPI), in partnership with the Asian Canadian Cultural Organization (ACCO) and NAAAP Vancouver, and is made possible through the generous support of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre of UBC.
+ IRON ROAD is also screening at Fifth Avenue Cinema (Fifth Avenue & Burrard), one night only on Wednesday July 29, 2009 at 7:00 PM. Don’t miss the two-part broadcast version of IRON ROAD, which airs Sundays August 9 and August 16th 8:00 – 10:00 PM, on CBC Television.
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