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Vancouver Asian Film Festival 2010 Nov 4-7

3 Nov

Welcome to November, everyone!

Take a few minutes to check out this year’s VAFF – Vancouver Asian Film Festival! The event starts tomorrow and runs until this Sunday. All films show at Tinseltown Cinemas (just steps away from the Stadium-Chinatown skytrain station!) With over 30 films neatly packaged into 16 ‘Programs’ – each program with evocative and intriguing titles like ‘Lost and Foundations’ and ‘Love Wins Out’ – you are sure to find something that catches your eye at VAFF 2010!

VAFF”s Mission Statement:

The Vancouver Asian Film Festival Society (VAFF) is a not-for-profit organization that provides a forum for independent North American Asian filmmakers to showcase their work to both Asian and non-Asian audiences. The aim of VAFF is to foster an understanding and appreciation of today’s independent North American Asian filmmakers, while providing a springboard to larger film festivals. The society endeavours to represent the often ignored North American Asians caught between two cultures. The Vancouver Asian Film Festival Society will provide a cultural bridge between the Asian and non-Asian communities as well as the Asian communities themselves.

Vancouver Celebrates Diwali Festival presents: DIWALI DOWNTOWN

25 Oct

Hey everyone!

As October slowly draws to a close, ACCO wants to let you know about an exciting event called DIWALI DOWNTOWN, brought to you by the folks of the Vancouver Celebrates Diwali Festival. This main event, conveniently accessible by the Canada Line skytrain (depart at the Roundhouse stop), will feature even bigger and better activities from last year – dance, music, multimedia and theatre for the entire family! Interested in volunteering? Check out their website: www.vandiwali.ca for details. Already in its seventh year, DIWALI DOWNTOWN promises to be another successful and well attended event once again. 

 

DIWALI DOWNTOWN

A Roundhouse Partnership

Part of the Vancouver Celebrates Diwali Festival

Sun Nov 7, 12:00pm – 6:00pm

Roundhouse Community Centre

Free Event (certain activities may cost)

Info: www.vandiwali.ca

Diwali is a time to celebrate the universal light

that exists in everyone, so come “Light Your Sprit!”

at the 7th Annual Vancouver Celebrates Diwali Festival.

Our main event, Diwali Downtown showcases the best

of classical and contemporary South Asian arts & culture.

Bigger than ever this year as we take over the entire

Roundhouse, this day-long event brings dance, music,

food, crafts, comedy, film, visual arts and more all under

one roof, with plenty of new and exciting interactive

events for young and old. So come sing, create, laugh,

eat and dance with all your many friends and neighbors.

S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Youths raise awareness for organ transplantation in BC

18 Oct
The Youth Leadership Millennium Program, an initiative of the non-profit social service organization S.U.C.C.E.S.S.,  is a six month long program that helps foster the leadership and personal development of young people in the Lower Mainland. This year, ten participants are raising awareness for  organ transplantation in BC, especially with regards to the minority Asian population. This is a free event happening on October 23rd, starting at 1:30pm at the S.U.C.C.E.S.S.  Downtown offices at 28 West Pender Street. Event includes the group’s very own film documentary, speakers from BC Transplant, and FREE games and prizes. Don’t miss this chance to support our Asian Canadian youths volunteering for a great cause in the community!
 
Search “YLM: A New Beginning” on Facebook or email  ylm.ot.2010@gmail.com for more information. Click for the event poster: A New Beginning
 
More on the event:
 
To this day, there are many patients that are eagerly waiting for a suitable organ, but due to the lack of donors, many do not get a new opportunity at life, especially ones of the minority population. On October 23, we will host an event to raise awareness regarding the issue of organ transplant. The feature of the event is a documentary, which includes interviews with organ transplant recipients, donors and their family members, and also has a touching and realistic story of how a person goes through the process of an organ transplant. There will also be guest speakers and activity booths to answer all your organ transplant related questions. 
 
 

UBC Film Screening: CEDAR AND BAMBOO – Oct 14

11 Oct

Hi everyone! ACCO hopes you had a great Thanksgiving holiday. We also want to let you know about this cool film screening happening on campus! This FREE film screening explores the history of Chinese Canadians and First Nations in Canada through the eyes of its four main subjects, and touches on some meaningful and interesting issues of identity, alienation and acceptance.

Presented by the UBC Centre for Culture, Identity and Education (CCIE) and the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia (CCHS) with co-sponsor The Indigenous Education Society of Canada, CEDAR AND BAMBOO will be shown at the UBC First Nations Longhouse on October 14th, 2010 at 12pm NOON. Light refreshments will be provided. Hope you guys can all check it out!

This is a free screening, but RSVP is required via:
http://bit.ly/b2eBeD



HIGHLIGHTS…

* Musqueam Welcome
* Background to Cedar & Bamboo by Jean Barman
* Panel Discussion

Set throughout BC, Cedar & Bamboo explores the intercommunity histories and shared experiences of Chinese Canadians and First Nations. Directed by filmmakers Diana Leung and Kamala Todd, its central focus is on the lives of four people of mixed Indigenous and Chinese ancestry and their formation of strong and meaningful identities in spite of the difficulty of reconciling divergent identities, racist laws, the complexities of familial and ethnic acceptance and/or rejection and personal identification with and alienation from Canada and Canadianness, Chinese First Nations and Indigenous identity.

As a bonus – 1788: A History of Chinese and First Nations Relations in British Columbia, 10 minutes of academic commentary from Professors Henry Yu and Jean Barman of the University of British Columbia and Harley Wylie of Nuu-chah-nulth ancestry on the intersecting histories of First Nations and Chinese people in British Columbia.

As well, there will be a panel discussion, Separate Identities and Commingled Lives, by scholars and community activists of Aboriginals and Chinese ancestry. Moderator: Jo-ann Archibald. Panelists: Linc Kesler, Diana Leung, Hayne Wai, and Charles Menzies.

Bibliography on Chinese Canadian and First Nations: 150 years of Shared Experience: http://www.chinese-firstnations-relations.ca/

UBC Vancouver Campus
First Nations Longhouse
Sty Wet Tan (Big Hall)
1985 West Mall
Map: http://bit.ly/aiSPhB



FREE SCREENING: ACCO-VAFF Mighty Asian Moviemaking Marathon Winners

3 Nov

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This year ACCO and VAFF are co-presenting ’2008 MAMM Winners Screening’ (Mighty Asian Movie-Making Marathon)!! It will take place from 5-6:30pm in the Victoria Learning Theatre in the UBC Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009. The screening will feature the top three winners in the Asian Canadian filmmaking contest. VAFF and ACCO executives will be in attendance, as well as up and coming directors, producers, screenwriters and actors. A panel will follow. Join us for an evening of Asian Canadian film, discussion and fun!!

25@25 Asia Pacific Foundation NATIONWIDE video contest – UBC workshop

21 Oct

25@25 is a NATIONWIDE video contest to help the Asia Pacific Foundation engage with young Canadians sharing an interest in Asia. Various educational, arts/film, and youth outreach organizations, such as HSBC, OMNI NEWS, Reel Asian Film Festival, ApathyisBoring, TakingITGlobal, Canada’s World@SFU, UofT, York University, UBC and many more are key partners or sponsors to this contest.

Share your vision, and help ignite exciting new dialogue on Canada-Asia relations!
If you’re between the ages of 18-35, we want to hear from you! Upload your video – anything from a mini-documentary, animated short, visual collage, or even a camera phone capture – be as creative as you like! We’re looking for forward-thinking entries between 30 sec. – 3 min. in length, with the main idea articulated as a theme or short phrase. Enter now, and put our money where your mouth is! (TOP PRIZE: $5000, People’s Choice Award: $500 and Voter Prize Draw). Contest closes on Dec 31, 2009 – 11:59 PM PST.

Visit http://www.25at25.ca/ for more information.
Add us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/2525/123766199558?ref=ts
Or follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/25at25

Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009
Time: 3:00pm – 7:00pm
Location: IK Barber Centre for Learning, Lilloet Room
RSVP on our Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=158503441800&ref=mf

Schema Magazine presents PHIL YU aka AngryAsianMan.com

17 Sep

10329_581344774413_116204283_34663466_5146121_nSchema Magazine is launching a monthly series of web writing workshops and speakers, featuring some of the most pioneering, innovative and ethnic cool voices on the Internet.This month, they will feature Phil Yu, the blogger who started angryasianman.com. The details are as follows.

Phil Yu aka. AngryAsianMan.com
Wednesday September 23, 2009
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Victoria Learning Theatre
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre | University of British Columbia 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, B.C.

It is a free event and everyone is welcome. RSVP required as seating is limited. Please visit NAAAP Vancouver to reserve a seat. Register fast as seating is limited!

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Since 2001, Phil Yu’s Asian American news/culture blog AngryAsianMan.com has risen to become one of the most-well known blogs on the net, acclaimed by the Washington Post “as a daily must-read for the media-savvy, socially conscious, pop-cultured Asian American.” Mixing humor with criticism, Phil’s commentary has been featured and quoted in stories for the Post, Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, USA Today, MSNBC, Newsday, CBS News and SF Gate. On September 23rd at UBC’s Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Phil will share the inspiring story of starting one of the most influential online spaces in today’s Asian American movement, share tips on how he keeps his content accessible and relevant, and what was involved in moving AngryAsianMan.com from activism to super-blog status. To minimize the carbon footprint of this event, Phil Yu is speaking in Vancouver via video-conference from his headquarters in L.A.

Commemoration of the Day of "Peace in the Asia Pacific"

12 Aug

http://www.awwa.ca/Web/index.html

On August 15, 2009, in commemoration of the 64th anniversary of the end of WWII in Asia, the UBC Awareness for World War II Club (AWWA) will be hosting its first major event. The event will consist of a Proclamation of the Day of “Peace in the Asia-Pacific”. It will take place at UBC Robson Square Theatre (800 Robson Street) from 2:00 to 5:00 pm.

There will be a film screening of Iris Chang – The Rape of Nanking. To conclude the event, there will be a Q&A discussion with very special guests including Oliva Cheng, who played Iris Chang in the movie.

Admission is by donation but due to limited seating, please RSVP by emailing ubcawwa@gmail.com with your name, number and email.

For more information, please visit: UBC AWWA

http://www.awwa.ca/Web/index.html

10th Annual Chinatown Festival is THIS WEEKEND

6 Aug

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The 10th Annual Chinatown Festival chimes in on August 8th and 9th in Vancouver’s Chinatown. It’s FREE admission to Vancouver’s largest multicultural summer celebration. With an attendance of over 48,000 locals and tourists last year, it has a little for everyone like Youth Talent Showdown, Dance Edition, Chinatown Heritage and Food Tasting Walking Tour, Chinese Folk Art demonstrations, BMX Stunt Show, multicultural stage performers, open air market and children’s activities.

While you’re in the neighbourhood, don’t forget to visit all the landmarks and attractions in Chinatown. Check out the community info displays, open-air market, food booths, and enter the on-site lucky draws to win great prizes!

It’s organized by the Vancouver Chinatown Business Improvement Association (VCBIA).

For more information, visit www.vancouver-chinatown.com or call 604.632.3808

This annual festival has plenty of things for the family to do. At night time, you can stroll around the night market.

Sunday, August 9th is the DANCE EDITION of the Youth Talent Showdown.

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

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