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Telus Matches Our Ticket Sales From the Blob For Canadian Red Cross

15 Mar

NEW UPDATE:

As one of our club executives is also a board member on the Telus Vancouver Community Board, Telus will be matching our tickets sales and donations for the Canadian Red Cross Japan Relief Fund.

Thank you everyone for all your support,
ACCO Executive

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Event details

Title: “The Blob: No Two are The Same”
Date: March 18th (Friday)

Time: 7-9pm (Doors open 6:30pm, performers come 6:30 for soundcheck)

Parking: available at the near-by West Mall Swing Space Building (2175 West Mall V6T 1Z4)

There will be free food available at this event. We strongly encourage that you bring your friends, family and fans along to support our cause. We also ask that you and your friends RSVP to our facebook event so that we will know how much food to get:http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=191851307522061&notif_t=event_wall#!/event.php?eid=191851307522061)

Tickets are $5 each and can be purchased at the door.

100% OF OUR TICKET SALES WILL BE DONATED TO THE CANADIAN RED CROSS. ACCO’S DONATION WILL BE MATCHED BY TELUS.

Please email us at info@ubcacco.com for any questions. Thank you all for your support and we hope to see you on March 18.

ACCO Donating 100% of Ticket Sales to Canadian Red Cross

9 Mar

THE BLOB in Partnership with UBC Japan Association

March 18th, 7:00 – 10:00pm

At Simon K.Y. Lee Global Lounge in Marine Drive

Like the rest of the UBC community, ACCO has been closely following the news concerning the Tsunami crisis in Japan.  We would like to extend our deepest sympathies to anyone who has been affected by this horrific event.

ACCO has decided to donate 100% of all ticket sales from The Blob, our annual music and art festival, to the Canadian Red Cross in support of the Tsunami relief aid in Japan.  We encourage anyone and everyone to come out this Friday March 18th @ 7pm to the Global Lounge at Marine Drive.  If you can’t make it, you can always make a personal donation directly here: http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html

ACCO has a long history of utilizing art, film, and music to connect and engage people, cross-culturally, to address pertinent social issues affecting Asian Canadians and Asians abroad.  More than ever, we need to come together NOW and do what we can to help the relief effort in Japan.  ACCO’s event this Friday is the perfect opportunity to show the world how powerful art and community engagement can be.

We thank you for all of your support so far, and we look forward to a great event this Friday.

See you all soon,

ACCO Executive

Event details

Title: “The Blob: No Two are The Same”
Date: March 18th (Friday)

Time: 7-9pm (Doors open 6:30pm, performers come 6:30 for soundcheck)

Parking: available at the near-by West Mall Swing Space Building (2175 West Mall V6T 1Z4)

There will be free food available at this event. We strongly encourage that you bring your friends, family and fans along to support our cause. We also ask that you and your friends RSVP to our facebook event so that we will know how much food to get:http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=191851307522061&notif_t=event_wall#!/event.php?eid=191851307522061)

City of Vancouver partners up with RangiChangi Roots to Engage Multicultural Communities in Vancouver

15 Feb

After a year of consultations, meetings and research, Vancouver has drafted a plan to become the Greenest City in the World by 2020.  But they’re not done yet.  Working with RangiChangi Roots — a local non-profit that seeks to build bridges between multicultural communities and the green movement — the City of Vancouver hopes to engage diverse cultural groups to help shape the final Action Plan.

It’s going to take actions by people from all the different communities in Vancouver to achieve this vision.  There are many ways to help shape the final Action Plan.  Between now and the end of February 2011 you can:

Stay up to date on all the Greenest City news (including the recent unanimous City Council decision to adopt the Greenest City 2020 targets) by:

And most importantly, please help spread the word. Pass this on to your world of friends, neighbours, family and colleagues.

English Intro Video

Cantonese Intro Video

Punjabi Intro Video

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.

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



Welcome to a New School Year!

7 Sep

Welcome to a new school year at UBC, and a new year with ACCO!  UBC Imagine Day was a great success, as it was wonderful to meet everyone at the booth today.  We will be sending out a welcome e-mail to all new mailing list subscribers shortly to orient you with all of the ACCO events coming up in the next few months.

But before then, here are just some reminders and updates about our club:

Get intimate with the exec team and learn the answers to questions you never knew you had about ACCO!  Our first general meeting takes place on September 22nd (Wednesday) in the I.K. Barber Learning Center in Room 415 from 5:30pm-6:30pm!!

You can also come visit us at our booth during UBC Club Days from September 22nd-25th (Wednesday-Friday) in the Student Union Building.  And look out for our Icebreaker event this October when all the new club members come to mingle!

You love us!  What now?!  Get involved with the exec!  We are still recruiting members for the following executive positions.  This is your chance to work with a variety of faculty members (Dr. Henry Yu in the Dept. of History, Dr. Gu Xiong in the Dept. of Art History and Visual Arts and Karen Duffek from the Museum of Anthropology) and help put together exciting events (Music Festival, Asian Canadian Week, and Art Exhibition) for the year!

  • Marketing Director
  • Marketing Committee of 2-3 people
  • New-Media Director
  • New-Media Committee of 2-3 people
  • Music Fest. Event Director
  • Music Fest. Committee of 2-3 people
  • Art Exhibition Event Director (Filled by Tina Kong)
  • Art Exhibition Committee of 2-3 people
  • A.C. Celebrations Event Director
  • A.C. Celebrations Committee of 2-3 people

Contact us at info@ubcacco.com if you are interested in filling any of the positions!  We are open to all applicants, and welcome you to ask us questions if you have any :].

We hope you have a great first few weeks at UBC, and we look forward to getting to know you this year!

- ACCO Executive Team 2010/2011

Chinatown Enchanted Evenings Concerts

31 Aug

Greetings from the new executive crew at ACCO!  We hope you all have had a restful summer.  While you may be gearing up for the start of classes in September, a great way to end the break is the Chinatown Enchanted Evenings Concerts.

Held at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden every Friday, a different musical group performs every week.  Featured music usually entails a fusion of old and new world tastes!

This Friday, the local band Plough will be playing “new-fangled old-time bluegrass” music!  Check them out at 7:30pm (doors at 7pm).

General tickets available for $20 and members for $18.  Reservations are recommended.  Call them at 604-662-3207 ext. 210 to reserve seats!

www.vancouverchinesegarden.com

Click the link below for the events poster:

Chinatown Enchanged Evenings Concerts Poster!!

Talent Wanted…

1 Feb

Hey Everyone!

ACCO is currently recruiting talented performers for our upcoming Asian Indie Music Festival which will be held in early March (between Mar 3-5)!

What kind of performers are we looking for? Well, anything and everything, really! All types of artistic expression — whether you sing, dance rap, speak, act, play or entertain, are all welcome. Last year, our music festival featured talented performances by rock bands, a Broadway troupe, rapper, dance crew, live DJ and more!

The goal of this musical evening extravaganza is to promote and celebrate emerging talented, local Asian Canadian performers. We are also using this opportunity to raise funds for the Downtown Women’s Eastside Centre.

If you are interested, or know anyone who is interested, please contact Jung Ah Won at jungahwon@hotmail.com.

Happy New Year (!!), and Asian Parents

24 Jan

Dear friends,

“Alas! A new update” you say? It definitely has been a busy few months, with exams, holiday festivities, etc etc etc. But now that we are nestled in the comfort (?) of a new semester, you can be assured that ACCO will be bringing on some awesome activities in the next few months! Please be sure to visit our page in the next few weeks for news on our upcoming events such as the Lunar New Year party, the Indie Music Festival, and our conference, the Asian-Canadian “Love-In”.

Topic of the week: Asian Parents

This video pretty much sums up my relationship with my parents during adolescence :)

What are your insights? Do the relationships with our parents mould our identities as “Asian-Canadians”?  While there are exceptions to every generalization, Asian parenting (to me) usually entails emphasis on: family values, pursuit of good education (often within the confines of “doctor/lawyer/engineer/accountant”), the importance of working hard, learning to play a musical instrument, and so on. How does our Asian family-relations affect our outlook on life within the Canadian society?

Feel free to use the “comment” feature to express your thoughts on this :)

Until next time,

Teresa
(VP Promotions)

FREE SCREENING: ACCO-VAFF Mighty Asian Moviemaking Marathon Winners

3 Nov

MAMM

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!!

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