The Pacific Canada Heritage Centre – Museum of Migration (PCHC-MoM) Society is assembling a team of volunteers to work at an international conference on the study of Chinese overseas to be held in Richmond on July 6th to 8th, 2016.

If you are free to put in a shift or two each day of the conference (July 6th, 7th, & 8th), please read on.

The International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO) will be hosting its 9^th International Conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Richmond. Scholars on this subject from around the world will be presenting their latest works at keynote plenaries and at over 60 panels on many aspects of the Chinese diaspora. This conference is only the second time ISSCO is holding its conference in North America since its inaugural meeting in San Francisco in 1992. For details of the conference, please visit: http://2016issco.sites.olt.ubc.ca/about-issco-2016/

In partnership with the University of British Columbia, PCHC-MoM Society will recruit and train a team of volunteers to assist at the conference. If you are interested in becoming a part of this team, please confirm your availability as soon as possible. Volunteers will have a chance to attend some sessions during the conference using complimentary passes made available to PCHC-MoM Society. A one-hour training session will take place closer to the conference in Richmond.

For enquiries, please contact Ms Chunli Yang (pchc.vol@gmail.com) or Ms Eleanor Munk (pchcmom.intern@gmail.com)

Winnie L. CHEUNG & Chunli YANG

Volunteer & Training Committee,

PCHC-MoM Society

http://www.pchc-mom.ca

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Our explorASIAN 2016 Recognition Gala was extremely successful! Approximately three hundred guests gathered to enjoy delicious Japanese food, watch Pan-Asian performances, win prizes at our Silent Auction and Raffle, connect with friends, and celebrate the Japanese-Canadian community!

Our heartfelt thanks go out to all of our hard-working Directors, Advisors, staff, volunteers, donors, and supporters for making this event a huge success.

Photo credit in the below compilation photographs goes to Allan Cho, Esmie Gayo McLaren, Esaine Mo Verney, and Eleanor Munk.

Date: May 29th, 1:00-4:00pm

Venue: Unifor Hall, 326 12th Street, New Westminster

The Second Annual Celebration of Asian Heritage Month, sponsored by the Public Service Alliance of Canada BC, Canadian Labour Congress Pacific Region and the BC Federation of Labour.

Panel discussion, snacks, photo booth, and performances.

For more info, please contact chiehhj@psac.com

PCHC’s “Family History with a Smartphone” workshop series is concluding! During this workshop series, we have reached out to community members with the desire to preserve the stories of their elders, family members, and loved ones, and have taught them new techniques on how to compose stories, film oral histories, and edit footage. We hope you have been inspired to create oral histories so that the stories of your elders and loved ones can can be exhibited as an heirloom for generations to come.

Now, we invite you to join us on Saturday, June 4th at 1:00pm at the UBC Asian Centre (1871 West Mall) for a concluding Community Showcase! There, you will be able to receive certificates of completion, partake in treats and refreshments, and be able to share your experiences with fellow participants and offer suggestions for future workshops! Come for a last gathering to discuss your projects with each other and to help each other to improve your stories.

We will be offering the opportunity to share a clip of your work-in-progress project or to personally discuss and share your story with the group and receive feedback.

Our Community Showcase is open to all — if you attended our first workshop, our second, or none at all, we hope you will all to come share your stories and learn more about preserving family stories for future generations.

Registration required here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/family-history-with-a-smartphone-community-showcase-tickets-25484049478

Please email <pchcmom.intern@gmail.com> if you would like a certificate of completion for having attended the workshop series.

PCHC’s Family History with a Smartphone series is produced in partnership with the UBC Asian Library and is a part of explorASIAN.

Second Annual Multicultural Festival – TOGETHER – Chinese, Korean, Japanese, South Asian and Polynesian Dances

Venue: David Lam Hall, Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver, 50 East Pender Street, B.C. Canada V6A 3V6

Date: May 28th, 2016 (Saturday) 3:00pm – 5:00pm

Description: The Second Annual Multicultural Festival – TOGETHER is co-presented by Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver and KO-CA Foundation for Cultural Exchange Association in partnership with Korean Traditional Arts Society, Youngjoo Kim Korean Dance, Golden Maple Dance Group, Vancouver Cathay Future Center, Tomoe Arts, OTOWA Hinaaki, Otowa Ryû Japanese Dance Group and The Pacifica Polynesian Dancers. The festival will feature Chinese, Korean, Japanese, South Asian and Polynesian traditional dances. Doors open: 2:30pm 

Please call 604.658.8850 to RSVP or register at eventbrite.ca
Free and open to public.

Suggested Donation: $5 at the door

Inquiries: 604.658.8850

Website: http://cccmuseum.blogspot.ca/

Please note that the Taiwanese Children’s Folk Games Festival’s date has been changed to May 28th (instead of 21st).

Details

Taiwanese Children’s Folk Game Festival (hosted by the Taiwanese Canadian Cultural Society in partnership with explorASIAN 2016)

Free admission

11:00am-4:00pm

Between 72nd and 73rd on Selkirk St, Vancouver

Description: Traditional Taiwanese Children’s Folk Games, Kid’s Activities, Handmade Crafts, Scavenger Hunt, Live Performances, Special Taiwanese food

To celebrate the 20th year of the Vancouver Asian Film Festival and its theme, “Homecoming,” we are proud to host a kickoff fundraiser with an encore screening of last year’s popular festival hit, Canadian Feature Documentary The Roots Remain at Vancity Theatre on May 19, 2016. We are thrilled to be showcasing south east asian cuisine in celebration of May Asian Heritage Month at the reception before the film screening. A panel discussion on Cambodian arts & cultures will follow the film screening.

Venue: Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour Street, Vancouver BC

Date: May 19, 2016 (Thursday)

Time: Door open & Reception 7:00 pm, Screening & Panel : 8:00 pm

Event Registration: https://celebration-of-vaff-20th-year.eventbrite.ca

Tickets: $15 – online; $20 – door

Update for the GVJCCA’s “Legacy of Redress” event on May 14th.

Two speakers have been confirmed:

Special guest speaker: Elder Larry Grant, who is of mixed Chinese and Musqueam ancestry, will share his story, and speak about historical injustice and reconciliation.

Guest speaker: Carolyn Nakagawa, a fourth generation Japanese Canadian, will talk about what redress and a meaningful apology mean to her generation.

Family History with a Smartphone Part II: Post-Production Workshop

Did you miss PCHC-MoM’s last workshop? Never fear! Our second workshop for “Family History with a Smartphone” is open to everyone! Feel free to register regardless of whether you attended our first workshop (registration here or at bottom of post).

Our second workshop will focus on the post-production stage of creating and preserving family stories. What do you do once you have gathered footage, and want to know what to do with it? How do you edit it all together? “Family History with a Smartphone: Workshop Two”, facilitated by ACAM Graduate Dominique Bautista and filmmaker Alejandro Yoshizawa, will offer tips and hands-on experience on post-production. Wonderful, talented students trained in filmmaking will also be present to assist. Learn how to preserve the stories of struggle and triumph of your parents or grandparents for your own children and grandchildren to know, and how these stories can be exhibited as an heirloom for generations to come.

Nominal fee of $5 to cover refreshments (unless you have already paid for workshop number one!). If you bring a family member, no extra cost for additional people! Please pay at the door. Don’t forget to register below!

Hosted by the PCHC-MoM Society in partnership with the UBC Asian Library.

“Family History with a Smartphone” workshop series is a part of explorASIAN, Asian Heritage Month during the month of May.

FAQs

I didn’t go to the first workshop. What did I miss? Can I still come?

At our first workshop, we discussed filming techniques, such as framing, lighting, audio, different styles of filming, and ethical practices during filmmaking. However, if you have even basic or amateur knowledge of filming, you should still be comfortable at this workshop. Many present will still be beginners! Even if you do not have footage, a package will be provided for you to practice editing skills.

What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?

Parking is available across from the Asian Centre.

What can/can’t I bring to the event?

Please bring:

• $5 if you did not pay at the first workshop to cover refreshments
• Footage you have gathered, either on a USB, or on the camera you recorded with
• A cord to transfer files from your camera or Smartphone
• USB to transfer files from workshop to home
• Optional: own headphones

Will I have time to work on my own project at this event?

At a beginner’s level, you will be learning how to edit a package we have provided. At the end of the program, or if you are more advanced, there may be time for you to work on your own projects.

Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Contact Eleanor Munk at <pchcmom.intern@gmail.com> with any questions

Who is facilitating this event?

Dominique Bautista holds a BA in English Literature with a background in Sociology from UBC, and proudly belongs to UBC’s Asian Canadian & Asian Migration Studies’ inaugural graduating class. She is currently pursuing her Bachelor of Education in Secondary English and Social Sciences, finding ways to foster conversations about diversity and socio- cultural awareness within and beyond an educational setting. A cultural hybrid, she has always been interested in the intersectionality of identity politics and migration, which guide her values rooted in community advocacy and allyship. From as early as she can remember, she has always loved listening to stories. This passion extends through her research work with ACAM: capturing oral histories, bringing to focus lesser- known marginalized voices, and subverting the dominant narrative. It’s worth noting that the films she has been involved with, listed below, have always been group efforts. She is lucky to be surrounded by such talent to learn from and with!

– Splicing and Dicing (with Christina Lee)
– 4 Reasons Why You Should Care about Vancouver’s Chinatown (with Nicole So, Tony Wan, Rafael Fuentes, Austin Liu)
– ACAM Centennial Alumni Project to be shared May 27th (with the community, Al Yoshizawa, Denise Fong, and Tyler Mark) – a series of 5 video vignettes capturing the UBC experience over the last 100 years from early Asian Canadian grads

Alejandro Yoshizawa is a filmmaker from Vancouver, British Columbia. He was the lead filmmaker and director for the Chinese Canadian Stories web series which was nominated for a Leo Award for Best Web Series in 2013. His films have been shown across Canada at various exhibitions and film festivals including Ethnographic Terminalia (Montreal) and the Vancouver Asian Film Festival. His latest films include A Storyteller’s Story (2011), Covered Roots: The History of Vancouver’s Chinese Farms (2012), A Degree of Justice (2012), and The Hunt For Matsutake (2012). Academically, Yoshizawa is interested in oral history, digital storytelling and the use of film as a pedagogical tool. He received the Edgar Wickberg Prize in Chinese Canadian History in 2010 and is currently working on the project All Our Father’s Relations. You can watch the trailer for it here: http://allourfathersrelations.com

Register here:

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/family-history-with-a-smartphone-postproduction-tickets-25214393931