• Concert – Indian Classical Vocal Music

    Concert – Indian Classical Vocal Music

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    Event Title: Concert – Indian Classical Music
    Organization Host: Burnaby Public Library presents students of the Pandit Jasraj School of Music Foundation.
    Venue: McGill Branch, Burnaby Public Library, 4595 Albert St, Burnaby
    Date and Time: Sun May 15, 2-4 pm

    Contact: McGill Branch bpl@bpl.bc.ca

    Description: Celebrate Asian Heritage Month https://explorasian.ca/ with a concert of Indian classical vocal music by students of the Pandit Jasraj School of Music Foundation http://pjsomvancouver.org/. Don’t miss this superb performance!

    The concert features principal vocal soloist, Asha Lohia, accompanied by local tabla player and teacher Monish Chakraborti. The Foundation fosters the preservation, growth, and teaching of Indian Classical Music in the traditional style of Mewati Gharana. Watch a video clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNy7pFFQ4BA.

    FREE but space is limited; please register onlinehttp://bpl.bc.ca/events/concert-indian-classical-vocal-music, by calling 604 299-8955, or in person at the library

    Website: http://bpl.bc.ca/events/concert-indian-classical-vocal-music

  • Two Additional Events with the GVJCCA at the Nikkei Centre

    Two Additional Events with the GVJCCA at the Nikkei Centre

    In addition to the “Japanese Canadians and the Labour Movement” and the GVJCCA’s “Legacy of Redress Forum” printed in our festival program,the GVJCCA is offering the additional events below:
    Honouring Our People: Breaking the Silence Book Launch
    at Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre, 6688 Southoaks, Burnaby
    Saturday, June 4th, 2:00 pm
    On three days in September 2009, families, friends, and survivors came together for the Honouring Our People: Stories of the Internment conference in Burnaby, BC. The conference paid tribute to the Japanese Canadians who experienced racism, alienation, betrayal, restrictions, uprooting and loss during and after WWII. We also acknowledged the resilience and perseverance shown by Japanese Canadians who not only endured, but often prospered after the war. We created dialogue between generations and gave descendants of survivors the opportunity to learn more about their family’s history. With our book, Honouring Our People: Breaking the Silence, we are hoping to continue the opportunity for dialogue and learning by sharing some of the stories from the conference.
    Contact for public: gvjcca@gmail.com 604.777.5222
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    Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association Website Launch
    at Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre, 6688 Southoaks, Burnaby
    Saturday, May 21st, 11:00 am

    We’re excited to announce the brand new website for the Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association (GVJCCA) is o­fficially up and running. You’ll find information about The Bulletin/Geppo magazine, GVJCCA events, how to join and renew your membership using a new online form, and coming soon, an updated human rights guide.

    Check us out at www.gvjcca.org The Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association (GVJCCA) is a non-profit organization that builds communities and advocates for social justice, primarily for people in Canada of Japanese heritage, and their families. The organization was formed in 1952, and in 1958 started publishing The Bulletin/Geppo, a journal of Japanese Canadian community, history and culture.

    Meet members of the GVJCCA Board of Directors, enjoy some refreshments, and get a quick introduction to our new website.

    Contact for public: gvjcca@gmail.com 604.777.5222

    Website: www.gvjcca.org

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1537432299895104/

    GVJCCA Website Launch Invitation

  • A Last Stand for Lelu

    A Last Stand for Lelu

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    June 1st, A Last Stand for Lelu, HAPA Society and Hapa-palooza, (7:00-8:30pm)

    • Description: A Last Stand for Lelufilm screening with hapa environmental activists and sustainability advocates panel featuring Tamo Campos, Toby Barazzuol and Kai Nagata.
    • Venue: VPL Central Branch – Alice MacKay Room
    • Inquiries: info@hapapalooza.com
  • Rapping Afghan: An Intimate Evening of Film, Poetry and Music

    Rapping Afghan: An Intimate Evening of Film, Poetry and Music

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    Rapping Afghan: an intimate evening of film, poetry and music”

    Friday April 29th    7:30 pm – 9:00pm

    Richmond Media Lab

    7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond BC Canada

    Hosts: Ariadne Sawyer and Ying Wang

     

    First event of Cinevolution’s year around Media Cafe series and part of the national Asian Heritage Month activities,

    Rapping Afghan brings films, poetry and music together to highlight the Afghan art and culture.  Come with your art to this intimate evening of sharing and celebration.

    Poetry by Wida Tausif and others. Need  musicians,  artists, readers in Farsi , poets in other languages. Please register…

     

    Special Afghan Films: Rahmat Haidari’s film Street Wolves,  and  RAP Under the Skin of Afghanistan , a brand new film by Sharif Saedi

     

    Event Partners: Cinevolution, http://www.cinevolutionmedia.com/

    World Poetry, www.worldpoetry.ca

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    Part of Cinevolution’s community media literacy program, the Media Café is a modern day salon for cinema lovers, digital media users and armchair philosophers.

    By bringing in artists, researchers and community organizers, Cinevolution hopes to use the Media Café as an opportunity to explore the role that art can play in fostering dialogue, building community, and promoting greater digital citizenship.

     

    Participant registration:  info@cinevolutionmedia.com

    Phone: 778 869 3278.  www.worldpoetry.ca  604-526-4729

  • Event Change in Program

    Event Change in Program

    Please note a change to this year’s explorASIAN 2016 Festival Program, regarding the event “UBC As a Place of Diverse Minds” opening May 1st. The updated details for this event are as below:

     It’s About Time: A Retrospective of Asian Presence at UBC

    Date: May 3–31

    Partners: Irving K Barber Learning Centre, Asian Canadian Asian Migration Studies Program

    Venue: Irving K Barber Learning Centre

    Description: This exhibition will showcase stories from the Hong Kong Canada Crosscurrents Project, materials from All Our Fathers’ Relations, creative work done by students for the ACAM Student Journal, and narratives from the ACAM Centennial Alumni Project: Retelling UBC’s History from an Asian Canadian Lens. 

    Info:http://acam.arts.ubc.ca 

     

  • Colours – A Celebration of International Dance Day in Richmond

    Colours – A Celebration of International Dance Day in Richmond

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    Travel the world in one day through dance with Colours – A Celebration of International Dance Day in Richmond

     Richmond, BC – Four types dance from around the world will be featured at Colours: A Celebration of International Dance Day in Richmond, BC.

     There are two days and two ways to celebrate International Dance Day in Richmond, BC this year. Colours: A Celebration of International Dance Day will offer free community workshops on Friday, April 29 and a ticketed performance on Saturday, April 30.

    “Dance is a beautiful medium with which to express community harmony and collaboration across different cultures and disciplines” observes the event’s Artistic Director, Sudnya Mulye. “Dance can provide a healthy outlet for our creativity while teaching us about the world around us and ourselves”.

    Free community dance workshops will be held at Aberdeen Centre from 1:00-2:30pm on Friday, April 29. People of all ages and abilities are invited to come together to experience, engage and learn about the world through dance.

    The performance showcases of four types of dance and truly celebrates culture. This performance will be on Saturday, April 30, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., at Steveston-London Secondary School, 6600 Williams Road. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students/seniors and are available through Eventbrite. 

    Colours: A Celebration of International Dance Day is an opportunity for Richmond-based community and professional dancers, and dance supporters, to collaborate with other local and internationally renowned dancers and raise awareness and honour their art form.

    “We are so fortunate that our business community not only appreciates the arts in Richmond, but also supports it” comments Mulye. Colours: A Celebration of International Dance Day is presented by Sudnya Dance Academy, Clarkson Events, TD Wealth, OMNI TV and Quadra Pacific Homes, with support from: Aberdeen Centre, Ancan Marketing, Art of Living, Cinevolution Media Arts Society, Richmond Chinese Community Society, and Richmond Multicultural Community Society.

     

    For more information about Colours: A Celebration of International Dance Day in Richmond, please visit http://richmondevent.wix.com/intldancedayrichmond.

  • Recognition Gala Tickets

    Recognition Gala Tickets

    Buy your tickets to explorASIAN‘s Recognition Gala 2016! Please support explorASIAN in our 20th Anniversary for our only fundraiser of the year. Honouring outstanding Japanese-Canadian leaders and offering delicious Japanese food, wine & beer cash bar, raffle & silent auction, and entertainment!

    Buy tickets online: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/20th-anniversary-explorasian-recognition-gala-tickets-25268259043

    Flyer Tickets

    RAFFLE

    First prize of our raffle will be two round trip tickets to Hong Kong generously donated by Cathay Pacific!

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  • Recognition Gala Call for Prizes

    Recognition Gala Call for Prizes

    Support explorASIAN 2016 by donating prizes to our raffle and silent auction! Your assistance is requested in acquiring donations at our sole fundraising Recognition Gala event on June 11th, 2016.

    Flyer Prizes

  • HybrIDentity Art Workshop

    HybrIDentity Art Workshop

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    May 21st, HybrIDentity Art Workshop, Nargis Dhirani & friends, (6:30-8:30pm)

    Description: A workshop discussing how immigration and multiculturalism continues to shape Canadian society and identity through language, text, and art.

    Venue: Heartwood Café

    Inquiries: info@hapapalooza.com; Website: www.hapapalooza.com 

  • Following the Silk Routes and Beyond in Vancouver

    Following the Silk Routes and Beyond in Vancouver

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    Following the Silk Routes and Beyond

    2016

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    Following the Silk Routes and beyond is an interactive visual exhibition celebrating the past and present of exchange and multiculturalism and will be part of the Asian Heritage Month events taking place during the month of May in Vancouver.

    Societies connect, change, and adapt thanks to the networks we naturally create. The trade routes that connected Asia and the European continent opened doors to trade, art, cuisine, migration, and sometimes sicknesses and conflicts.  Even when emperors built walls and sent armies to control these exchanges, culture trickled through sandy deserts, oases, and oceans.

    Traveling the Silk Routes by land or sea then was not easy; it required skill, strength, the ability to negotiate and to network on every city and port. Now the world has shrunk, and what used to take months or even years to reach a destination is a finger click away.  Fast internet and web networks have made our exchanges so easy that we barely think about the past, but the legacy of the ancient exchanges and trade ways, echoes in our everyday lives helping us interact better and more than ever in today’s world.

    “Following the Silk Routes and Beyond “ in Vancouver will portray visual examples of spaces and  commercial networks in Asia, and the impact that these trading paths had on world culture and perspectives in modern life.   It is a photographic caravan that will open our imagination to the wonder of discovery, and will tickle our curiosity to finding interesting places to exchange and network here in Vancouver, taking the journey will prove worthwhile.

    The exhibition runs from April the 17th to May 31st at the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver (555 Columbia Street, Vancouver BC) in Chinatown.

    Leticia Sanchez

    Chair Curator & Project Creator

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    “Xi’an Monument Marking the Beginning of Silk Road” by Grace Ho