Telling Stories – A Visual Art Exhibition
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Telling Stories is presented by the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouverand partially funded by the City of Vancouver and Province of British Columbia.

Opening Reception: Saturday November 7th, 2015  2:00 – 4:00pm (Free event)

Exhibition dates: November 7th – December 19th, 2015
Tuesday – Sunday 11am-5pm, closed on Mondays and Holidays.
Chinese Cultural Centre Museum, 555 Columbia Street, Vancouver, BC V6A 4H5
Inquiries: 604.658.8880 www.cccvan.com

Come check out a new immersive theatrical production of this Pulitzer Prize winning play in

Vancouver’s Chinatown.

Vancouver, November 18-28, 2015—This will be the first time Vancouver will see an interpretation like

this—an ethnically diverse cast, non-traditional space in Chinatown, and reimaging of a classic drama.

Redcurrant/Marigolds Collective was formed to create innovative and interesting interpretations of

familiar and new works, on the platform of promoting diversity in the Vancouver Theatre scene. “We

want to represent a multi-racial canvas for which theatre works, new and old, can be interpreted.”

Merciless matriarch, Beatrice and her daughters, Tillie and Ruth live in undesirable conditions,

and as Beatrice tries to come up with a quick scheme to bring in more money, she is haunted

by her past failures. Tillie is invited to compete in her school’s science fair, presenting the

aforementioned title of the play, thus introducing a small beacon of hope in this family’s

future.

“Let’s start with a single, simple word. Power…I don’t know of a better (play) of its genre since The

Glass Menagerie…” —NY Post.

“For me aesthetically, seeing a piece of theatre that is culturally diverse is on many levels much more interesting,

more artistically stimulating […] to see something that will provide them with aesthetic pleasure and if it reflects

the actual diversity of our urban mosaic in a way that’s amusing, sexy, entertaining, that will definitely draw people

in a way we wouldn’t otherwise be able to.”—Chris Gatchalian, Artistic Producer of The Frank Theatre (Vancouver)

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Twitter: @gammarays2015

Redcurrant/Marigolds Collective is a theatrical equity co-op formed as of choosing to produce The Effect

of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by artistic producers, Lissa Neptuno and Chris Lam.

Featuring Laara Ong, Julie Leung, Lissa Neptuno, Lynda Shioya, and Anais West. Directed and designed

by Chris Lam. Stage management by Jasmin Sandhu. Lighting design by Jonathan Kim. Incidental music

by James Coomber.

Media Contact: Chris Lam, 604 765 7554, redcurrant2015@gmail.com

Skylight Gallery, 163 E Pender St. /Nov. 18-28 (Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat) 8 PM/Tickets $20/

Box Office: http://marigolds.brownpapertickets.com

ACAM LUNCH WITH JEN SUNG

Is there such a thing as a “bad” Asian Canadian? The ACAM faculty, staff, and students invite you to explore this philosophical question with Jen Sung through personal storytelling and her decade-long flirtation with art + community activism.

Event highlights:

– a short film screening

– breakout discussions

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Speaker bio: Jen Sung, Facilitator, artist-activist and co-conspirator at loveintersections.com

Jen Sungshine speaks for a living but lives for breathing life into unspoken situations in unusual places. As a queer, Taiwanese artist-activist based in Vancouver, BC, she is grateful to live, breathe, dance and work on the unceded, occupied and ancestral lands of the Coast Salish nations. She facilitates with creativity and social justice media to evolutionize and revolutionize QTIPOC visibility and community-based work through Our City of Colours, Love Intersections, Out in Schools and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. Her artistic practice involves unlearning while learning and learning while unlearning; and instead of calling you out, she wants to call you in – to make artful social change with her through the language of love and nerdy codes. She is very wordy.

http://www.jensungshine.com/

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*Where: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building for The Institute of Asian Research, UBC

*When: Friday October 23, 2015, 12 – 1pm

*Registration: RSVP now to save your seat as there is limited capacity!http://acamlunchoct.eventbrite.ca

*Accessibility info to come.

*Lunch (meat and vegetarian options) will be provided to those RSVP (please email us if you have any special dietary needs).

If you have any questions, please email acam.events@ubc.ca

We hope to see you there!

For more info about the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies program, visit http://acam.arts.ubc.ca

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This event will be taking place on the traditional, unceded, ancestral homelands of the x?m??k??y??m (Musqueam) First Nation.

Saturday September 26th at the Sunset Community Centre (6810 Main Street)

Doors open at 2:30pm

Free admission, parking, and refreshments

Pre-register on Eventbrite

A Banquet of Stories: Sharing Migration Tales Through Food

The Pacific Canada Heritage Centre – Museum of Migration Society is a non-profit society with the goal of building a wider and improved understanding of Canada’s history and growth through intercultural explorations of historic and current trans-Pacific immigration. Our mission is to establish a Museum of Migration at a site of historical significance for Canadians whose families first arrived in Canada through its western portals as well as for migrants who crossed from the east, and to create a supporting national research network for an interdisciplinary and more inclusive interpretation of Canada’s history.

Since our inaugural Symposium in 2013, we have launched our new website and proceeded to explore and form partnerships to the museum. We will conclude this season of community outreach programming with a FREE participatory event — A Banquet of Stories: Sharing Migration Tales Through Food — on Saturday afternoon, September 26 at the Sunset Community Centre. We will bring our diverse networks together to build the foundation of a future museum by sharing family migration stories inspired by food, and reflecting on our connections with First Nations people and with other immigrant groups. Our goal is to collect and record family stories to begin the museum’s process of recovering ignored, suppressed, or forgotten histories. For details and registration, please see program below.

Program

Free admission. Limited seats. Pre-registration required on Eventbrite.

2:30-3:00pm        Doors Open

3:00pm                Official Welcome

3:15 -4:00pm       Round 1 (Choose a table for storytelling and community sharing)

4:00-4:45pm        Round 2 (At the sound of the gong, choose another table as above)

4:45-5:15pm        Community Networking and Break

5:15-6:00pm        Round 3 (Choose another table as above)

6:00-6:45pm        Round 4 (Choose another table as above)

6:45-7:00pm        Thank You and Closing

Roaming video cameras will record story presentations; free refreshments will be provided. Selected stories will be chosen to be preserved in the future museum of migration.

FAQs

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

Free parking is available at the Sunset Community Centre. Enter from 52nd Avenue.

What can/can’t I bring to the event?

Please bring a family recipe, dish, photograph, or heirloom relating to the theme of food and migration, AND a story inspired by this item. There will be NO cooking demonstrations at this event.

Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?

Inquiries can be directed to Eleanor Munk at pchcmom.intern@gmail.com

Special thanks to our title sponsor UBC Library