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Thursday October 8 to Sunday October 11, 2015 – LiterASIAN Festival is back!  The 3rd annual Asian Canadian literary festival celebrates the best of Pacific Rim Asian Canadian literary talent.   LiterASIAN 2015 features readings, workshops, panel discussions and book launches. Featuring some of the Asian Canadian writing’s most innovative and creative writers in fantasy, science, and speculative fiction, history, and poetry, LiterASIAN is for literary enthusiasts, publishers, literary agents, and anyone interested in writing.  This year’s line-up includes:

• Workshops with our featured authors
• Opening dinner gala
• AlliterAsian anthology launch
• Panels with industry experts and writers
• Asian Canadian book fair

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Explore, Discover, Create

Explore the forgotten spaces and buried histories of Vancouver’s Chinatown. Discover the cultural currents that connect you to Chinatown past and present.Learn how to create story boards, craft an engaging story, record voiceovers, and perform basic audio editing to produce your own digital Chinatown story.

Underwater Chinatown: Digital Stories is a series of artist-facilitated community digital storytelling workshops focused on unearthing alternative histories of Vancouver’s Chinatown.

This program is co-presented by Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver and Cinevolution Media Arts Society.

• Workshops will be conducted in English.
• Workshops are free and open to the public. Registration is required as space is limited.
• Participants must register for all five workshops.

To register please email:

museum@cccvan.com

Please Note: A refundable $30 equipment deposit is due at the first workshop onSeptember 26 and will be refunded to the participant at the end of the last workshop.

Workshop #1: Introduction and Chinatown Tour
Chinatown walking tour, Chinese Cultural Centre Museum tour, introducing sample digital stories
Saturday September 26, 1:30 – 4:30pm
UBC Learning Exchange, 612 Main Street, Vancouver, BC V6A 2V3

Workshop #2: Story Boarding
Saturday October 3, 1:30 – 4:30pm
UBC Learning Exchange, 612 Main Street, Vancouver, BC V6A 2V3

Workshop #3: Story Development
Saturday October 10, 1:30 – 4:30pm
Chinese Cultural Centre Museum, 555 Columbia Street, Vancouver, BC V6A 4H5

Workshop #4: Recording
Saturday October 17, 1:30 – 4:30pm
UBC Learning Exchange, 612 Main Street, Vancouver, BC V6A 2V3

Workshop #5: Audio Editing
Saturday October 24, 1:30 – 4:30pm
UBC Learning Exchange, 612 Main Street, Vancouver, BC V6A 2V3

For more information, please email museum@cccvan.com, call 604.658.8880, or visit www.cinevolutionmedia.com

We acknowledge the financial assistance of Community Arts Council of Vancouver, Canada Council for the Arts, Creative BC and the Province of British Columbia. Special thanks to UBC Learning Exchange.

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Hosted by the Sound of Dragon Society, Taiwan’s Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra (gCO) is returning to Vancouver to collaborate with local musicians and ensembles to give 3 concerts and 1 workshop, performing different programs every night, exploring different musical styles. Working simultaneously with Vancouver’s best in classical, contemporary, traditional, and avant-garde music, these well-trained musicians from Taiwan display such versatility and virtuosity, under the leadership of their conductor Chih-Sheng Chen.

Please click on images below to see more photos from the evening’s celebrations!