Authors and publishers of books that contribute to the appreciation and understanding of Vancouver’s history, unique character or the achievements of its residents are invited to submit entries for the annual City of Vancouver Book Award.

The winning book can be of any genre and will demonstrate excellence in content, illustration, design, and/or format. To be eligible, books must be published in 2015 or 2014 and meet the application criteria.

All entries must include: four copies of the book, a $20 submission fee, and a completed entry form. Entry forms and guidelines are available on the City’s website at: http://vancouver.ca/people-programs/submit-a-book.aspx

Submission deadline

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Eligibility

The book may be:

• Any genre (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or drama)
• Written for adults or children
• An exploration any aspect of the city, such as its history, geography, current affairs, or the arts
• Written or published anywhere in the world

The book must not be:

• Copyrighted prior to the previous year
• A re-issue of a prior edition
• A textbook

An independent jury will choose the winner of the 2015 City of Vancouver Book Award and the $3,000 prize. The award will be presented in November by Mayor Gregor Robertson at the Mayor’s Arts Awards.

Recent past winners include:  David Stouck for Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life, Amber Dawn for How Poetry Saved my Life, W.H. New for YVR, and Michael Christie for The Beggar’s Garden.

Questions?

If you have any questions about eligibility of your book or to receive a copy of the application form, please contact Marnie Rice at 604.871.6634 or marnie.rice@vancouver.ca

TRACKS: 7th Canadian Community Play & Arts Symposium

– Vancouver/Coast Salish Territory, May 10-12, 2015
– Enderby, BC/Secwepemul’ecw Territory, May 13-15

Take advantage of the Early Bird fee and Register today:
http://www.trackssymposium.com/registration.html

A six day national symposium that brings together community-engaged Indigenous and settler/immigrant artists who are collaborating to create art with, for and about community.

Delegates include experienced and emerging community-engaged artists, community play producers, cultural planners, arts managers, programmers, cultural thinkers, educators and academics interested in community-engaged art practice and the ways we can/will/do live together in the shadow of colonialism.

Confirmed artist presenters and moderators to date include: Margaret Grenier/Karen Jamieson; Renae Morriseau/ Savannah Walling; Sharon Kallis/Tracy Williams (Vancouver); Cathy Stubington/Rosalind Williams; Will Weigler/ Krystal Cook (BC); Penny Couchie/Ruth Howard (Ontario); and moderators Mique’l Dangeli and Kamala Todd.

TRACKS is hosted by two BC communities, one urban (Vancouver/Coast Salish Territory, May 10-12, 2015) and one rural (Enderby, BC/Secwepemul’ecw Territory, May 13-15). Events will take place Vancouver at both the Ukrainian Hall in the Downtown Eastside, and at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (Vancouver); and in Enderby/Grindrod (located just east of Salmon Arm, BC) at locations to be announced.

A special event of the symposium is the cultural feast The Big House, while travel between Vancouver and Enderby is by car or train (Tuesday night May 12) on the Train of Thought, the first leg of a national community arts journey from west to east coast Canada.

For more information, visit the website: http://www.trackssymposium.com/

Judy Yung, Professor Emerita of American Studies at the University of California, will discuss her book, Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island which includes a new historical introduction, poems from Ellis Island and Victoria, B.C., twenty oral histories, and dozens of new photographs.

In his memoir, The Adventures of Eddie Fung, Eddie recalls how his Chinese   upbringing and work as a Texas cowboy helped him to survive forty-two months of captivity as a POW of the Japanese during World War II.

Asian Heritage Month Event   For more information: 604.331.3603 or email info@vpl.ca

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Tuesday, May 5, at 7 p.m.

Alma VanDusen & Peter Kaye Rooms

Central Library, 350 West Georgia St.

Free! Popular. Come early.

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Speaker Bio

Frances Wood studied art at Liverpool Art School before beginning Chinese at the University of Cambridge. She spent the year 1975–6 in the Beijing Languages Institute and Peking University and wrote a PhD thesis for London University on traditional domestic architecture in the Beijing area. She worked in the SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) library before moving to the British Library as curator of the Chinese collections, retiring in 2013. She has written many books on Chinese culture and history includingChinese Illustration (1986), The Blue Guide to China (2002), Did Marco Polo Go To China? (1995), Hand Grenade Practice in Peking (2000), The Silk Road (2003), No Dogs and Not Many Chinese: Treaty Port life in China 1843–1943 (1998), The Forbidden City (2005), The First Emperor of China (2007), The Diamond Sutra: The story of the world’s earliest dated printed book (2010), Chinese Export Paintings in the British Library(2011), and Picnics Prohibited: Diplomacy in a chaotic China during the First World War (2014).

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Tuesday May 26, 3.00pm – 4.30pm

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UBC Asian Centre Auditorium (1871 West Mall, University of British Columbia, V6T 1Z2)
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April 18 to June 28, 2015

Opening Reception: Friday, April 17, 7:00-9:00pm

Vancouver-based Greg Girard spent three decades working and living in Asia examining the social and physical transformations of some of its largest cities through his photographic work. Richmond/Kowloon includes photographs documenting Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong as well as a new body of photographic images of Richmond, BC and its residents.

Greg Girard Benefit Print Edition

The Richmond Art Gallery is delighted to announce that Canadian artist Greg Girard has produced a limited edition archival pigment print to benefit the Gallery. For more information and to purchase a print,click here.

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RELATED PROGRAMMING

Curse of the Livable City: Panel Discussion
Saturday, April 25, 2:00 – 3:30pm
Join us for a discussion on the changing cityscape, led by Facilitator Leslie Van Duzer, Professor and Director at the School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture, UBC. Richmond, as part of Metro Vancouver, is consistently ranked as one of North America’s most livable cities. What is it that makes a city livable and vibrant, and does Richmond really fall into this category? Cities are greatly shaped by development, immigration, and economics. How has Richmond changed over the years, and what urban transformations are happening now? How do these changes compare to what is happening in other cities around the world?

Panelists: Greg Girard, Photographer; Bing Thom, Principal, Bing Thom Architects; Glenn Deer, Assistant Professor of English & Associate Editor of Canadian Literature, Dept. of English, UBC; Rufina Wu, Architect AIBC

Artist Talk with Greg Girard
Saturday, May 23, 2:00 – 3:00pm

The artist will present an illustrated talk about his career. Co-sponsored by the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver

ART+TEA+TALK
Wednesday, May 27, 10:30 – 11:30am

Free tour and discussion of the exhibition with Gallery Curator Nan Capogna. Light refreshments provided

ScreenTime is a quarterly screening series of performances on film, held throughout Vancouver with a variety of partners. Each screening is followed by a conversation about the work, the artist and artists who made it, and the ideas bouncing between the two.

OUR NEXT ScreenTime:
The Room Nobody Knows
by Niwa Gekidan Penino
Thursday, May 7th at 7pm
Groundswell Cafe
566 Powell Street (at Princess)

Admission is Pay What You Can

Presented in partnership with the Powell Street Festival as part of Vancouver Asian Heritage Month’s ExplorASIAN celebrations. Our venue partner is Groundswell Cafe.

This HD filmed version of the work was made by our friends at On the Boards (Seattle) through their OntheBoards.tv project.

The screening will be followed by a conversation put together by Theatre Replacement Associate Artist Cindy Mochizuki. Expect a hearty helping of Freud, and possibly costumes.

ABOUT The Room Nobody Knows

Enter a surreal fever dream in this psycho-erotic tale from modern Japan. Overworked and undersexed, a fatigued student’s brain conjures the bizarre tale of two brothers and their un-nameable erotic fantasies. Their comically claustrophobic world plays out on a candy-colored, meticulously constructed miniature set replete with pig faces, giant phalluses and secret compartments.

ABOUT Niwa Gekidan Penino

Niwa Gekidan Penino seeks to transcend the existing framework of drama through their performances in non-theatrical spaces and sets that transform the stage. Led by playwright/director (and former psychiatrist) Kuro Tanino, the company has performed abroad in Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Learn more about ScreenTime and Theatre Replacement here.

I AM NEITHER OF THE EAST NOR OF THE WEST, NO BOUNDARIES EXIST WITHIN MY BREAST – RUMI In this issue you will find:A highlight of Persian events Important dates Get your Gala tickets A free advertising opportunity What’s happening in April

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Tuesday May 28, 7.00pm at the Cinemathique hosted by the Vancouver Foreign Film Society in partnership with explorASIAN 2015.