The BC Arts Council is pleased to announce the launch of a new pilot program to support the development of artists and arts administrators across the province.

The BC Arts Council’s Early Career Development Program will help bridge the gap for emerging artists and practitioners, supporting their ability to work as artists and cultural workers, while building their body of work, portfolio, professional exposure and/or career experience through residency, internship and mentorship opportunities. This program is accessible to both individual artists and organizations. Individuals can apply for the residencies or mentorship components.

The program will support the career development of B.C.-based early career and emerging practitioners through three components:

Component I: Internships

Component II: Residencies

Component III: Mentorships

For the purposes of this program, early career and emerging artists and arts practitioners are defined as artists and practitioners who either:

o Are under the age of 30; or

o Have less than five years professional experience since the completion of basic training in their discipline.

This pilot program is being launched through the BC Creative Futures strategy. Announced last January, BC Creative Futures supports opportunities for youth in communities throughout British Columbia to engage in the arts and creative thinking and encourages young people to pursue creative careers.

The application deadline is January 20, 2014. For more information, including program guidelines, application forms and FAQs, please visit the BC Arts Council website at: http://www.bcartscouncil.ca/guidelines/artists/youth/early_career_development.html

If you have any questions about these programs, please contact the BC Arts Council at 250-356-1718 or BCArtsCouncil@gov.bc.ca<mailto:BCArtsCouncil@gov.bc.ca>.

Joy Kogawa is in town and will be at Historic Joy Kogawa house between 2:00 and 4:00 on Saturday, December 7, for quiet conversation and heart to hearts among us, as we await a decision about potential sale of the house to finance TLC, The Land Conservancy of B.C.’s debt.

The question of whether TLC assets can be sold will be heard in B.C. Supreme Court next week, when petitions for another TLC property, B.C. Binning House, and protection under the B.C. Charitable Purposes Preservation Act will be heard.

Joy Kogawa and its board of directors will be at the house on Saturday to answer questions and welcome your support, encouragement, and vision for the future of the house.

Then, on Sunday, January 5, 3:00 to 5:00pm, the Historic Joy Kogawa House will hold its annual general meeting and election of directors to the board. More information will be available at that time. Joy Kogawa will be there, too.

You are welcomed to join Joy Kogawa for one or both events.

• Email kogawahouse@yahoo.ca
• 8107 Cartier Street, Vancouver, BC V6P 4T6

 

The 2013 Taiwanese Film Festival’s focus is to create more opportunities for Canadian audiences to learn about Taiwan.

This years festival program proudly presents: Taiwan’s Owls: Silent Stalkers of the Night (2012) and The Rooftop (2013)

Full 2013 Taiwanese Film Festival Program:

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29TH 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM 
Taiwan’s Owls: Silent Stalkers of the Night  (?????:??????)
2012, Hung-Lung Hsu
Taiwan, 24 Min

In Western fairy tales, owls are a symbol of wisdom. In Taiwan, owls have a variety of different symbolic meanings. Among the indigenous Thao people it is an omen of good fortune. Taiwan’s Owls: Silent Stalkers of the Night sheds light on some of the owl tribe’s secrets. Let’s set off on a journey into the night to unveil the many secrets of Taiwan’s owls!

INTERMISSION 6:30-7:00 PM

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29TH 7:00 PM -9:00 PM  
The Rooftop (??)
2013, Jay Chou
Taiwan, 117 Min
With Jay Chou , Alan Ko, Li Xin’ai, Eric Tsang, Wang Xueqi, Kenny Bee, Xu Fan

The Rooftop is the second feature film directed by Taiwanese pop idol, singer-actor Jay Chou. Similar to his first feature film, Secret (2007), Jay played multiple roles in the production of the film, as the main lead, director, script-writer and music composer.The Rooftop is a musical extravaganza combining elements of martial arts and special effects.

RECEPTION 9:00 PM in the lobby following the screenings

All screenings are free but seating is limited.

Co-presented by SFU Woodward’s Cultural Unit, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the Taiwan Academy of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles, with additional cooperation from the Asian-Canadian Special Events Association.

The Taiwan Academy of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles is one of the overseas branch offices of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of China (Taiwan). The Taiwan Academy’s mission is to promote international cultural exchanges and cultivate a greater interest and appreciation of Taiwan’s culture worldwide.

Book reading: The Measure of a Man by JJ Lee

Saturday, November 16 from  2:00 to 4:00 pm
in the Hall of One Hundred Rivers (entrance on Carrall Street)

Part personal memoir, part social history of the man’s suit, it is a deeply moving and brilliantly crafted story of fathers and sons, love and forgiveness, of fitting in and standing out — and discovering what it means to be your own man.

As JJ moves across the surface of the suit, he reveals the heartbreaking tale of his father, a charismatic but luckless restaurateur whose demons brought tumult upon his family. He also recounts the year he spent as an apprentice tailor at Modernize Tailors, the last of Vancouver’s legendary Chinatown tailors, where he learns invaluable lessons about life from his octogenarian master tailor. Woven throughout these two personal strands are entertaining stories from the social history of the man’s suit, the surprising battleground where the war between generations has long been fought.

With wit, bracing honesty, and great narrative verve, JJ takes us from the French Revolution to the Zoot Suit Riots, from the Japanese Salaryman to Mad Men, from Oscar Wilde in short pants to Marlon Brando in a T-shirt, and from the rarefied rooms of Savile Row to a rundown shop in Chinatown. A book that will forever change the way you think about the maxim “the clothes make the man,” this is a universal story of love and forgiveness and breaking with the past.

“A graceful, compelling memoir… A thoughtful, loving and honest narrative, elegant in its clarity and observation.”—Minneapolis-Saint Paul Star Tribune

Copies of The Measure of a Man will be available for purchase during the event.
For more information, please contact the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden at 604-662-3207 ext 206.

Jeremy Lin’s Linsanity: The Movie, is joining a cast of excellent films at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival from Thursday November 7 to Sunday November 10,  2013 at Cineplex Odeon, International Village.  Directed by Evan Jackson Leong, Linsanity: the Movie is about the rags-to-riches story of Lin, following his college days to his struggling rookie campaign to finally stardom in the NBA.

Linsanity: The Movie has already generated much buzz around the film circuit, including the Sundance Film Festival, South by Southwest Film Festival, CAAMFest Opening Night film, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, American International Film Festival, Hawaii International Film Festival, and the Hong Kong International Film Festival.

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8, 2013 | 7:15 PM | CINEPLEX ODEON INTERNATIONAL VILLAGE CINEMAS |vaff.org

Exhibition Viewing:

November 1 –November 30, 2013

Opening Reception:
Sunday, November 3, 2013 from 1:30-3:30pm
Entrance on Carrall Street
Hall of One Hundred Rivers

For the first time, an exhibition of not only changes in fashion in the past century, but the constant presence of one of the oldest existing family businesses in Chinatown is made accessible for public viewing.

Father, Wong Kung Lai, started Modernize back in 1913. Passing down his skill and knowledge to his 2 eldest sons, Bill and Jack, they then ran the business for the past 65 years.

In the postwar boom era, The Wong Family’s Modernize Tailors were the largest tailor shop in Vancouver, serving the local community, as well as suiting up celebrities like Sean Connery, and Gordon Lightfoot.

Sunday, November, 3rd join us for the Opening Reception from 1:30 to 3:30 P.M.

Take this rare opportunity to meet and “talk to the tailor”.
Bill, now 91, will be reading excerpts from his journal written when he was 14 about the daily life in a Chinese Village. The passages refer in part to the time Bill and Jack went with their father back to their ancestral village to live and go to school for a year in 1936.

For more information

Shayla Perreault
operations@vancouverchinesegarden.com

Or visit the Modernize Tailors Website

http://www.modernizetailors.blogspot.ca/