Opening night: Friday, November 28th @ 8:00 pm
Tickets: $15/$12 seniors and students
Available from Tickets Tonight
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Friday, November 28, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage (VMACCH)
We are pleased to let you know that Asian Heritage Month--Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) Inc. is preparing a Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage (VMACCH) to showcase Asian Canadian cultural expression. It will be launched in March 2009 and is made possible by the generous support of the Canadian Heritage “Gateway” Fund.
Our goal for the project is to show representations of how Asian Canadian communities live and express their cultural identity in Canada in the form of photographs, videos and journals, among others. We hope to provide opportunities to foster the recognition and appreciation of the diverse cultures of Asian Canadian society, not just to promote Asian Canadian cultural expressions. We are also interested in discovering further whether the cross-cultural encounters between Asian Canadians and the rest of Canada can forge new cultural expressions.
If you are able to contribute to the Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural
Heritage (VMACCH), please provide your contribution to us by e-mailing vmacch@yorku.ca before 30 December 2008. Contributions can also be posted or faxed. Please contact us for further details.
We are seeking contributed written articles (500 to 1,000 words) as well as other text, graphics, photographs and video, on the following topics:
General History of Asian Canadians
o Cultural traditions and storytelling by Asian Canadians from Central Asia
o Cultural traditions and storytelling by Asian Canadians from South Asia
o Cultural traditions and storytelling by Asian Canadians from South East
Asia
Contributions of Asian Canadians to Canada
o Visual Art
o Music
o Dance
o Literature
o Science, Technology and Society
Prominent Asian Canadians’ Portrait Gallery
o Chinese Canadians
o Japanese Canadians
o Indo Canadians
o Footage from the Asian Heritage Month Lectures by prominent Professors
Asian Canadian Cultural History Education
o Policy issues
o Cultural roadshows
Asian Canadian Social History
o Photographs from the Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto
o Festivals from Central, East, South and South East Asia
Asian Canadian Political History
o Exclusions
o Inclusions
o Multiculturalism
o Ethnic Statistics
o The Way Forward
Milestones in Asian Canadian History
o General Timeline
o Milestones from Central, East, South and South East Asia
Although we are not able to offer any financial remuneration, we hope you would kindly join this meaningful project, which will be used for educational purposes. The materials, of course, will be appropriately attributed.
Thank you very much for your kind support of the Virtual Museum, and we look forward to hearing from you.
Kay Li, Ph.D.
President
Asian Heritage Month--Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) Inc.
vmacch@yorku.ca
Our goal for the project is to show representations of how Asian Canadian communities live and express their cultural identity in Canada in the form of photographs, videos and journals, among others. We hope to provide opportunities to foster the recognition and appreciation of the diverse cultures of Asian Canadian society, not just to promote Asian Canadian cultural expressions. We are also interested in discovering further whether the cross-cultural encounters between Asian Canadians and the rest of Canada can forge new cultural expressions.
If you are able to contribute to the Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural
Heritage (VMACCH), please provide your contribution to us by e-mailing vmacch@yorku.ca before 30 December 2008. Contributions can also be posted or faxed. Please contact us for further details.
We are seeking contributed written articles (500 to 1,000 words) as well as other text, graphics, photographs and video, on the following topics:
General History of Asian Canadians
o Cultural traditions and storytelling by Asian Canadians from Central Asia
o Cultural traditions and storytelling by Asian Canadians from South Asia
o Cultural traditions and storytelling by Asian Canadians from South East
Asia
Contributions of Asian Canadians to Canada
o Visual Art
o Music
o Dance
o Literature
o Science, Technology and Society
Prominent Asian Canadians’ Portrait Gallery
o Chinese Canadians
o Japanese Canadians
o Indo Canadians
o Footage from the Asian Heritage Month Lectures by prominent Professors
Asian Canadian Cultural History Education
o Policy issues
o Cultural roadshows
Asian Canadian Social History
o Photographs from the Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto
o Festivals from Central, East, South and South East Asia
Asian Canadian Political History
o Exclusions
o Inclusions
o Multiculturalism
o Ethnic Statistics
o The Way Forward
Milestones in Asian Canadian History
o General Timeline
o Milestones from Central, East, South and South East Asia
Although we are not able to offer any financial remuneration, we hope you would kindly join this meaningful project, which will be used for educational purposes. The materials, of course, will be appropriately attributed.
Thank you very much for your kind support of the Virtual Museum, and we look forward to hearing from you.
Kay Li, Ph.D.
President
Asian Heritage Month--Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) Inc.
vmacch@yorku.ca
VINCE MAI PROJECT @ The Yale Hotel
funky trumpet grooves
Thursday, November 27, 2008 at 9:45pm
The Yale Hotel
1300 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC
We're going to groove at the Yale Hotel again.
Trumpet based instrumentals with some vocal RnB faves.
NO COVER!
featuring:
Daryl Jahnke,
Brent Gubbels,
Tim Proznick,
Pepe Danza,
Chris Gestrin,
David Steele,
& Vince Mai
Hope you can make it!
www.mai-music.com
Thursday, November 27, 2008 at 9:45pm
The Yale Hotel
1300 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC
We're going to groove at the Yale Hotel again.
Trumpet based instrumentals with some vocal RnB faves.
NO COVER!
featuring:
Daryl Jahnke,
Brent Gubbels,
Tim Proznick,
Pepe Danza,
Chris Gestrin,
David Steele,
& Vince Mai
Hope you can make it!
www.mai-music.com
Filipino Youth Hold Cultural Night to Celebrate National Achievements, 13 years of Educating, Organizing and Mobilizing
Vancouver, BC—On Sunday, November 30, 2008 Ugnayan ng Kabataang Pilipino sa Canada/The Filipino-Canadian Youth Alliance – BC (UKPC-BC) will hold its next installment of Pinoy Poetiks, coinciding with Andres Bonifacio Day. It will also mark the 13th anniversary of UKPC since its formation in Vancouver in 1995. It is to take place at the Kalayaan Centre, 451 Powell Street, Vancouver, BC.
With this upcoming night of poetry, song, hip hop and spoken word, the members of UKPC-BC have much to celebrate. They recently sent a delegation to participate in the historic research conference "Filipino Community and Beyond: Towards Full Participation in a Multicultural and Multi-Ethnic Canada," hosted by the National Alliance of Philippine Women in Canada (NAPWC) at the University of Toronto from November 6-9, 2008. The conference showcased community-led research and ways it has been used to educate and empower the Filipino community. Research gathered in the last 3 years of the NAPWC project has been used to engage politicians, policy-makers and academics, informed community discussions, and has even inspired art exhibits, theatre productions and a fashion show. "Part of the NAPWC project is a specific focus on making Filipino youth count in our community's future," says Niki Silva of UKPC-BC. "So there are so many achievements that we are celebrating as Filipino youth in Canada" she adds.
In keeping with a national theme, this next Pinoy Poetiks will feature an audience from both Montreal and Toronto, who will participate via internet and web-cam. "During the conference we were able to connect with the different cities and learn from one another in regards to our different methods of educating, organizing and mobilizing and it's important for us to share with the community the amazing work happening at a national level." Silva adds.
UKPC-BC says that this Pinoy Poetiks will also be an open house for the organization, with a brief history of UKPC, and the Kalayaan Centre—a community space and the home to UKPC-BC and other progressive Filipino organizations. "We decided this time to hold our event at the Kalayaan Centre instead of a café, as a recognition of the roots of our work," states Christian Clamonte, a UKPC member and participant of the NAPWC conference. Drinks and snacks will be for sale, made by members of the community, including Filipino delicacies like cucinta or sticky rice.
Entrance is $5-$10 suggested donation, and all proceeds go towards continuing the work of UKPC-BC and the maintenance of the Kalayaan Centre. For more information please contact Niki or Ayex at 604.215.1103 or email ukpc_fcya@kalayaancentre.net.
With this upcoming night of poetry, song, hip hop and spoken word, the members of UKPC-BC have much to celebrate. They recently sent a delegation to participate in the historic research conference "Filipino Community and Beyond: Towards Full Participation in a Multicultural and Multi-Ethnic Canada," hosted by the National Alliance of Philippine Women in Canada (NAPWC) at the University of Toronto from November 6-9, 2008. The conference showcased community-led research and ways it has been used to educate and empower the Filipino community. Research gathered in the last 3 years of the NAPWC project has been used to engage politicians, policy-makers and academics, informed community discussions, and has even inspired art exhibits, theatre productions and a fashion show. "Part of the NAPWC project is a specific focus on making Filipino youth count in our community's future," says Niki Silva of UKPC-BC. "So there are so many achievements that we are celebrating as Filipino youth in Canada" she adds.
In keeping with a national theme, this next Pinoy Poetiks will feature an audience from both Montreal and Toronto, who will participate via internet and web-cam. "During the conference we were able to connect with the different cities and learn from one another in regards to our different methods of educating, organizing and mobilizing and it's important for us to share with the community the amazing work happening at a national level." Silva adds.
UKPC-BC says that this Pinoy Poetiks will also be an open house for the organization, with a brief history of UKPC, and the Kalayaan Centre—a community space and the home to UKPC-BC and other progressive Filipino organizations. "We decided this time to hold our event at the Kalayaan Centre instead of a café, as a recognition of the roots of our work," states Christian Clamonte, a UKPC member and participant of the NAPWC conference. Drinks and snacks will be for sale, made by members of the community, including Filipino delicacies like cucinta or sticky rice.
Entrance is $5-$10 suggested donation, and all proceeds go towards continuing the work of UKPC-BC and the maintenance of the Kalayaan Centre. For more information please contact Niki or Ayex at 604.215.1103 or email ukpc_fcya@kalayaancentre.net.
Music on Main presents JENNIFER KOH, solo violin
Thursday, November 27, 2008 at 8:00 PM
Heritage Hall (3102 Main Street) $25/$15
Have you ever seen a Frank Gehry building?
Totally modern, completely distinctive, and instantly classic.
That’s what a concert with violinist Jennifer Koh is like – as if you’re hearing the future, but with a bit of baroque.
She’s played Carnegie Hall and all over the States, Europe and Asia.
Now you can hear her up-close-and-personal at Heritage Hall.
(Vancouver, BC) – Music on Main presents a solo violin recital featuring acclaimed violinist Jennifer Koh, as part of the Main Series at Heritage Hall on Thursday, November 27th 2008 at 8:00 PM.
Jennifer Koh is a violinist of startling talent, with a sound described as “fiery”, “rhapsodic”, and “meltingly beautiful” (New York Times). When Carnegie Hall opened their new Zankel Hall, Koh was a featured soloist for the historic opening night concert. Don't miss her in the intimate environment of Heritage Hall. For her Music on Main debut, Koh presents a compelling solo violin recital in which the music of J.S. Bach finds new meaning beside many contemporary works, including John Zorn’s fragmented and texturally diverse Goetia, the complex beauty of Elliot Carter’s Four Lauds, and works by György Kurtag and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Commenting on the rare and revealing repertoire juxtapositions of her program, Koh writes, “I'm looking to find connections and conversations with the past in this program and I want to change the way the audience listens to older pieces like the Bach. This particular Partita is important because it continues the thread between the Kurtag (Hommage to Bach) to the chaconne form of the Salonen. I want people to hear how it transforms into a present day composition”.
JENNIFER KOH, solo violin
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Heritage Hall (3102 Main Street, Vancouver)
Bar opens at 7:00 PM. Concert at 8:00 PM. Bar stays open afterward. All ages welcome.
Tickets $25 ($15 students) Call Tickets Tonight at 604.684.2787 or click on www.ticketstonight.ca.
“A risk taking, high-octane player of the kind who grabs the listener by the ears and refuses to let go.” - The Strad
About Music on Main
Launched to critical acclaim in 2006, Music on Main is dedicated to presenting concert music in environments that are both casual and stimulating, with a strong focus on music of our time and featuring excellent professional musicians in innovative concert formats. During its third season, Music on Main will present over 25 concerts at Heritage Hall on Main Street, the Cellar Restaurant & Jazz Club in Kitsilano, as well as co-ordinating a city-wide festival celebrating one of today's greatest composers, Amsterdam-based Louis Andriessen. Music on Main concerts have been highlighted as "best of the season" events by The Globe & Mail and Georgia Straight.
Heritage Hall (3102 Main Street) $25/$15
Have you ever seen a Frank Gehry building?
Totally modern, completely distinctive, and instantly classic.
That’s what a concert with violinist Jennifer Koh is like – as if you’re hearing the future, but with a bit of baroque.
She’s played Carnegie Hall and all over the States, Europe and Asia.
Now you can hear her up-close-and-personal at Heritage Hall.
(Vancouver, BC) – Music on Main presents a solo violin recital featuring acclaimed violinist Jennifer Koh, as part of the Main Series at Heritage Hall on Thursday, November 27th 2008 at 8:00 PM.
Jennifer Koh is a violinist of startling talent, with a sound described as “fiery”, “rhapsodic”, and “meltingly beautiful” (New York Times). When Carnegie Hall opened their new Zankel Hall, Koh was a featured soloist for the historic opening night concert. Don't miss her in the intimate environment of Heritage Hall. For her Music on Main debut, Koh presents a compelling solo violin recital in which the music of J.S. Bach finds new meaning beside many contemporary works, including John Zorn’s fragmented and texturally diverse Goetia, the complex beauty of Elliot Carter’s Four Lauds, and works by György Kurtag and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Commenting on the rare and revealing repertoire juxtapositions of her program, Koh writes, “I'm looking to find connections and conversations with the past in this program and I want to change the way the audience listens to older pieces like the Bach. This particular Partita is important because it continues the thread between the Kurtag (Hommage to Bach) to the chaconne form of the Salonen. I want people to hear how it transforms into a present day composition”.
JENNIFER KOH, solo violin
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Heritage Hall (3102 Main Street, Vancouver)
Bar opens at 7:00 PM. Concert at 8:00 PM. Bar stays open afterward. All ages welcome.
Tickets $25 ($15 students) Call Tickets Tonight at 604.684.2787 or click on www.ticketstonight.ca.
“A risk taking, high-octane player of the kind who grabs the listener by the ears and refuses to let go.” - The Strad
About Music on Main
Launched to critical acclaim in 2006, Music on Main is dedicated to presenting concert music in environments that are both casual and stimulating, with a strong focus on music of our time and featuring excellent professional musicians in innovative concert formats. During its third season, Music on Main will present over 25 concerts at Heritage Hall on Main Street, the Cellar Restaurant & Jazz Club in Kitsilano, as well as co-ordinating a city-wide festival celebrating one of today's greatest composers, Amsterdam-based Louis Andriessen. Music on Main concerts have been highlighted as "best of the season" events by The Globe & Mail and Georgia Straight.
A great night of comedy benefiting the Greater Vancouver Food Bank!
We have TWO OF THE BEST ASIAN COMICS IN CANADA!!! With Paul Bae, as your Headliner, and Jeffrey Yu, as the host, the next group of outstanding Asian Comics will be showcased in a night filled with big laughs and big hearts. The show will help kickoff the holiday season for The Greater Vancouver Food Bank, as proceeds will be donated to the charity.
So, come out and support a great charity in their most important time of the year, as well as TWO OF BEST ASIAN COMICS IN CANADA, and FOUR OF THE MOST PROMISING ASIAN COMEDY TALENTS IN THE PROVINCE!!!
TWO OF THE BEST ASIAN COMICS IN THE BUSINESS
Paul Bae – Headliner
Jeffrey Yu – Host
(Each comic has had their own Comedy Now Special and appearances in the prestigious Just For Laughs Festival.)
THE FOUR BEST UP & COMING ASIAN COMICS IN THE PROVINCE
Ana De Lara
Art Factora
Tom Shiboaka
Dennis Litonjua
FLIP N ASIAN SHOW
Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Lafflines Comedy Club
#26 - 4th Street
New Westminster, BC
Doors Open 7.30pm
Showtime 8.30pm
ORDERING TICKETS
Bus: 778.218.2651
Cell: 604.828.8007
Email: flipnfunny@gmail.com
Tickets $10 each
So, come out and support a great charity in their most important time of the year, as well as TWO OF BEST ASIAN COMICS IN CANADA, and FOUR OF THE MOST PROMISING ASIAN COMEDY TALENTS IN THE PROVINCE!!!
TWO OF THE BEST ASIAN COMICS IN THE BUSINESS
Paul Bae – Headliner
Jeffrey Yu – Host
(Each comic has had their own Comedy Now Special and appearances in the prestigious Just For Laughs Festival.)
THE FOUR BEST UP & COMING ASIAN COMICS IN THE PROVINCE
Ana De Lara
Art Factora
Tom Shiboaka
Dennis Litonjua
FLIP N ASIAN SHOW
Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Lafflines Comedy Club
#26 - 4th Street
New Westminster, BC
Doors Open 7.30pm
Showtime 8.30pm
ORDERING TICKETS
Bus: 778.218.2651
Cell: 604.828.8007
Email: flipnfunny@gmail.com
Tickets $10 each
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of Japanese Immigration in Brazil - Special screening of TIZUKA YAMASAKI's - “GAIJIN - LOVE ME AS I AM” - Nov 23 - 7pm
Vancouver Asian Film Festival in collaboration with explorASIAN, Community Partners for Internationalization (UBC) and the Consulate of Brazil present a special screening of acclaimed director TIZUKA YAMASAKI’S award winning film “GAIJIN - LOVE ME AS I AM” (GAIJIN - AMA ME COMO SOU)
Date - Sunday, November 23, 2008
Time - 7:00pm
Location - Frederic Wood Theatre, 6354 Crescent Road, UBC
Admission -
FREE for VAFF Members and UBC Faculty, Staff & Students with VAFF membership card or UBC ID
General Public admission is FREE with purchase of VAFF Membership - $2.00 - at the door
Please RSVP online before Nov 22 to reserve your tickets: http://gaijin.eventbrite.com
Runtime - 131 min
Country - Brazil
Language - Portuguese with English subtitles
Year - 2005
GAIJIN - Love Me As I Am (Ama Me Como Sou) - SYNOPSIS
The pioneer Titoe arrived in Brazil aboard Kasato Maru Ship in 1908, wishing to return to her homeland with the money saved by working in the coffee farms.
In 1935, holding her Brazilian-daughter, Shinobu, and little amount of money she saved, Titoe buys her first piece of land in Londrina City (North of Paraná State) and postpones her desire to go back to Japan.
The Second World War and its consequences to Japan, put off Titoe's promise to come back to Japan. Titoe's grandchildren, Kazumi and Maria, were born in Londrina by the end of the 40's, and then Titoe becomes a "batyan" (grandma).
Maria marries Gabriel, a gaijin (foreigner), son of the Spanish farmer Ramon Salinas and the Italian immigrant Sofia. From this relationship two children were born, Yoko and Pedro. Gabriel's job selling and buying lands are doing well until Fernando Collor de Mello's (Brazilian President) confiscation plan (economic plan) in 1990, bankrupts him. Maria, Gabriel, Yoko and Pedro have to live with Batyan, in the house she built by herself. Having no other choices, Gabriel leaves Brazil and goes to Kobe, Hyogo province, as a dekassegui (temporary worker) like Shinobu did to recover the money she lost in Brazil.
Maria, Shinobu, Batyan and Gina (Maria's sister-in-law) have to reorganise life in Brazil. But after the earthquake in Kobe in 1995, when Gabriel was considered dead, Yoko and Maria decide to go to Japan to look for him. In Japan, Maria and Yoko face prejudices and challenges provided by cultural differences, and deal with the fear about the unknown.
The promise of the old Titoe to return to Japan drives the lives of these four women generations: the ninety-years-old Batyan, her daughter Shinobu, a nisei (second Japanese generation), her granddaughter Maria, a sansei (third generation) and her great-granddaughter Yoko, a half-breed (Japanese/Spanish/Italian).
Gaijin is a film about the Japanese descendants' saga who try to find out their identities.
AWARDS AND FESTIVALS
GAIJIN - Love Me As I Am (Ama Me Como Sou)
2006 - SAN FRANCISCO INTERN. ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL - Special Presentation
2006 - LOS ANGELES ASIAN PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL - Special Presentation
2005 - FESTIVAL GRAMADO – Best Film, Best Director, Best Music, Best Supporting Actress Aya Ono
2005 - FESTIVAL DE BIARRITZ CINÉMAS ET CULTURES D’AMERIQUE LATINE
2005 - TOKYO INTERNACIONAL FORUM - Special Presentation - Brazilian Embassy – President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva in Japan
2005 - NAGOYA - Special Presentation Brazilian Consulate in Nagoya
Please RSVP online before Nov 22 to reserve your tickets: http://gaijin.eventbrite.com/
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