Faculty of Art
RECAP – The Body at Play: Basketball as Place, Identity, and Community
On October 29th, 2025, ACAM320J hosted Dr. May Farrales and Dr. Sharnjit Kaur Sandhra for an open lecture sharing their work on the role of basketball in Asian Canadian placemaking, identity shaping, and community engagement. “The Body at Play” was an opportunity for guests to engage with the different histories and experiences of basketball in […]
RECAP – Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama Exhibit Tour + Fireside Chat
On November 2, the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies (ACAM) Program hosted an exhibit tour of Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The exhibit is the first comprehensive retrospective on the Japanese Canadian photographer and his important work documenting social justice movements such as the Civil Rights Movement and Japanese Canadian […]
Lost Spaces, Permanent Places (2016)
By Michael Nguyen, ACAM graduate 2016 Experiences in the refugee camps for Vietnamese Canadians are shown in a personal light through Michael’s own family oral histories. This video was created for HIST 483: “Asian Migrations to the Americas” at the University of British Columbia.
HIST 483: Asian Migrations to the Americas (2015)
“Japanese Canadian internment: interview with Mary Kitagawa (2015)” by Atieh Yekta; “Vietown: Finding Life in Vancouver” by Mimi Nguyen; “Voices of Chinatown” by Stephanie Chan, Mary Chen, and Annie Cheng; and “Origin of Pho” by Helen Le. These projects were created for HIST 483: “Asian Migrations to the Americas” at the University of British Columbia.
4 Reasons Why You should Care about Vancouver’s Chinatown (2014)
This film is created by the students of Professor Henry Yu’s History 483 class. Credits Directed by: Austin Liu, Dominique Bautista, Nicole So, Rafael Fuentes, Tony Wan Written by: Nicole So, Austin Liu and Dominique Bautista Animations by: Rafael Fuentes Narrated by: Dominique Bautista Edited by: Tony Wan Music: “Checking things off” – Lullatone http://youtu.be/kKUQFqzt4xk Special […]
Canadians that Never Arrived: The Komagata Maru and Our Absent History (2014)
How does the 1914 Komagata Maru Incident speak to racism in Canada’s past, present, and future? This short documentary features 20+ community leaders, public intellectuals, youth, artists and writers. Filmed by: Alejandro Yoshizawa Edited by: Joanna Yang Production and Research: Shambhavi Srivastava Filmed on traditional and unceded Coast Salish Territories. Produced by: Asian Canadian and […]
Radicalizing Intimacy (2014)
By Stephanie Fung and Joanna Yang for FIPR469A: Asian Canadian Film Production at UBC. How do multiple identities (Canadian, youth, Asian, queer) intersect and shape the way we navigate our world? This short film documentary explores how six queer Asian Canadian youth redefine and radicalize the concept of intimacy. Various types of intimacy that defy heteronormative values suggest that seemingly “concrete” notions of closeness and identity are not so straightforward after all.
Congratulations to ACAM grads of 2015!
Congratulations to the first graduates of ACAM: Dominique Bautista, Elizabeth Cheong (in absentia), Carolyn Nakagawa, and Nicole So.
Photograph taken with Dr. Chris Lee (ACAM Director), and Ms. Mary Kitagawa (Community Activist, Event Keynote Speaker)
2014 is the 100th Anniversary of the Komagata Maru Incident
“Komagata Maru 100: Generations, Geographies and Echos (1914-2014)”
Image Courtesy: Naveen Girn
