Faculty of ArtACAM is committed to facilitating community-engaged learning in which students collaborate with local community members and faculty across different departments.
HIST 482: Remembering the City’s History: Vancouver and Hong Kong in Comparative Context
The following three videos were created by students for HIST 482: “Remembering the City’s History: Vancouver and Hong Kong in Comparative Context” at the University of British Columbia.
Food Fight: An Eggsistential Tale (2016)
Bridging Nostalgia (2016)
Beyond Nostalgia (2016)
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 my own family oral histories. – MN
This video was created for HIST 483: “Asian Migrations to the Americas” at the University of British Columbia.
Challenges in the Intergenerational Transmission of Sikhism (2015)
By Emmett Chan
This video explores the impact of Sikhism on different generations.
This video was created for ASIA 475: “Documenting Punjabi Canada” at the University of British Columbia. For more information and digital video and audio projects produced from the course, please check out the blog: http://blogs.ubc.ca/punjabisikhstudies/2015/10/12/2015-6-documenting-punjabi-canada/
HIST 483: Asian Migrations to the Americas (2015)
Japanese Canadian internment: interview with Mary Kitagawa
By Atieh Yekta
ACAM Community Member Mary Kitagawa shares her experience of growing up during the Japanese Canadian internment, when the federal government forcibly removed 22,000 Japanese Canadians from B.C. in 1942 and relocated them inland. She also discusses her journey of leading the campaign for UBC to award honorary degrees to the 76 Japanese Canadian students affected by internment.
This video was created for HIST 483: “Asian Migrations to the Americas” at the University of British Columbia.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUU7nq8igO8[/youtube]
Viettown: Finding Life in Vancouver
By Mimi Nguyen
https://vietown.wordpress.com/
In Vietown: Finding Life in Vancouver, Mimi Nguyen explores her father’s experiences as a Vietnamese refugee and as a Canadian citizen. One of four videos she made for the project is shown below. Visit her WordPress site for more stories and videos.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBB3nPNa-Hg[/youtube]
Voices of Chinatown
By Stephanie Chan, Mary Chen, and Annie Cheng
https://voicesofchinatown.wordpress.com/
The #VoicesofChinatown Project aims to raise awareness of the voices of those who are an active part of Chinatown’s community, especially the seniors who live there. View their promotional video below.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Li08vH80jQ[/youtube]
Origin of Pho
By Helen Le
https://originofpho.wordpress.com/
Helen Le examines the history of pho as a dish that has spread with the Vietnamese diaspora but with Chinese origins.
Bridging the Gap: A Generation’s Return to Heritage (2014)
[youtube]http://youtu.be/kiBFSd00GOc[/youtube]
By Christina Lee
What happened to Vancouver’s Chinatown? Seen more and more as simply a place for the elderly to sit around reading newspapers or play mah jong, youth participation in Chinatown has been on the decline. From athletic associations to just plain presence in the neighbourhood, recent visitors note a sharp decrease in the number of Chinese-Canadians in the area. With the influx of condo developers aiming to gentrify the area, Chinatown is in danger of becoming a museum. How can we empower Chinese-Canadian youth to return Chinatown to its former self: a nexus of activity and a place of belonging?
This video was 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 thanks to Prof. Yu, our TA Kilim Park and Melissa Fong.
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Canadians that Never Arrived: The Komagata Maru and Our Absent History (2014)
[youtube]http://youtu.be/chbS5OkkZnA[/youtube]
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 Asian Migration Studies, UBC
Komagata Maru Heritage Foundation
Special Thanks:
1914-2014 Komagata Maru Generations, Geographies and Echoes
Radicalizing Intimacy (2014)
By Stephanie Fung and Joanna D. Yang (FIPR 469a, Spring 2014)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zRiDFBX6Uw[/youtube]
Description
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.
Director’s Bio
Stephanie is a Master’s student in English at UBC with interests in photography, Visual Art & Asian Canadian literature. Joanna graduated from the UBC Human Geography & Migration/Globalization studies program in 2014. They are both first-generation Chinese Canadians with roots in Guangdong (Stephanie) and Hainan (Joanna) China.
Credits
Writers: Stephanie Fung and Joanna Yang
Producers: Stephanie Fung and Joanna Yang
“Radicalizing Intimacy in Queer Asian Canadian Youth” was selected for the 2014 Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Montreal Asian Film Festival (AmérAsia), Reel Pride Film Festival (Winnipeg) and the 2015 Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Congratulations Stephanie & Joanna!
