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/
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]
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]
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]
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.
[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.
This film is created by the students of Professor Henry Yu’s History 483 class.
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.
[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
By Stephanie Fung and Joanna D. Yang (FIPR 469a, Spring 2014)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zRiDFBX6Uw[/youtube]
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.
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.
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!
Congratulations to Dr. John Paul Catungal, ACAM faculty member, who has received (along with the Kababayan Academic Mentorship Program / KAMP) a Scholar-Activist Project award from the Antipode Foundation! Dr. Catungal’s and KAMP’s collaborative scholar-activist project will look at the organizing and community building work being done by Filipino-Canadians in response to the processes of educational abandonment experienced by Fil-Can youth.
Please see below for the press release.
We are excited to announce that Dr. John Paul Catungal of UBC’s Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice and the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program, and the Kababayan Academic Mentorship Program (KAMP) have been selected to receive one of six prestigious Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project awards to pursue a community-academic research partnership titled “Mentorship as political practice”. This collaborative project will examine mentorship as a form of community building through which members of the Filipino-Canadian community in Greater Vancouver / Coast Salish territories respond to the disproportionately high rates of educational incompletion among Filipino-Canadian school-aged youth. The main goal of our upcoming research project is to encourage broad dialogue about Filipino-Canadian educational experiences, including the role of community-based ethno-specific organizing and social infrastructures in responses to the academic and social challenges faced by recently migrated youth from the Philippines.
This research partnership will be implemented over the course of the 2016-2017 school year. Along with KAMP and Dr. Catungal, the research team will include some past KAMP mentors, who will receive training as community researchers and analysts for the project. The project timeline will include a research project launch event that will also serve as an alumni reunion, weekend training sessions in research methods and analysis with the project team, data collection and analysis. The results of the project will be shared at a community research showcase towards the end of the project lifespan. We will also produce a website, research report outlining our findings, and a short video to be debuted at our showcase.
Dr. Catungal and the Directors of KAMP are eager to be co-creators in this participatory and community-led action research and dialogue. It is our hope that this research will deepen our understanding of mentorship and inform the foundations of how we situate and continue our community work in response to processes and effects of educational abandonment and its impacts on Filipino-Canadian youth.
Contact info:
Dr. John Paul Catungal, GRSJ Institute, UBC: catungal@mail.ubc.ca
Maureen Mendoza, Director, KAMP: info@kamp.education
Who Are We?
We are a new undergraduate journal run by student members of the UBC Asian Canadian and Asian Migrations Studies (ACAM) program. Our hope is to recognize and encourage dialogue concerning Asian and Asian diasporic identities, Asian migrations, and Asian communities both local and global.
Who Can Submit
Undergraduate students from any department and any faculty of UBC Vancouver are welcome to submit. You do not have to identify as “Asian” in order to submit; submissions from all voices are welcome, as long as they adhere to the theme specified.
We also encourage submitting coursework that is done/being done and that you want to share with the community (e.g. essays for an Asian diasporic literature course; media projects for a Film Production course; a comic from a Creative Writing course, etc.). For ideas of the kinds of work we are interested, check out the recent ACAM: Articulations showcase recording on the UBC ACAM website.
Theme
Topics surrounding Asian/Asian diasporic identities, and Asian migrations, and/or Asian/Asian diasporic communities both local and global. Work concerning any and all cultural backgrounds or experiences of Asian(-)Canadian and Asian diasporic identities are welcome.
Genres
Academic essays, Creative writing (poetry, prose, playscripts), Visual artwork (photography, sketches, drawings, paintings, film, graphica), Community work (interviews on students/faculty/community members, reviews/reports on exhibitions, talks, performances, or other events). You are welcome to submit works that span multiple genres.
Deadline
Please submit proposals or existing work by March 18, 2016 at midnight, and finalized work by April 11, 2016 at midnight.
Send submissions to acamstudentjournal@gmail.com.
Submission Guidelines
Preferred Formats
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us at acamstudentjournal@gmail.com.
Graduating students are also encouraged to apply. Students with a ~70% average should be eligible for the $1000 GoGlobal scholarship.
The course description and application form can be found here.
For more course information, please e-mail Joanna Yang (joanna.yangg@gmail.com).
The Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program wishes you a healthy and prosperous Year of the Monkey!
Faculty of Art