DALOY-PUSO: Flowing from the Heart

Performing Inter-cultural Leadership Among Filipino-Canadian Youth in British Columbia

To nurture a strong Filipino-Canadian community in British Columbia, we need to inspire and strengthen leadership skills among our youth. Through an exciting series of talks by dynamic youth leaders in the community, theatre and skits, this event aims to inspire our youth for greater recognition, respect, and responsibility for and within our community.

Date: May 8, 2015

Time: 8:00 am – 3:30 pm

Venue: Victoria Learning Theatre, UBC Irving K Barber Learning Centre

ACAM is one year old!

Join us for the celebration of the first graduates of UBC’s Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program
Special Guest Speaker: Mary Kitagawa
Friday, May 8th, 2015 2:00pm-4:00pm
St. John’s College, The University of British Columbia
2111 Lower Mall, Vancouver, BC
The recognition ceremony will be followed by a reception.
All are welcome to attend, RSVP required.
RSVP to: acam.program@ubc.ca
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UBC Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program One Year Celebration Dinner & Fundraising Gala

Last September, the new Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program (ACAM) was officially launched at the University of British Columbia. Our first class will be graduating this May and we would like to invite our community supporters to celebrate and congratulate our outstanding and accomplished students! We would also like to thank the many elders, partners, and mentors who have supported and enabled ongoing research and education on Asian Canadian culture, history, and communities. The evening will include a reception, dinner and raffle draw; proceeds will help build a strong foundation for ACAM in the years to come by providing opportunities for the innovative co-creation of knowledge between faculty, students, and community partners. All ticket purchases are partially tax deductible and will support the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program. For more information on purchasing a ticket or making a donation, please click on the link below. If you cannot attend, please consider making a donation to sponsor a student or community member.

Dinner tickets are $100/person. (Income tax receipt of $50)
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Details:
Date: Friday, May 8th, 2015
Time: 5:00-8:30pm
Address: St. John’s College
The University of British Columbia
2111 Lower Mall
Vancouver, BC
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Dress: Business Attire

Apr 25 – Curse of the Livable City Panel Discussion

ACAM Faculty member Prof. Glenn Deer will participate on the Panel Discussion entitled “Curse of the Livable City Panel Discussion” at the Richmond Art Gallery.

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GREG GIRARD:
RICHMOND/KOWLOON

April 18 to June 28, 2015

Opening Reception: Friday, April 17, 7:00-9:00pm

Vancouver-based Greg Girard spent three decades working and living in Asia examining the social and physical transformations of some of its largest cities through his photographic work. Richmond/Kowloon includes photographs documenting Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong as well as a new body of photographic images of Richmond, BC and its residents.

RELATED PROGRAMMING

Curse of the Livable City: Panel Discussion
Saturday, April 25, 2:00 – 3:30pm

Facilitator: Leslie Van Duzer, Professor and Director, School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture, UBC

Panelists: Greg Girard, Photographer; Bing Thom, Principal, Bing Thom Architects; Glenn Deer, Assistant Professor of English & Associate Editor of Canadian Literature, Dept. of English, UBC; Rufina Wu, Architect AIBC

Artist Talk with Greg Girard
Saturday, May 23, 2:00 – 3:00pm

The artist will present an illustrated talk about his career. Co-sponsored by the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver

ART+TEA+TALK
Wednesday, May 27, 10:30 – 11:30am

Free tour and discussion of the exhibition with Gallery Curator Nan Capogna. Light refreshments provided

Mar 24 – Asians on Stage/Asians on Screen

A Conversation with Kuan Foo, Diana Bang, and Nelson Wong (from Assaulted Fish Sketch Comedy)

Date: Tuesday, March 24 (12:30 – 1:30 PM)
Venue: Meekison Arts Student Space Lounge (BUCHANAN D140)

In recent years, actors of Asian descent have been seen in increasingly diverse roles in theatre, television, and film. How can actors of Asian descent build careers in the performing arts? How do they navigate the expectations of mainstream culture while remaining connected with their cultural communities? Is there a role for Asian Canadian venues and arts organizations for nurturing and promoting talent?

Join us for an exciting (and entertaining) conversation on these questions and more!

Diana Bang was born in Vancouver, B.C. to Korean immigrant parents. She is a founding member of the Asian Canadian sketch comedy group Assaulted Fish. Her film and television credits include The Interview, Bates Motel and The Killing. She is currently based out of Vancouver.

Kuan Foo currently works as a Diversity Advisor with the office of Access and Diversity at the University of British Columbia. He has been active in community-based arts and social justice groups for more years than he cares to remember. He is a founding member of Assaulted Fish and is perhaps best known for being “the guy who isn’t Nelson.”

Nelson Wong is a Vancouver actor known for his extensive film, television and stage work, including American Mary (2012), Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011) and Ice Blues (2008). He is alphabetically the last member of Assaulted Fish.

March 2-7: A Week of South Asia Events at UBC

MONDAY, March 2:

Brenda Beck (Toronto): “Is This Just One More Folk Legend?”
Centre for India and South Asia Research, IAR
CK Choi Building, Room 351 (1855 West Mall)
12-2.30 PM

For more info, please visit: http://tinyurl.com/mga3d5h

THURSDAY, March 5:

7th Annual Celebration of Punjabi, featuring:
Samuel John, in dialogue with Margo Kane, “At the Juncture of Theatre and Activism”
Dorothy Somerset Studios Theatre
University of British Columbia
Talk: 6-7.30PM // Student performances and awards: 7.45-9.30PM

For more info, please visit: http://tinyurl.com/l9xgnqn

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THURSDAY, March 5:

Ali Kazimi Artist Talk & Reception
Theatre-Film Production Building – 6358 University Blvd
Ali Kazimi will talk about his extensive and varied career at 5pm
Reception at 5:30pm. RSVP BY MARCH 2 – Zanna (fipr.sec@ubc.ca)

Each year the UBC Rogers Communications Multicultural Film Production Project brings a globally recognized filmmaker to UBC as the Phil Lind Multicultural Artist in Resident – named after the UBC alumnus Philip B. Lind, Vice Chairman of Rogers Communication.

Ali Kazimi is an award winning Canadian documentary filmmaker whose works deal with race, migration, indignity, and history. Best known or his groundbreaking film, Continuous Journey. He was worked as a producer, director, writer and cinematographer on numerous productions. Kazimi has directed over two dozen episodes of television documentary series and has shot films in India, Napal, Bangladesh, the UK, USA, Bosnia, Italy, Turkey, Namibia, Indonesia and Morocco.

FRIDAY, March 6:

Shauna Singh Baldwin, “Mind-Dancing with Language”
Dept. of Asian Studies, UBC
Asian Centre Auditorium, 1871 West Mall
6-8PM

For more info, please visit: http://tinyurl.com/mz9y5la

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, March 6-7:

SACPAN 2015: South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest
Featured speakers: Sumit Guha (UT, Austin), Andrea Pinkney (McGill), Mukesh Eswaran (UBC)
Institute for Asian Research, UBC
CK Choi Building, Room 120 (1855 West Mall)

For full schedule, please visit: http://tinyurl.com/ocm3zep

Mar 6 – Mind-Dancing with Language by Shauna Singh Baldwin

Mar 3 – Looking back at the Umbrella Revolution

Speakers

Zoe Lam – Zoe Lam is PhD student at UBC Linguistics. Her research focuses on the phonology of tone, tone perception, and the interface of phonetics and phonology. Lam has done work/ been working on Cantonese tone perception, the intonation and discourse particles in East Asian languages, and the morphotonology of Nata (an Eastern Bantu language). Recently, she has started learning Medumba, a grassfield Bantu language. As a speaker-linguist of Cantonese, Lam is also intrigued by the pragmatics and syntax of Cantonese discourse particles.

Eleanor Yuen – Eleanor Yuen is an expert in library management and the former Head of UBC’s Asian Library. She has research expertise in Chinese-Canadian and Hong Kong issues. She has also developed a website entitled Historical Chinese Language Materials in British Columbia. She has been involved in community volunteer work in a variety of ways, including serving as founding director and past president of the Vancouver Hong Kong Forum Society and on the advisory board of Strathcona employment assistance services.

Hedy Law – Hedy Law graduated from the University of Chicago in 2007 with a Ph.D. in Music History and Theory. In 2005 she received the Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship of the American Musicological Society. In the same year she won the best student paper of the Midwest chapter of the American Musicology Society. She was Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper-Schmidt Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago from 2007 to 2009. From 2009 to 2012, she was Assistant Professor in Music History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where she won a university-wide teaching award. Her articles have appeared in Cambridge Opera Journal and Musique et Geste en France, and are forthcoming in Oxford Handbook in Music Censorship; Noise, Audition, and Aurality; and the special issue on music and architecture in the journal CENTER: Architecture and Design in America. She is currently working on a book on music and pantomime in eighteenth-century France.

Mar 4 – Nostalgia in the Making of Urban Form: What Can Vancouver Learn from Cities across the Pacific?

Why is it that every time a traditional gate (pailou) is built at the entrance of a North American or Southeast Asian “Chinatown,” it simultaneously signals the decline and hopes for the revitalization of a deteriorating community? The “gatification” of Chinatowns all around the world has marked a broad trend of place-making through symbolic acts of urban design. But as Vancouver reconsiders the heritage value of its historic neighbourhoods, and engages with more recent trends that explicitly invoke nostalgia in the process of place-making, what can we learn from cities such as Hong Kong, Singapore, and Honolulu? How are cities such as Malacca, and Penang conserving, rebuilding and revitalizing historic areas in imaginative and collaborative ways that bring together governmental and non-governmental partners? How do we balance expertise, state power, and the politics of affect and nostalgia?

Event Details

The Next Urban Planet: Rethinking of the City in Time (NEW SERIES)
Nostalgia in the Making of Urban Form: What Can Vancouver Learn from Cities across the Pacific?
Henry Yu, History, UBC
Coach House, Green College, UBC
March 04 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Henry Yu is an Associate Professor of History, and the Principal of St. John’s College, UBC. He was the Project Lead for the $1.17 million “Chinese Canadian Stories” public history and education project (2010-2012). Currently, Yu and his research team are completing a project on Chinese and First Nations heritage sites along the Fraser River corridor, and he serves as the Co-Chair for the Legacy Initiatives Advisory Council for the Province of British Columbia overseeing legacy projects following its historic apology in May 2014 for BC’s history of anti-Chinese legislation. Between 2009-2012, he was the Co-Chair of the City of Vancouver’s project, “Dialogues between First Nations, Urban Aboriginal, and Immigrant Communities” (http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/socialplanning/dialoguesproject) and in 2012 received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of his community service and leadership.

“The Next Urban Planet: Rethinking the City in Time” Speaker series sponsored by Green College on contemporary urbanization and urbanism.
Over half the world’s population now lives in cities and ebullient urbanists envision a future of growth, opportunity and prosperity based on the development potential of cities. However, urbanization carries with it trenchant ecological and social challenges, not least of which are the dire implications of an ever-expanding impress of the urban “ecological footprint” upon earth’s degraded environment, and the troubling growth of social inequality, disparities and marginality among the world’s urban dwellers. These issues are prevalent even among the most reputedly successful cities in advanced societies, such as London, Amsterdam, Singapore and (within the “Cascadia” bioregion) Portland, Seattle and Vancouver. The opening presentations in this new, three-year interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral consultation based at Green College will offer instructive examples and case studies related to Vancouver, ranked among the world’s most “livable” cities. But livable for whom, and for how much longer? On closer inspection, the optimistic narrative of “Vancouverism” turns out to be deeply fissured. Please join us for this and other talks in the series!

Congratulations to ACAM student Carolyn Nakagawa

Congratulations to ACAM student Carolyn Nakagawa, who was recently featured at the UBC Student Leadership Conference 2015 as one of the “Faces of Today.” She also received honourable mention in the Arts Undergraduate Research Award 2014 for her research paper entitled “Harry Aoki Legacy Series”. Congratulations Carolyn!

Carolyn Nakagawa is a fifth-year student in English Honours with a minor in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies. She is president of the UBC Players’ Club, the student-run theatre society and oldest club on campus, and an editor for The Garden Statuary, the English department’s student-run literary magazine. Graduating in the spring, she hopes to continue working in support of the arts and fostering communities based on creative endeavours, as well as pursuing production and publication as a playwright and poet.

Aoki Project website: https://blogs.ubc.ca/harryaoki/author/cynak/

Nostalgia in the Making of Urban Forms: Hong Kong & Shanghai

About the program

This is a 400-level History course offered by UBC’s Department of History Professor Henry Yu (Principal of St. John’s College), in partnership with Hong Kong University (HKU) Department of Urban Planning and Design Instructor Christina Lo, Assistant Professor Cecilia Chu, and the Shanghai Study Centre. Students will explore different perspectives on the urban forms, geographies, cultures and histories of Vancouver, Hong Kong and Shanghai through rich, city-specific coursework that will include field trips, workshops, lectures, and guest speakers. The program intends to encourage students to develop and refine their respective writing, research, project management, film and team work skills. In addition, UBC students will have the opportunity to meet, learn from, and work with HKU students. This is ideal for anyone looking for a short yet rewarding academic, social, and travel exchange experience.

Coursework will include a combination of lectures by Professor Henry Yu (Vancouver), Professor Cecilia Chu (Hong Kong), and relevant guests; course readings that feature Vancouver, Hong Kong and Shanghai as focal points of study; group discussions; individual weekly journal assignments; field visits around each respective city; workshops; and a final project (paper + film).

General timeline

The program will run May 11 – Jun 19, 2015. Below is a rough itinerary; the details of our travel plans in June are subject to change.

May 11-29: Lectures by Professor Henry Yu at UBC

May 29- May 31: Class travels to Hong Kong

June 1-11: Lectures, Workshops and Field studies at Hong Kong University (HKU). Students will go on a day trip to Macau.

June 12-19: Lectures, Workshops, Field Studies at the Shanghai Studies Centre

Eligibility and prerequisites

This program is suitable for students second year and up from a variety of majors, not limited to the Faculty of Arts. Students should have a genuine interest in the course material prior to taking part in this program. Graduating students may also apply.

Program fees

The program fee is $2,100-$2,300 (approximately). The final fee depends on the number of students in the program.

INCLUDED in program fee	NOT included in program fee
Accommodations in Hong Kong and Shanghai One-way flight from Hong Kong to Shanghai Roundtrip ferry transportation from Hong Kong to Macau Field trips entrance fees Guest lectures Workshops Three group meal Go Global Fee	Roundtrip flight between Vancouver and Hong Kong UBC tuition (3 credits) Meals Bus and taxi fare within Hong Kong, Macau, and Shanghai Health or travel insurance Immunizations (if necessary) Chinese visas (if necessary) Personal spending money for communications, snacks, souvenirs, etc.

All qualifying students will receive a $1000 Go Global Award.