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National Asian Heritage Month Videoconference 2012

2012-04-22T20:18:57Z

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=== National Asian Heritage Month Video conference 2012 ===
[[File:Asian_heritage_month_logo_01.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Asian Heritage Month (AHM) logo]]
 Saturday, May 6, 2012
 
 To encourage exchange between provinces and communities, Festival Accès Asie shares with you "Reaching Out”, a video conference with performances, speakers and public interaction between three different cities in Canada. The Festival, with the help of emcee [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Tetsuro Shigematsu], will host this year's video conference. Through the videoconference cyber-technology, three performances by theatre group Jingju Canada will be broadcast live and programmed at McGill University with other speakers, performances and public discussion from Toronto and Vancouver.
 ''For the full schedule of the National Asian Heritage Month Videoconference 2012 in EDT (Montreal time), please scroll down.''
 
 

=== Montreal Event Details ===
[[File:Acess_Asie_Montreal.jpg|125px|thumb|left|Festival Accès Asie]]
[http://accesasie.com/?lang=en/ Festival Accès Asie]
3 pm to 5 pm (Eastern Daylight Time EDT, Montreal time)
 McGill University
 Burnside Hall, Multimedia Room 107
 805 Sherbrook West
 Free admission

 From Montreal, a performance by acclaimed Beijing opera group, Jing Ju Canada.

 [[File:Jing_Ju.jpg|170px|thumb|right|Jingju Canada]]
 Jingju Canada 
 [http://jingju.ca/ Jingju Canada]. is a theatre company which is dedicated to maintaining and sharing the tradition of Jingju in Canada. Jingju has a rich heritage and is a truly complete art form combining athletics, character, dance, storytelling, singing, and design in one holistic theatric form which is rarely seen on the Western stage.

With the artistic direction of Shijia Jiang – a graduate of the directing department of the [http://international.nacta.edu.cn/en/index.asp/ National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts] with over 17 years of training and experience working professionally in China – Jingju Canada maintains a company of performers from a variety of cultural backgrounds. These performers specialize in specific archetypal character roles so as to keep with traditional training techniques and perform Jingju in its traditional form complete with authentic costumes and makeup.

Biography of the Montreal Asian Heritage Month representative:
 Janet Lumb, co-founder and artistic director of Festival has designed this project to enable encounters between three Canadian cities. “Reaching Out” continues the Festival’s objectives to create and meet, despite the distances, allowing the public to discover the talents of Asian artists in Montreal and in Canada. Inspired to defy Canada’s geographic boundaries, she brings artists, audiences and communities together from across the country.

=== Toronto Event Details ===
[[File:Virtual_Toronto.jpg|125px|thumb|left|VMACCH]]
[http://www.asiancanadianwiki.org/wiki/Virtual_Museum_of_Asian_Canadian_Cultural_Heritage_(VMACCH/ Asian Heritage Month Toronto]
3 pm to 5 pm (Eastern Daylight Time EDT, Toronto time)
 University of Toronto
 Council Chambers, Simcoe Hall
 27 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario
 Free admission

 Toronto Asian Heritage Month is offering a presentation by Dr. Eric Fong, professor of sociology in the Canadian Studies Program at the University of Toronto.

 [[File:Eric_Fong.jpg|120px|thumb|right|Professor Eric Fong]]
 Professor Eric Fong
 [http://seevi.soc.utoronto.ca/cv/reports/webprofile.php?fsid=16/ Professor Eric Fong] will be presenting "An Update on The Economic and Social Well‐Being of Asians in Canada".
 Dr. Fong is a professor of sociology at the University of Toronto. He is also the current vice president of the Canadian Population Society, the chair-elect of the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association, and the former president of the North American Chinese Sociologists Association. Fong has edited three books and over 50 papers.

 Biography of the Toronto Asian Heritage Month representative:
 Dr Kay Li is President of Asian Heritage Month--Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) Inc. She is Project Leader of the Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage (VMACCH) and the Asian Heritage Month Festivals funded by Canadian Heritage, Citizenship and Immigration Canada and Toronto Arts Council. Kay also organizes the annual Asian Heritage Month Lectures and Education Roundtables at University of Toronto and York University.

=== Vancouver Event Details ===
[[File:Logo_ahm.jpg|160px|thumb|left|exploASIAN]]
[http://www.asiancanadianwiki.org/wiki/Asian_Heritage_Society_Vancouver/ Asian Heritage Society Vancouver]
12 pm to 3 pm (Pacific Standard Time PST, Vancouver time)
 University of British Columbia
 2329 West Mall, #0112
 Vancouver, British Columbia
 Free admission

 Vancouver Asian Heritage Month will be showcasing two fantastic influencers from BC., Dr. Henry Yu and R.J. Aquino.

[[File:Henry_Yu_CHRP.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Professor Henry Yu]]
 Professor Henry Yu
 [http://www.history.ubc.ca/people/henry-yu/ Dr. Henry Yu] will be presenting his involvement and experience with a $1.2 million multi-media platform: [http://chinesecanadian.ubc.ca/ Chinese Canadian Stories].
 Dr. Yu is the Principal for St. John's Graduate College (UBC) and Director of the Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese Canadian Studies (INSTRCC). Outside of UBC, Dr. Yu serves as Co-Chair for City of Vancouver's "Dialogues Between First Nations, Urban Aboriginal, and Immigrant Communities in Vancouver" as well as a founding member of the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC.

[[File:RJ_Aquino_WEB.jpg|120px|thumb|right|RJ Aquino]]
 RJ Aquino
 [http://rjaquino.ca/ RJ] will be presenting on his experience with invigorating and uniting the Filipino community in Vancouver.
 RJ Aquino is the Co-Founder of [http://tulayan.com/ Tulayan], an organization that builds bridges between the Filipino community here and abroad with other communities in Vancouver. Aquino also serves as an executive for the Vancouver municipal party, COPE.

 Biography of the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month representative:
 Winnie Cheung, an international and Intercultural educator, is a longstanding supporter of the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society. As a current Board Member, she has assumed the role of Interim Executive Director to help the Board reinvent the organization and reach out to youth and municipalities beyond the City of Vancouver within the region.

=== Related Documents ===

* Schedule of Events
* English Press Release [[File:epressrelease.pdf]]
* French Press Release [[File:fpressrelease.pdf]]
* Toronto Videoconference Poster [[File: Asian_Heritage_Month_Toronto_Videoconference_Poster_2012.pdf]]
* University of Toronto Simcoe Hall Campus Map [[File: UofT_Simcoe_Hall_Campus_Map.pdf]]

''Schedule of the National Asian Heritage Month Videoconference 2012 is in Eastern Daylight Time, EDT (Montreal time)''

National Asian Heritage Month Videoconference 2012

2012-04-22T19:58:19Z

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{{AAType
|Location=Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver
|Arts=Politics
|Type=Group
|Image=Asian_heritage_month_logo_01.jpg
}}

=== National Asian Heritage Month Video conference 2012 ===
[[File:Asian_heritage_month_logo_01.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Asian Heritage Month (AHM) logo]]
 Saturday, May 6, 2012
 
 To encourage exchange between provinces and communities, Festival Accès Asie shares with you "Reaching Out”, a video conference with performances, speakers and public interaction between three different cities in Canada. The Festival, with the help of emcee [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Tetsuro Shigematsu], will host this year's video conference. Through the videoconference cyber-technology, three performances by theatre group Jingju Canada will be broadcast live and programmed at McGill University with other speakers, performances and public discussion from Toronto and Vancouver.
 ''For the full schedule of the National Asian Heritage Month Videoconference 2012 in EDT (Montreal time), please scroll down.''
 
 

=== Montreal Event Details ===
[[File:Acess_Asie_Montreal.jpg|125px|thumb|left|Festival Accès Asie]]
[http://accesasie.com/?lang=en/ Festival Accès Asie]
3 pm to 5 pm (Eastern Daylight Time EDT, Montreal time)
 McGill University
 Burnside Hall, Multimedia Room 107
 805 Sherbrook West
 Free admission

 From Montreal, a performance by acclaimed Beijing opera group, Jing Ju Canada.

 [[File:Jing_Ju.jpg|170px|thumb|right|Jingju Canada]]
 Jingju Canada 
 [http://jingju.ca/ Jingju Canada]. is a theatre company which is dedicated to maintaining and sharing the tradition of Jingju in Canada. Jingju has a rich heritage and is a truly complete art form combining athletics, character, dance, storytelling, singing, and design in one holistic theatric form which is rarely seen on the Western stage.

With the artistic direction of Shijia Jiang – a graduate of the directing department of the [http://international.nacta.edu.cn/en/index.asp/ National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts] with over 17 years of training and experience working professionally in China – Jingju Canada maintains a company of performers from a variety of cultural backgrounds. These performers specialize in specific archetypal character roles so as to keep with traditional training techniques and perform Jingju in its traditional form complete with authentic costumes and makeup.

Biography of the Montreal Asian Heritage Month representative:
 Janet Lumb, co-founder and artistic director of Festival has designed this project to enable encounters between three Canadian cities. “Reaching Out” continues the Festival’s objectives to create and meet, despite the distances, allowing the public to discover the talents of Asian artists in Montreal and in Canada. Inspired to defy Canada’s geographic boundaries, she brings artists, audiences and communities together from across the country.

=== Toronto Event Details ===
[[File:Virtual_Toronto.jpg|125px|thumb|left|VMACCH]]
[http://www.asiancanadianwiki.org/wiki/Virtual_Museum_of_Asian_Canadian_Cultural_Heritage_(VMACCH/ Asian Heritage Month Toronto]
3 pm to 5 pm (Eastern Daylight Time EDT, Toronto time)
 University of Toronto
 Council Chambers, Simcoe Hall
 27 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario
 Free admission

 Toronto Asian Heritage Month is offering a presentation by Dr. Eric Fong, professor of sociology in the Canadian Studies Program at the University of Toronto.

 [[File:Eric_Fong.jpg|120px|thumb|right|Professor Eric Fong]]
 Professor Eric Fong
 [http://seevi.soc.utoronto.ca/cv/reports/webprofile.php?fsid=16/ Professor Eric Fong] will be presenting "An Update on The Economic and Social Well‐Being of Asians in Canada".
 Dr. Fong is a professor of sociology at the University of Toronto. He is also the current vice president of the Canadian Population Society, the chair-elect of the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association, and the former president of the North American Chinese Sociologists Association. Fong has edited three books and over 50 papers.

 Biography of the Toronto Asian Heritage Month representative:
 Dr Kay Li is President of Asian Heritage Month--Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) Inc. She is Project Leader of the Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage (VMACCH) and the Asian Heritage Month Festivals funded by Canadian Heritage, Citizenship and Immigration Canada and Toronto Arts Council. Kay also organizes the annual Asian Heritage Month Lectures and Education Roundtables at University of Toronto and York University.

=== Vancouver Event Details ===
[[File:Logo_ahm.jpg|160px|thumb|left|exploASIAN]]
[http://www.asiancanadianwiki.org/wiki/Asian_Heritage_Society_Vancouver/ Asian Heritage Society Vancouver]
12 pm to 3 pm (Pacific Standard Time PST, Vancouver time)
 University of British Columbia
 2329 West Mall, #0112
 Vancouver, British Columbia
 Free admission

 Vancouver Asian Heritage Month will be showcasing two fantastic influencers from BC., Dr. Henry Yu and R.J. Aquino.

[[File:Henry_Yu_CHRP.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Professor Henry Yu]]
 Professor Henry Yu
 [http://www.history.ubc.ca/people/henry-yu/ Dr. Henry Yu] will be presenting his involvement and experience with a $1.2 million multi-media platform: [http://chinesecanadian.ubc.ca/ Chinese Canadian Stories].
 Dr. Yu is the Principal for St. John's Graduate College (UBC) and Director of the Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese Canadian Studies (INSTRCC). Outside of UBC, Dr. Yu serves as Co-Chair for City of Vancouver's "Dialogues Between First Nations, Urban Aboriginal, and Immigrant Communities in Vancouver" as well as a founding member of the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC.

[[File:RJ_Aquino_WEB.jpg|120px|thumb|right|RJ Aquino]]
 RJ Aquino
 [http://rjaquino.ca/ RJ] will be presenting on his experience with invigorating and uniting the Filipino community in Vancouver.
 RJ Aquino is the Co-Founder of [http://tulayan.com/ Tulayan], an organization that builds bridges between the Filipino community here and abroad with other communities in Vancouver. Aquino also serves as an executive for the Vancouver municipal party, COPE.

 Biography of the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month representative:
 Winnie Cheung, an international and Intercultural educator, is a longstanding supporter of the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society. As a current Board Member, she has assumed the role of Interim Executive Director to help the Board reinvent the organization and reach out to youth and municipalities beyond the City of Vancouver within the region.

=== Related Documents ===

* Schedule of Events
* English Press Release [[File:epressrelease.pdf]]
* French Press Release [[File:fpressrelease.pdf]]
*
''Schedule of the National Asian Heritage Month Videoconference 2012 is in Eastern Daylight Time, EDT (Montreal time)''

File:Asian Heritage Month Toronto Videoconference Poster 2012.pdf

2012-04-22T19:52:02Z

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File:UofT Simcoe Hall Campus Map.pdf

2012-04-22T19:41:28Z

Emk new: Videoconference 2012 Toronto Map

Videoconference 2012 Toronto Map

National Asian Heritage Month Videoconference 2012

2012-04-16T20:07:46Z

Emk new:

{{AAType
|Location=Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver
|Arts=Politics
|Type=Group
|Image=Asian_heritage_month_logo_01.jpg
}}

=== National Asian Heritage Month Video conference 2012 ===
[[File:Asian_heritage_month_logo_01.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Asian Heritage Month (AHM) logo]]
 Saturday, May 6, 2012
 
 To encourage exchange between provinces and communities, Festival Accès Asie shares with you "Reaching Out”, a video conference with performances, speakers and public interaction between three different cities in Canada. The Festival, with the help of emcee [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Tetsuro Shigematsu], will host this year a video conference in which representatives from the Canadian Asian Heritage Month will interact through their performances. Through this cyber-technology, three performances of music and dance by Festival Accès Asie will be broadcast live and programmed at McGill University with other speakers, performances and public discussion with Toronto and Vancouver.
 ''For the full schedule of the National Asian Heritage Month Videoconference 2012 in EDT (Montreal time), please scroll down.''
 
 
=== Montreal Event Details ===
[[File:Acess_Asie_Montreal.jpg|125px|thumb|left|Festival Accès Asie]]
[http://accesasie.com/?lang=en/ Festival Accès Asie]
3 pm to 5 pm (Eastern Daylight Time EDT, Montreal time)
 McGill University
 Burnside Hall, Multimedia Room 107
 805 Sherbrook West
 Free admission

 From Montreal, a performance by acclaimed Beijing opera group, Jing Ju Canada.

 [[File:Jing_Ju.jpg|170px|thumb|right|Jingju Canada]]
 Jingju Canada 
 [http://jingju.ca/ Jingju Canada]. is a theatre company which is dedicated to maintaining and sharing the tradition of Jingju in Canada. Jingju has a rich heritage and is a truly complete art form combining athletics, character, dance, storytelling, singing, and design in one holistic theatric form which is rarely seen on the Western stage.

With the artistic direction of Shijia Jiang – a graduate of the directing department of the [http://international.nacta.edu.cn/en/index.asp/ National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts] with over 17 years of training and experience working professionally in China – Jingju Canada maintains a company of performers from a variety of cultural backgrounds. These performers specialize in specific archetypal character roles so as to keep with traditional training techniques and perform Jingju in its traditional form complete with authentic costumes and makeup.

Biography of the Montreal Asian Heritage Month representative:
 Janet Lumb, co-founder and artistic director of Festival has designed this project to enable encounters between three Canadian cities. “Reaching Out” continues the Festival’s objectives to create and meet, despite the distances, allowing the public to discover the talents of Asian artists in Montreal and in Canada. Inspired to defy Canada’s geographic boundaries, she brings artists, audiences and communities together from across the country.

=== Toronto Event Details ===
[[File:Virtual_Toronto.jpg|125px|thumb|left|VMACCH]]
[http://www.asiancanadianwiki.org/wiki/Virtual_Museum_of_Asian_Canadian_Cultural_Heritage_(VMACCH/ Asian Heritage Month Toronto]
3 pm to 5 pm (Eastern Daylight Time EDT, Toronto time)
 University of Toronto
 Council Chambers, Simcoe Hall
 27 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario
 Free admission

 Toronto Asian Heritage Month is offering a presentation by Dr. Eric Fong, professor of sociology in the Canadian Studies Program at the University of Toronto.

 [[File:Eric_Fong.jpg|120px|thumb|right|Professor Eric Fong]]
 Professor Eric Fong
 [http://seevi.soc.utoronto.ca/cv/reports/webprofile.php?fsid=16/ Professor Eric Fong] will be presenting "How well Asians do in Canada?".
 Dr. Fong is a professor of sociology at the University of Toronto. He is also the current vice president of the Canadian Population Society, the chair-elect of the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association, and the former president of the North American Chinese Sociologists Association. Fong has edited three books and over 50 papers.

 Biography of the Toronto Asian Heritage Month representative:
 Dr Kay Li is President of Asian Heritage Month--Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) Inc. She is Project Leader of the Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage (VMACCH) and the Asian Heritage Month Festivals funded by Canadian Heritage, Citizenship and Immigration Canada and Toronto Arts Council. Kay also organizes the annual Asian Heritage Month Lectures and Education Roundtables at University of Toronto and York University.

=== Vancouver Event Details ===
[[File:Logo_ahm.jpg|160px|thumb|left|exploASIAN]]
[http://www.asiancanadianwiki.org/wiki/Asian_Heritage_Society_Vancouver/ Asian Heritage Society Vancouver]
12 pm to 3 pm (Pacific Standard Time PST, Vancouver time)
 University of British Columbia
 2329 West Mall, #0112
 Vancouver, British Columbia
 Free admission

 Vancouver Asian Heritage Month will be showcasing two fantastic influencers from BC., Dr. Henry Yu and R.J. Aquino.

[[File:Henry_Yu_CHRP.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Professor Henry Yu]]
 Professor Henry Yu
 [http://www.history.ubc.ca/people/henry-yu/ Dr. Henry Yu] will be presenting his involvement and experience with a $1.7 million multi-media platform: [http://chinesecanadian.ubc.ca/ Chinese Canadian Stories].
 Dr. Yu is the Principal for St. John's Graduate College (UBC) and Director of the Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese Canadian Studies (INSTRCC). Outside of UBC, Dr. Yu serves as Co-Chair for City of Vancouver's "Dialogues Between First Nations, Urban Aboriginal, and Immigrant Communities in Vancouver" as well as a founding member of the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC.

[[File:RJ_Aquino_WEB.jpg|120px|thumb|right|RJ Aquino]]
 RJ Aquino
 [http://rjaquino.ca/ RJ] will be presenting on his experience with invigorating and uniting the Filipino community in Vancouver.
 RJ Aquino is the Co-Founder of [http://tulayan.com/ Tulayan], an organization that builds bridges between the Filipino community here and abroad with other communities in Vancouver. Aquino also serves as an executive for the Vancouver municipal party, COPE.

 Biography of the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month representative:
 Winnie Cheung, an international and Intercultural educator, is a longstanding supporter of the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society. As a current Board Member, she has assumed the role of Interim Executive Director to help the Board reinvent the organization and reach out to youth and municipalities beyond the City of Vancouver within the region.

=== Related Documents ===

* Schedule of Events [[File:schedule.pdf]]
* Toronto Schedule and bios [[File:Toronto.pdf]]
* English Press Release [[File:epressrelease.pdf]]
* French Press Release [[File:fpressrelease.pdf]]

''Schedule of the National Asian Heritage Month Videoconference 2012 is in Eastern Daylight Time, EDT (Montreal time)''

File:Henry Yu CHRP.jpg

2012-04-16T19:41:36Z

Emk new: Dr. Henry Yu

Dr. Henry Yu

File:Eric Fong.jpg

2012-04-16T19:40:52Z

Emk new: Professor Eric Fong

Professor Eric Fong