National Asian Heritage Month Videoconference 2012

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=== Toronto Event Details ===
 
=== Toronto Event Details ===
 
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<br>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.
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<br>Biography of the Toronto Asian Heritage Month representative:
 
<br>Biography of the Toronto Asian Heritage Month representative:
 
<br><i>Dr Kay Li</i> 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.
 
<br><i>Dr Kay Li</i> 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.
  
<br>Toronto Asian Heritage Month is offering a combination of presentations by academics,
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<br><i>Professor Eric Fong</i>
scholars and artists. There will be three main sections corresponding to each hour.
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<br>Professor Eric Fong will be presenting "How well Asians do in Canada?".
Professor Roland Sintos Coloma, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, Ontario
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<br>Dr. Fong is a professor of sociology at the University of Toronto.
Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto will talk about teaching Asian
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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.
Canadian Studies. Then Dr. Julie Mehta will talk about Asian Canadians from a cultural
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perspective. The Toronto presentations will conclude with the presentations by
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internationally renowned Asian Canadian writer Dr. Lien Chao and artist Ma Peng.
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<br><i>Professor Roland Sintos Colama</i>
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<br>Professor Roland Sintos Colama will be presenting "Teaching Asian Canadian Studies".
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<br>Professor Roland Sintos Coloma is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Equity
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Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the
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University of Toronto. His research and teaching areas focus on Filipina/o and Asian
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Canadian studies; transnationalism, empire, and diaspora; subjectivity, affect, and
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sociality; history and cultural studies. In particular, he examines the historical trans-
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Pacific dynamics between Asia and North America from critical race, feminist, and
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poststructuralist perspectives. Along these lines, he is working on three research projects:
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(1) a history of the public school system in the Philippines under United States rule from
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1898 to 1926; (2) a history of Canadian Catholic missionaries in the Philippines from
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1955 to 1985; and (3) a comparative history of Asian Canadian social movements for
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justice and reparation. Roland completed his PhD in Cultural Studies and Minor in
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African American Studies from The Ohio State University, and his MA and BA from the
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University of California, Riverside. Prior to becoming an academic, Roland was a high
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school teacher, university administrator, and community organizer.
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<br><i>Dr. Julie Mehta</i>
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<br>Dr. Julie Mehta will be presenting: Collaborating Heritage: Readers and Writers Sharing Asia in Canada
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<br>Dr. Julie Mehta is the author of Dance of Life: Mythology, History and Politics of
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Cambodian Culture (2001), and co-author of the best-selling biography of Cambodian
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Prime Minister Hun Sen: Strongman of Cambodia (1999). A postcolonial scholar of
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South Asian Literature and Culture and a specialist of Asian diasporic Literatures, she
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teaches the Chancellor Poy-endowed course “Asian Cultures in Canada”, at the
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University of Toronto’s Canadian Studies Program. Extensively published and actively
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involved in promoting cross-cultural production. Dr. Mehta’s English translation of
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Tagore’s play The Post Office will be performed in May by Pleiades Theatre, at the
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Berkeley Street Theatre in Toronto, as a part of the celebrations of 2011 as Canada’s
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Year of India.
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<br><i>Dr. Lien Chao</i>
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<br>Dr. Lien Chao is an award-winning, bilingual (English and Chinese) writer. She came
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to Canada in 1984 to pursue her graduate studies, completing her M.A. in 1986 and Ph.D
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in English in 1996.
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<br>Books published:
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<br>1997: Beyond Silence: Chinese Canadian Literature in English, winner of Gabrielle Roy
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Award for Canadian Criticism.
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<br>1999: Maples and the Stream (bilingual poetry);
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<br>2001: Tiger Girl: Hu Nü (creative memoir);
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<br>2003: Ed. Strike the Wok: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Canadian Fiction;
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<br>2004: More Than Skin Deep (bilingual poetry);
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<br>2008: The Chinese Knot and Other Stories.
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<br>Art books published:
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<br>2004: China-Canada Friendship Sculpture Garden;
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<br>2008: Peng Ma: Chinese Brush Painting;
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<br>2008: Wang Dehui: Oil and Chinese Brush Paintings;
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<br>2011: Peng Ma: Abstract Ink Painting (forthcoming).
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<br>She is a Fellow of Stong College of York University; vice-president for the Canadian
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Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ont.) Inc.; the vice president for the Chinese Pen
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Society of Canada.
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<br><i>Peng Ma</i>
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<br>Peng Ma is a versatile professional artist. He graduated from Zhejiang Fine Art
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Institute, now China’s National Fine Art Institute in 1961; for the next 30 years, he
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had taught fine art at the same university while creating numerous artworks for
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exhibitions.
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Ma immigrated to Canada in 1989. Since then, he has participated in fifty
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some solo and group exhibitions in Canada and in Asian. As a sculptor, his most
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recent outdoor public sculptures were installed in Toronto, Saskatchewan, Vienna,
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Beijing as well as Qufu, hometown of Confucius. Among them, 13 large outdoor
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sculptures have made up the China-Canada Friendship Sculpture Garden in
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Beijing.
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As a painter, Ma has been engaged in both oil and Chinese brush painting.
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His strong belief that the Western and Eastern art media share the same principles
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but differ in techniques has guided him through many years of research and artistic
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experiments.
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As a result, his paintings demonstrate freedom from constrains and
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formulas; his portfolio becomes a multidimensional portal from the ancient past to
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the present, and from the East to the West. With his energetic and exquisite
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brushstrokes, Ma has created shape, volume, space, motion, and emotions on Xuan
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paper as well as canvas.
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Publications of his art include A Collection of Peng Ma’s Chinese Brush
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Painting (1997, Taiwan), China-Canada Friendship Sculpture Garden (2004,
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Beijing), Peng Ma’s Chinese Brush Painting (2008, Canada), and Peng Ma:
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Abstract Ink Painting (2011, forthcoming, Canada).
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Throughout his artistic career, Ma has won numerous awards for his sculptures
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and paintings.
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=== Vancouver Event Details ===
 
=== Vancouver Event Details ===

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National Asian Heritage Month Videoconference 2012

Asian Heritage Month (AHM) logo

Saturday, May 6, 2012

Reaching out with performances by artists from Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver including
For the full schedule of the National Asian Heritage Month Videoconference 2012 in EDT (Montreal time), please scroll down.



Montreal Event Details

3 pm to 5 pm (Eastern Daylight Time EDT, Montreal time)
McGill University
Burnside Hall, Multimedia Room 107
805 Sherbrook West
Free admission



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 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.


Festival Accès Asie

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.


From Montreal, a performance by acclaimed Beijing opera group, Jing Ju Canada The Vancouver and Toronto audiences will have the chance to witness these live Montreal performances as well as the pleasure of discovering speakers, publics and artists from the other cities.


Jing Ju Canada
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 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.

Toronto Event Details


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.

University College (main building)
University of Toronto
15 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H7
Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) Inc.

VMACCH


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.


Professor Eric Fong
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.

Vancouver Event Details


This is to let you know that we at VAHMS have decided to host the Vancouver event in a studio of the UBC Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT), where they have video conferencing capability. They will be provding us with the equipment and technical support to work with you in linking us up Montreal and the other two participating cities.


2329 West Mall, #0112
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4

exploASIAN



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.




Ray Hsu, http://killingthebuddha.com/mag/psalm/a-package-arrives/ Poet-schmoet. Ray Hsu is a rockstar who happens to write books. Ray describes himself as the neighbourhood kid who gets everyone to build a snowfort. His catchphrases include, "What can I do to help?" and "You know, what would be cool is if..." Ray is author of Anthropy (winner of the Gerald Lampert Award) and Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon. At last count he has published over a hundred and twenty-five poems in over forty journals internationally. He has more degrees than he knows what to do with. He taught writing for over two years in a U.S. prison. He now teaches at the University of British Columbia, where he collaborates across disciplines, districts, and dinner tables. When he isn't winning poetry or teaching awards, he kicks back with a can of Chef Boyardee and a snifter of Hennessey. Catch him at thewayofray.com.



Joyce Lam
Joyce Lam is the co-Founder and Artistic Producer of the Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (VACT). In 2009, she produced Rodgers & Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song, a show that has never been a full production in Vancouver since the show's inception in 1958. In 2008, VACT produced Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple to emphasize that Asian Canadians can play non-race specific roles and where she introduced Mandarin surtitles to entice Chinese speaking patrons to English speaking theatre. Also in 2008, she produced weekly comedy sketch segments for AZN Lifestyles TV on CityTV to dispel Asian stereotypes. This year Joyce is thrilled to have developed & produced RED LETTERS, an original Chinese Canadian musical about a significant historical event for Chinese Canadians. She hopes you will continue to support VACT in showcasing stories about Asian Canadians. Joyce was recognized with the 2010 BC Community Achievement Award for connecting Asian Canadian & mainstream communities through theatre.


Alan Bau – Music & Lyrics Composer
Alan Bau has been composing music for over twenty years. He wrote his first musical in 1995 and one of his songs is used as a theme song for the joint Hong Kong Catholic School reunions in Toronto. RED LETTERS is his first produced musical, which started development in 2006 with the help and support of Joyce Lam and VACT. Alan is pleased to have had the opportunity to study under Canada Pops Orchestra founder David Warrack and would also like to thank Canstage for their support of RED LETTERS and of musical workshops over the years.


Kathy Leung – Book Writer
Kathy Leung has been involved with independent film and theatre since 2002 in various roles from director and writer to all‐around go‐to gopher. Her first script, Lily’s Crickets, was produced and screened at numerous festivals including the Vancouver Asian Film Festival and the Asian American International Film Festival. It also received a Leo award nomination and two Golden Sheaf nominations including one for Best Short Film – Multicultural/Race Relations Category. Her screenplay for Script This was selected for Whistler International Film Festival's Short Scripts Competition, while Cheque Please and The Rules of Engagement (co-written with Matt Yoshikazu Gates) were chosen for CityTV's Cinecity Initiatives. In 2007, she made her theatrical directing debut with Twisting Fortunes, a two‐act play staged at the Playwrights Theatre Centre. RED LETTERS is Kathy’s first full‐length stage play.

Full schedule of the National Asian Heritage Month Videoconference 2012 in Eastern Daylight Time, EDT (Montreal time)


In Montreal
9 am-arrival of Accès Asie team, AVW, Ziya and Kiya, set up
9: 40 am - Arrival of dancers with Michel and Saxon
10:00 am-artists ready and on stage for tech check, Constantinople
10:20 am - Arrival of Shawn and Sudesna
10: 40 am- artists ready and on stage for tech check, Michel hip-hop
11:20 am- artists ready and on stage for tech check, Sudesna & Shawn
12 pm-1 pm-lunch is provided for all
1 pm-in house tech check


2 pm-(Montreal, Toronto Time), 11 am(Vancouver Time), 12 pm (Calgary Time) on line technical run through of cue to cue, city to city of 4 cities with MC, Tetsuro


3 pm –begin videoconference on line, Tetsuro (MC) welcomes and introduces the AHM videoconference to all 4 cities (1 minute)
3:01 pm- Tetsuro introduces Pr. Coloma from Toronto (1min)
3:02 pm- Pr. Roland Sintos Coloma from Toronto (13 min)
3:15 pm- Tetsuro animates the public Q&A, introducess Mayi from Calgary (4min)
3:19 pm- Mayi introduces Hui Nancy Li(1min)
3:20 pm- Pipa performance by Hui Nancy Li (live performance) (10min)
3:30 pm- Tetsuro animates public Q&A, introduces Winnie from Vancouver (4min)
3:34 pm- Winnie introduces Ray Hsu (1min)
3:35 pm- Ray Hsu from Vancouver (20 min)
3:55 pm- Tetsuro animates the public Q&A, introduces Janet from Montreal (4min)
3:59 pm- Janet introduces Sudesna & Shawn (1 min)
4:00 pm- Sudesna & Shawn (13 min)
4:13 pm-Tetsuro animates the public Q&A with Shawn and Sudesna (4min)
4:17 pm- Tetsuro introduces Julie Metha from Toronto(1min)
4:18 pm- Julie Metha from Toronto (13min)
4:31 pm- Tetsuro animates the public Q&A, presents Mayi from Calgary (4min)
4:35 pm- Mayi introduces Vietnamese Youth Association (1min)
4:36 pm- Dance performance of Vietnam’s three regions by the Calgary Vietnamese Youth Association (10min)
4:46 pm- Tetsuro animates the public Q&A (4min)


5:00 pm- Janet inroduces Montreal with Michel Lim and Saxon Fraser (1min)
5:01 pm- Michel, Ddimplz & Did,3min., Saxon & Fred,4min., Michelsolo,2min. (12min)
5:13 pm- Tetsuro animates the public Q&A with Michel and Saxon (4min)
5:17 pm- Tetsuro introduces Lien Chao and Peng Ma from Toronto (1min)
5:18 pm- Lien Chao and Peng Ma from Toronto (13 min)
5:31 pm- Tetsuro animates the public Q&A, presents Mayi from Calgary(4min)
5:35 pm- Mayi introduces “Straight to it” (1min)
5:36 pm- All-styles dance performed by “Straight to it” (live performance) (10min)
5:46 pm- Tetsuro animates the public Q&A, presents Winnie from Vancouver (4min)
5:50 pm- Winnie introduces Joyce Lam (1min)
5:51 pm- Joyce Lam from Vancouver (20min)


6:11 pm- Tetsuro animates the public Q&A (4min), presents Janet from Montreal
6:15 pm- Janet introduces Montreal with Kiya and Ziya (1min)
6:16 pm- Montreal Constantinople (13min)
6:29 pm- Tetsuro animates public Q&A, Kiya & Ziya, presents Mayi of Calgary (4min)
6:33 pm- Mayi introduces Dr Hieu Van Ngo (1min)
6:34 pm- Talk on “Reaching Out” by Dr Hieu Van Ngo (10min)
6:44 pm- Tetsuro animates the public Q&A (4min)
6:48 pm- open Q&A (10min)
6:58 pm- Tetsuro, thank yous, all publics, all cities say farewells


7:00 pm- sign off line, wrap up
8:00 pm- out of venue

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