National Asian Heritage Month Videoconference 2012

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National Asian Heritage Month Videoconference 2012

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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.

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

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