Cross Cultural Strathcona Walking Tour - May 2019
The Cross Cultural Strathcona Walking Tour celebrates the rich layered history of Vancouver’s downtown east side neighbourhoods: Hogan’s Alley, Jewish Strathcona, Japantown (Powell Street) and Chinatown. The guided walking tour builds awareness of the contributions of early immigrant communities then and now, in celebration of Vancouver Asian Heritage Month and Canada’s Jewish Heritage Month, both of which fall during the month of May.
The walking tour theme is education and offers highlights from each of these communities.
The Cross Cultural Strathcona Walking Tour project is a coordinated effort by the following participating organizations: Association of United Ukrainian Canadians; Benny Foods Italian Market; Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden; Musqueam Elder Larry Grant (Hon. Advisor to PCHC-MoM & VAHMS); Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens Association; Heritage Vancouver Society; Hogan's Alley Society; Jewish Independent; Jewish Museum & Archives of BC; Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre; Pacific Canada Heritage Centre Museum of Migration; Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society’s explorASIAN; Vancouver Heritage Foundation; Vancouver Japanese Language School and Japanese Hall (administrative host organization); Vancouver School Board; Vancouver School Board Archives and Heritage Committee; Wongs’ Benevolent Association and Youth Collaborative for Chinatown.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 2019 tours. Stay tuned for further information about the tours returning in 2020. If you'd like to help us make future tours possible, please contact Carmel Tanaka at: carmelayatanaka@gmail.com
4 Gary Lee and Todd Wong at Chan Family Legacy for Heart of the City Festival 2010 in Vancouver
THE REV. CHAN FAMILY LEGACY: Five Generations of Vancouver
Chinese History 1888 to 2007
Thursday October 28, 7:30pm
Chinese Cultural Centre Museum & Archives, 555 Columbia
The Chan family first came to Canada to help start the Chinese Methodist Church and every generation since has made contributions to Canadian society. In 2007, filmmaker Halya Kuchmij interviewed members of one of the oldest families on the West Coast and made a documentary about the stories and achievements of Reverend & Mrs. Chan, their sons Luke Chan (Hollywood actor) and Jack Chan (golfer); grandchildren Helen Lee and Victor Wong (WW2 veteran); great-grandchildren Gary Lee (entertainer) and Janice Wong (artist); and great-great grandchildren Todd Wong (community and cultural activist) and Tracey Hinder (high school student). The many turns of the Chan family reflect the challenges of exclusion, the fight for rights, the strength of family and citizenship, and the right to vote. The festival is pleased to show The Chan Legacy, directed by Halya Kuchmij, from the CBC Learning Generations Series (2007, 43:37) and we are fortunate to have Todd Wong moderate the conversation afterwards. Todd is a descendent of Reverend Chan and the creator of Gung Haggis Fat Choy, the annual celebration of Chinese New Year and Robbie Burns Day (gunghaggisfatchoy.com) - an event that marries two cultures that once lived completely separate in the early days of British Columbia. Everyone welcome.
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1 Gary Lee and Todd Wong at Chan Family Legacy for Heart of the City Festival 2010 in Vancouver
THE REV. CHAN FAMILY LEGACY: Five Generations of Vancouver
Chinese History 1888 to 2007
Thursday October 28, 7:30pm
Chinese Cultural Centre Museum & Archives, 555 Columbia
The Chan family first came to Canada to help start the Chinese Methodist Church and every generation since has made contributions to Canadian society. In 2007, filmmaker Halya Kuchmij interviewed members of one of the oldest families on the West Coast and made a documentary about the stories and achievements of Reverend & Mrs. Chan, their sons Luke Chan (Hollywood actor) and Jack Chan (golfer); grandchildren Helen Lee and Victor Wong (WW2 veteran); great-grandchildren Gary Lee (entertainer) and Janice Wong (artist); and great-great grandchildren Todd Wong (community and cultural activist) and Tracey Hinder (high school student). The many turns of the Chan family reflect the challenges of exclusion, the fight for rights, the strength of family and citizenship, and the right to vote. The festival is pleased to show The Chan Legacy, directed by Halya Kuchmij, from the CBC Learning Generations Series (2007, 43:37) and we are fortunate to have Todd Wong moderate the conversation afterwards. Todd is a descendent of Reverend Chan and the creator of Gung Haggis Fat Choy, the annual celebration of Chinese New Year and Robbie Burns Day (gunghaggisfatchoy.com) - an event that marries two cultures that once lived completely separate in the early days of British Columbia. Everyone welcome.
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3 Gary Lee and Todd Wong at Chan Family Legacy for Heart of the City Festival 2010 in Vancouver
THE REV. CHAN FAMILY LEGACY: Five Generations of Vancouver
Chinese History 1888 to 2007
Thursday October 28, 7:30pm
Chinese Cultural Centre Museum & Archives, 555 Columbia
The Chan family first came to Canada to help start the Chinese Methodist Church and every generation since has made contributions to Canadian society. In 2007, filmmaker Halya Kuchmij interviewed members of one of the oldest families on the West Coast and made a documentary about the stories and achievements of Reverend & Mrs. Chan, their sons Luke Chan (Hollywood actor) and Jack Chan (golfer); grandchildren Helen Lee and Victor Wong (WW2 veteran); great-grandchildren Gary Lee (entertainer) and Janice Wong (artist); and great-great grandchildren Todd Wong (community and cultural activist) and Tracey Hinder (high school student). The many turns of the Chan family reflect the challenges of exclusion, the fight for rights, the strength of family and citizenship, and the right to vote. The festival is pleased to show The Chan Legacy, directed by Halya Kuchmij, from the CBC Learning Generations Series (2007, 43:37) and we are fortunate to have Todd Wong moderate the conversation afterwards. Todd is a descendent of Reverend Chan and the creator of Gung Haggis Fat Choy, the annual celebration of Chinese New Year and Robbie Burns Day (gunghaggisfatchoy.com) - an event that marries two cultures that once lived completely separate in the early days of British Columbia. Everyone welcome.
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2 Gary Lee and Todd Wong at Chan Family Legacy for Heart of the City Festival 2010 in Vancouver
THE REV. CHAN FAMILY LEGACY: Five Generations of Vancouver
Chinese History 1888 to 2007
Thursday October 28, 7:30pm
Chinese Cultural Centre Museum & Archives, 555 Columbia
The Chan family first came to Canada to help start the Chinese Methodist Church and every generation since has made contributions to Canadian society. In 2007, filmmaker Halya Kuchmij interviewed members of one of the oldest families on the West Coast and made a documentary about the stories and achievements of Reverend & Mrs. Chan, their sons Luke Chan (Hollywood actor) and Jack Chan (golfer); grandchildren Helen Lee and Victor Wong (WW2 veteran); great-grandchildren Gary Lee (entertainer) and Janice Wong (artist); and great-great grandchildren Todd Wong (community and cultural activist) and Tracey Hinder (high school student). The many turns of the Chan family reflect the challenges of exclusion, the fight for rights, the strength of family and citizenship, and the right to vote. The festival is pleased to show The Chan Legacy, directed by Halya Kuchmij, from the CBC Learning Generations Series (2007, 43:37) and we are fortunate to have Todd Wong moderate the conversation afterwards. Todd is a descendent of Reverend Chan and the creator of Gung Haggis Fat Choy, the annual celebration of Chinese New Year and Robbie Burns Day (gunghaggisfatchoy.com) - an event that marries two cultures that once lived completely separate in the early days of British Columbia. Everyone welcome.
AHA MEDIA is pleased to provide social media event coverage for the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside (DTES) Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
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5 Gary Lee and Todd Wong at Chan Family Legacy for Heart of the City Festival 2010 in Vancouver
THE REV. CHAN FAMILY LEGACY: Five Generations of Vancouver
Chinese History 1888 to 2007
Thursday October 28, 7:30pm
Chinese Cultural Centre Museum & Archives, 555 Columbia
The Chan family first came to Canada to help start the Chinese Methodist Church and every generation since has made contributions to Canadian society. In 2007, filmmaker Halya Kuchmij interviewed members of one of the oldest families on the West Coast and made a documentary about the stories and achievements of Reverend & Mrs. Chan, their sons Luke Chan (Hollywood actor) and Jack Chan (golfer); grandchildren Helen Lee and Victor Wong (WW2 veteran); great-grandchildren Gary Lee (entertainer) and Janice Wong (artist); and great-great grandchildren Todd Wong (community and cultural activist) and Tracey Hinder (high school student). The many turns of the Chan family reflect the challenges of exclusion, the fight for rights, the strength of family and citizenship, and the right to vote. The festival is pleased to show The Chan Legacy, directed by Halya Kuchmij, from the CBC Learning Generations Series (2007, 43:37) and we are fortunate to have Todd Wong moderate the conversation afterwards. Todd is a descendent of Reverend Chan and the creator of Gung Haggis Fat Choy, the annual celebration of Chinese New Year and Robbie Burns Day (gunghaggisfatchoy.com) - an event that marries two cultures that once lived completely separate in the early days of British Columbia. Everyone welcome.
AHA MEDIA is pleased to provide social media event coverage for the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside (DTES) Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
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Anong Beam at Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives
Manitoulin Island First Nations artist Beam talks about her large scale mixed media work on display at PAMA
The Sixties in Surrey
Discover Surrey of the 1960s in 265 seconds! Lose yourself in this decade’s groovy beat through tales of developing transportation routes, entertainment venues, and more. Archival records provide a brief snapshot of local experiences in this decade.
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1957 Road Map
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1957 Road Map
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1992.036.1651
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2003.0100.169 Basil King Photograph
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2003.0100.33
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Landesgartenschau Exhibition Hall
Construção feita com robôs aponta para novas possibilidades arquitetônicas
Em vez de vigas e concreto, madeira. Em vez de operários, robôs. O Landesgartenschau Exhibition Hall, construído pela Universidade de Stutgart, na Alemanha, é a primeira construção a ser criada com a ajuda de computadores e robôs, o que torna o trabalho mais simples, preciso e rápido.
A estrutura contém dois domos e uma parede em vidro e foi projetada de forma que as placas de madeira se interconectem sem que haja a presença de outros elementos, como em um verdadeiro quebra-cabeça. Ao travar-se com pinos, a construção se mantém estável, sem que haja a necessidade de colunas, por exemplo. Ao todo, são 243 peças de madeira com 50 mm de espessura, cortadas por robôs industriais em um local externo. Isso permite que uma estrutura como essa seja criada e montada em até 4 semanas -- tempo muito menor em relação ao processo manual.
Segundo os acadêmicos responsáveis pelo projeto do Landesgartenschau Exhibition Hall, o experimento não garante apenas uma forma mais rápida de criar estruturas, mas abre espaço para novos rumos arquitetônicos.
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Yishu Editor Zheng Shengtian on the Rise of Contemporary Chinese Art
On April 18, 2013, Zheng Shengtian, managing editor of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art gave the lecture From Cultural Revolution to Avant-Garde: The Rise of Chinese Contemporary Art at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary.
The talk was part of the Asia Contemporary Speaker Series, a partnership between the Canadian Art Foundation and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada's National Conversation on Asia and its sponsors.
Zheng Shengtian is a scholar, artist and independent curator. For more than thirty years, he worked at China Academy of Art in Hangzhou as professor and chair of the oil painting department. He was the co-founder of the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and currently is a trustee of Vancouver Art Gallery. He has been a member of the academic committee for the Shanghai Biennale since 1998 and was a co-curator of the 4th Shanghai Biennale in 2004.
Zheng has organized numerous exhibitions, including Shanghai Modern at Villa Stuck, Munich, in 2004 and Art and China's Revolution at Asia Society, New York, in 2009. He is the senior curator of Asia for the 2013--2014 Vancouver Biennale, just as he was for the 2009--2011 edition. He is also a frequent contributor to periodicals and catalogues about contemporary Chinese and Asian art. As an artist, his artwork has been shown in China, the United States and Canada since 1960s.
The Asia Contemporary Speaker Series explored the rise of Asia on the international scene as one of the most compelling stories in contemporary art. Provocative artworks command ever-higher prices as markets expand, and impressive new museums, schools and biennials continue to proliferate. Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, Tokyo and Beijing have established themselves as major art-world hubs, competing directly with London and New York. In order to understand this phenomenon and its connection to global movements of economic and political power, the Asia Contemporary Speaker Series brought five recognized leaders in the field to speak in cities across Canada in 2012 and 2013.
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Museums: Meet the People - Museum of Vancouver - Amanda McCuaig
Transcript and Descriptive Text:
00:00-00:02 - Opening on the logo of the museum, MOV. The letter M is blue and green, the O is pink, orange and red, and the V is mauve and orange. In small letters, to the right of the logo, we can read Museum of Vancouver in black.
The Museum of Vancouver has four permanent
00:02-00:08 - Fade-in on Amanda McCuaig being interviewed by someone off-screen. She is sitting on a leatherette bench from a diner. In the lower left corner, we can read Amanda McCuaig, Marketing Officer, Museum of Vancouver.
galleries, which go from the 1900s to the 1970s. So, it shows Vancouver's history growing
00:08-00:15 - Shot of a female mannequin wearing a dress from the 1940s or 1950s. We see old hats in a showcase and an old car in the background. The camera changes shots and we see a tray in a car. It holds a sundae in an old-fashioned metal cup. The glass reflects a sign on which we can read the word DANCE. Another shot on a butcher shop window. Fake hams are hanging in the window. There is a frame announcing various cuts of meat. The prices of certain pieces are displayed in red. Another different shot shows a mixture of people playing music, walking in the street, sitting on a bench.
throughout that time from sort of this small logging town into this center of Vancouver's history as the hippy capital of Canada.
00:15-00:19 - Back to Amanda McCuaig being interviewed by someone off-screen. She is sitting on a leatherette bench from a diner.
And, throughout that, it emphasizes stories such as the growth
00:19-00:23 - Shot of a store in Chinatown. The camera changes shots to show cloth pouches containing various Chinese products.
of Chinatown, the disappearance of Japantown,
00:23-00:24 - Back to Amanda McCuaig being interviewed by someone off-screen. She is sitting on a leatherette bench from a diner.
Vancouver's sort of growth as the
00:24-00:28 - Shot of Amanda McCuaig walking through the museum. We see an old car parked beneath neon signs: Silver Grill CAFE, GARAGE PARKING REPAIRS GAS, ... The camera changes shots and we see another neon sign, this one religious.
center of neon lights and this boom of neon lights and then
00:28-00:36 - Back to Amanda McCuaig being interviewed by someone off-screen. She is sitting on a leatherette bench from a diner. Fade out.
their depletion. And, people can see a lot of really great little niche stories, both community-based and Vancouver as a whole-based.
00:36-00:38 - Shot of the outside of the museum. The structure is white with steel accents. There is a fountain in front of the entrance. To the right we can see a colorful poster with the museum logo.
Coming to museums and seeing
00:38-00:40 - Fade-in on Amanda McCuaig being interviewed by someone off-screen. She is sitting on a leatherette bench from a diner.
what has happened before, what Vancouver's history is,
00:40-00:44 - Shot of a large black and white poster showing people on a train platform. Old suitcases and trunks are in front of the poster. There is an old wooden bench to the right of the poster. The camera changes shots and shows an old black typewriter. We can also see an old document on the desk and a stamp for sealing documents.
gives youth a broader respect for and understanding
00:44-00:46 - Back to Amanda McCuaig being interviewed by someone off-screen. She is sitting on a leatherette bench from a diner.
of culture as a whole and
00:46-00:50 - Shot of a plan of the city of Vancouver. The camera changes shots to show Amanda McCuaig and another woman in front of the plan of the city of Vancouver.
of other people. And it can help them relate to other people, and to become
00:50-00:55 - Back to Amanda McCuaig being interviewed by someone off-screen. She is sitting on a leatherette bench from a diner. Fade out.
more creative, more innovative, and more well-rounded.
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Two cities which, at first glance, seem very similar to each other. Although Seattle is an American city and Vancouver is a Canadian city, both are part of the same region, known as the Pacific Northwest, or sometimes known as Cascadia.
Both have a temperate oceanic climate known for their generally cool temperatures and rainy weather. While both have four seasons, it never gets too cold in the winter and never too hot in the summer. Both can get snow in the winter and get A LOT of precipitation from November through January. Yep, those three months are cold, dark, and rainy.
Both are in the infamous Ring of Fire, an area where lots of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions tend to occur.
Both have about the same population in the actual city limits. (V- 675,218, S- 724,745). However, Seattle’s metro population has about 1.5 million more people. (V- 2.5 million, S- 4 million) But you could say Vancouver is a bigger deal in its home country, as it has the 3rd largest metro in all of Canada, while Seattle has the 15th largest metro. Seattle has been the fastest growing American big city of the past decade.
While both are ethnically diverse, Vancouver is more so. 40% of Vancouver’s population is made up of immigrants. Around 28% of Vancouver residents are Chinese. It’s been called the “most Asian city outside of Asia.”
Both have low pollution and are environmentally friendly. Both have pledged to go carbon neutral by 2050.
I mean, overall both have a high quality of life, and thus...both cities are really expensive.
Kazahstan, țara măreței stepe.
În inima stepei, în urmă cu 20 de ani, kazahii şi-au ridicat o nouă capitală. Acum metropola este cea mai tânără capitală a lumii și cel mai nou centru de afaceri şi investiţii din Asia Centrală. ????????️????????️
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In the heart of the steppe, 20 years ago, the Kazakhs have built a new capital. Now the metropolis is the youngest capital of the world and the newest business and investment center in Central Asia.
Nicholas Simons marks 75 years since Japanese-Canadian internment
Transcript:
I stand today to recognize a sad chapter in our history: 75 years ago today, 129 fellow Sunshine Coast residents of Japanese descent were loaded onto a Union steamship and sent off to the Hastings Park Exhibition grounds, later to be disbursed further east.
Fifty-one were from the Powell River region, six were from Egmont, ten were from Pender Harbour, eight from Sechelt, 44 from Wilson Creek 129 fellow Sunshine Coast residents of Japanese descent were loaded onto a Union steamship and sent off to the Hastings Park exhibition grounds, later to be disbursed further east. Fifty-one were from the Powell River region. Six were from Edgemont. Ten were from Pender Harbour, eight from Sechelt, 44 from Wilson Creek, nine from Gibsons and one from Port Mellon.
As Kimiko Hawkes, the former curator of the Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives, whose grandparents and mother were interned, wrote: Aside from a few passing mentions in the local history books and oral history interviews, very little exists in the official records that tells their stories. But we have snippets. We know that they had 24 hours to pack. Adults were allowed 150 pounds of belongings, and children were allowed 75.
A Pender Harbour resident, Luella Duncan, recounted the scene from March 16, 1942: The harbour loved the Ikidas. Everybody in the harbour went over to the steamboat when they took the Ikidas away, and everyone was crying. It was terrible.
Historian Helen Dawe wrote:
People were confronted with the heartbreaking problem of hardly saying goodbye to almost every article they cherished. Some of the women sat down and wept as they chose what to pack. The Konishi family had run a flourishing farm which sold meat and vegetables to the local community in Sechelt. Nancy Moot recounted the sad story of their departure: 'The widow Hannah Konishi and her grown children received the same 24 hours' notice to leave their home and possessions. A chaplain who visited them at the exhibition grounds reported Hannah cried constantly. They were later moved to the Interior, and the Porpoise Bay farm that they attended for 30 years was confiscated, sold, and let go to ruin.'
There are many casualties in colonialism and war, including our freedom and comfort. I hope we respect those casualties and work for equality and peace.
Maori dancers launch New Zealand's debut at Venice Biennale
1. Sign for festival
2. B-roll Venice festival
3. CU New Zealand flag on wall of Main Italian Pavilion
4. Tilt to crowd waiting in St Mark's Square
5. Arrival Maori dancers
6. C/A spectators
7. Performance Maori dancers
8. B-roll artist Peter Robinson with dancer
9. SOT dancer - There is nothing else like it, it's an honor for us and an honor for our country.
10. SOT PETER ROBINSON - This is my tribe, Kai Yahu from New Zealand and I'm incredibly proud that they are here and have supported me and I do my thing, they do their thing and we are here together.
11. GVS Robinson's art displayed in New Zealand Pavillion
12. Performance Maori dancers
13. VOX POP - It was very particular and specially unusual, it was a special mixture of art and place and it was a great surprise to find so many people here and it was great.
14. VOX POP - The energy they give us was something interesting.
15. Performance Maori dancers.
BARE FOOT IN ST MARK'S
The traditional tribal chants of the Maori haka dance reverberated through the Baroque colonnades of Venice's St Mark's Square, in an unusual ceremony to kick off the 49th Venice Biennale of Visual Art.
Contrasting with the highly stylized beauty of the Venice, the New Zealand dance troupe, Pounamu Kai Yahu, entered the square in bare feet, dressed in grass skirts and playing traditional instruments, much to the surprise and delight of the ever present tourists.
The kapa haka (performing arts) group, in Venice to perform at the dance section of the Venice Biennale, provided the ceremonial support for the first New Zealand artists to be represented at the Venice Biennale - Jacqueline Fraser and PETER ROBINSON.
Both Fraser and Robinson are descended from the same South Island Maori iwi (tribe) as the dancers.
For Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, kapa haka is an integral part of their lives and a traditional way of preserving the knowledge of tribal history and genealogy through song and dance.
The 49th Biennale opens June 10th and for its debut, New Zealand presents Fraser and Robinson's combined project entitled 'Bi-Polar'. Both artist are of European and Maori descent.
The title refers to the global divide and the presentation of art from the Southern Hemispheres in a Northern Hemisphere forum.
Its elements include reference's to theories about the universe ranging from quantum physics and computer codes to Medieval and Maori mythologies.
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The large hydrauic glass elevator/lift at the Louvre, glass Pyramid, Paris, France
Location: Louvre, Glass Pyramid, Paris, France
Brand: Unknown
Type: Hydraulic
Year installed: 1989 (estimated)
Floors served: 2
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Annual Report - Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation 2015-2016
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