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03/01/2025
The Asian Canadian Writers Workshop January newsletter is out!
Gung Haggis Fat Choy
Ricepaper
District Local | Vancouver
Vancouver Public Library
31/12/2024
The BC Care Awards honour individuals whose contributions make significant impact to the quality of life of older adults across the province.
ACWW’s Eric Li, as Chair of the Broadway Lodge Family Circle, is a voice for his mother & senior residents, & families of Broadway Lodge. Congratulations, Eric!
Congratulations to the "Echoes of Exclusion" poetry contest 2024 Contestants!
The poetry contest received submissions from poets across Canada for the Chinese Canadian Museum's inaugural poetry contest on the Chinese Exclusion Act.
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Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia
Gung Haggis Fat Choy
24/11/2024
Congratulations to City of Vancouver Poet Laureate Fiona Tinwei Lam on the City Poems Project wrap event. This has been a wonderful two years of work! of Vancouver https://fionalam.net/poetlaureate/vanpoet-blog/
20/11/2024
Tomorrow! Join Elwin Xie as he shares his lived experience growing up in Vancouver’s Chinatown and his familial ties with the Chinese Canadian Museum's feature exhibition "The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act".
Faye Leung was a once-in-a-generation, larger-than-life character, who enjoyed life and her friends and community. Thanks for all your support to the Asian Canadian arts community. Rest in peace, Faye. https://www.tiktok.com//video/7435792659647630648
Deeply saddened at the passing of longtime friend and supporter of ACWW, Faye Leung, often known as the famous “Hat Lady” - truly a loss in the community
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Videos
#literasian #asianheritagemonth #asiancanadian
Philip Huynh, reads from “Forbidden Purple City” which is a book whose manuscript was the winner of the 2015 winner of the JWC Emerging Writers Award
#literasian2019 #asiancanadian #vietnameseCanadian #diaspora
Rita Wong reading from her latest work along with Fred Wah “Beholden”
#literasian #environment
May Q. Wong on “City in Colour” - reading from her latest book
#literasian #asianCanadian
Such an honour to have CE Gatchalian be part of LiterASIAN 2019 - Chris is reading from his book “Double Melancholy” #Literasian #2019
Excellent exhibit at Burnaby Village Museum & Carousel
Explore the history and legacy of Burnaby’s Chinese-Canadians in our newest exhibit, “Across the Pacific.” In the studios exhibitions gallery, visitors can discover Chinese-Canadians farming experiences and immigration patterns since the late 1800s. Visitors can also experience a postcard writing activity, and hear stories of Burnaby’s Chinese-Canadian families in English, Chinese and Cantonese village dialect.
Here’s Elwin Xie re-enacting an interview that takes place. #AsianCanadian #ChineseCanadian #Stories #Across. #the #Pacific
Wayson Choy - Excerpt from Special Tribute Evening in Support of Project Bookmark Canada (October 15, 2012)
Wayson Choy gave this talk in Saltwater City Vancouver BC, Canada on Sunday, October 14, 2012. It was the conclusion of the Wayson Choy Special Tribute Evening in support of Project Bookmark Canada. This is the short version of longer (not currently uploadable technically) version at https://youtu.be/YgGDGU9Rov4 .
Todd Wong and Sheryl Mackay emceed the evening, jointly presented by The Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop, Gung Haggis Fat Choy, Historic Joy Kogawa House Society and Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society/explorASIAN.
On October 15, 2012 at 11 am on the Southeast corner of the intersection of Pender and Gore, Project Bookmark Canada and Wayson Choy unveiled two plaques to highlight and commemorate the physical landscape so vividly rendered in Choy's iconic novel, The Jade Peony.
Project Bookmark Canada is a national charitable organization that marks the places where the real and imagined landscapes meet. It does this by installing poster sized ceramic plaques -- called Bookmarks -- in the exact physical locations where literary scenes are set. This is the first Bookmark to be installed in British Columbia, with ten Bookmarks unveiled in Ontario and one in Newfoundland.
Published on Oct 16, 2012
Video production crew: Fanna Yee, Elwin Xie, Jim Wong-Chu and Sid Chow Tan.
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Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop
The Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop (ACWW) was created out of a need to develop and nurture Pacific Rim Asian writers. Its primary purpose is to foster a community of writers and build literature. ACWW established a number of successes: writing workshops, literary anthologies, book clubs, mentorship of new writers, one-on-one manuscript development sessions, an annual reading series, chapters in Edmonton and Toronto, as well as the creation of the ACWW Emerging Writer’s Award.
ACWW began in the late early 1970’s when a handful of community activists turned writers wanted to tell their stories and have their voices heard. The earliest publications featured two anthologies: Inalienable Rice: A Chinese and Japanese Canadian Anthology (1979) and West Coast Line: The Asian Canadian and the Arts (1981).
Founding members began to publish: Paul Yee’s Teach Me How to Fly Skyfighter (1983) (illustrated by SKY Lee); Jim Wong-Chu’s ChinatownGhosts (1986); Paul Yee’s Curses ofThird Uncle (1986), Tales of GoldMountain (1989); SKY Lee’s DisappearingMoon Café(1990). These pioneers formed the organization to promote Asian Canadian history, culture, and literature. The idea of ACWW was officially recognized as a not for profit society when the the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop Society (ACWW) became a legal entity and continues today governed by a board of directors and executive team.
The Purpose of the Society is:
to organize, sponsor, stage and otherwise promote cultural arts activities and events including festivals, presentations, demonstrations, exhibits, workshops and seminars involving Asian Canadian literary arts, themes and interests conducted in the English language;
to encourage public appreciation of the above through educational activities including cultural exchange and scholarship
to foster public appreciation, awareness and community development through cultural events.
