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Asian Canadian Writers Workshop Forum for inclusive, representative and progressive dialogue, ACWW showcases the quality work by artists, scholars, and cultural producers since 1969

Thank you Miss604 for including Gung Haggis Fat Choy in this collection of Vancouver Eats! Join us on January 26 for a L...
13/01/2025

Thank you Miss604 for including Gung Haggis Fat Choy in this collection of Vancouver Eats!

Join us on January 26 for a Lunar New Year & Robbie Burns Day celebration 🎉

Get your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/gung-haggis-fat-choy-2025-tickets-1124668627139?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

As we welcome 2025 and the Lunar New Year in Vancouver, we’ve curated a list of winter culinary favourites, pop-ups, along with notable limited edition menus in Metro Vancouver for our monthly food feature.

The BC Care Awards honour individuals whose contributions make significant impact to the quality of life of older adults...
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!

https://bccare.ca/2024/12/2024-family-champion-award-nominees-part-1

Congratulations to the "Echoes of Exclusion" poetry contest 2024 Contestants!The poetry contest received submissions fro...
16/12/2024

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.

Learn more here: https://mailchi.mp/asiancanadianwriters/acww-newsletter-dec-17436856

Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia
Gung Haggis Fat Choy
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Tomorrow! Join Elwin Xie as he shares his lived experience growing up in Vancouver’s Chinatown and his familial ties wit...
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".

More information and tickets available here: https://chinesecanadianmuseum.ca/programs/chinese-canadian-convos-with-elwin-xie


Chinatown Today 今日唐人街
Gung Haggis Fat Choy
Wongs' Benevolent Association of Canada 加拿大黄氏宗親總會

Faye Leung was a once-in-a-generation, larger-than-life character, who enjoyed life and her friends and community. Than...
12/11/2024

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

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#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 - 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.

Remembering Jim Wong-Chu by reading his favourite poems and stories on his birthday. Here’s longtime friend and one of ACWW’s founder Sean Gunn http://www.asiancanadianwriters.ca/2017/07/remember-jim-wong-chu-thank-you-from.html

That’s a wrap, friends! Here’s ACWW President Todd Wong giving final remarks to #LiterASIAN2018

Here’s Jovanni Sy reading from A Taste of Empire - the final program of #literasian2018

Alice Poon is a Hong Kong-born Asian Canadian writer. She gives an overview of her writing process in her book talk

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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: