This weekend, PCHC held a successful AGM at the UBC Learning Exchange in Chinatown. Directors, Advisors, Members, and friends came out to hear a review of the year and to hear updates about the museum project. We’d like to thank the PCHC Directors for their amazing hard work these past couple years. A huge thank you … Continue reading
On Thursday, November 3rd, the UBC Asian Library and PCHC-MoM Society launched a pilot “Living Library” event with an Asian-Canadian angle. At the Living Library, participants were able to “Check Out” walking and talking “Living Books” to as them about their diverse backgrounds and experiences. Living Books present at the Library were: Danvic Briones, a … Continue reading
PCHC partnered with the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop to present episodes from the ground-breaking documentary series “Chinese Restaurant” series, which focused on the Chinese and Hakka diaspora throughout the world through the lens of Chinese restaurants. Following the episodes was a Q&A panel with the filmmakers themselves, Cheuk Kwan and Kwoi Gin. Continue reading
Yesterday, on Wednesday, October 5th, the Chinese Canadian Military Society launched their new exhibition on the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Hong Kong. PCHC brought volunteers to the opening at the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver, and were were privileged to have met amazing Chinese Canadian World War II veterans, including Bing Wong … Continue reading
PCHC was a partner at LiterASIAN 2016, a festival of Asian-Canadian writing and literature. From an opening panel to workshops, book launches, and a concluding Peking duck dinner, PCHC was proud to support celebrated and emerging Asian-Canadian writers. To members of the community who stopped by our table at the Word Vancouver festival, we loved getting a … Continue reading
At the end of August 2016 PCHC organized an exclusive event for members and active volunteers: a tour of the Chung Collection led by the collector himself, Dr. Wallace Chung. Dr. Chung told special anecdotes regarding many artefacts in his collection, and provided historical context concerning the Canadian Pacific Railway, Chinese-Canadian immigration to Canada, and … Continue reading
PCHC-MoM was honoured to be a partner at the conference of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas from July 6-8th, 2016. We really enjoyed getting the chance to meet so many scholars and students from all over the world. Many were extremely supportive of our dream to build a museum of migration on … Continue reading
Thanks to all who came out to our Family History with a Smartphone Community Showcase this weekend, Saturday June 4th! We saw some wonderful films about participants’ family and friends, and we are grateful that you took the time to share them with us. All films that were made were shared by beginners, and we … Continue reading
On Saturday, May 14th, PCHC hosted the second workshop in the “Family History with a Smartphone” workshop series! This workshop, taught by filmmaker Alejandro Yoshizawa and co-facilitated with Dominique Bautista, focused on the Post-Production stage of filmmaking. A group of enthusiastic participants joined to learn how to edit films in order to preserve family histories! Guests … Continue reading
Thanks to all that came out to our first workshop of “Family History with a Smartphone!” On Sunday, April 17th, participants gathered at the Asian Centre Auditorium at UBC and learned about framing, lighting, and audio; the workshop also got into family stories and the ethics that go into filmmaking, and participants began to draft their … Continue reading
We had a great time at the BC Multicultural Inspirational Talks at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, where our President Winnie Cheung spoke about her mother and daughter in her wonderful and poetic speech “From One Generation to Another”. Winnie discussed family, history, migrants, and the power of the narrative, as well as PCHC-MoM’s dream to build a Museum … Continue reading
