Did you know that there is a restored 1920 village in Burnaby? It is inside the Burnaby Village Museum which currently houses the “Across the Pacific” exhibition that explores the deep roots Chinese-Canadians planted in Burnaby. PCHC-MoM is very pleased to have the curator Denise Fong personally guide us through the exhibition. As she can only take … Continue reading
Our third set of “The Things We Carry’’ storytelling circles will feature three published authors: Joy Kogawa (from Ontario), Victoria Kuttainen (from Australia) and May Q. Wong (from Victoria). Each author will share her family migration story and reflections on migration. The size of the circles is designed to enable participants to interact with the featured storytellers in an intimate environment in the historic … Continue reading
In partnership with the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop (ACWW), PCHC is screening a selection of dynamic episodes of the ground-breaking Chinese Restaurant series by award-winning filmmaking duo: producer/director Cheuk Kwan and cinematographer Kwoi Gin. The screenings will take place on two separate days, and Q&A panels with the filmmakers with follow the presentations. Registration is required on Eventbrite for … Continue reading
PCHC is offering an exclusive event–a guided tour of UBC’s Chung Collection with the collector himself Dr. Wallace Chung–for our active Volunteers and Members! If you are an active volunteer or member and haven’t received an email invite, please update your contact with Eleanor at pchcmom.intern@gmail.com. Pre-register soon as spots are limited! Date and … Continue reading
Our “Family History with a Smartphone” workshop series is concluding! During this workshop series, we have reached out to community members with the desire to preserve the stories of their elders, family members, and loved ones, and have taught them new techniques on how to compose stories, film oral histories, and edit footage. We hope … 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
Family History with a Smartphone Part II: Post-Production Workshop Saturday, May 14th at 1:00pm-4:30pm Asian Centre Auditorium, 1871 West Mall –> latecomers go directly to Buchanan B202, where we will be working in a computer lab Did you miss PCHC-MoM’s first workshop? Never fear! Our second workshop for “Family History with a Smartphone” is open to … Continue reading
PCHC-MoM Society workshops highlighted in Philippine Canadian Inquirer article on this year’s explorASIAN festival, a celebration of Asian Heritage during the month of May in Vancouver. 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 wonderful time at the first workshop for “Family History with a Smartphone” on Sunday, April 17th! The workshop series was covered in Ming Pao . Featured below (pictured: PCHC-MoM President Winnie Cheung, Facilitators Joanna Yang and Sarah Ling, and Coordinator Eleanor Munk). Ming Pao promotion for the workshop series can be found below: … Continue reading
Do you have an elder in your family who has stories to tell but few members of the family have heard them? Would you like to learn how to record and preserve the stories of struggle and triumph of your parents or grandparents for your own children and grandchildren to know? Learn how through this … Continue reading
