Finding Memories, Tracing Roots, Chinese Canadian Family Stories and Eating Stories, a Chinese Canadian and Aboriginal Potluck

The Chinese Canadian Historical Society is hosting the AGM Dinner on Saturday March 8 in honour of Brandy Lien Worrall, editor, workshop facilitator of the books, Finding Memories, Tracing Roots, Chinese Canadian Family Stories and Eating Stories, a Chinese Canadian and Aboriginal Potluck.

Saturday March 8, 2008, 6:00 PM
Foo’s Ho Ho Restaurant, 102 East Pender Street, Vancouver (AGM precedes at 5:00PM, please join!)
Tickets $30 before March 1; after March 1, $40 (subject to availability)

Featuring a tribute to Brandy, traditional Cantonese cuisine, and Assaulted Fish - Pan-Asian comedy troupe, and lots of door prizes!
For more information and reservations, please email CCHS at info@cchsbc.ca

The Anniversaries of Change Supports No One is Illegal - Vancouver

No One is Illegal-Vancouver is a grassroots anti-colonial
immigrant/refugee rights community collective with leadership from members
of migrant and/or racialized backgrounds. As a movement for self-determination that challenges the ideology of immigration controls, NOII-Vancouver is in full confrontation with Canadian border policies; denouncing and taking action to combat racial profiling, detention and deportation, the national security apparatus, law enforcement brutality, and exploitative working conditions of migrants.

The Anniversaries of Change invites you to to join NOII in a series of events to commemorate March 21-International Day for the Elimination of Racism. March 21 marks the anniversary of the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa when police opened fire on hundreds of South Africans protesting against Apartheid's passbook laws, killing 67 and wounding 186...

*** March 1st: An evening of film, speakers, spoken word, and more ***

Award winning film Continuous Journey; opening talk by critically acclaimed writer and activist Lee Maracle; spoken word and poetry from inspiring community members Rita Wong, Sadhu Binning, and Raul Gatica.

Location: Multipurpose Room (2nd floor), Bonsor Community Centre
6550 Bonsor Avenue (1 block east of Metrotown Skytrain Station)
Pay what you can. Child friendly. Wheel chair accessible.

***Community March Against Racism***

Join us on March 21, International Day for the Elimination of Racism, to
show our communities collective strength in challenging ongoing racism.
Canadian multiculturalism is not enough!

Friday March 21 at 1 pm
Meet at Clark Park on Commercial Drive and 14th

Reel Asian Book Launch February 28, 2008

Far East Filmmaking meets the West Coast
Celebrate the Year of the Rat with the Vancouver Reel Asian
Book Launch
On Thursday, February 28, celebrate the publication of Reel Asian: Asian Canada
On Screen on Canada’s west coast with a book launch at VIVO Media Arts. The
first anthology of its kind, Reel Asian, co-published with the Toronto Reel Asian
International Film Festival, examines East and Southeast Asian Canadian contributions
to independent film and video and marks the eleventh year of the
groundbreaking filmfestival. Fromartist-run centres, theories of hyphenation,
gay and lesbian cinema, newmedia technologies and sweet 'n' sour controversies,
Reel Asian is a multi-faceted picture of independent Asian film in Canada
and features a substantial selection of images and stills.
Reel Asian features the work of Vancouver-based filmmakers such as Karin Lee, Mina Shum, Wayne Yung, Paul Wong, Anne-Marie Fleming and Ho Tam, among others.

The Vancouver launch will feature a program of short screenings
of work by some of the filmmakers and a night-long party.
Reel Asian: Asian Canada On Screen Vancouver Launch
co-hosted by Cineworks, Centre A and On Edge
sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, British Columbia and the City of Vancouver
VIVO Media Arts Centre, 1965 Main Street
Vancouver, BC
Thursday, February 28, 2008
7:00 pm
Free