Friday Film Nights in May Asian Heritage Month 2021


Friday Film Nights in May Asian Heritage Month 2021

Everyone from the Congregation and Greater Community Welcome

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Shizhao, CC BY 3.0,

Due to Covid-19 restrictions, you can watch the films below at your own convenience, just click on the video link

Then Meet-up via Zoom on Fridays in May, from 7pm-8pm for a lively discussion with Filmmakers and Special Guests


Chinese Restaurants
Episode 12

New Outlook Cafe

Photo: Noisy Jim wearing baseball cap and smoking a cigarette, at counter in his restaurant, drinking coffee with a friend

Jim Kook came to Canada as a “paper son.” He ran a diner in the prairie town of Outlook Saskatchewan for 40 years. His bond with his customers became so close, for many years, he gave early birds the keys to the diner, so they could open early, turn on the grills, make their own coffee, and even cook their own breakfast. A pillar of the community, when Noisy Jim passed away the whole town came to his funeral to pay their final respects

 


Trilogy: Chinese Musqueam Stories

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Honouring Musqueam elder Larry Grant, his parents and the Grant family history. His mother Agnes Grant was the last fluent-speaker of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language in their community. His father Hong Tim Hing emigrated, in 1920, as a young teen from a village in southern China to Vancouver, BC, on the unceded territory of the Musqueam people, where he worked at a market garden on Musqueam Reserve #2 in Point Grey

  CBC Gem: All Our Father’s Relations

(43:39 MINS)
We follow three generations of the Chinese-Musqueam Grant family on their first visit to their ancestral village in southern China

  Larry Grant Intertwining Cultures

(11:22 MINS)
Elder Larry Grant was born premature on a hop field in Agassiz. In this film he discusses his premature birth, the Chinese market gardeners on the Musqueam Reserve dating back to the early 20th century, and his memories of their farms

  Larry Grant Not Belonging

(11:03 MINS)
Elder Larry Grant shares the story of his family and his experiences being of mixed Chinese and Musqueam ancestry

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Above: Hand drawn map of the historic Chinese market gardens on Musqueam Reserve #2. The Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club* is located on land immediately east of the former market gardens

*4300 SW Marine Drive, Vancouver BC



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  Ru-tsu (14.02 MINS)

In this CBC Short Doc, David Suzuki’s grandson, documentary film maker and professional snowboarder Tamo Campos searches for his roots across the Pacific. As he snowboards the mountains of Hokkaido, he makes connections with the Ainu, the Indigenous people of Japan

Q&A on May 21st (7-8pm)
Meet-up on Zoom

With Tamo Campos


May 28th Asian Comedy Night
Stand-up Comics take potshots at racial stereotypes and much more. They’re so funny you may cry !!

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photo of standup comic Jinx Yeo

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oin us via Zoom on the evening of May 28th (7-8pm), for a lively discussion on comedy and stand-up comics challenging racial stereotypes and racialized identities


Categories:

Community • IBPOC • Indigenous People