Asian Canadian & Asian Migration Studies UBC

*UPDATE* After receiving some feedback and much reflection, our team has decided to modify our tote bag contest. The updated contest invites people who are interested in this contest to submit a short writeup, a pitch/proposal, or a draft sketch that describes their design for the ACAM tote bag. We also encourage people to share their previous work or any visual references with us so that the team can learn more about their style and aesthetics. However, we want to note tha...t the intention of this contest is to facilitate engagement with our students and the broader ACAM community. You don't need to have a portfolio to participate! We encourage all students, alumni, and community members who wish to share their creative energies to submit an idea. We hope that your design idea will represent your relationship with ACAM and what the program means to you! After reviewing the submissions, we will announce the contest winner at the beginning of April. The winner will receive a tote bag as well as a $100 prize in the form of an honorarium or a gift bag of equivalent value (winner can choose between the two). Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions. Thank you to our community for engaging with us during this process. We appreciate your generosity in sharing your thoughts and perspectives with us as our team continues to learn and grow. https://acam.arts.ubc.ca/acam-tote-bag-design-contest-call/

The UBC Centre for Community Engaged Learning's Communities of Care Speaker Series: Doing Stories Justice is kicking off next Thursday, February 11th! Please RSVP for the first event! How do narratives of community safety influence how we view communities? Who currently shapes the dominant narrative of safety in our communities? What does community safety mean for organizations, community members, and advocates in Vancouver and how are they re-shaping the narratives of what their community is?

Embrace a time-honoured theatre tradition this Lunar New Year through Annie Katsura Rollins’ hands-on digital workshop with Gateway Theatre. Offered in English and English with a Mandarin interpreter. bit.ly/GTpuppetry

On February 6th, 6 P.M. Vancouver time, UBC HUA Dialogue presents a special joint event, Human Library x Dialogue, co-hosted with Taiwan International Student Movement (TISM). In the Human Library session, you will have the chance to hear from various invited speakers who have studied abroad in different countries/regions. They will present themselves as open books, sharing the joys and sorrows of living in foreign land, telling some of the most amazing stories in their life journey. This event is hosted via Zoom. Please register here through Eventbrite: https://life-across-the-sea.eventbrite.ca

Centre A's panel brings together presentations by: - Dr. Chris Lee (Associate Professor of English and Director of the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program, University of British Columbia) where he thinks through how the exhibition presents a relationship to land and place that challenges the dictates of settler colonialism. - Dr. Xiaoping Li (author of Voices Rising: Asian Canadian Cultural Activism) will focus on Chinese Canadian history as a resource that c...an be and has been used by different parties within and beyond the Chinese diaspora. - Artist Mr. Gu Xiong will focus on the context of Mr. Gu’s exhibition, The Remains of a Journey, which focuses on six sites in B.C. significant to the history of Chinese immigration to Canada. Register for the Zoom link. https://us02web.zoom.us//tZ0qcO2rpjwsGdLWSZuH87yoXoJAI8JOJ