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REVIEW: Cambodian Rock Band hits high notes!

I’ve been telling friends and colleagues to see Cambodian Rock Band, a musical production at the Arts Club’s Stanley Theatre. Why? It’s funny and dark and addresses issues that are very much alive today with repressed family stories, refugees from civil wars, and overcoming trauma. And… the music is like going to see a great rock concert, part cover tunes, and original songs by the Cambodian-American band Dengue Fever, which pays tribute to the 1960-70’s Cambodian rock styles of some of the artists that disappeared during the Pol Pot led Khmer Rouge regime.

Written by American playwright Lauren Yee, the scenes shift backward and forward in time to tell the story of how a father shares his trauma of survivorship of the Pol Pot regime genocide in Cambodia with his American-raised daughter. Set in 2008, Chum returned to Cambodia to persuade his daughter, Neary, to return home and to law school in the USA. But she is now working for an NGO and gathering evidence to prosecute a notorious Khmer Rouge Prison leader, Duch, for crimes against humanity.

It seems simple enough, right? But this show opens with cast members playing fictional Cambodian rock band The Cyclos, blending traditional Cambodian chants with California-style psychedelic surf rock. This sets the stage for recognizing the mid-70s thriving pop-rock music scene in Phnom Penh. Then, the narrator character comes out to speak to the audience with his nonchalant, quirky “I know more than you know” attitude.

Chum is a Cambodian-American immigrant who came to America for a new life after being in refugee camps. He wants the best for his daughter and tries to encourage her to follow her plans for law school. But Neary has just discovered that at Prison S21, which the Vietnamese Army liberated in 1979, only to find seven surviving prisoners, there had been an 8th survivor, and won’t be dissuaded. She challenges her father, “Why haven’t you told me any of this? I feel like a stupid American,” about his time and family in Cambodia.

His reply, “Better a stupid American, than a sad Cambodian.”

Raugi Yu plays Chum, who makes self-deprecating jokes to hide his real emotions. His daughter runs away after their argument, and this father-daughter conflict sets the stage for the next scenes, where he tries to reach out to her via phone messages as he shares his story as an act of reconciliation. He is an accomplished actor who can tell his Dad jokes while hinting at the underlying trauma and tragedies that are revealed later in the play.

The scene changes back to 1975, and a group of musician friends are recording their first album. Kimberly-Ann Troung, who plays Neary, also plays Sothea, the lead singer of this Cambodian Rock Band. She balances the stressed-out Neary with a flirtatious Sothea, based on real-life famous Cambodian rock singer Ros Serey Sothea, who disappeared in 1977 (accounts of her death are attributed to execution, overwork at an agricultural camp, or malnutrition in a hospital.) Troung is a powerhouse singer, commanding the audience

Duch was the real-life Khmer prison commander of S21 who oversaw the torture and killing of thousands of Cambodians for the sin of being artists, intellectuals, and teachers – not dissimilar but much more extreme to Mao’s Cultural Revolution in nearby China. In this fictional characterization, played brilliantly by Nicco Lorenzo Garcia, he is the engaging narrator who chides, goads, teases, and challenges the audience with what is Truth and questions his Conscience and role in this horrific nightmare state of human history, or does he?

Rounding out the cast is Jun Kung playing the character Rom, the drummer in the band, and Kayla Sakura Charchuk as keyboardist Pou and S-21 guard. They look like they are enjoying the music, smiling and performing for the audience. Combined with Raugi on his groovy bass, Jay on his sizzling guitar, and Kimberly-Ann singing enchanting vocals. You almost wish you could be part of this band.

The second act takes a dramatic turn to the dark side. It is now a few years after the fall of Phenom Pehn to the Khmer Rouge, and their campaign for a Utopian society is well underway. Actor Jay Leonard Juatco, who had dazzled the audience with his rock star singing as guitarist extraordinaire Leng, is now a head prison guard interrogating the recently captured Chum. Are they friends still, or are they enemies? The path is hidden but more apparent when Duch takes a special interest in the “banana seller” prisoner.

This play was fun to watch. The music performance intervals appear to express the emotions of the characters and the story, particularly when Neary is singing through her anger and frustration at her father, weaving with a drink in her hand, constantly refilled by Duch, as his character wanders in and out of music scenes like a ghostly metaphor of a hidden understory.

The Arts Club has done a good job reaching into the Pan-Asian-Canadian community to fill the cast, technical crews, and artistic team. Director Jivesh Parasram and Music Director Mary Ancheta have created a blend of joy, anger, hope, and sadness in drama, comedy, and song. The Assistant Director is Johnny D. Trinh, current interim executive director at Historic Joy Kogawa House and executive director for Vancouver Poetry House.

On the Sunday afternoon during preview week, I attended a Solidarity Feast, organized by the Arts Club Theatre Company, with invited community elders and artists, with Cambodian food provided by Angkor Harves, followed by a matinee show. I attended again on the official opening night, seeing many more of Vancouver’s local theatre community members.

Seeing this show twice allowed me to see the craft and thought of the writing, the foreshadowing and hints of this multi-layered story. I even cried at the Opening Night performance as I listened a second time to Chum’s monologue about not wanting to let his young daughter go to a baseball stadium washroom by herself, because he was “afraid” of “losing people.” It emphasized to me the long-lasting effects of trauma. And made too real, the news stories of the War in Ukraine, the Gaza Strip, the discovery of unmarked graves at Residential Schools, and the incarceration of refugee immigrants in the USA.

This play has made me think about my 1980 travels through Asia when I was 20. I visited Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan. I specifically avoided Communist China, Thailand and Vietnam. Cambodia wasn’t even on the radar. It’s challenging to think that while Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan were emerging as economic powerhouses, at that time, Vietnam and Cambodia were just recovering from terrible civil wars. Now, my friends are visiting these countries as popular tourist attractions. Even former prison S-21 in Cambodia has become a tourist destination as a historical reminder of the Khmer Rouge genocide. In Canada, we have former Residential Schools and Japanese-Canadian Internment sites as historical sites and museums.

I started reviewing theatre in Vancouver in the 1980s when I wrote for my college newspaper. Most theatre in Vancouver was still very traditional and mainstream at the time. I enjoyed going to the Firehall Arts Centre to see ground-breaking Asian-Canadian theatre and actors, such as Rick Shiomi’s “Yellow Fever” and Rosie’s Cafe, and Marty Chan’s “Mom, Dad, I’m Living With a White Girl.” Back then, actor Donna Yamamoto won the Jessie Award for “Most Promising Newcomer” in an Arts Club production, but there were few significant roles following. Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre appeared on the scene created by Joyce Lam, who put on regular theatrical events for VACT , starting with Asian Comedy Nights and later putting on Rogers & Hammerstein’s “Flower Drum Song.” Donna took over as VACT’s Artistic Director and produced Empire of the Sun, written and performed by Tetsuro Shigematsu, whom I bumped into on the opening night of Cambodian Rock Band.

It’s great to see the evolution of Asian Canadian theatre and actors in Vancouver. Roles like these don’t come around much for Asian ethnic actors, but they are happening more frequently now. It is also lovely to see the colour-blind casting by many local theatre companies like Arts Club, Gateway Theatre, and Firehall Arts Centre. Over the past decade, I have seen a South Asian “Maria” in Arts Club’s Sound of Music and a Chinese-Scottish actor play the Gene Kelly role in Gateway’s Brigadoon.

In 2016, Lauren Yee’s play King of the Yee was produced at Gateway Theatre in Richmond with actor Raugi Yu. I’ve seen Raugi in several roles, including Anosh Arani’s Men in White at the Arts Club in 2017. It’s great to see actors mature in their craft since I first saw him in The King & I, in Theatre Under the Stars, about 20 years ago.

Two years ago, the Arts Club premiered “Forgiveness” (now playing at the National Arts Centre), a play based on Mark Sakamoto’s memoir of his grandparents’ experiences of surviving the Japanese-Canadian Internment camps and as a Canadian soldier in the Japanese Prison of War camps after the fall of Hong Kong. These are important stories to tell and present, as is the Cambodian Rock Band. I will see this show again, as I saw Forgiveness at the start and end of its run.

LiterASIAN 2020 is Here! For Asian Heritage Month

Proud be part of LiterASIAN 2020

LiterASIAN Festival is the first of its kind within Canada, the purpose to promote and celebrate the works of Asian Canadian writers and artists through author readings, panel discussions, and workshop events.  We create important and unique networking opportunities between professional and emerging writers, students, and members of the broader public to learn and discuss topics of importance to Asian Canadian writing.

In 2013 . . . we featured C.X. Cheng, Terry Watada, Sarah Ling, Larry Grant, Ann Shin, Larry Wong, Janie Chang, Denise Chong, Laara Ong, David H.T. Wong, Julia Lin, Terry Woo, May Yan, Ann Marie Fleming.

In 2014 . . . we featured  invited Lily Chow, Edwin Lee, Amanda Wan, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Doretta Lau, Fred Wah, Tom Cho, Louise Bak, Elsie Sze, Raymond Nakamura, Corinna Chong, Kim Fu, Yasuko Thanh

In 2015 . . . we featured Derwin Mak, Tony Pi, Eric Choi, JF Garrard, Wesley Lowe, David Ng, Shirley Camia, Holman Wang, and Christina Park.

In 2016 . . . we featured Paul Yee, Denise Chong, SKY Lee, JJ Lee, Simon Choa Johnston, Jean Barman, C. Fong Hsiung, Edwin Lee, Larry Wong, Joy Kogawa, Judy Hanazawa, Larry Grant, Sarah Ling, Dan Seto, David Wong, Cheuk Kwan, Kwoi Gin, and Anna Wang Yuan 

In 2017 . . . we featured Jen Sookfong Lee, Julia Lin, Janie Chang, Terry Watada, Leslie Shimotakahara, Eleanor Guerrero-Campbell, Catherine Hernandez, Leanne Dunic

In 2018 . . . we featured Madeleine Thien, Kevin Chong, Evelyn Lau, Michael Kaan, Michelle Kim, Carrianne Leung, Vincent Ternida, Alice Poon, Cheuk Kwan, Katherine Luo

In 2019 . . . we featured Rita Wong, Fred Wah, Sally Ito, May Q. Wong, C.E. Gatchalian, Philip Huynh

In 2020 . . . we do it all again!  

THIS YEAR IS IT!  EVERY 60 YEARS ROBBIE BURNS DAY AND LUNAR NEW YEAR FALL ON THE SAME DAY!   IT ONLY HAPPENS ONCE EVERY 60 YEARS!

JOIN US for this cosmic countdown to start off your year!  And enjoy an evening of intercultural fusion at Gung Haggis 2020 with food, music, readings, and scotch!  

This year’s schedule of events include:

  • A dinner menu, with the now world-renowned haggis wonton
  • More readings, more music, and more fun!
  • sneak peak of the menu from previous Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinners

About Gung Haggis:

It was 1998 and as the Chinese Lunar New Year fell only two days away from Robbie Burns Day, which is always January 25, Todd decided to celebrate the Scottish Bard’s birthday along with the Lunar New Year.  “Gung Haggis Fat Choy!” said Wong, “I can celebrate two cultures at the same time.”  And thus was born the Vancouver cultural premiere that culinary and media personalities have come to celebrate this cultural mashup that features deep-fried haggis wontons, haggis dim sum, and haggis lettuce wrap with a glass of scotch each year. 

 Gung Haggis Fat Choy started out as a small fundraiser of 16 people in 1998 in a crowded living room. Twenty years later it serves dinner at the biggest Chinese Restaurant in North America, and has spun off a CBC television performance special, and the SFU Gung Haggis Fat Choy Canadian Games.   


“Gung Haggis Fat Choy is the ultimate fusion feast.” – Georgia Straight

“Haggis wontons? Robbie Burns Night meets Chinese New Year.” – Globe & Mail

“Gung Haggis Fat Choy: This Canadian Celebration Combines Robert Burns Night and Chinese New Year.” – Smithsonian

“Haggis and Chow Mein Collide at Seattle’s Gung Haggis Fat Choy.” – Vice

“Hold the sheep’s stomach lining.” – MacLean’s Magazine


For more information, visit https://www.gunghaggis.com/.

Canada’s First Asian Canadian Writers Festival, September 21 to 25

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Our Theme – History and Memory
As Canada nears its 150 celebration of Confederation, it is timely for the Asian Canadian community to gather to reflect on its history.
Festival Pass
This year we are launching a festival pass. This $20 festival pass will allow the purchaser unlimited access to all five of our workshops and three panels as well as an annual membership to ACWW which includes subscription to the online version of Ricepaper magazine and discounts to some community partnership events. A good deal plus a great way to show your support to the Asian Canadian writing community.
Opening Event

Panel Discussion: Searching the Past – Locating History and Memory 
Vancouver Public Library, 350 W Georgia Street
Wednesday, September 21, 6.00pm

Our opening event will be hosted jointly by the Vancouver Public Library on Wednesday, Sept 21, 6pm at the Central Branch lower level, Alice MacKay Room. The panel will explore the different ways we chose to gather and record the past and illuminate the deeds of earlier generations. The panel will include Award-winning authors and editors, Paul Yee, Denise Chong, SKY Lee, JJ Lee, Simon Choa Johnston, Jean Barman and Judy Hanazawa.

Additional Panels

Crossing Boundaries: Writing the Diaspora
Chinese Cultural Centre Museum 555 Columbia Street
Friday, September 23, 6.00pm

Aside from the opening event panel at VPL, we have a Friday evening 6pm panel “Crossing Boundaries: Writing the Diaspora” at the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum (555 Columbia Street). The panel will look at History and Memory from the perspective of diasporic writing when our writers situate their stories beyond Canadian shores. Panelists, Simon Choa Johnston’s new publication, The House of Two Wives begin his story in Calcutta by way of Bagdad and eventually end up in Hong Kong. C. Fong Hsiung traces the plight of the Hakka community following the India-China war of 1962, the Chinese Indians (the Hakka), fearing suspicion and hostility, begin to emigrate. Fong Hsiung’s main character, Jillian Wu was sent to Canada as a picture bride to marry a man she had never met. Filmmaker and director, Cheuk Kwan and cinematographer, Kwoi Jin are partners in a 15 part documentary series “Chinese Restaurants” that tells the stories of the diasporic Chinese from such places such as Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, India, Israel, Madagascar, Mauritius , Norway, Peru, South Africa, Trinidad, Turkey and Canada. They will discuss their new book project to further elaborate on what didn’t ‘make it” into the film. Anna Wang Yuan is a Canadian novelist currently living in California. She edited an anthology “The Strangers” a short story collection by nine new generation ethnic Chinese writers, mostly immigrants who reflect the alienation of being a stranger in a strange land.

The Medium as the Message: Telling Stories Beyond the Written Word

Chinese Cultural Centre Museum 555 Columbia Street, Vancouver, BC
Saturday, September 24, 3.00pm

The written word is not the only way we can communicate our idea. This panel brings together storytellers, filmmakers and those who use other creative means to create effective content. Sarah Ling is a part of a team of producers, writers and filmmakers that are based in U.B.C. and together with elder Larry grant has chronicled Larry dual native aboriginal/Chinese heritage on film. Dan Seto uses youtube as a vehicle for his “Chinese Canadian Roots TV” to explore and chronicling his roots through cooking, culture, travel, history and events. 1985 to 1987, Paul Yee served as Chairman of the Saltwater City Exhibition Committee of the Chinese Cultural Centre and along with David Wong, help put together this seminal Exhibition about the Chinese in Vancouver. David Wong also published an acclaimed graphic novel,”Escape from Gold Mountain”. Filmmaker and director, Cheuk Kwan and cinematographer, Kwoi Jin are partners in a 15 part documentary series “Chinese Restaurants” that tells the stories of the diasporic Chinese from such places such as Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, India, Israel, Madagascar, Mauritius , Norway, Peru, South Africa, Trinidad, Turkey and Canada.  This is a multi-media panel where each panelist will showcase some of their activities and discuss the creative process behind work.

Workshops
Location for all workshops – UBC Learning Centre (612 Main Street)

1. The Self-Publishing Process (September 24, 11.00AM-12.30PM) – Workshop leader – Edwin Lee

2. Writing A Reflective Memoir: Telling a Great Story from Beginning to End (September 24, 1.00PM-2.30PM) Workshop leader – J.J. Lee

3. Literature and Rendering Memory (September 25, 11.00AM-12.30PM)Workshop leader – Denise Chong

4. Food and Inspiration of Storytelling from Memory (September 25, 1.00PM-2.30PM) Workshop leader – Larry Wong

5. Writing Effectively Using a ‘Trace’ and a ‘Hook’ (September 25, 3.00PM-4.30PM) – Workshop leader – Jean Barman

Book Launches

Book Launch: “Gently to Nagasaki” by Joy Kogawa 

Vancouver Public library, Central Branch, Lower floor, Alice MacKay Room
September 22, 6:30pmJoy Kogawa’s new memoir, “Gently to Nagasaki” is presented in partnership with the Historic Joy Kogawa House, the Vancouver Public Library, and Caitlin Press. This intimate exploration, both communal and intensely personal, invites you on a spiritual pilgrimage of forgiveness and resilience. Set in Vancouver and Toronto, the outposts of Slocan and Coaldale, the streets of Nagasaki and the high mountains of Shikoku, Japan, it is also an account of a remarkable life.
Book Launch: Picture Bride by C. Fong Hsiung Chinese Cultural Centre Museum, 555 Columbia Street, Vancouver,
Saturday, September 24, 2.00pm
Following the India-China war of 1962, the Chinese Indians (the Hakka), fearing suspicion and hostility, begin to emigrate. In Picture Bride, set during a period of changing times and changing values, twenty-year-old Jillian Wu leaves Calcutta to marry a man she has never met—Peter Chou, also a Hakka—with much anticipation, only to discover that he is gay. Forced by her husband to keep up the charade of a “normal” marriage, and pressured by her in-laws to have a child, she flees back to Calcutta, only to be disowned by her conservative family. A moving story with political overtones, Picture Bride confronts the politics of family, culture, and women’s rights.
Book Launch: The Strangers edited by Anna Wang Yuan

Chinese Cultural Centre Museum, 555 Columbia Street, Vancouver, BC., Saturday,

September 24, 4.00pm

What kind of images does “Chinese” stir up in your mind? Do you think of strange-looking workers who built the railroads before 1900? Or the quiet math genius from your high school whose strange-sounding name you’ve long forgotten? Perhaps you recall the mysterious man who brought bags of cash to pay for a car or even a house. In a time of globalization, you’ve learned to work with strangers and live amongst strangers, yet you’ve probably only read books written by familiar names. Anna Wang Yuan compiled the nine stories and written the foreword.
LiterASIAN at WORD Vancouver (11.00am to 5.00pm Library Square)

Come join us at the annual Word Vancouver, down at Library Square and meet our featured writers, Paul Yee, Simon Choa Johnston, JJ Lee and Joy Kogawa.  Come and say Hello at the Ricepaper Magazine/literasian table  Word Vancouver is Western Canada’s largest celebration of literacy and reading event. Book and magazine fair celebrating literacy and the printed word. (http://wordvancouver.ca/2016-festival/)

Closing Event

Gala Dinner $50 per person 

Sunday September 25, 6pm

Golden Phoenix Restaurant 2425 Nanaimo StreetCome join in to share a meal that includes a 10-course Peking Duck dinner and have a chance to meet and talk to and get your books signed by the featured writers, in our 2016 program. Our Gala dinner is a fun-filled event which includes celebrity MCs and music from our literASIAN house band with lots of prizes and of course, a ten course Chinese meal.

The $50 ticket also offers a one-year membership to the ACWW as well as a one-year subscription to Ricepaper Magazine (online version) and discounts and special opportunities to community partner events. So come and support the creation of new writers and readers in our community and celebrate the end of another successful festival.

LiterASIAN 2015 Arrives!

Thursday October 8, 2015

6:00PM-7:30PM        Book Launch of Shirley Camia’s The Significance of Moths [Link]


Friday October 9, 2015

1:00PM-2:30PM        The Dreaded Query Letter with Christina Park [Link]

2:30PM-4:00PMA Publishing Career: Breaking In and Staying In with Holman Wang [Link]

6:00PM-9:00PM Opening Gala at Jade Dynasty Restaurant [Link]


Saturday October 10, 2015

10:00AM-11:30AM          Write What You Know Even in a Fantasy World with Derwin Mak [Link]

12:00PM-1:30PMTake Control of Your Writing and Self Publish in Canada! with JF Garrard [Link]

2:00PM-3:00PMThe Making of a Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthology with Derwin Mak and Eric Choi [Link]

2:00PM-3:30PMThe Art of Combining Research into your Writing Practice with Shirley Camia [Link]

3:30PM-5:00PMThe Art and Craft of Science & Speculative Fiction with Industry Experts [Link]

4:00PM-5:30PMOn Scientific Literacy, Unicorns, and Whether Good Science Fiction can Influence Good Science Policy with David Ng [Link]


Sunday October 11, 2015

10:00AM-11:30AM        Putting the Science in Science Fiction with Eric Choi [Link]

12:00PM-1:30PMA Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside A Story with Tony Pi [Link]

2:00PM-3:30PMWrite What You Know Even in a Fantasy World with Wesley Lowe [Link]

10:00AM-4:00PMAuthor readings and book signings [Link]

12:00PM-4:00PM3rd annual Asian Canadian book fair [Link]

 


LiterASIAN 2015 – Celebrating 20 Years of Asian Canadian Writing

literasian2015_Thursday October 8 to Sunday October 11, 2015 – LiterASIAN Festival is back!  The 3rd annual Asian Canadian literary festival celebrates the best of Pacific Rim Asian Canadian literary talent.   LiterASIAN 2015 features readings, workshops, panel discussions and book launches. Featuring some of the Asian Canadian writing’s most innovative and creative writers in fantasy, science, and speculative fiction, history, and poetry, LiterASIAN is for literary enthusiasts, publishers, literary agents, and anyone interested in writing.  This year’s line-up includes:

  • Eric Choi & Derwin Mak (co-editors of Aurora Award winning anthology The Dragon and the Star)
  • Christina Park (The Homes We Build on Ashes)
  • JF Garrard (The Undead Sorceress, Designing Fate, How to Make a Munchkin)
  • Wesley Lowe (Terror Unleashed, Heaven Burning, Deadly Love, Ghosts of Chinatown)
  • Shirley Camia (The Significance of Moths)
  • Holman Wang (Star Wars Epic Yarns: A New Hope)
  • Presentation of the Emerging Writers Award winner!

Interviews and photo opportunities are available.

Website for registration: http://literasian.com | Contact: info@literasian.com

Are You Ready? literASIAN is Back! October 9-12, 2014

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The Vancouver Asian Writers’ Workshop (ACWW) is pleased to announce the countdown to its much anticipated celebration of Pacific Rim Asian Canadian writing set for October 9th to 12th, 2014 in Vancouver, BC. As a non-profit organization with a mandate to promote awareness of Asian Canadian literature, history, and culture, ACWW provide a supportive and culturally sensitive environment for members from a common Pacific Rim Asian Canadian heritage. ACWW also is the publisher of Ricepaper Magazine.

The main venue for the festival is the UBC Learning Exchange situated in the middle of Vancouver’s historical Chinatown at 612 Main Street. The UBC Learning Exchange is a community engagement initiative that brings together a wide variety of people, and facilitates connections in the Downtown Eastside between local residents, organizations and the UBC Community.

LiterASIAN 2014: A Festival of Pacific Rim Asian Canadian Writing begins Oct. 9 – 12 and will feature authors, Fred Wah, Louise Bak, Tom Cho, Corinna Chong, Doretta Lau,Edwin Lee, Serena Leung, Kim Fu, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Yasuko Nguyen Thanh, Elsie Sze and Lily Chow. There will be author readings, book launches and book signings, a special poetry reading evening with open mike, Book fair, outreach event at Richmond Library and Cultural Centre and our second annual celebration dinner fundraiser at the Pink Pearl Restaurant.

LiterASIAN: a Festival of Pacific Rim Asian Canadian Writing is a community-building initiative by the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop and Ricepaper Magazine.

Interviews and photo opportunities are available.

For media inquiries contact Festival Director, Jim Wong-Chu -604-355-579 5
Website: www.asiancanadianwriters.ca | www.ricepapermagazine.ca/literASIAN

Anyone Interested in Seeing Chinese Canadian Treasure?

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Check out Larry Wong’s curation of the exhibition Bon Voyage / Bon Appétit: Menus from the Canadian Pacific Railway Company’s Ships, Trains, Planes, and Hotels is an exhibition that will be held from April 7 to December 24, 2014. Whether you prefer quick eats or fine dining, join us for an exhibition of eye-catching and mouth-watering Canadian Pacific Railway Company menus dating from the 1890s through the 1980s from the renowned Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection in the Rare Books & Special Collections of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Level One, 1961 E Mall, Vancouver B.C. V6T 1Z1.