Asian Heritage Month

EXCITING NEWS for Asian Canadians

The organizing committee of Asian Heritage Month, Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) Inc., is preparing a Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Heritage (VMACCH) showcasing contemporary forms of Asian Canadian cultural expression.

Through providing opportunities to foster the recognition and appreciation of the diverse cultures of Asian Canadian society, we not only promote Asian Canadian cultural expressions, but also discover whether the cross-cultural encounters between Asian Canadians and the rest of Canada can forge new cultural expressions.

We will:

Feature contemporary cultural expression e.g. visual arts, theatre, video, music, dance, literature, etc., created by Asian Canadian professional artists and writers, and school and university students.
Show representations of how the Asian Canadian communities live and express their cultural identity in Canada in the form of photographs, videos, journals and so on.
Provide cultural information related to festivals, especially on how Asian Canadians celebrate their ethnic festivals, and the Asian Heritage Month Festival and events. Where possible, we will feature festival pamphlets, photos, etc.
Exhibit cultural traditions and storytelling, especially capturing the tales of the grandparents and parents.

This initiative is made possible by the generous support of the Canadian Heritage "Gateway" Fund.

If you would like to contribute to the Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage (VMACCH), please provide the information to us by e-mailing your intentions to vmacch@yorku.ca, filling in and signing the Release and Contact form, then mail or fax the completed form to the CFACI office (address/fax number is on the last page of form) as soon as possible.

ASIAN HERITAGE CANADA CULTURES (in alphabetical order) Asian American Asian Canadian Bangladesh Bhutan Chinese Filipino Japanese Indian Korean Macau Malaysian Pakistani South Asian Sri Lankan Vietnamese Asians Central Asia VISUAL AND AUDIO ARCHIVES National Film Board of Canada Archives of Ontario Visual Database Asian American Film & Video Database [murmur] -Vancouver [murmur] is an archival audio project that has collected stories set in specific locations throughout Vancouver's Chinatown. Asian Television Network Images Canada Chinese Immigration (CBC Archives) Boat People: A Refugee Crisis (CBC Archives) Boat People of Indochina – Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos (Canada’s Digital Collection) Relocation to Redress: The Internment of the Japanese Canadians (CBC Archives) Selection of Films on Asian Canadians GOVERNMENT RESOURCES AND ARCHIVES Department of Canadian Heritage, Canadian Culture Online Strategy Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration Visible Minorities and Ethnicity in Ontario (Census 2001 Highlights, Ministry of Finance – Province of Ontario) Canada's Digital Collection (Government of Canada) List of countries of origin included in collection Individual Countries “Visible Minorities – A Diverse Group” by Karen Kelly for Statistic Canada (Canadian Social Trends) Cultural Profiles Projects (funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada) CIDA Canada International Development Agency (CIDA) Youth Zone-Homepage Teacher Zone Asia Consular Affairs – Information and Assistance for Canadians Abroad (Foreign Affairs) (Follow link to Asia and its regions) ARCHIVES--CANADIAN AND PROVINCIAL BRITISH COLUMBIA British Columbia Archives (BC Archives) City of Vancouver Archives Photographs Search using the following headings “Chinese in Canada” “Japanese in Canada” “Sikhs in Canada” “Asians in Canada” ONTARIO Ontario History Quest (an online learning resource for Ontario students in grades 7, 8, 10 and 12 studying history from 1820-1970) Archives of Ontario Visual Database Royal Ontario Museum – Near Eastern and Asian Civilizations Department CANADA Archives Canada ORGANIZATIONS Dominion Institute CLASSROOM RESOURCES Global Classroom Resource Centre at CIDA Learning Centre (Library and Archives Canada) The Kids’ Site of Canadian Settlement (Library and Archives Canada) : Explore the Communities – Chinese Chinese Canadian Children's Literature In Relation to Diakiw's Canadian Commonplaces: Bibliography of conference paper given by Carolyn Sin at "The Fun of Reading: International Forum on Canadian Children's Literature" Japanese Canadiana at the National Library For Teachers Homepage (CBC Archives) Dominion Institute Passages to Canada Michael Ondaatje M. G. Vassanji http://www.collectionscanada.ca/3/8/t8-2010-e.html http://www.athabascau.ca/writers/mgvassanji.html Courage that Inspires: The Asian Experience by York Regional District School Board 1) PORTRAITS OF A CHALLENGE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE CHINESE CANADIANS, by Lee Wai-Man, published in 1984 by the Council of Chinese Canadians in Ontario. 2) A PLACE CALLED CHINESE AMERICA, by Diane Mei Lin and Ginger Chih, published in 1982 by Kendal/Hunt Publishing Co, Dubuque, Ohio, copyright the Organization of Chinese Americans Inc. PROFILES OF INDIVIDUALS Canadians of Asian Heritage Who Inspire Us ( on Canadian Heritage website) Irene Ayako Uchida (1917- ) Geneticist (from Celebrating Women’s Achievement – Canadian Women in Science) Professor Lap-Chi Tsui (Geneticist and Vice-Chancellor of Hong Kong University) Michael Ondaatje M. G. Vassanji http://www.collectionscanada.ca/3/8/t8-2010-e.html http://www.athabascau.ca/writers/mgvassanji.html CULTURAL ACTIVITIES Iron Road Opera Ministry of Culture MULTICULTURALISM MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION WISE: Pier 21: Multicultural Education Internet Resource guide: Canadian Assoc of Second Language Teachers, Research on multicultural education: Canadian education trend report on multicultural education: Largest-ever international study finds immigrant youth benefit from ties to ethnic culture Canadian Education Association: ASIAN HERITAGE MONTH - CELEBRATIONS ACROSS CANADA Organizations which have held Asian Heritage Month celebrations in Canada Images Asian Heritage Month (under Multiculturalism) Canadian Heritage http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/multi/asian-asiatique/even/index_e.cfm National Calendar of Events (on Canadian Heritage website) Highlights from the Inaugural Dinner/Dance of the Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) Inc. (CFACI) ASIAN HERITAGE MONTH - AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Central and Inner Asia Symposium External Links Disclaimer External Links Disclaimer There may be Web sites linked to and from this site that are operated or created by or for other organizations. Those organizations are solely responsible for the operation and information (including the right to display such information) found on their respective Web sites. 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