On Saturday, August 22, 2026, Vancouver’s Chinatown hosted an evening of music and community at the historic Wing Sang Building. The Chinese Canadian Museum served as the stage for Songs of the Golden Era, a special fundraising concert presented by the Harmony Through Arts Youth Foundation in support of the museum's ongoing public and educational programming.
Read MoreFrom August 14 to 16, 2026, the quiet streets of Downtown Markham were replaced by the roar of twin-turbo V6 engines as the city hosted the inaugural Ontario Honda Dealers Indy. The 3.52-kilometre street circuit brought high-speed motorsport into the heart of Markham Centre, reshaping the surrounding urban footprint for three days of intense racing, live music, and community turnout.
Read MoreThere is an intensity to the miniature worlds created by Pui Wan Lim of Picoworm Miniature. Each tiny scene – a traditional kopitiam coffee shop, a provision store, a kitchen table – is built with painstaking care yet feels lived in as if someone has just stepped away. The streets, signs, furniture and smallest objects hold fragments of memory, linking family history, local culture and her own imagination. For diaspora families, these miniatures are more than delicate objects: they are a way to hold on to places and routines that no longer exist around them.
Read MoreHong Kong-Canadian playwright Jeff Ho speaks with Fête Chinoise about his new sequel to As You Like It, growing up between Cantonese and English, and bringing inclusive, park-side theatre to Toronto with Shakespeare in the Ruff.
Read MoreOn a quiet lane just east of Beijing’s Forbidden City, an old temple opens in a sequence of courtyards and chambers that feels uncannily like a house. You step off the street into a stone‑paved siheyuan, the city’s classic courtyard layout, and only gradually realize that the “home” you’re walking through is, in fact, a showroom. It’s The Palace MULI, a 500‑year‑old building restored and reimagined by North America design studio Yabu Pushelberg for MULI, a rising Chinese smart‑home brand intent on defining how a new generation wants to live.
Read MoreThe co-creator of Salesman in China returns to the Stratford Festival with a risqué, modern adaptation of Congreve's classic comedy, setting sharp satire and romantic chaos against the backdrop of Singapore’s ultra-wealthy elite.
Read MoreNow celebrating its 35th anniversary—with a new 4K restoration rolling out in theatres promises to find new audiences and offer devoted fans a reason to revisit its riches as well as its contemporary relevance, especially with how modern celebrities are treated in the age of social media. We had the honour to sit down with Kwan to discuss the golden era of Chinese cinema, how his relationship to the film and its stars have changed, and who he wants to work with next.
Read MoreOn July 26, 2026, Lead Chef Keith Pears and Team Canada took home the Silver Medal at the Bocuse d’Or Americas in New Orleans, the regional qualifier for what is widely recognized as the Olympics of the culinary world. Beyond securing Canada's ticket to the global grand final in Lyon, France, the achievement was a performance defined by technical precision, Canadian ingredients, and the personal heritage of the chefs behind it.
Read MoreA debt, a distant land, and a bundle of letters spanning decades these are the threads that weave together Dear You《給阿嬤的情書》, the critical and box-office sensation set to make its US and Canadian theatrical debut on September 4, 2026. Following its acclaimed North American premiere at the New York Asian Film Festival, director Lan Hongchun’s multi-generational drama arrives as a poignant exploration of family devotion, sacrifice, and the enduring ties that bind the Chinese diaspora across generations.
Read MoreFrancesco Lietti did not come to painting through art school. He started in the corners of a shared house in south London, working on whatever surfaces were at hand. As a child he had always drawn and painted, but without formal lessons. What he did have, he says, was imagination. For years he painted in bursts, then stopped for months at a time. In 2001, he began taking apart old furniture, painting the boards and hanging them on the walls. That small, practical decision gave him both material and space and turned painting from an occasional diversion into a habit.
Read MoreEsteemed actress Pei-Pei Cheng 鄭佩佩 has passed away in San Francisco at the age of 78. Best known to North American audiences for her iconic role in the Oscar-winning film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon《臥虎藏龍》, Cheng leaves behind a rich legacy that has deeply influenced the world of martial arts cinema. In recent years, she also played poignant roles in films such as Meditation Park and Mulan.
Read MoreI have known Hong Kong–based artist Gabriel Lau, better known as LABEG, for long enough to remember him before he had the words for what he was. Before the Instagram following. Before Watches & Wonders in Geneva. Before the 22‑month waitlist that now trails behind him like a comet’s tail. I knew him in the years when the art was just an itch he couldn’t name, and the watches were a longing he couldn’t afford. We were younger then, and the world was much smaller: church basements, late‑night hotpots, the kind of easy warmth you only know when you don’t yet realize it is passing.
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