Vivienne Tam is a fashion designer that intentionally bridges China and the West in her work, exploring beauty and wonder in our diverse shared cultures. Now she's bridging her own fashion voice with the recently trending world of metaverse and NFTs. Her new collection on the runway at New York Fashion Week is a fun and colourful bash, incorporating instances of untamed collisions of apes to mahjong tiles, pixels and flashy hex tones on fabric.
Read MoreWe take a moment to remember Queen Elizabeth II. Despite any difference in views or mixed feelings about history, it is an inseparable fact that many Canadians of Chinese descent, especially those who grew up in colonial Hong Kong, have encountered the presence and spirit of Queen Elizabeth II in their lifetimes.
Read MoreThis year, Buick Canada celebrates this important cultural moment through a collaboration with multiple local Chinese-owned businesses, and partnerships with Chinese-Canadian influencers by encouraging them to share their stories of Mid-Autumn Festival and Chinese heritage with the greater Canadian community. Readers also have a chance to win one of four prizes that include a set of Buick mooncakes and a premium dining experience at either Yu Seafood Yorkdale (for Greater Toronto Area winners) or Quan Jude 1864 (for Greater Vancouver Area winners) with a $400 dinner gift certificate. The mooncakes feature a motif on its chocolate coloured tops, its floral pattern a modern-traditional look
Read MoreA Canadian dancer, Moses Li Kai-Yin, known Ah Mo, was severely injured and still in intensive care after a series of operations after being hit by a giant 4m x 4m video screen that crashed down from the ceiling of the concert hall, mid-performance. Videos and news went viral that night, and I regret watching the first and only clip of it. The TV screen fell down during the song Elevator, landed on Ah Mo and knocked him flat on the ground, seemingly crushing him.
Read MoreTwo icons we write about often at Fête Chinoise come together again in the name of basketball and a great cause for sports. Simu Liu and Jeremy Lin and their friends were in town for the CCYAA Celebrity Classic on July 9th. Benefitting the Chinese Canadian Youth Athletics Association and the Jeremy Lin Foundation for underprivileged AAPI youth in sports.
Read MoreAsian Canadian Actor / Advocate Simu Liu in partnership with the Canadian Chinese Youth Athletic Association (www.ccyaa.org) will host the 2022 CCYAA Celebrity Classic Powered by Virgin Plus on Saturday, July 9 2022 at the University of Toronto’s Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport.
Read MoreTo illustrate the fact that creativity emerges from countless perspectives, Alexander McQueen invites a group of twelve artists to express their individual working practices inspired by the Autumn/Winter 2022 women’s pre-collection.
Read MoreOn May 25th, in celebration of Jewish and Asian Heritage month, the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto hosted the TRIBUTE TO FRIENDSHIP EXHIBITION.
Opening night highlighted the cross cultural experiences of the two cultures, and featured the works of over 25 Jewish and Chinese artists who explored the 1000 year historical legacy of the Jewish and Chinese communities.
Read MoreThe Canadian Opera Company is proud to announce the Showcase Series, a new slate of programming that spotlights a variety of cultural identities through curating performance opportunities that comprise Toronto’s unique cultural landscape. In May, the company celebrates Asian Heritage Month with a month-long calendar of events that highlights the beauty of music, cultural identity, and language, and also support an understanding of the vast range of Asian communities throughout the city.
Read MoreAt the time of this article being published, a NextShark post on instagram has over 11,000 likes and 500 comments, with a majority full of hate and criticism towards a popular Hong Kong television drama that is currently being broadcasted and coming to a close. The issue being discussed two weeks ago was the disapproval of “brownface,” as make-up was used on a Chinese actor to darken her skin to portray a Filipina domestic helper for one half of her role, where she transforms from the first ethnicity to being Chinese, when the family she works for tries to turn her into the replacement for their late daughter who fatefully died years prior.
Read MoreMany fans of TVB’s supernatural drama 金宵大廈 can still hear the tune of theme song 今宵多珍重 in their heads from the blockbuster in 2019. Drama creator Ruby Law was inspired by the song, originally in Mandarin, to pen a story about a man and a woman who see each other in their dreams, which was the basis of the romance of the first series. This was also the song that Selena performed in 2020 on the stage of our Fete Chinoise Signature Event at the Royal York Hotel. Selena Lee not only plays the main character in this sequel, she also released her new single 相愛萬年, her first individual solo piece which she also had a part in writing.
Read MoreThis long preamble is my way to wrap my brain around my stunned reaction after seeing EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE. In my perfect world, all I’d write is “Trust me. It’s brilliant. SEE IT”. But I can’t, so please bare with me as I discombobulate my addled brain cells and convince you to be first in line to see the most original and bombastic movie in decades without any spoilers!
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