Where The Wind Blows Comes To North America, Tony Leung Wins Best Actor At The Asian Film Awards In Hong Kong

It has been a big week for many Asian actors around the world as awards season wraps up. The same weekend that Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian person to win the Best Actress Award at the Academy Awards, Ke Huy Quan winning Best Supporting Actor, and Everything Everywhere All at Once winning Best Picture, across the ocean, the Asian Film Awards took place in Hong Kong. Acting Legend Tony Leung was honoured with Best Actor for his portrayal of Nam Kong (one of the four great sergeants of the 1960s) in Director Philip Yung's Where the Wind Blows.

Mark Your Calendar, Film & Books, FilmFête ChinoiseMarch 15, 2023Movies, hong kong, tony leung, Aaron KwokComment

Canadian Premiere of The Chinese Lady by Lloyd Suh

Use special discount code FETE15 to receive 15% off tickets to any of our preview performances, May 2-4! Discounted Artsworker, Student, Senior, Under 30 and Pay What You Can tickets are also available for performances in the run.

Mark Your CalendarFête ChinoiseMarch 7, 2023Comment

The First BC Dumpling Festival Took Place in Coquitlam

A racist remark hurled at Canadian local photographer Gina Chong in Coquitlam Park during the pandemic sparked inspiration for her to start Asian Arts & Culture Society (formerly Asian Impact Society) and to dream up the very first dumpling festival in British Columbia. Bringing together thousands of people from different cultures and walks of life, she used the dumpling as a thread to celebrate the commonalities between cultures, and that like all Canadians who have diverse heritages, share more in common than we think. The dumpling is often viewed as an exclusively Asian food type, but in fact it is found in other ethnic cuisines with the same generational spirit — just with a different name, such as perogies and ravioli.

Mark Your CalendarDeborah Lau-YuAugust 17, 2022Comment

Love Matters with Grace: A New Hong Kong Television Talk Show Produced in English

Wherever you live, if you’re Chinese, you have likely come across TVB in some way, somehow. For 55 years and several generations of Chinese immigrants spread across the globe, TVB provided a sense of home and familiarity to all. This iconic brand still resonates among young audiences today but has also had its fair share of missteps in connecting and engaging with them. With this in mind, TVB put forth a massive effort in reinvigorating its brand to appeal more to today’s audience tastes and preferences, with none more pleasantly surprising than creating original content in English through their TVB Pearl channel under the banner Pearl Originals.

Mark Your Calendar, Film & BooksFête ChinoiseAugust 2, 2022Asian Representation, tvb, drama, shows, grace, grace chanComment

Simu Liu & Jeremy Lin Headline 2022 Celebrity Basketball Game in Toronto

Asian 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.

Current Affairs, Mark Your CalendarRuizhou LiJune 10, 2022Comment

Beyond Borders: an exhibition in toronto on Reshaping the Ordinaries of Hong Kong

The Hong Kong Arts Exhibition aim to showcase how Hong Kong artists adopt traditional craft to create culturally-rich contemporary artworks including mini cheongsam dummies, lion head crafts, galvanized iron coffee sets and letter boxes for home deco or use in daily life. The making of these artworks are considered an intangible part of Hong Kong’s cultural heritage and craftsmanship.

Mark Your CalendarFête ChinoiseJune 9, 2022Asian Representation, Personal Stories, ArtComment

IT'S BACK! SMASH AT THE GARDINER MUSEUM

The Gardiner Museum has a mission to build community with clay. It brings together people of all ages and backgrounds through the shared values of creativity, wonder, and community that ceramic traditions inspire. Proceeds from SMASH support the Gardiner’s long-running Community Access Fund, making clay programs more accessible for young people.

Mark Your CalendarFête ChinoiseJune 3, 2022Art, artistsComment

38 at the Garden: a new film about how Jeremy Lin shattered stereotypes and inspired a generation

I’ve loved basketball my whole life. Growing up in Scarborough, a court and pickup game was never far away, and I’d often carry a ball with me just in case. In my teenage years, I’d go to school early, put on my Sony walkman (youths, starting googling) and shoot for 2-3 hours by myself - every morning, without fail. Looking back, it was my meditation, my happy place.

I was a pretty good player - quick first step, could finish at the rim, lefty advantage, great cardio, and a decent mid range shot. I also developed enough confidence that I would rarely see a game being played where I felt I couldn’t at least be a decent role player. My friend Darnel and I would go challenge people on random public courts and we won our fair share.

Mark Your Calendar, FilmGuest UserApril 28, 2022Asian Representation, SportsComment

Everything Everywhere All At Once is A Must Watch!

This 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!

Mark Your Calendar, Current Affairs, Film, Film & BooksFête ChinoiseApril 1, 2022Asian Representation, FilmComment

Turning Red: A Disney Pixar Chinese-Canadian Fairytale

After the Canadian Premiere of Turning Red, Disney and Pixar’s newest masterpiece, we stepped out of the TIFF Lightbox onto King Street, where the historic two-storey brick buildings sat as a backdrop to a passing streetcar, CN Tower lit up in red and purple to the left. It felt like the scenes from the movie continued into the sidewalk. This is the first Disney film to be situated in (and featuring) Toronto in the early 2000’s, a coming of age story about a 13 year old Chinese-Canadian girl whose emotions turn her into a giant red panda… as the poster suggests, “growing up is a beast!”

Current Affairs, Mark Your Calendar, FilmDeborah Lau-YuMarch 11, 2022Asian Representation, Film, animationComment

Matthew Wong: BLUE VIEW | August 13, 2021 - April 18, 2022

It is not very often that a local artist is exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and even more rare that Asian-Canadian representation happens in the art space at this level of recognition. The AGO is presenting an exciting solo exhibition beginning August 13, 2021 to April 18, 2022 titled Matthew Wong: Blue View, featuring works by a Toronto-born Chinese Canadian artist. The first-ever museum show of Matthew Wong (1984-2019), the exhibition features his acclaimed Blue series of oil, gouache and watercolour paintings. The New York Times described him as “one of the most talented painters of his generation.” The exhibition features Wong’s expressive style through 31 paintings and nine works on paper from his Blue series (2017-2019).

Art and Fashion, Mark Your CalendarDeborah Lau-YuAugust 19, 2021matthew wong, Art Gallery of Ontario, Art, artists, chinese canadianComment

Fantasia Film Festival: Features You Won't Want To Miss!

A pandemic won't stop us from enjoying cinema! The Fantasia Film Festival is here. In an effort to introduce Hong Kong films to the Canadian community, the Hong Kong Economic Trade Office has been partnering with numerous film festivals across the country. The Fantasia International Film Festival 2021 will take place from August 5 to 25th, both virtually and in-person — a hybrid model so that more audiences can view some great action on screens at home and in theatre.

Mark Your Calendar, Film, Film & BooksDeborah Lau-YuAugust 10, 2021Film, hong kongComment