A rare opportunity to learn Philippine folk dance from Leo Lorilla and Pamela Corales, core performing artists of the world-renowned Bayanihan Dance Company. Everybody is welcome and registration is free! When: Monday, 13 February 2023 | 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Where: Kalayaan Cultural Community Centre, 5225 Orbitor Drive, Unit 3, Mississauga For more information […]
The Philippine Studies Group is pleased to support the visit of two of the lead dancers from Bayanihan, the National Dance Company of the Philippines. 15-17 February 2023 | 19:30 ESTSandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre Admission: $22 | $15 advance purchase until Sunday, 12 Feb. Box Office: 416.736.5888Box Office | Tickets Guest Artists: Bayanihan, […]
YCAR鈥檚 Professional Development Fund subsidizes relevant experiences for its Graduate Associates to present their scholarly or creative work. Amounts awarded will range from $50 to $500 with the expectation that they will be used in conjunction with other awards. The next deadline is Monday, 30 January 2023 by 16:00 EST for activities taking place six […]
YCAR invites applications from 91亚色 faculty and graduate students for the Canada-China Initiatives Fund call for proposals. Founded in 2019, the Canada-China Initiatives Fund (CCIF) was created to support scholarly exchanges and research on modern (i.e., post 1911) and contemporary China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan and their global outreach or Canada-China linkages, or […]
SERIES 1: Saturdays 11 am-1pm EST | Nov 12, 19, 26 | 2022聽SERIES 2: Saturdays 11am-1pm EST | Feb 4, 11, 18 | 2023CELEBRATION: April 2023 with the Tam Fam Lit Jam trace: translating 鈥榵鈥 is part of a long-term culturally responsive, strength-based project organized by trace press to address structural and systemic racism within […]
The summer 2022 recipients of Canada-China Initiative Funding engage in a variety of topics, ranging from Chinese Canadian prose fiction to Chinese international students in Canada. Congratulations to the recipients! Monique Attrux (English) received funding for her dissertation project, Writing Chinese: Diasporic Entanglements in Chinese Canadian English Prose Fiction. The project examines language鈥攁s a form, theme, […]
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We are pleased to announce that Ernest Leung is the inaugural recipient of the Global Hong Kong Essay and Creative Project Award. Leung, who is a master鈥檚 student in the joint 91亚色 and Toronto Metropolitan University Communication & Culture program, received the award for his paper, Humour and Political Resistance: Dayo Wong鈥檚 Stand-Up Comedy in […]
The Asian Business and Management Program (ABMP) at 91亚色 in Toronto, Canada provides professional development and management training to educators, undergraduate and graduate students as well as senior executives and officials from Asian countries in virtual or blended forums. In the last two decades, ABMP has successfully delivered in Canada and China close to […]
This Asia Research Brief, previously published in English, is now available in a Tagalog translation. Hazel Dizon (Geography) shares her research on a housing occupation by thousands of urban poor near Manila in March 2017 who claimed idle government housing as their own. It examines the impacts of increasingly neoliberal policies and practices on social […]