This weekend, LNY Splash and the VIFF Centre are co-presenting films about Asian families to get into the Lunar New Year spirit.
A family photo sends director Dieu Hao Do on a quest around the world in Hao Are You, which will be screened at the VIFF Centre on February 8.
In addition to her lantern design, Angel Kao has also created stickers and red envelopes to welcome the Year of the Snake.
Souvanny, the French-born daughter of Lao immigrants, has worked in animation, comic books, illustration and advertising.
Vancouver digital artist Ceiiru is a Taiwanese Canadian from South Africa. But her greatest artistic influence came from Japan.
Xinman, a B.C. poet who writes verses in English and Chinese, composed this ode in advance of Lunar New Year.
Granny Must Die is a comedy with meaning—ideal for Lunar New Year when so many families get together over the holiday.
Todd Wong has been livening up Lunar New Year in Vancouver since 1998 with his annual Gung Haggis banquets.
Whitehead has been in Vancouver for decades, but he hasn’t lost touch with his roots on the James Smith Cree Nation.
Bamboo weaver Huei-Ting Tsai created fish, which appear to be swimming freely in the sky in the West End of Vancouver.
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The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.
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