2020 17th Annual DTES Heart of the City Festival: Sid Chow Tan - "My ART is ACTIVISM" Part II
Channel: The Activist Network
Date: 2020-11-10

November 3, 2020 at 3pm PST online

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Heart of the City Festival and Sid Chow Tan acknowledge that this presentation takes place on Coast Salish territory, which includes the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh people. 

We are gathered in Hum Sui Fow, Salt Water City, Vancouver British Columbia Canada   

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Jim Wong-Chu interview excerpt (1987) from Chinatown Today and reading of “Jimmy the Waiter”  (2014) as part of Heart of the City Festival presentation of Saltwater City Stories.  2:34  

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Chinese Head Tax/Exclusion Redress community meeting  (November 6, 1988)  at the Chinese Cultural Centre organised by the Chinese Benevolent Association. A Chinatown Today production.  10:30

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This generation’s fight for the soul of Chinatown (October 2015). Action against Beedie’s 105 Keefer development. Produced by ACCESS Community Television volunteers and archived on Youtube.  8:51   

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A Common Bond: Gold Mountain Edition in studio interview with WW II veterans Harry Con, Roy Mah and Gim Wong hosted by Sid Tan. A Chinatown Today production.  1991 

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“Gim Wong the Song” in support of Gim’s “Ride for Redress.”  The Nugget Peak Rail Collective produced this 2005 video edited by Elwin Xie with words and music by Sean Gunn.  5:33 

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Jack Layton , then New  Democrat leader and later Official Opposition leader. A Salt Water City Television Collective production premiere cablecast on Shaw in Metro Vancouver/Fraser Valley.  7:10

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8th Annual Canada Day Redress Rally at Chinatown Monument (Keefer and Columbia).  Recorded by Alnoor Gova for Co-op Radio 1n 2012. Organised by Head Tax Families Society of Canada.  5:15

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Inheriting Resistance : A Community History Project by No One Is Illegal (2012). Documenting stories of people in the community in the struggle for social/economic justice. With permission.  4:09 

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"Beedie. Beedie. You can't hide. We can see your greedy side."  On September 5, 2017,  Nat Lowe reports: "Massive turnout of Chinatown residents, youth, and allies…”  An ACCESS Community Television production.  1:45

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Jim Wong-Chu reading of  “Equal Opportunity” from his book of poetry “Chinatown Ghosts” in 2014. Part of the Heart of the City Festival presentation of Saltwater City Stories.  1:52

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Thanks to 17th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival and Downtown Eastside Small Arts Grant for their support. Special thanks to the community television staff and volunteers over the years who were and are the idea, body and soul of community media. 
 
n.   November 10 2020