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Vancouver Cantonese Opera

The Vancouver Cantonese Opera is a non-profit organization that seeks to present high level Cantonese opera before Chinese and non-Chinese audiences in Canada and hopes to cultivate an appreciation for its unique and vibrant aesthetic.
Originally started by Rosa Cheng (now artistic director of the VCO) in the 1990s as Friends of Cantonese Opera, the group was then incorporated June 30th, 2000 as the Vancouver Cantonese Opera. As an established group, the VCO put on two large scale productions in Vancouver and Burnaby every year, as well as participates in all manner of other activities such as singing lessons, workshops, seminars and multicultural events.
Vancouver Chinese Instrumental Music Society

== The Society==
In 1999, the Vancouver Chinese Instrumental Music Society was established to support the work of the Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble, which was formed in 1989. The Ensemble has worked with several Vancouver-based composers, including Rui Shi Zhuo, Mark Armanini, Janet Danielson, Nai Chung Kuan, Qing Hua Zheng, Jin Zhang, Lisa Miller, Kang Nian Tang, Michael O’Neill, Jon Siddall, Jacqueline Leggatt and John Oliver. This versatile group embraces the popular and the classical traditions of China as well as western classical and contemporary music performed on Chinese instruments. The Ensemble has a broad repertoire encompassing traditional music from various regions of China, to adaptations of Canadian folk songs and other music.
In addition to self-produced concert presentations, the Ensemble has presented educational concerts and performed at local events including Vancouver New Music events, the Sonic Boom Festival, the Vancouver Folk Music Festival and Chinese community celebrations, as well as in concerts and at music festivals across Canada and in the United States. They have performed at festivals in Montreal, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Mission, and in concerts in Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, Richmond Hill, Kitimat, Osoyoos and Kamloops. In the United States, the Ensemble has performed in Portland, Port Angeles and Seattle. The group has performed in schools across BC and has showcased at regional and national events including Pacific Contact, ArtScan and the Canada Council for the Arts’ Presence Conference. They released their first CD, Transplanted Purple Bamboo, in 2000 and their second CD, New Frontiers, in 2006.
Together with the Ensemble, the Society works to educate Canadian audiences about traditional Chinese music and contemporary music for Chinese instruments and/or based on Chinese music.
Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra

==About the VICO==
The Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra was inaugurated on November 13, 2000 at the city's Sacred Music Festival, with the world premiere of founding program director Moshe Denburg's piece Rapprochements (Reconciliations) for Inter-Cultural Orchestra - a brand new work commissioned by the Westcoast Sacred Arts Society with funding from the Vancouver Foundation and other generous donors. The piece embodied the concept on which the VICO was founded, bringing together a mixed choir and a large ensemble of 28 instrumentalists from a variety of different musical backgrounds. The premiere was well-received in the local and national media, and was hailed as one of Vancouver's ten best musical events of 2000.
Over the six years of its existence the VICO has received awards and commissions from the Vancouver Foundation, the Canada Council, the Westcoast Sacred Arts Society, and several other private donors and foundations in the Vancouver area. The VICO was incorporated as a non-profit society on September 25, 2001 and became a registered charity in May 2003 (Registration #: 87580 8511 RR0001).
Board of Directors (2010)
K. Louise Arney, President
Lan Tung, Vice-President
Ian Migicovsky, Secretary-Treasurer 
Jeff Pelletier, Director
Mark Fenster, Director
Administration (2010)
Moshe Denburg, Co-Artistic Director
Mark Armanini, Co-Artistic Director 
Melanie Thompson, Administrative Director/Publicist
Jessie Zhang, Administrative Assistant
Mary Kastle, Bookkeeping/Project Manager
Don Xaliman, Audio-Visual Recordist
Advisory Board (2010)
Richard Marcuse, Consultant
Ellie O’Day, Consultant
Nancy L. Mortifee, Consultant
Ron Stuart, Consultant
Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art

Situated in the heart of Vancouver's downtown Eastside, Centre A is a gallery that houses contemporary Asian art in the hopes of engaging, educating, and stimulating critical thought and debate. However, Centre A acts as more than just an art exhibit, it goes beyond the standard convention to include "artists-in-residence, collective interventions, works in progress, studio production, public forums, screenings, publications and web projects". Established in 1999, Centre A has bosted the work of over 300 artists from Canada and abroad, as well as having produced over 80 original projects.
== Current Exhibition ==
- Fire/Fire by Marina Roy and Abbas Akhavan and is on exhibition from June 2 to August 4, 2012. "Fire/Fire calls out like a warning, of obvious danger, perhaps too late. The title derived from the Great Fire of Meireki, which destroyed more than half of the Japanese capital city of Edo, leading to the redistribution of power and the establishment of the Edo period that gave birth to the tradition of Ukiyo-e prints in Japan. It also refers to the Great Vancouver Fire of 1886, which razed most of the newly incorporated city, and more recently the building fires that expelled artists from their studios, paving the way for new real estate and condo development. Fires are testament to our inability to control nature."
== Past Exhibitions ==
The following is a list of Centre A's most recent exhibitions; a complete listing of past exhibitions can be found here on Centre A's website.
- Yellow Signal: New Media in China by Wang Jianwei and Kan Xuan; held from March 17 to April 28, 2012.
- waiting for by Matilda Aslizadeh, Natalie Doonan, Gwenessa Lam and Natasha McHardy; held from January 14 to February 25, 2012.
- Maraya by M.Simon Levin, Glen Lowry and Henry Tsang; held from November 5 to December 17, 2011.
- THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS IN ART by Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries; held from September 13 to October 21, 2011.
- CO-LAB by Giorgio Magnanensi, Julie Gendron & Emma Hendrix, Daniel Tones, Germaine Koh, Gillian Jerome, Andrew Lee and Jennifer Schine; held from July 16 to August 20, 2011.
== Board of Directors ==
- Richard Mew (President)
- Anndraya T. Luui (President Emerita)
- Roger Holland (Vice-President)
- Karen Coflin (Secretary)
- Alvina Quek (Treasurer)
- June Chow
- Pantea Haghighi
- Ian Ross McDonald
- Bernadette Phan
- Mark Reid
Vancouver Mokuyokai Society

The Vancouver Mokuyokai Society was established in 1982 for people of all nationalities with a strong professional or personal interest in Japan. Our members are diverse, consisting of business people, teachers, lawyers, diplomats, students and others.
The society offers unique events and activities for its members throughout the year to bring the Japanese and Canadian cultures together.
==Mission Statement==
To further productive relations between Canada and Japan while fostering greater cultural, linguistic and economic understanding between Canadians and Japanese.
==Networking==
The Vancouver Mokuyokai Society cooperates with many of the other Japan-Canada organizations in BC and across Canada in order to achieve our common goals. The Vancouver Mokuyokai Society often co-sponsors events with other organizations, including the Canada-Japan Society of BC, Konwakai (Japanese Businessmen's Association), Kiyukai (Vancouver Japanese Business Association), JET Alumni Association of BC and others.
Veena Gokhale

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Veena Gokhale, an immigrant shape shifter, started her career as a journalist in Bombay. This “tough, tantalizing” city inspired Bombay Wali and other stories (Guernica Editions, 2013). Veena came to Canada for the first time on a journalism fellowship, returning to do a Masters. After immigrating here, she worked for non-profits. Her novel, Land for Fatimah (Guernica, 2018), is partly inspired by the two years she spent working in Tanzania. She received a grant from the Quebec Arts Council to write this novel. Veena has published in anthologies and literary magazines, read widely from her work and received other grants. She enjoys doing freelance journalism with a focus on the arts in Montreal. Veena also gives Indian, vegetarian, cooking classes on and off line. 
She is currently (2020) working on a manuscript entitled Annapurna's Bounty, Indian Food Legends and Recipes, funded by Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and marketing a manuscript entitled The Artichoke, Sensuous Stories.
Veena Sood

Veena Sood is a Canadian-based film and television actress of Punjabi descent. 
She works in both the UK and Canada. She starred in ITV's Compulsion featuring Ray Winstone and Parminder Nagra. She has also starred in the UK film Nina's Heavenly Delights,
as well as the Canada/UK film Touch of Pink, which received a standing ovation at the Sundance Film Festival. She co-founded Calgary's Loose Moose Theatre Company best known for their Improvisational theatre work. She also performs one-woman improvised shows at Canadian and U.K. comedy festivals with her character "The Maharani". She used to co-host CBC Television's women's talk show In the Company of Women.
She has been seen on television in recurring roles in the series Hope Island, Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, Little Mosque on the Prairie, and Endgame. You can also see her in the feature films Connie and Carla, Helen and 50/50. 
She is sister to Ashwin Sood, Sarah McLachlan's drummer and husband, and Manoj Sood, who plays Baber on Little Mosque on the Prairie.
She has a great ear for accents, having had to do a Scottish/Punjabi accent for Nina's Heavenly Delights.
She is an outdoor enthusiast and enjoys hiking the back country of the Canadian Rockies and kayaking the remote B.C. coastline. She has also canoed down the Amazon River and safaried the Masai Mara in Kenya, the country of her birth.
She was born in Nairobi, Kenya and grew up in Calgary, Alberta.
Currently Veena continues her improvisational theatre work as the co-artistic director of Keith Johnstone's "The Life Game".
Ven Begamudre

Ven Begamudre is a Canadian writer. He was born in South India and moved with his family to Canada when he was six. He currently divides his time between western Canada and the island of Bali.
In addition to short stories and novels, Begamudré has written a biography of Isaac Brock for young adults, and has edited or co-edited several literary collections. He has completed six writer-in-residence appointments including the University of Calgary’s Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Programme, the University of Alberta’s Department of English, the Canada-Scotland Exchange, Regina Public Library, McMaster University’s Department of English, and the Yukon Public Libraries. He has also taught fiction workshops at the Sage Hill Writing Experience. Most recently he has been teaching at Iowa State University.
He has a degree in public administration from Carleton University and an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C. He lives in Regina, Saskatchewan and on the island of Bali.
Veronica Chail

As the host of Canada's leading Bollywood TV show - OMNI Television's Bollywood Blvd, Veronica Chail has been winning over audiences with her charismatic and infectious personality since she started. Being a self-confessed news, pop culture, fashion and reality TV junkie, Veronica has interviewed the biggest names in Bollywood and has produced numerous interviews with the movers and shakers of the world including politicians, newsmakers, sports heroes, activists, musicians, and Hollywood A-listers. Simply put - Veronica lives and breathes media! She is a creative soul and a humanitarian at heart.
Being in the spotlight isn't something Veronica sought when traveling the globe with her parents as a child, but it was her calling. Her journey to her dream career began halfway around the world in Sweden where she was born and raised. With no grasp of the English language, Veronica and her family later moved to Stratford, Ontario where she worked at the Stratford Festival of Canada and developed her love of theatre. Her extensive travel and international experiences led her to pursue a university degree in English and Political Science and a Masters degree in Journalism at the University of Western Ontario.
Veronica enjoys the challenges of wearing multiple journalistic hats. She began her journalism career as news reporter, news writer and entertainment reporter and host at OMNI Television. She moved on to work as a TV producer at CBC for "The Hour" with George Stroumboulopoulos. The first interview she was assigned to produce on the The Hour' was Hollywood royalty - Michael Douglas! Now, Veronica is back in front of the camera as a vivacious TV host and she also works as a producer and writer.
Veronica Chail will be forever synonymous with the 2011 International Indian Film Academy Awards. She was everywhere and had all angles covered! From hosting daily Bollywood Blvd shows, to the magical green carpet action, to co-hosting events with Shah Rukh Khan and Vivek Oberoi (talk about a career highlight), her interviews and to getting exclusive access to the stars- she was your go to person.
Veronica is passionate about the media's role in society and is dedicated to giving back to the community by working with a variety of charities and organizations. She is a Canadian Museum for Human Rights Ambassador and is dedicated to anti-human trafficking and human rights initiatives. Veronica also works with the Mood Disorders Association of Ontario, the Chest of Hope Art Project for breast cancer research and she also makes frequent trips back to the University of Western Ontario to speak to undergraduate and graduate students about career choices and leadership.
Victor Cheng (musician)

Victor Cheng is a Toronton-based Conductor, Co-Founder and Artistic Director.
==Career==
Born in 1983, Victor Cheng has already established himself as a talented and multi-faceted musician. Inspired by Ivars Taurins, he decided to pursue orchestral conducting in 2007 and along with composer Kevin Lau, founded Sneak Peek Orchestra, an endeavor to showcase young talent and premiere works by Canadian composers. Since then, SPO has performed at the Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts and the Chinese Cultural Centre, and has had the honour of performing with artists such as Shauna Rolston, Molly Johnson, Lucia Cesaroni, and Conrad Chow. Victor was accepted to the NAC Conductor’s Program where he had the opportunity to work with Orchestre de la Francophonie Canadienne and the National Arts Centre Orchestra under the tutelage of Kenneth Kiesler and Pinchas Zukerman.
Victor’s passion in conducting stemmed from piano lessons with conductor/composer An-Lun Huang as well as his experience as a choir boy at St. Michael’s Choir School, where he specialized in voice, piano and organ. Currently Victor is the assistant conductor of Vocal Horizons Chamber Choir and a member of the Toronto Philharmonia Chorus. He is also the Musical Director and Principal Organist of Our Lady of Annunciation Church.
Victor graduated from University of Toronto with a B.Mus in Jazz Piano Performance. He studied with Gary Williamson, Dave Restivo, performed with jazz icons Dave Young and Terry Clarke, and has had the opportunity to work with Lee Konitz and Renee Rosnes. In 2006, Victor was invited to perform in Kenny Barron’s clinic at the National Arts Centre. As a freelance conductor and pianist, Victor is in popular demand for recording sessions, recitals and concerts, having worked with Toronto Philharmonia, University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, University of Toronto Wind Symphony, Madawasaka String Quartet, Toronto Wind Quintet, Bach Children’s Chorus, and Vocal Horizons Chamber Choir.
Vietnamese Boat People Museum Project

Vietnamese Boat People Museum Project was launched by the Vietnamese Canadian Federation in 2005. It received wide support of the Vietnamese community in Canada. Political support was received from: Marion Dewar, late Mayor of Ottawa; 
former Ottawa Mayor Bob Chiarelli, Diane Holmes, Ottawa City Councillor for Somerset Ward; Yasir Naqvi, MPP for Ottawa Centre; Senator Mac Harb, Ottawa; Paul Dewar, MP for Ottawa Centre; Premiers: Rodney MacDonald, Nova Scotia; Pat Binns, Prince Edward Island; Shaun Graham, New Brunswick; Jean Charest, Québec; Dalton McGuinty, Ontario; Gary Doer, Manitoba; Lorne Calvert, Saskatchewan; 
Ralph Klein, Alberta; Gordon Campbell, British Columbia; Dennis Fentie, Yukon; Joseph Handley, Northwest Territories; Tom Hedderson, Minister of Tourism, Culture, and Recreation of Newfoundland and Labrador. The project has raised or obtained firm commitment for $800,000 (including the proceeds from the sale of the property at 249 Rochester St., Ottawa). It needs to raise an additional $3,500,000.
==Details==
* Total area: 15,000 sq ft 
* Estimated cost: $4,300,000 including $600,000 for construction, 
3,500,000 for the building, and $200,000 for the interior and the exhibits. 
* April 30, 2009: received the site at 105 Preston St., Ottawa (opposite 
corner from the Vietnamese Commemorative Monument) 
* Previous fund-raising events: Ottawa (2007, 2009, 2010), Tucson, AZ 
(2007), San Jose, CA (2007), Winnipeg (2007) 
* Fundraisers in 2011: Saskatoon (11-6), Calgary (23-7), Halifax (11-11), 
Edmonton (26-11), Ottawa (10-12) 
* 2012-2013: continues to raise fund in Canada, the U.S., and other 
countries 
* 2013: expected construction start
Vietnamese Canadian Community of Ottawa

The Vietnamese Canadian Community of Ottawa (VCCO) is a not-for-profit organization that is completely run by volunteers. We have been established since 2003 and have incorporated as a not-for-profit organization in November of 2009. Each year, the VCCO organizes and offers a variety of programs, activities and events to serve members of the community within the National Capital Region. 
==Governance==
VCCO is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors, whose members are elected
==Objectives==
#To plan and organize cultural, health, and educational programs and activities for people of all ages within the community in the National Capital Region
#To promote a better understanding of Vietnamese culture and heritage
#To liaise between the Vietnamese community and other ethnic or cultural communities 
#To provide leadership and learning opportunities for youth
==Mission for 2011/2012
*To increase the diversity of events and activities within the Ottawa community
*To promote and deliver health and fitness programs
*To develop volunteer and leadership capacity
==Executive Committee==
:Mr. Phuong Mai, President
:Ms. Nhung Nguyen, VP Internal
:Ms. Hoang Mai Nguyen, VP External
:Ms. Danh Lam Nguyen, Treasurer
:Mr. Tue Huy Nguyen, General Secretary
:Mr. Le Phan, Senior Advisor
Executive Committee 2010: 
:Danh Lam Nguyen, President
:Luong Le Phan, VP Internal
:Hoang Mai Nguyen, VP External
:Tue Huy Nguyen, Treasurer
Vietnamese Community Centre of Mississauga

The Vietnamese Community Centre of Mississauga (VCCM) is a non-profit organization founded in 1985 to serve the Vietnamese community in Peel Region.
==Goals==
*To provide programs to enable the Vietnamese population to develop skills essential for integrating into Canadian society
*To ensure that programs and services provided by VCCM and other organizations in the region are accessible to the Vietnamese population
*To preserve and enrich the Vietnamese culture and tradition in harmony with multiculturalism.
==Settlement Services==
*Assisting new comer living in Peel region to apply for SIN, OHIP, legal and financial assistance, non-profit housing and settlement-related services
*Organizing support groups for women, youth, and seniors to facilitate their integration into the mainstream society
*Providing settlement and counselling services for the community
Offering interpretation and translation services
*Providing probation counselling
==Education==
*Assisting new immigrants in registration procedures for enrolling in educational institutions
*Co-operating with Peel Board of Education to provide Heritage language programs, E.S.L, Language and Skills Training, citizenship classes, mathematics, and computer classes
*Providing employment resources such as resume writing, essential skills, and job search techniques
*Holding seminars and workshops to inform the Vietnamese community of issues concerning the Canadian legal system and human rights
==Cultural Services==
*Organizing cultural festivals, ritual ceremonies and Canadian celebrations
*Publishing newsletters to inform Vietnamese residents of community activities and events
==Sports and Other Activities==
*Forming a community-based music ensemble to perform on holidays
*Organizing various local sport teams to participate in the annual North American Sports Event and other competitions
*Organizing picnics, camping trips and scenic sightings
Vik Sahay

Vik Sahay is a Canadian actor best known for playing Lester Patel, a member of the Nerd Herd in the NBC television series Chuck on which he became a series regular from the second season, and Rama in the Roxy Hunter saga.
Vik Sahay was born in Ottawa, Canada to Indian parents and attended Canterbury High School of the Arts in Ottawa. He went on to study Theatre Performance at Montreal's Concordia University.
He learned to perform Indian classical dance with his brother Sidharth Sahay, with whom he appeared on 1986's You Can't Do That on Television. He was also featured in the television series Radio Active, playing sportscaster Kevin Calvin. Based on that work, he was selected to appear in Our Hero as Dalal Vidya, for which he was nominated for a 2002 Canadian Comedy Award. Subsequently, he also portrayed attorney Anil Sharma on the CBC series This is Wonderland during its second and third seasons.
Vim Kochhar

Vim Kochhar (born September 21, 1936) is a Canadian businessman and former Senator, the first person of Indo-Canadian heritage appointed to the Senate of Canada on January 29, 2010."Ontario's Runciman among 5 new senators". Toronto Star, January 29, 2010. Vim Kochhar obtained an engineering degree from the University of Texas and came to Canada in 1967. He acquired Canadian citizenship in 1974. He retired from the Senate on September 21, 2011, upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.
Vim Kochhar/fr

Vim Kochhar (Inde, 21 septembre 1936 - ) est un homme d'affaires canadien et un politicien, qui a été nommé au Sénat du Canada le 29 janvier 2010 sous le recommandation de Stephen HarperParlement du Canada : Vim Kochhar - Parti conservateur du Canada . 
Né en Inde, il est diplomé en ingénierie de l'Université du Texas. Il a émigré au Canada en 1967 et est devenu citoyen canadien en 1974. Il est le fondateur de Vimal Group of companies à Toronto. Il a aussi fondé la Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Persons qui supporte les athlètes en fauteuil roulant.