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Milton Lim

== Milton Lim ==
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Milton Lim is a Vancouver-based director/designer and multi-disciplinary performer. He holds a BFA (Hons.) from Simon Fraser University; a dual-major degree in theatre performance and psychology. His work utilizes digital media and various modes of live performance, often employing game mechanics, typography architecture, and high-frequency content readability.
He has created works for and performed in various international festivals including the PuSh International Performance Arts Festival (Vancouver), the Gateway Pacific Theatre Festival (Richmond), CanAsian Dance Festival (Toronto), Uno Fest (Victoria), rEvolver Theatre Festival (Vancouver), SummerWorks Festival (Toronto), Dancing on the Edge (Vancouver), Risk/Reward Festival (Portland), and the Seattle International Dance Festival. Milton's video media works have also been presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery, San Fransisco State University, and VIVO Media Arts Centre.
Milton was awarded the Ray Michal Prize for Outstanding Body of Work by an Emerging Director at the 2016 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards.
In Vancouver, Milton has had the pleasure of working with MACHiNENOiSY Dance Theatre, Playwright's Theatre Centre, Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, Centre A Gallery, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, and the Vancouver Art Gallery among others. Recent acting credits include Boca del Lupo’s Big Bad, Gateway Theatre's King of the Yees, and Theatre Conspiracy’s award-winning immersive show: Foreign Radical.
During his undergrad, Milton was a company member of the laboratory performance collective, Attic Salt, where he trained with visiting international artists, exploring artistic evolution in both performance and pedagogy. 
Milton most often creates his original works as a Co-Artistic Director of his interdisciplinary company, Hong Kong Exile; he is also a Co-Director of Gold Saucer Studio and an Artistic Associate with Theatre Conspiracy. 
Milton is the Artist-in-Residence with the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival over the next two years along with Hong Kong Exile. Supported by the British Columbia Arts Council, he is also in the midst of doing a year-long mentorship with award-winning playwright, David Yee, Artistic Director of Fu-GEN Theatre (Toronto, ON).
Min Sook Lee

Min Sook Lee is an award winning filmmaker. Her body of work includes HOGTOWN The Politics of Policing’ (Best Feature-length Canadian Documentary, Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival 2005), El Contrato (Gemini Award nomination for Best Social/ Political Documentary) and Tiger Spirit, a reunification road-trip through the two Koreas (Gemini Award Winner of Best Social/Political Documentary, finalist for the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2009). This clip from Lee's City Hall documentary Hogtown featuring Toronto Mayor Rob Ford who was then a City Councilor, behaving boorishly as he hectors a harried journalist has had a viral presence online, blogged about by Roger Ebert and cited in many media channels as evidence that Ford is unfit for office.
Her short docu-poems Borderless (about undocumented workers) and Sedition (featuring the spoken work political poetry of Boona Mohammed and Rafeef Ziadah) have played at international festivals. Min Sook was also presented with the Cesar E. Chavez Black Eagle Award for El Contrato’s impact on the rights of migrant workers. Min Sook premiered her documentary My Toxic Baby at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. Badge of Pride, her documentary on gay cops was released in 2009 and broadcast on CBC's The Passionate Eye. Badge of Pride premiered on US television on PBS New York in 2012. 
Min Sook is the co-creator of the comedy series ‘SHE’S THE MAYOR’ (http://www.earthbook.tv/shesthemayor/) which premiered on Vision TV in 2011 and ran for one season. The series starring Janet Laine Greene, Tonya Lee Williams and Coline Mochrie told the story of an elderly woman who runs for the mayoralty as a protest act and unexpectedly wins the vote. Once ensconced in power, the political neophyte has to figure out how to govern without turning into what she protested in the first place. In 2011 Lee also released : The Real MASH – the true story of the people that inspired the fiction TV series. (http://therealmash.com/) The doc garnered a Golden Sheaf nomination, a Gemini nomination for best editing and was presented with an Honourable Mention from the International Columbus Film & Video Awards.
Min Sook is in production on two projects: The Real Inglorious Bastards, a documentary about Jewish spies behind enemy lines during WWII; and SKETCH CITY, an interactive documentary developed with street youth about their lives.
Lee teaches documentary production in the Documentary Media (MFA) Program at Ryerson University. 
Watch Min Sook's docs online 
Tiger Spirit (http://www.nfb.ca/film/tiger_spirit/)
El Contrato (http://www.nfb.ca/film/el_contrato/)
Hogtown: The Politics of Policing (http://hotdocslibrary.ca/en/detail.cfm?filmId=7127)
Mina Shum

Independent writer/director Mina Shum, born in Hong Kong and raised in Canada, calls Vancouver home base. She has written and directed three award winning feature films that have successfully touched international and domestic audiences. She is currently preparing to shoot her next feature, the comedy, Two of Me, in Spring 2013 with Brightlight Pictures, as well as writing and developing other feature projects including the kung fu teen comedy, The Lotus (co-written with Dennis Foon) and a documentary for the National Film Board, The Ninth Floor. Her cinematic theatre piece, All, (a collaboration with Standing Wave Music Ensemble) was presented at the Push Festival in 2011. And her internet hit, Hip Hop Mom was most recently invited to take part in the official Calgary Canada Day 2012 celebrations.
Mitch Miyagawa

Mitch Miyagawa is a writer and filmmaker in Whitehorse, Yukon.
Mitch has won Western and National Magazine Awards for his non-fiction work, for cover stories in Walrus and Geist magazines. His essay for Walrus, A Sorry State, was recently anthologized in the Aboriginal Healing Foundation‘s Truth and Reconciliation series. He was a finalist for the CBC Literary Awards in non-fiction in 2011. He has also written extensively about his home in the Yukon in North of Ordinary and Up Here magazines.
As a playwright, his play The Plum Tree was widely produced in Canadian theatres, including ATP’s playRites Festival. The Plum Tree was published in 2004 by Playwrights Canada Press, and recently appeared in the anthology Love and RelAsianships. His latest play, Carnaval, was produced in 2007 by Gwaandak Theatre Adventures and Nakai Theatre, and will be published in the journal Ryga in 2012.
As a filmmaker, Mitch is in production as director/writer/co-producer with A Sorry State, a one-hour documentary for TVO. He previously directed and produced several short documentaries and dramas for NFB and Bravo, and co-wrote a feature script with Force Four Films. His production company is Up and Away Productions.
Contact: miyagawa AT upandaway DOT ca
Mobina Jaffer

Mobina S. B. Jaffer, QC (born August 20, 1949 in Kampala, Uganda) is a Canadian Senator representing British Columbia. She is the first South Asian woman appointed to the Upper House. 
Born to an Indian family living in Africa, Jaffer was educated in England and Canada. She earned a law degree from the University of London in 1972 and attended the Executive Development program at Simon Fraser University. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. 
 
In 2002, she was appointed the Special Envoy to the Peace Process in Sudan by the Government of Canada. The same year, she was Chair of the Canadian Committee on Women Peace & Security.
Jaffer has served as a Vice-President of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1994 to 1998 and as President of the National Women's Liberal Commission from 1998 to 2003. She also served on the board of the Liberal International in 1996. Jaffer ran unsuccessfully in the 1993 general election as the Liberal candidate in North Vancouver, and again in the 1997 election as the party's candidate in Burnaby--Douglas.
Jaffer has practised law in British Columbia since 1978. She was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1998. Since 1997, Jaffer has been vice-chair of the Canadian membership committee for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and, since 1993, a member of the board of governors of the Trial Lawyers of British Columbia. She has also been active with the Immigrant and Refugee Board. 
She was appointed to the Canadian Senate on June 13, 2001, on the advice of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. She sits as a Liberal. 
The Vancouver Sun reported on January 22, 2008 that the B.C. Law Society was investigating allegations of overbilling by Jaffer and her son for allegedly charging a Catholic missionary order, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, fees of $6.7 million for work they did between 2000 and 2004 defending the Oblates against abuse claims made by former residents of the Canadian Indian residential school system. Allegations included evidence that Ms. Jaffer's son had billed 32.4 hours of work in a single day. . In 2009 the Law Society of British Columbia's Discipline Subcommittee ordered Jaffer and her son to appear before separate conduct review subcommittee panels. At its regular meeting in March 2010 the Discipline Subcommittee agreed with the recommendations of those panels that no further action should be taken. [broken link]
Moe Sihota

Munmohan Singh "Moe" Sihota (born 1955) is a former Canadian broadcaster and politician.
He was born in Duncan, British Columbia and attended St. George's Boys School, Vancouver, on scholarship. He obtained a bachelor of social work from the University of British Columbia in 1977, was awarded a scholarship to Warwick School of Economics, London, 1981 and a bachelor of laws from the University of Victoria in 1982. He was a social worker in White Rock in 1978-79 and practised law in Esquimalt in 1984.
His political career began during his undergraduate years at UBC:
* Ombudsman, UBC (1975).
* Vice president, UBC, Board of Governors (1977).
* President, Young New Democrats (1978).
* President, Federal Riding of Cowichan/Malahat/The Islands (1981–84).
* Successfully managed election campaigns for Frank Mitchell (1983) and Jim Manly (1984).
* Alderman, Esquimalt (1984)
* Elected M.L.A. for Esquimalt/Port Renfrew (1986).
* The first Indian-Canadian to be elected to any federal or provincial riding and the first Indian-Canadian cabinet minister in a province of Canada.
He served in several cabinet posts under the New Democratic governments of Mike Harcourt, Glen Clark and Ujjal Dosanjh, but was forced to resign from cabinet several times.
During his career, he created 200 new Provincial Parks, extended Workers Compensation Coverage to farmworkers and changed BC logging practices.He also served on the Board of Directors of BC Hydro and Power Authourity, Insurance Corporation of BC, Workers Compensation Board and the BC Buildings Corporation.www.leg.ca.ca/mla/36thpar/Sihota.htm
Mohit Rajhans

Mohit RajhansBiography from IntentBlog is a Canadian writer, director, producer and reporter for multiple media outlets. He has many television and film credits to his name.
Rajhans was born in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada and graduated from Cawthra Park High School and McMaster University. After a few years of acting, he went on to reporting for Omni TV in Toronto, where he covers everything from the Toronto Film Festival to some of the biggest Bollywood events from around the world. Some of his most memorable interviews include a rare one on one with Lisa Ray, A candid interview with Russell Peters and an in depth look at the world of Shah Rukh Khan. His film reviews are seen in articles across the country and heard weekly on the Flow 935 radio station in Toronto.MoHit's Movies! His work has been showcased in magazines all around the world and he has been invited to a variety of festivals both as a panelist and a professional speaker. He is the co-founder of the FILMI Festival, which is the longest running showcase of South Asian films in North America and has also advised a variety of festivals on content from Canada.
Other television credits include work with CBC, Tech TV, and Omni2. Rajhans has also performed as a stand up comic all over the country and hosts a variety of staple events in the city in his spare time. He is the creator of an Omni produced series called The Changing Face of Comedy which currently airs on various Rogers Media Stations. He currently works on the producing team of Breakfast Television for City TV and works a film critic for a variety of publications. In 2007, Rajhans was voted as the top South Asian Media Personality at Canada’s largest Mela, Masala, Mendhi Maasti.Masala! Mehndi! Masti! – North America's Largest FREE South Asian Cultural Festival! – Home
Monika Deol

is a Canadian television personality. She began as a reporter for Citytv in Toronto, and later became a VJ for MuchMusic, hosting and co-producing Electric Circus from 1988 to 1996.
Deol was also an entertainment specialist on CityPulse at Six, host of MuchMusic’s news shows FAX and RapidFAX, and co-host of Citytv’s alternative fashion and style show Ooh La La.Deol worked as a news anchor with VTV Vancouver and host with Citytv Vancouver in 2002.
Monika Deol was born in India but moved to Canada at a young age. She was raised in Manitoba and educated in Winnipeg. She attended the University of Winnipeg and got her start in the music business at that time. Later, she moved to Toronto and joined CITY TV as an on air personality on Much Music. She hosted the dance show Electric Circus for many years. Deol and her husband Avtar Bains live in Vancouver.
Montreal Serai

==About==
Montreal Serai is a not-for-profit webzine focused on arts, culture, and politics. We began as a local theatre and arts collective that went on to produce a print magazine. Montreal Serai aims to stretch the margins with thoughtful essays, reviews, commentaries, short stories, poems, artwork, videos, music and much more. Neither strictly local, nor only current affairs, we hope to provide an alternative perspective that goes beyond mainstream concerns. We have had over 400 contributors from all over the world in our 26 year existence and an ever-increasing subscription base. Based in Montreal, Canada, Montreal Serai is recognized as a premier space in which both emerging and established writers and artists may engage.
==Funding==
Montreal Serai acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $20.0 million in writing and publishing throughout Canada.
==Name Origin==
Serai is a Persian word which means ‘resting place’ or a ‘place of transience’ for a traveler. Founded in 1986, Montreal Serai is an arts magazine that publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and reviews of film, music, art, exhibitions, theater and dance.
Montreal Zen Poetry Festival 2011

The biennial Montreal Zen Poetry Festival aims to explore the relationship between Zen Buddhism and the literary arts, including the work of both contemporary poets and translators of Chinese and Japanese verse. The focus of Zen Buddhism is an insight “beyond words,” cultivated within the stillness of seated meditation; yet, paradoxically, the ineffable silence of Zen comes to life only amidst language and dynamic activity. Thus, the spirit of Zen has exerted a profound influence on Chinese and Japanese poetics for a thousand years, in turn greatly shaping the contours of modern verse in the West. 
The 2011 festival, March 10-13, with theme "silence always speaks" will host poets Jane Hirshfield, Robert Bringhurst, and Steve Sanfield; translators Kazuaki Tanahashi (also renowned calligrapher and Zen teacher)and Steven Heine; and ethnomusicologist Soko Paul Humphreys and Zen monk/scholar Victor Sogen Hori. A number of workshops and readings, panel discussion, evening of poem and music, and literary brunch are the line-up of events for this unique one-of-a-kind festival.
Mosaic Festival

Mosaic Festival also known as Mosaic - South Asian Heritage Festival of Mississauga in Ontario, Canada founded by Arshad Mahmood, is North America's largest free multi-disciplinary arts festival featuring South Asian culture. CCAI's primary objective is to work towards promotion of arts and culture in the Canadian community. CCAI is governed by a 10 member board of directors. All CCAI board positions are voluntary.
==History==
The festival began in 2005 and was organized by Canadian Community Arts Initiative (CCAI) an Ontario-based non-profit organization. Asma Arshad Mahmood, a professional artist from Mississauga was the first chairperson of CCAI and Mosaic festival director. Asma stepped down as festival director after 6 years in 2011, replaced by Anupama Vittal.
The first Mosaic festival took place on May 20 and 21 2006 at Mississauga's old Civic Square. The old Civic Square was replaced by a multi-million dollar Celebration Square thanks to a government infrastructure grant. The new Square is the largest such facility in the Greater Toronto Area. The first Mosaic festival attracted almost 2,800 visitors before the organizers shut down the festival due to extremely harsh climate. The temperature had dropped to single digits with heavy rains and high winds on May 20, 2006.
Mosaic 2007 was held in June. The festival attracted over 18,000 visitors during two days. In 2008 attendance grew to 30,000, in 2009 38,000, in 2010 over 50,000 and in 2011 Mosaic attendance grew to over 60,0000 making it the largest such festival of North America.
Mosaic components include: Mississauga Talkies, Rock the Coliseum, Underground Garage Sale, VIRSA, Vendors Bazaar, South Asian Film Festival, South Asian Food Court and Nachchange Saari Raat. Mosaic added a third day in 2008 and a fourth day for Mosaic 2012 (August 16-19, 2012).
Performers have included Oliver Rajamani from Austin, Texas, SWAMI from UK, RDB and Nindy Kaur from UK, Vidha and Abhimanyu Lal from India, S W Storm, Josh, Bilz and Kashif, Ustad Irshad Ahmed Khan, Ustad Anwer Khurshid, Shahid Ali Khan and BBC Folk Voice Legendary Sayein Zahoor Ahmed from Pakistan. Shiamak's Indo Jazz Dance team closed the festival Saturday every year since 2006. Mosaic 2012 signed the seventh generation Patiala Gharana singer and Bollywood super sensation Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan as its Saturday headliner act.
Munir Sheikh

Munir A. Sheikh, Ph.D., (born September 1947) is a Canadian public servant, economist, academic and the former Chief Statistician of Canada. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow and Adjunct Professor at Queen's University. On November 30, 2010, the provincial government appointed Sheikh and Frances Lankin to lead the Commission for the Review of Social Assistance in Ontario. They are expected to issue their final report in June 2012
Musique MMM

==History==
 
Musique Multi-Montréal (MMM) was established in 1990 after its founder, trained musician Liette Gauthier, discovered and became fascinated by musical expressions from the four corners of the world. She believes that the diversity of musical techniques provide an inexhaustible source of renewal and inspiration for creating music. The organization is also focused on bringing together artists from all of these different cultures to benefit a public that is increasingly aware of the beauty of diversity and affinity among peoples.
MMM organizers set out to share this love of world music by creating an annual festival to enable local musicians hailing from all over the world to showcase their multiple talents and hitherto unheard musical styles—on the same stage.
The MMM Festival is a driver of inspiration, an incubator of musical invention and a unique forum for artists and the public. A wide audience that is tuned in to the richness, quality and originality of the repertoire ensures a loyal following for the event.
Every year, MMM develops innovative programming that brings together a large number of talented, yet underexposed, artists and successfully brings together communities of different origins that, though traditionally irreconcilable at times, are united by their musical affinities.
==Mission==
MMM provides unique expertise to increase visibility and gain recognition for local professional artists of all origins through the rapprochement and convergence of cultures.
Myung Sun Kim

Myung-Sun Kim is a Korean-born, Toronto-based artist, primarily working in the field of sculpture and installation. Her work playfully explores everyday objects and spaces, dealing with issues of aesthetics, functionality, nomadism, mobility, intervention, and architecture. She has completed BFA in Sculpture / Installation at the Ontario College of Art & Design in 2005, and MFA in Visual Arts Program at York University in 2009. She has received several awards and scholarships, including Dr. Eugene A. Poggetto Award, MST Bronze Sculpture Award, Sculpture Installation Faculty Award, and Graduate Entrance Scholarship to York University Graduate Program in Visual Arts. She has exhibited and presented her work in Ontario, Nova Scotia, and North Carolina.
Currently, Kim is a part of KS3, a four member collaborative that brings architecture, new media, sculpture, graphics, and painting methodologies to the investigation of interactivity, movement, visual gravity, parametric structures, and domestic engineering. Kim will be in Winnipeg, Singapore, and Fukuoka for her upcoming residencies in 2010.
Nadira Begg

Nadira Begg is a Canadian television journalist, who was the former anchor of CBC News: Northbeat on the CBC North system in the Canadian territories. Born and raised in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Begg is of mixed Gwich'in and Indo-Fijian descent. She is the granddaughter of John Tetlichi, the first Gwich'in person to serve on the Legislative Council of the Northwest Territories.
Nahid Ahmad

A psychologist by training, Nahid Ahmad has made outstanding contributions in HEALTH CARE and in the field of immigrant women and visible minority women. Born near Bhagalpur, Bihar (British India), on July 5, 1941, and raised in Pakistan, Ms. Ahmad has been a resident of Saskatchewan since 1966. Appointed to the ROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Foundation Board in 1995 and serving as chairperson from 1998 to 2001, she was pivotal in raising money to acquire equipment for, and support research at, this teaching hospital.
Ms. Ahmad served as a board member of the COMMUNITY CLINIC and of Immigrant and Visible Minority Women of Canada, and as president of the Immigrant WOMEN OF SASKATCHEWAN (SASKATOON Chapter) from 1987 to 1990. She also served on the Immigration and Citizenship committee of the Multicultural Council of the Saskatoon Health District. Through the Islamic Association of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon Chapter, she helped three refugee families from Kosovo settle in Saskatoon. She received the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 2002.
Nancy Lee

Nancy Lee is a Canadian short story writer and novelist.
Born in Cardiff, Wales to parents of Chinese and Indian descent, she moved with her family to Vancouver, British Columbia in childhood.
She published her first book of short stories, Dead Girls, in 2003. That book was named book of the year by NOW, and was a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award.
She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia, currently teaches in the writing and publishing program at Simon Fraser University and in the creative writing department at University of British Columbia, and has held a visiting professorship at the University of East Anglia. She was a panelist in the 2003 edition of Canada Reads, defending Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi. In the spring of 2010 she was writer-in-residence at Historic Joy Kogawa House, the writing program that takes place in the childhood home of the author Joy Kogawa (Obasan).
She is reported to be working on her first novel.