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Carlos Bulosan Theatre

The Carlos Bulosan Theatre (CBT) aims to produce theatre that reflects on social and political issues affecting the Filipino and broader community. CBT is also committed to creating innovative work that reflects a vibrant, new generation of Filipino-Canadian artists. CBT seeks to encourage and develop Filipino-Canadian writers, performers, and other artists within the community. 
CBT’s ongoing activities consist of new play creation and development, play production, professional training and development workshops (including CBT’s Play Creation Unit), as well as an annual showcase of Filipino-Canadian artists, Tales from the Flipside. CBT also conducts and facilitates educational workshops on Philippine history. CBT is a community partner with the Kapisanan Philippine Centre (KPC and co-presents a number of community events including KPC’s annual Kultura Filipino Arts Festival held in Kensington Market.
CBT is a charitable, non-for-profit organization and is a member of the Canada Council for the Arts Stand Firm organizations, Toronto Theatre Alliance, and an affiliate member of PACT (Professional Association of Canadian Theatres).
Carol Huynh

Carol Huynh (pron.: /ˈwɪn/; born 16 November 1980) is a Canadian freestyle wrestler. Huynh was the first gold medalist for Canada in women's wrestling and was the first gold medalist for Canada at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She is also the current reigning Commonwealth Games and two time Pan American Games champion. Success was also achieved at the world championships where Huynh has totaled one silver and three bronze medals. Huynh is also an eleven time national champion.
== Career ==
Huynh broke onto the international scene as a wrestler beginning at the World Championships in 2000 where she won bronze. She continued to build on this success at the next World Championships in 2001 where she won silver. She would have to wait four more years till she would medal again at the Worlds when she won a bronze again in 2005. Success never dropped off though, Huynh would win the title in her 48 kg weight class at the 2007 Pan American Games. She competed in the 48 kg weight class at the 2008 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal. This broke Canada's gold medal drought at the 2008 Games. She is the second ever female medalist for Canada in Olympic wrestling, after Tonya Verbeek, the 2004 Athens freestyle silver medalist. Huynh was the first gold medalist in women's wrestling for Canada. Following the Olympic games she continued to perform at a top level, winning bronze at the 2010 World Championships. That same year she won the Commonwealth Games title. Huynh then won the 2011 Canadian title again for 48 kg and then successfully defended her Pan Am Games title in Guadalajara. She has been named to the 2012 Summer Olympics team in London for Canada. There she won a second Olympic medal, this time a bronze in the 48 kg class.
In a controversial decision, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in February 2013, has recommended wrestling be dropped for the 2020 Olympic games. This recommendation was met with protest from a number of former and current athletes with Carol being one of the voices from a Canadian perspective. 
== Personal ==
Huynh was born in British Columbia to parents who were ethnic Chinese refugees from northern Vietnam. Her father was born in China, but moved to Vietnam when he was three; her mother was born in Vietnam. They settled in the town of New Hazelton, British Columbia, after being sponsored by the local United Church. Coming from a wrestling family, where both of her sisters wrestled, she started wrestling at 15. She started studies at Simon Fraser University in 1998, then moved to the University of Calgary in 2007. Huynh married Dan Biggs, a social worker and former wrestler, in 2005. She is coached by Paul Ragusa, former National team member and Olympian, as well as Leigh Vierling, husband of former World Champion Christine Nordhagen.
Cassie Steele

Cassie Steele is a Canadian actress and singer-songwriter best known for portraying Manny Santos on Degrassi: The Next Generation and Abby on The L.A. Complex.
Steele was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She began crafting her own songs to go with her poetry when she was in the first grade, she then began taking singing lessons. She attended London School of Dance in Scarborough, Ontario and trained in ballet and jazz dance. Cassie was also a gymnast for quite some time. Steele has been a regular cast member on Degrassi: The Next Generation playing the character of Manny Santos since she was eleven years old. Steele also appeared in the 2007 MTV movie, Super Sweet 16: The Movie.
Her debut album, How Much for Happy, was released in 2005, followed by two Canadian tours. Steele's follow-up album, Destructo Doll, was released on July 21, 2009. She appeared on Channel One News to promote the album for the music segment.
Steele is the older sister of Alexandra (Alex) Steele, who appeared on Degrassi: The Next Generation as Angie Jeremiah in seasons one through five and currently plays an all-new character on the show, Tori Santa Maria, since its eleventh season.
She also played the role as the girl from "Dusk" the fictional vampire parody of The Twilight Saga on My Babysitter's a Vampire.
Her newest EP including Shape Shifter, Try Baby, and I Want U was released on iTunes on April 17, 2012.
Castyo Chinese Artists Society of Toronto Youth Orchestra

CASTYO was established in 1993. It is a non-profit making organization, affiliated with The Chinese Artists Society of Toronto. At present, the Youth Orchestra has over 50 members.
The Orchestra’s ambition is to nurture young musicians with orchestral practice and performance. By participating in regular practice, rehearsal and public performances, members are able to polish their practical skills and to familiarize themselves with group performance. Ultimately, the Orchestra aims to provide members with incentive and recognition in their pursuit of the art of musical performance.
In addition to regular practice, the Orchestra provides members with a wide range of activities, like festive parties, visits to geriatric centers and performances in various concerts. It is certain that such activities can enrich members’ lives, enhance their community involvement, and enriching their future development. 
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Catherine Hernandez

As the daughter of Cecille Estioko Hernandez, a pioneer of Filipino Folk Arts education in Canada, Catherine Hernandez (Collective Member/Performer/Artistic Director, Sulong Theatre) is dedicated to the development of the Filipino-Canadian artistic community. Her first play, Singkil, was produced by fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company in association with Factory Theatre and garnered seven Dora Mavor Moore nominations including Outstanding New Play, Independent Division. She is working/has worked in one capacity or another with Carlos Bulosan Theatre, Native Earth Performing Arts, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Aluna Theatre and numerous others. 
==Current Projects==
Her current projects include: Kilt Pins (her play to be produced by Sulong Theatre in May 2010), and Eating with Lola (her one-woman puppet play developed by fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company and the Kapisanan Centre for the Arts). She is a proud member of the modern tribal crew, Santa Guerrilla. She was Theatre Passe Muraille’s 08/09 playwright in residence and was the theatre’s Associate Producer for their 09/10 season. The creative wing of Sulong, the Sulong Theatre Collective are proud to be Carlos Bulosan Theatre’s 09/10 playwrights in residence.
Catherine Manoukian

Catherine Manoukian is a Canadian violinist.
Catherine Manoukian was born in Toronto. She is from an ethnically diverse background, consisting of Armenian, Russian, German, and Japanese origins. Her parents are professional violinists and they met at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels where her father studied with Carlo Van Neste and her mother studied with Arthur Grumiaux.
Catherine Manoukian’s professional career started when she won grand prize at the Canadian Music Competition at the age of twelve. The same year, she made her orchestral debut with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra playing Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Since then, she has played with many major North American and international orchestras, like the CBC Radio Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Osaka Century Orchestra, and the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, and has worked with such conductors as Mario Bernardi, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Keith Lockhart, Roy Goodman, Peter Oundjian, Tomomi Nishimoto, Seikyo Kim, Eduard Topchjan, and Jonas Alber. She has played on the major stages of such cities as New York, Washington D.C., Boston, Los Angeles, Toronto, Paris, Tokyo, and Osaka, and has appeared as a chamber musician at the Aspen, Caramoor, and Newport International Festivals. She has often played novel and unusual repertoire, and recorded a CD of transcriptions for violin of Chopin’s music as a teenager. Many of the 
transcriptions, among them the Cello Sonata, were commissioned by her.
Manoukian’s education history is unusual for a musician. She did not go to a music school and trained privately as a violinist with Dorothy DeLay in New York as well as with her parents in Toronto. She also received independent lessons in core musical subjects like harmony and chamber music. This gave her the time to also pursue a non-musical education. She has an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto (with high distinction) and has done graduate-level work in philosophy (focusing on areas like epistemology and the philosophy of mind). She is now on sabbatical from the PhD programme in philosophy at the University of Toronto. Manoukian attributes her interest in philosophy to a desire since childhood to understand what musicians do, from a wider perspective than just playing allows. This has recently grown into a project to apply her philosophical thinking to theories about teaching and developing professional artists. She credits Dorothy DeLay for instilling this interest in her.
Manoukian is married to conductor Stefan Solyom. They live in Sweden and Germany.
Celebration 15: Voices of Chinese Canadian Women in Ontario

== Celebration "15": Voices of Chinese Canadian Women in Ontario ==
In partnership with the Toronto Public Library, the East Asian Women Empowerment group celebrate Ontario's 150th birthday and Asian Heritage month by honouring 15 Chinese Canadian women who have contributed to the changing history of our nation and another 15 women who strengthen our communities everyday at the Toronto Reference Library. 
Celebration "15:" Voices of Chinese Canadian Women is an event being organized to recognize fifteen Chinese Canadian women who have devoted tireless passion, time and commitment to shaping Canada and Ontario over the last 15 decades; women who have provided leadership in the arts, civic engagement, culture, education, and community building will be highlighted and honoured. An additional 15 Chinese Canadian women from everyday life will also be featured to capture glimpses of a promising future that are in their hands. 
 
These profiles will be the first of many more to come, broadening the recognition beyond Chinese Canadians to include other Asian Canadian women. Although the first 15+15 will be posted and launched on May 10th, others can be added on this website by nature of the collaborative nature of a wiki that allows the addition of content directly by users. There will also be a tie-in to the Library's Chinese Canadian Archives as three of the women to be recognized (Jean Lumb, Judy Fong Bates, and Valerie Mah) are represented in the archives.
Honourable 15+ recipients:
Adrienne Clarkson, Vivienne Poy, Jean Lumb, Valerie Mah, Alexina Louie, Kristyn Wong-Tam, Olivia Chow, Avvy Go, Gretta Grant, Judy Fong Bates, Sook Yin Lee, Rita Tsang, Mary Wong, Denise Chong, Pearl Sullivan, and Dora Nipp
Community +15 recipients:
Maria Yau, Nicole Wong, Irene Kuan, Michelle Li, Karen BK Chan, Yvonne Tsang, Ruth Lor Malloy, Eva Chan, Lisa Mar, Gloria Yu, Helen Poon, Melissa Lai, Kristen Yee Long, Maria Sun, and Emily Cheung
Please check out the profiles of the 15+15 women on Asian Canadian Wikipedia.
Chan Ka Nin

Chan Ka Nin is a distinguished Canadian composer whose extensive repertoire draws on both East and West in its aesthetic outlook. 
Professor of Theory and Composition at the University of Toronto, he has written in most musical genres and received many national and international prizes, including two JUNO awards, the Jean A. Chalmers Award, the Bela Bartok International Composers' Competition in Hungary, and the Barlow International Competition in the United States. In 2001 he won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Musical for his opera Iron Road, written with librettist Mark Brownell, depicting the 19th-century construction of the Canadian national railroad by Chinese migrant laborers.
Characteristically luminous in texture and exotic in instrumental colors, Prof. Chan's music has been described by critics as "sensuous," "haunting," and "intricate." The composer often draws his inspiration directly from his personal experiences: for example, the birth of one of his daughters, the death of his father, his spiritual quests, or his connection to nature and concern for the environment.
Many prominent ensembles and soloists have performed his music, including the Toronto Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Calgary Philharmonic, Esprit Orchestra, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Amici Ensemble, Gryphon Trio, Mir� Quartet, Purcell Quartet, Amherst Saxophone Quartet, violist Rivka Golani, and cellist Shauna Rolston. His substantial discography includes releases on the CBC, Centrediscs, ATMA, Analekta, Albany, and Summit labels, among others.
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Mr. Chan holds twin undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering and music from the University of British Columbia, where he studied composition with Jean Coulthard. He subsequently received Master of Music and Doctor of Music degrees from Indiana University, where he studied with Bernhard Heiden.
Chandrakant Shah

Chandrakant Shah, OOnt, MD, FRCP(C), FAAP, SM (Hyg.) is a Canadian doctor, researcher and social activist. Dr. Shah is the clinical coordinator of Anishnawbe Health Toronto, where he has been a staff physician since 1996, providing primary health care to Toronto’s aboriginal community as well as people who have been marginalized, such as the homeless, the unemployed and children living in poverty.A personal crusade for public health He is also a consultant with Peel Public Health, Honorary Staff of The Hospital for Sick Children, and Courtesy Staff at the St. Michael's Hospital (Toronto). He is professor emeritus of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the School of Medicine, University of Toronto.Faculty Profile 
His textbook, Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Canada, is widely used by Canadian undergraduate and graduate students from a range of health disciplines.Amazon: Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Canada, Paperback He is recipient of several awards including the Order of Ontario and the Outstanding Physicians of Ontario award (2007) by the Council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario for excellence and coming closest to meeting society’s vision of an “ideal physician.”Dr. Chandrakant Shah presented with Council Award, policy updates, Physician Resources Task Force revived, Noteworthy now available.
Chanti Wadge

Born in Seoul, raised in Vancouver, Chanti Wadge has been living in Montreal since 2002. With a background in classical dance, improvisation and contact, Chanti has been recognized as an exceptional and versatile performer. She has performed internationally for choreographers such as Peter Bingham/EDAM Dance, Lee Su Feh, Judith Marcuse, Susan Elliott, Jennifer Mascall, Olivia Thorvaldson and Shannon McMurchy (Vancouver); Lingo Dance Theatre, Amii Legendre and TURF (Seattle); Kaeja d’Dance (Toronto); Jose Navas, Par Bleux, Isabelle VanGrimde, Andrew Harwood, Jane Mappin, Emmanuel Jouthe, Jordi Ventura, Gioconda Barbuto, Roger Sinha and Dave St. Pierre (Montreal).
Chanti is also a self-taught interdisciplinary creator working with dance, video and text, often in poetic installations. Her interdisciplinary works, 23 Experimental Edits (2002), Palmpilot (2002), betweenlines (2004), and Save Project As: unrehearsed phases of A Beoming Human (2003) were presented by Shared Habitat: Festival of Art, Science and the Environment (Toronto), Square Zero Independent Dance (Ottawa), Festival of New Dance (NFLD), Projet/Projo and the HomeShow (Montreal). Her choreographies, lesser things (1999), and Approved Privacy Statement (2001) were presented by Tanec Praha (Czech Republic), The Vancouver East Cultural Center, DanceArts Vancouver, and EDAM Dance; most recently [we]: fieldnotes from the bardo was presented by Tangente (2005). Chanti is currently dancing for Compagnie Flak and was recently invited to work as assistant choreographer on the new creation of Ginette Laurin’s at O Vertigo.
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Chantria Tram

Chantria is an actress, acting coach and speaker and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre from Concordia University. She was born on the other side of the world in a small village in Cambodia, landing in Canada at the age of six as a timid little girl with huge dreams and ambitions. The artistic world is no stranger to her as both of her parents are both artists; Her father is a visual artist and her mother was a performer and had the opportunity to perform at the royal palace in Cambodia. Both of their careers and dreams came to a halt due to war and political instability. 
Chantria has performed in numerous productions in Montreal, including a one-woman show called “Someone Between”, which she wrote and produced under Apsara Theatre Company. The show toured in Montreal at various conferences and festivals, including at Centaur Theatre’s Wildside Festival. She is current;y developing the show with playwright/actor/director, Ins Choi, for its Toronto premiere. It can be seen at the Tiger Bamboo Theatre Festival, sponsored by Soulpepper Theatre Company, and presented at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts as a staged reading.
Her lead role in "Model Minority Show" awarded her Best Actress in a Dramedy at the LA Web Fest in 2012. In Summer 2013, She directed "Water Cooler", a spicy and comedic new webseries about a group of office workers that share juicy gossip about affairs, lies and conspiracies. She also appears in the series as Chenda.
Driven by her obsession to learn as much as possible about acting, Chantria stumbled upon a passion for teaching in her final year of University. She never looked back since. As an acting teacher and workshop facilitator, she was awarded artist in residence at the Oral History and Digital Storytelling Centre in Montreal, leading an unprecedented joint community-University project. Through an organic and collaborative creative process rooted in shared authority, the project explored the two-way transmission of stories between a generation that has endured extreme human rights violations, and their children-young people who, while receiving these stories, are also in the midst of creating and redefining their own identities and narratives. 
In 2012, she co-founded RIZE Studios with business partner, Michael Primo. RIZE Studios strives to help individuals and organizations foster creativity, forge strong team connections, and unlock their true potential. The studio brings creative workshops for the public and companies, including acting workshops for actors and non-actors.
She is fascinated with human behaviour and human potential. She believes in being unstoppable, being real and being you, always.
Cheryl Sim

Cheryl Sim is an artist, curator, researcher and singer/composer/musician based in Montreal. 
Her research interests include the diaspora and the post-colonial condition, spirituality and the nature of work, as well as conceptual art practices of the past, present and future. During the day she is Managing Director and Curator at PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art (formerly named DHC/ART).
She began her professional life at Studio D of the National Film Board of Canada, which led her to video art and an involvement with artist run culture. As an artist, her work in video and installation, presented in North America and Europe has persistently dealt with questions of identity formation, women’s labour and relations of power. The most installation is Un Jour/One Day, a three-channel video installation based on the theme song for Expo 67. This work was commissioned by the Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal for the group exhibition In Search of Expo 67, curated by Lesley Johnstone and Monika Kin Gagnon.
Her work as Managing Director and Curator at PHI Foundation for contemporary art has been greatly informed by the artist-run ethos and learning from the interstices. Recent exhibitions include UNION by Lee Bae and RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting. 
Like in her art, Cheryl exercises the power of hybridity in her music. She started in church choirs, played piano and clarinet in the school band, sang with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra chorus and joined her first "rock" band in 1996. Finally getting "off the page" she worked with two brothers from her home town in the trio Tulip and continued to forge ahead, singing on the streets of Miami and Montreal as part of a lounge duo called Olive which later evolved into the Montreal electronic lounge band named Gazelle. With Gazelle, she opened for the likes of Jay-Jay Johannson and Goldfrapp, and performed at the prestigious Montreal International Jazz Festival in 2000 and 2003. 
As a solo artist, Cheryl launched Recline in 2002, a collection of treasured jazz standards, Heavy Petal, original songs tinged with soul and electronica, and finally Unsung, more stripped down, soul baring songs released in fall of 2011. www. cdbaby.com/cd/cherylsim
She has a PhD in the études et pratiques des arts program at UQÀM which allowed her to explore ethnic clothing and its importance to diaspora identity. Her book Wearing the Cheongsam: Dress and Culture in a Chinese Diaspora was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019.
Cheryl Sim/fr

Cheryl Sim est artiste, commissaire et universitaire. Elle a démarré sa vie professionnelle à l'Office national du film du Canada et a développé son expérience de travailleuse culturelle à OBORO et au Groupe Intervention Vidéo, deux centres d'artistes autogérés importants. En tant qu'artiste, son travail en vidéo et en installation traite des questions de formation de l'identité, du travail des femmes et des relations de pouvoir. Son travail en tant que directrice générale et commissaire de la Fondation PHI pour l'art contemporain a été grandement influencé par l'éthos de la culture ‘artist-run’. Les expositions récentes incluent UNION de Lee Bae et RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting. Elle détient un doctorat du programme d'études et pratiques des arts de l'UQÀM. Son livre Wearing the Cheongsam: Dress and Culture in a Chinese Diaspora a été publié par Bloomsbury Academic en 2019.