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Helen Lee

Helen Lee is an independent filmmaker based in Toronto and Seoul. 
==Biography== 
She emigrated from Korea, where she was born, at age four with her family to Canada. Lee studied English Literature and Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto, where she was awarded the Norman Jewison Fellowship for further studies in film. She received her Master’s Degree in Cinema Studies at New York University and attended the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in Critical and Curatorial Studies as a Helena Rubinstein Fellow. Through the Academy of Canadian Film and TV’s Director Observer Program, Lee served a directing internship with Atom Egoyan during the making of "Exotica." She completed her film training at the Canadian Film Centre as Director Resident.
==Career==
Lee has made a number of acclaimed films, all of which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Her first short film, "Sally’s Beauty Spot" (1990) received an Award of Excellence at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and is screened widely in Asian American cinema classes. "My Niagara" (1992) was awarded a Special Jury Citation for Best Short Film at TIFF. Her CFC thesis film,"Prey" (1995) was an official selection of the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. "Subrosa" (2000) received a Director’s Citation Award from the Black Maria Film Festival. Lee’s debut feature, "The Art of Woo" (2001) was released by Odeon Films/Alliance Atlantis domestically and invited to numerous festivals worldwide.
Prior to filmmaking, Lee was a music critic and contributing editor of the Toronto weekly, NOW Magazine. She also worked in film distribution at DEC Films/Full Frame and Women Make Movies. Lee has taught courses at the Ontario College of Art and Design, served on various juries, and presented numerous guest lectures in Canada and the U.S. Her essay, "A Peculiar Sensation: A Personal Genealogy of Korean American Women’s Cinema," was published in Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism (New York: Routledge, 1997), and excerpted in Cineaste and reprinted in Screening Asian Americans. She co-edited with Kerri Sakamoto, Like Mangoes in July: The Work of Richard Fung, for the Images Festival. A conversation with Celine Parrenas Shimizu about her film work, "Sex Acts: Two Meditations on Race and Sexuality," appears in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
Lee’s various film and screenwriting projects have received support from Telefilm Canada, the Harold Greenberg Fund, Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, LIFT and other film organizations. In 2002, Lee was a guest of the DAAD’s Berliner Kunstlerprogramm in Germany, where she mounted a 3-channel performance-based video installation, "Cleaving" (2002) at the Werkleitz Biennale in Saxony-Anhalt. Her films were also the subject of a mini-retrospective at Kino Arsenal in Berlin. She received the BFC Award at the 2003 Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP), Pusan International Film Festival, and also a Chalmers Award from the OAC in 2004. Currently, she sits on the advisory boards of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and TIFFG’s Cinematheque Ontario.
Henry Yu

Dr. Henry Yu was born in Vancouver, B.C., and grew up in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island. He received his BA in Honours History from UBC and an MA and PhD in History from Princeton University. After teaching at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) for ten years, Yu returned to the University of British Columbia as an Associate Professor of History to help build programs focused on trans-Pacific Canada. Yu himself is both a second and fourth generation Canadian. His parents were first generation immigrants from China, joining a grandfather who had spent almost his entire life in Canada. Learn about best app development companies NYC and choose the creator of your future mobile application!
His great-grandfather was also an early Chinese pioneer in British Columbia, part of a larger networks of migrants who left Zhongshan county in Guangdong province in South China and settled around the Pacific in places such as Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, the United States, and Canada. Yu’s book, Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America (Oxford University Press, 2001) won the Norris and Carol Hundley Prize as the Most Distinguished Book of 2001.
Yu is the Director of the Initiative for Student Teaching and Research on Chinese Canadians (INSTRCC) and the Principal of St. John’s College at UBC, as well as a Board Member of the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia (CCHSBC).
Himani Bannerji

Himani Bannerji is a Bengali–Canadian writer, sociologist, and philosopher. She teaches in the Department of Sociology, the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought, and the Graduate Programme in Women's Studies at York University, Canada. She is also known for her activist work and poetry. She received her B.A. and M.A. in English from Viswa-Bharati University and Jadavpur University respectively, and her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.
Bannerji works in the areas of Marxist, feminist and anti-racist theory. She is especially focused on reading colonial discourse through Karl Marx's concept of ideology, and putting together a reflexive analysis of gender, race and class. Bannerji also does much lecturing about the Gaze and othering and silencing of women who are marginalized.
Hinode Taiko

“Pure raw energy and power tempered by precision and focus”
- Winnipeg Free Press
In the rolling thunder and boisterous dance that drew Amaterasu the Sun Goddess from her cave and returned light to the world, Hinode Taiko was formed. The bold antics of Uzume and the laughter of the gods shaped their performance. From humble workshop beginnings in 1982, using broomsticks and old tires as practice equipment, Hinode Taiko (in Japanese “Rising Sun Drums”) went on to build concert-quality drums and study with the greatest taiko players of modern time – rooting taiko in the heart of the Canadian Prairies.
Since 1982, Hinode Taiko’s original repertoire has won fans on three continents and the group has received accolades from taiko experts around the world. The only Canadian taiko group selected to perform at the inaugural 1997 North American Taiko Conference in Los Angeles, Hinode’s stature in North American taiko was affirmed in 2003 when they became the only taiko ensemble (out of the continent’s 150-plus groups) chosen for a repeat performance at the NATC. Their debut CD, “Hinode Taiko,” was released independently in spring 2004.
In 1999 Hinode Taiko brought Canadian taiko back to Japan, performing at the Extasia International Taiko Festival in Matto City – the “world centre of taiko drumming” – and at the 22nd annual Setagaya Summer Matsuri, in Tokyo. As the only Canadian taiko group ever invited to perform at these prestigious venues, Hinode Taiko was able to showcase their unique style live and by national telecast in the country where taiko began.
Incorporated in 1995, Hinode Taiko’s goals have always been to learn the art of taiko, to promote taiko through public performances, and to instruct those interested in the art of Japanese drumming. All members have a voice in any decision-making process and are expected to show commitment, respect, and responsibility for each other and for the art of taiko. With a strong base in Winnipeg’s Japanese-Canadian community as well as a solid profile in the arts scene, Hinode Taiko continues to push itself to new artistic heights, while sharing the art and appreciation of taiko through frequent seminars and workshops in the community and in schools.
Hiromi Goto

Hiromi Goto is a Japanese-Canadian editor, fiction writer, cultural critic, arts advocate, youth organizer, teacher of creative writing and a mother of two children.
She immigrated to Canada with her family in 1969. They lived on the west coast of British Columbia for eight years before moving to Nanton, Alberta, a small town in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
Goto is the current Writer-in-Residence of the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. She was also the Writer-in-Residence at Vancouver's Emily Carr School of Art and Design, Vancouver Public Library, and Simon Fraser University.
She earned her B.A. in English from the University of Calgary in 1989
Her eighty-year old grandmother told her Japanese stories when she was growing up. Her work is also influenced by her father’s life stories in Japan. These stories often featured ghosts and folk creatures such as the kappa — a small creature with a frog’s body, a turtle’s shell and a bowl-shaped head that holds water.
Her first novel, Chorus of Mushrooms, was the 1995 recipient of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book Canada and Caribbean Region' and the co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award. It has been released in Israel, Italy, and the UK. In 2001, she was awarded the James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award and was short-listed for the regional Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, Best Book Award, the Sunburst Award and the Spectrum Award.
Chorus of Mushrooms is about finding one’s identity in the midst of alienation and explicit differences. The novel depicted the characters’ different approaches to assimilating themselves within the host country’s culture as well as symbolic meanings of locations and settings crafted in a language that combines the two opposite poles of majority and minority i.e. English and Japanese. The novel narrated that there can never be an easy way to erase ethnic differences and become immersed into one culture, Or can denying the truth of one’s ethnic origins help in the process. The key is to be able to personally accept that being different is by no means a reason to be alienated and regarded as abnormal. It can be a powerful reason to become a distinct individual who cannot be lost within cultures.
Ho Tam

Ho Tam was born in Hong Kong, educated in Canada and worked in advertising companies and community psychiatric facilities before turning to art. He practices in multiple disciplines including photography, video, painting, print and public art. His first video, The Yellow Pages, was commissioned by the public arts group PUBLIC ACCESS for an installation/projection at the Union Station of Toronto in 1994/95. Since then Tam has produced over 15 experimental videos. He was included in the traveling exhibition Magnetic North: Canadian Experimental Video by Walker Art Center, Minnesota. His full length film "Books of James" was awarded Outstanding Artistic Achievement (Outfest, LA) and Best Feature Documentary (Tel Aviv LGBT Film Festival). He is an alumni of Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program, Bard College (MFA) and recipients of various fellowships and artist's grants.
Hong Kong Exile

== Hong Kong Exile ==
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Hong Kong Exile Arts Association is an interdisciplinary arts company and registered non-profit organization based in Vancouver. The company is made up of three emerging contemporary artists: Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Remy Siu, and Milton Lim. The three met as students at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts and have been consistently creating and producing work since 2011 when the company was formed.
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Mission
Hong Kong Exile is committed to creating vital and innovative art through collaborative, interdisciplinary investigation.
Values
- Active engagement with local and international arts communities
- Ambitious and rigorous treatment of challenging artistic and political questions
- Investigation of cultural politics in an era of globalization, and inclusion of under-represented experiences and identities
- Exploration outside of the formal and aesthetic traditions of dance, theatre, new music, multimedia
- Pushing the boundaries of interdisciplinary process and creation
Vision
Hong Kong Exile aims to contribute to a thriving, diverse and critical arts community. Through work that provokes discourse and new perspectives, we advocate for arts’ importance and its relevance in society. We are passionate about creating local, national and international partnerships. We look forward to developing a body of internationally-tourable repertoire.
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Company History
Hong Kong Exile is proud to have developed a reputation as an engaged, rigorous and prolific emerging arts company since the time of its inception. Since 2011, we have created thirteen original works presented in dance, theatre, film/media and New Music Festivals in Vancouver, Victoria, Toronto, and Seattle.
In 2012, Hong Kong Exile was awarded an inaugural five-month residency at New Westminster’s River Market. This gave us the momentum to produce the sold-out festival, ASCENSION, a showcase of six new music composers pairing with six choreographers. In 2013, Hong Kong Exile was featured in Hive: NEW BEES 3, a showcase of the city’s most prolific emerging contemporary performance bodies. 
Hong Kong Exile premiered a new work at the CanAsian Kickstart Festival in Toronto in 2014, marking the company’s first out-of-province tour. Projects over the last two years include an ambitious month-long gallery exhibition, presentations at CanAsian International Dance Festival, Seattle International Dance Festival, Dancing on the Edge Festival, and Gateway Pacific Theatre Festival, as well as a handful of ongoing collaborative initiatives. Present Hong Kong Exile projects reflect our company’s commitment to exploring multi-media innovation and integration with live performance.
Since 2015, members of HKX have been part of the Gold Saucer Studio, an independently run studio, rehearsal, and venue space. We are young, emerging artists creating a space for ourselves and others.
The members of Hong Kong Exile are currently embarking on a two-year residency with the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (2017/2018).
Hossein Sharang

Hossein Sharang est né à Jiroft (Iran). Il a quitté l'Iran en 1982 et vit à Montréal depuis plus de 25 ans. Il a publié plusieurs recueils de poèmes en Iran, en Allemagne, en Suède ainsi qu'au Québec, dont Montagnes fugitives aux Éditions du Noroît, Montréal (traduction de Gilles Cyr et Bahman Sadighi, 2003). Ses poèmes ont paru dans divers périodiques en Iran, en Europe ainsi qu'en Amérique du Nord, et ils ont été traduits en quatre langues. À la suite de la proposition de la branche québécoise du PEN International, Sharang a été écrivain en résidence à l'Institut canadien de Québec en 2008-2009.
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Howard Wong

Howard Wong is a Joe Shuster nominated comic book writer (for Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Writer), and creator of After the Cape (Shadowline/Image Comics). It received the Image Comics’ Spotlight, Gem of the Month in Previews, sold out at the distributor level and has been reviewed by Entertainment Weekly. The series continues with After the Cape II. Both have been collected into trade paperbacks.
He wrote a story titled Iron Snake for the Grunts: War Stories (Arcana Comics); a collection of back stories for the original Grunts (Arcana Comics) series. He also wrote a story for the Ronin Studios' upcoming Hope Anthology, which benefits Hero Initiative.
He’s currently working on as yet announced series based on an animated series, freelance writing Redorik for Crystal Fractal Comics, and working on creator-owned properties.
Http://www.apsaratheatrecompany.com/

It has been over two year's since Apsara Theatre Company's inaugurating production Someone Between took its first breath in Montreal. Since then, the company has been invited to perform at Centaur Theatre's 2010 Annual Wildside Festival and, most recently, at the 2010 Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences at Concordia University, Montreal.
Having found shelter at a week-long creative residency at Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, we were fortunate enough to have been given the opportunity to go further in exploration. The focus of this residency has been on the lighting design, specifically looking at its adaptibility for touring. Now with months to prepare and back from a month-long trip to South Vietnam with her father, performer Chantria Tram will be working to go deeper in the images and actions of this story. 
We would like to sincerely thank the director of cultural programming, Luk Côté, for this precious opportunity and his technicians and staff for their dedication and hard work. We look forward to the creative residency presentation of "Someone Between" and hope to see you there.
Hyphen Islam-Christianity

Hyphen Islam-Christianity is a multidisciplinary project which voyages into the heart of Lebanon but also into human memory of sharing and diversity.
==About==
Imagine a young country where multiculturalism is part of the mental landscape and where differences are life enriching. Imagine a much older country on the other side of the planet where 19 religious communities are at home on a tiny territory. The link between these two countries is “Hyphen Islam-Christianity”, a multidisciplinary project which voyages into the heart of Lebanon but also into human memory of sharing and diversity.
An exhibition, a documentary and a 700-page book, Hyphen Islam-Christianity is a lively portrait of largely unknown landscapes, personalities and practices. Lebanon is a perfect example that illustrates the hyphen between two major religions because in spite of its small size and frequent inter religious clashes, the common aspects and the bridging points between religions do exist. With religious labels removed, we can see people living together in many villages where mosques and churches are built alongside each other.
Hyphen Islam-Christianity is an innovative project by Nada Raphael that reaches out to meet people from all traditions and all places with a more human dimension of the dialogue between Islam and Christianity. The project acts as a hyphen, bringing together two religions, two cultures, respecting each other’s differences and contributions.
Nada Raphael is the photographer and producer of Hyphen Islam-Christianity. She studied in Beirut and Montreal and received a Bachelor’s degrees in audio-visual studies, in communication and in journalism. She has variously worked as a photographer, a camera woman, a journalist, a theater director and a project manager. 
Joelle Sfeir is in charge of communications in Montreal. She got a Bachelor’s degree in Environment and Land Management in Lebanon and worked on her skills as a writer, in PR, as a translator and a journalist.
Hyun Jou Lee

Hyun Jou Lee was born on October 6th 1965, in Korea. At age seven, she left her childhood home to attend school in Seoul. She went on to study at the Women’s University in Seoul, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts. Her thirst for discovery led her to Montreal in 1994, where she studied at the Saidye Bronfman Center. She started exhibiting locally, and has since been showing work in galleries in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. 
Jou Lee has a symbiotic relationship with her artwork. She looks for guidance from the 
canvas, often surprised by the finished result. She begins by applying a thick gesso, to 
create relief and give dimension to the piece. Jou Lee experiments with many mediums, 
using principally oil and encaustic. Her colour palette is extremely broad; ranging from 
the very organic to the brightest colours of spring: the difference depends on the story 
the artist is trying to tell. 
== Exhibitions ==
The following are some of Hyun Jou Lee's most recent solo exhibitions, more can be found at her webpage.
2011: Catalogue launch & Retrospective exhibition at the Espace Galerie Dimension Plus in Montreal, Québec.
2010: Edmund Craig Gallery in Texas, United States.
2008: Galerie Robert Senneville in Sherbrooke, Canada as well as at the Edmund Craig Gallery in Texas, United States.
2007: The Village Gallery in Mississauga, Ontario.
Hyun Jou Lee has also participated in group exhibitions, such as at the Bering & James in Houston, Texas in 2005 and at both the Art Corée 2004, L’Agora de la Danse in Montreal and the Galerie Estampe Plus in Quebec -among other exhibitions.
IMPACT Indian Martial and Performance Arts Collective of Toronto

The mission of IMPACT is to empower youth and open their creativity and self-esteem through South Asian performance and martial arts banethi and kalari. The goals of our workshop program are to promote physical and mental health, diffuse aggression, demystify physical conflict, and promote community safety while teaching disciplines that have relevance to many of our participants’ cultural heritage. We create opportunities for youth to explore cultural histories and philosophies, develop leadership skills, and connect to and shape their communities.
I am Robot and Proud

Shaw-Han Liem is a Canadian indie electronic artist from Toronto, Ontario. He has released albums under the labels Darla and & Records.
Liem has played with bands such as The Constantines, Printed Circuit, Marumari, Ariel Pink, and The Unicorns. Shaw-Han has also been a member of Sea Snakes, Jim Guthrie Band, Nathan Lawr and the Minotaurs and Tusks.
In 2007, he participated in the global launch events for Tenori-On, an instrument designed by Toshio Iwai.
The live version of I am Robot and Proud includes Toronto musicians Jeremy Strachan, Robin Buckley and Mike Smith. Previous members have included Jim Guthrie, Samir Khan, Gus Weinkauf and Simon Osbourne. In 2009, Liem collaborated on a performance with media artist Daito Manabe, combining Manabe's physical music visualizations with improvised composition. In 2010 he also performed a live collaboration set with Boredoms drummer Senju Muneomi and Tokyo computer-composer Yuri Miyauchi.
Currently he is collaborating with game designer Jonathan Mak on an upcoming videogame called Sound Shapes, for which he will serve as music composer and sound designer. He participated in a roundtable discussion on the topic of independent videogame music at the 2009 Game Developers Conference together with the composers of independent game titles PixelJunk Eden, Flower and Night Game.
Ian Hanomansing

Ian Hanomansing is a reporter and occasional host with The National, and come September he will anchor CBC News Network's primetime coverage out of Vancouver.
He has covered a wide range of stories for CBC including the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (1989), the Los Angeles Riots (1992), the handover of Hong Kong (1997) and three Olympic Winter Games, in Nagano, Salt Lake City and Turin. As host of CBC News Network's Pacific Rim Report and Foreign Assignment between 1995 and 2000, his assignments took him to Asia, including the Philippines, Japan and Vietnam.
Hanomansing has also hosted and co-developed some groundbreaking live news specials on CBC News Network, including: 1998's "Downtown Drugs: A Night on the Streets" and 2005's "Crime on the Street", the only network news special to be broadcast live from inside a Canadian penitentiary.
Among his other assignments: hosting "Feeling the Heat" in 2007, a summer series about the environment on CBC Radio One and 2004's "Still Talking Hockey", a late night hockey program on CBC-TV in British Columbia.
Hanomansing was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and grew up in Sackville, New Brunswick. He graduated with an honors B.A. in Political Science and Sociology from Mount Allison University in Sackville, and a Law Degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. While in university, he won six national debating and public speaking championships.
He began his broadcasting career at CKDH Radio in Amherst, Nova Scotia and worked at radio stations in Moncton and Halifax before joining CBC Television in Halifax in 1986. Among his journalism awards, he won a Gemini in 2008 for Best News Anchor.
Hanomansing lives in Vancouver with his wife and their two teenage sons.