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Mariko Tanabe

Renowned for her electric stage presence, her passionate, sensuous and highly stylized works are inspired by the richness of her intercultural and metaphysical explorations. These explorations include research into her own Japanese Canadian heritage, as well as the fiery explosive dynamics of Flamenco dance forms. She is drawn by the mysteries of the human spirit and is inspired by ancient mystical traditions, mythological archetypes and religions.
Her works have been presented in The Schwankhalle in Germany, the Duncan Center (Prague) in The Czech Republic, TanzIist! in Austria, The Festival Fringe Tomar’99 and 2000 in Portugal, at Tangente and in the OFF-FIND (Festival International de Nouvelle Danse) in Montreal, Festival Off d’Avignon, Festival International de Musicas Visuales in Mexico City, The Town Hall in Sheffield, Vermont, at many venues in New-York City, including PS122, The Joyce Soho and The Mulberry Street Theater and at Harbourfront in Toronto.
She enjoys the process of collaboration with composers, musicians and visual artists and is the artistic director of her company Mariko Tanabe Danse in Montreal. She has a weekly radio dance chronicle on Radio Ville Marie. MARIKO TANABE ’s background includes work in traditional Japanese dance forms including Kabuki and Noh. She has also trained in Butoh, Flamenco, Middle Eastern Dance, experimental theatre, Alexander technique, yoga and the healing arts.
For twelve years she worked with American Modern Dance pioneer Erick Hawkins with whom she was a principal dancer, teacher and associate rehearsal director. As a guest artist she has taught at several Universities and Art Centres throughout the world including Tanzwerk in Bremen, Germany, the Duncan Centre Conservatory in Prague, the National Film Academy in Prague, the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, the Kennedy Centre in Washington, D.C., BellasArtes in Mexico City and the Musik Akademy in Dornbirn,Austria.
Her work "Narcisse en Silence" is in the permanent archives of the German Tanzfilm Institute in Bremen. In 1996 she was Assistant to the Artistic Director and Rehearsal Director or Compagnie Marie Chouinard in Montreal. She is the recipient of awards by the NAJC Endowment Fund, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, La Ville de Montreal, The Ministry of Culture and Communications of Québec. The Canadian Commission for UNESCO and The Laidlaw Foundation for her choreography.
Marissa Largo

Originally from the Phillipines, Marissa Largo lives and teaches in Toronto. Having graduated in Fine Arts from York University and pursuing a Master degree in Art Education at the Concordia University, her interests as an academic researcher focus on multiculturalism, the practice of collaborative art, community art education, cultural democracy and anti-racism.
Being deeply involved in community life, Marissa Largo collaborates with two Phillipino organizations: Ugnayan ng Kabataang Filipino sa Canada located in Toronto and Kabataang Montreal. She works with the youth to encourage artistic discovery and to integrate artistic practice in their daily lives. Marissa also works at the Centre for Immigrant Workers, an organization dedicated to defend the rights of immigrants and to facilitate their integration into Canadian society.
In constant evolution, the artistic work of Marissa Largo is a personal reflection on the processes governing the construction of identities in a world swept by globalization. The artist invites the public to reflect upon the changes in spatial and temporal perceptions that are sparked by the rising accessibility of travelling, and the issues of immigration.
A true ambassador as an art activist, Marissa Largo exhibits regularly in Montreal and Toronto. Her works have been presented in several group exhibitions: Departures (2005), Greater the One (2004), MEQ: Misconceptions Elegantly Quenched (2004), Additions (2004) and Smudge (2004). She also has to her credit, two solo photography exhibitions: Small World (2003) and Neither Here Nor There (2003).
Marline Yan

Marline Yan is a Cambodian-Canadian actress and singer who may be best known as her role in How To Be Indie.
Marline Yan was born on the January 9, 1993 in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. Her mother is of Cambodian, Indian and Vietnamese descent, and her father is of Cambodian, Thai and Chinese descent.
She started acting and singing when she was ten, being in shows from local theatre companies. In her first year of high school at John Paul II Secondary Catholic School, in London, Ontario, she was casted as the leading role in a production of Romeo and Juliet. She was first signed on to an agency at the age fourteen and a year later was casted for the role of Abi in the YTV series How To Be Indie. Later that year, she appeared as Sophia in the successful Family Channel series Connor Undercover. 
In 2010 she was casted a minor two episode role for Wingin' It, a children's series which also starred her How to Be Indie co-star Dylan Everett. She most recently completed a television film titled Made...The Movie and casted for a upcoming film 'Trigger'.
She filmed a second series of How To Be Indie, which premiered in fall 2010.
Martin Singh

Martin Singh is a pro-business member of the NDP. He is a pharmacist and businessman who resides with his wife and three children in Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia. In the federal NDP, Martin is the President of the Faith and Social Justice Commission. Martin is the treasurer for the Canadian Federation for Sexual Health (formerly Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada). Martin has chemistry, chemical engineering, and pharmacy degrees from Dalhousie University as well as a MBA from Saint Mary’s University. Martin is an active member of the Sikh faith and the Canadian Armed Forces Reserves. He also volunteers on a number of non-profit boards at the local, regional, and national level.
Marty Chan

Raised in Morinville — a small town north of Edmonton, Alberta — Marty Chan is a playwright, radio writer, television story editor, and young adult author. 
His works include Something Dead And Evil Lurks In The Cemetery And It's My Dad, The Bone House, Maggie's Last Dance, Mom, Dad - I'm Living with a White Girl, and The Forbidden Phoenix. He is well known for his six-year run on CBC Radio of The Dim Sum Diaries, a series of short vignettes about his life growing up in small-town Northern Alberta as the only Chinese family around. His two children's novels, The Mystery of the Frozen Brains and The Mystery of the Graffiti Ghoul, were based on the same experiences.
Mary Sui Yee Wong

Mary Sui Yee Wong has received both her BFA and MFA from Concordia. As a multidisciplinary artist, she actively exhibits in and outside Canada. In 2010, Wong participated in a group exhibition presented in the DMZ festival in Korea's Demilitarized Zone. She also presented a live streaming multi-media collaboration with her father titled Sing Juk Sing, hosted by Montreal Accés Asie, Oboro gallery (Montreal) and Center A (Vancouver), which was broadcasted on the web worldwide. In 2008 she released an original line of garments titled Yellow Apparel in the exhibition Rearranging Desires: Curating the Other Within at the FOFA Gallery. Wong's multidisciplinary work involves performance, sculpture, installation, video, technology, text, and sound. She is a board member of Oboro Gallery and the Montreal Yuet Sing Music Association. Wong currently teaches in the Studio Arts Department at Concordia and holds an adjunct position at Goddard College, Vermont USA, both in the Individualized Studies program and the MFA Interdisciplinary Arts program.
Masia One

Masia One (born April 5, 1982) is a Canadian female rapper from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
She was born in Singapore and moved to Canada at a very young age. She grew up in Vancouver and eventually moved to Toronto. She went to University of Toronto and graduated with a degree in Architecture with a minor in Economics. In 2003, she began her own record label known as M1 Group (later renamed The MERDEKA Group) and subsequently released her debut album Mississauga. Her most famous songs are Split Second Time, Halfway Through the City, and Return of the B-Girl. In 2003, Masia One became the first female rapper to be nominated for "Best Rap Video" in the MuchMusic Video Awards.
Her newest album, Pulau (The Islands) was released in Fall 2008, in 2 volumes; Pulau: Chapter 1: Montreal in the Fall and Pulau: Chapter 2: The Islands. It features Collaborations with Moe Masri, Isis, Lady E, DJ SARASA, Dylan Murray, Zaki Ibrahim, Junia T, Moka Only, Sikh Knowledge, Vybz Machine and more.
In 2009, Masia One joined the label Kops N Robbers completing an album with Aftermath producer Che Vicious. She will be releasing her first mainstream American debut in Summer 2010 featuring some of the biggest names in Hiphop.
Matsuri Japon

Japan Matsuri festival is organized by the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre of Montreal (The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre of Montreal, JCCCM) in collaboration with the Consulate General of Japan in Montreal. At its inception, the Festival Matsuri Japan aimed to unite the Japanese community in the Montreal area around a typical summer event in Japan, a matsuri (祭?), Which is the Japanese word for festival. The first year, the festival took place at the JCCCM and attracted mainly the Japanese community of Montreal and the fans of Japan informed of the holding of the event. Over time, the festival has become an opportunity for the Japanese community to showcase their culture to Quebecers. The festival has taken place thanks to the help offered by more than one hundred volunteers.
The festival is held on a Saturday in August, from 14h to 21h, for one day only and admission is free.
Maxim Mazumdar

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Maxim Mazumdar (1952 – April 28, 1988) was an Indo-Canadian playwright and director. He is known for his one-man show, Oscar Remembered, which tells the story of the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde as seen from the perspective of his lover and nemesis, Lord Alfred Douglas.
Mazumdar is the founder of the Phoenix Theatre in Montreal, Quebec, as well as the Provincial Drama Academy and the Stephenville Theatre Festival in Stephenville, Newfoundland.
May-Jun McGrath

An eclectic singer songwriter with an ethnic fusion has incorporated beat boxing, Inuit throat singing and slap dancers to her live performance mix. This mix media artist not only composes, and sings her own music, but also has dabbled in super 8mm film making for her music videos. She does a lot of self portraiture (she is a photographer by trade) and also enjoys painting in acrylic and water colour. Her successes include traveling to Rankin Inlet teaching the cadet youth a musical dance performance for the Major General in the land army, as well facilitating a song writing, recording and music video work shop for the Inuit Youth in Ottawa Ontario. She also has had several gallery shows, a 5 song Cd, a single released in 2009, and a west coast tour 2010 under her belt.
May-lee Chai

May-lee Chai is an award-winning American author of Chinese and Anglo-Irish heritage.
Her novels include My Lucky Face , about a Chinese woman in Nanjing balancing work, family, and a tough new job assignment taking care of a foreign teacher ; Dragon Chica , about Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge starting over in Texas and Nebraska; and its sequel, Tiger Girl, which won the 2014 APALA Award for Best Young Novel from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association. 
Her nonfiction books include the family memoir, The Girl from Purple Mountain, which was co-written with her father, the political scientist Winberg Chai. The book, which is narrated in alternating chapters by May-lee and her father, details her grandmother’s decision to be buried alone after helping her family to escape to America after the Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War. The Girl from Purple Mountain was nominated for the National Book Award in nonfiction. 
Chai’s other memoir, Hapa Girl , was a 2008 Kiriyama Prize Notable Book and received an Honorable Mention from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. It explores violent reactions towards her mixed-race family in a small Midwestern town in the 1980s. 
Chai also published a short story and essay collection, Glamorous Asians; translated the 1934 autobiography of Chinese author, Ba Jin; and and co-authored a book about changes in contemporary Chinese society, China A to Z
Maziar Bahari

Maziar Bahari (Persian: مازیار بهاری), (born 1967) is an Iranian Canadian journalist, film maker and human rights activist. He was a reporter for Newsweek from 1998 to 2011. Bahari was incarcerated by the Iranian government from June 2009 to October 20, 2009, and has written a New York Times best seller family memoir, Then They Came for Me.
McGill Tabla Ensemble

Source - http://www.mcgill.ca/music/current-students/undergraduate/all-students/ensembles/ensemble-audition-schedule and http://www.music.mcgill.ca/perc/tablaensemble.html
Founded in 2005 by Shawn Mativetsky, McGill Tabla Ensemble learns and performs traditional North Indian tabla compositions from the Benares baj (style). Students learn tabla techniques, repertoire, and performance practices, with the goal of developing advanced rhythm and improvisation skills, as well as an appreciation for North Indian classical music. Over the course of each semester, the group learns solo tabla repertoire, culminating in an Indian classical tabla soli performance. While most of the 30 members of the ensemble are music majors at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University, a number of students study in other faculties at McGill.
Meena Murugesan

Meena Murugesan
Choreographer, Dancer, Community Arts Facilitator
“As an emerging artist [Meena Murugesan] is someone to watch for.”
— dance critic Philip Szporer, Dance Current, 2008
Meena's multi-disciplinary artistic practice is fuelled by her passion for dance, visual imagery, personal transformation and social change.
Her hybrid choreographic vision stems from twenty-two years of training and performing the South Indian classical dance form Bharatha Natyam, two years of studying with contemporary African dance pioneer Zab Maboungou, a decade of creating still and moving imagery, and five years of training in eastern energetic bodywork therapy.
Meena's choreographies include home/Body (40-minutes, 2009), AVAL (26-minutes, 2008), Unravelled (50-minutes, 2006), Ekatva (15-minutes, 2006) in addition to a dozen other improvisational works performed with Bell Orchestre, LAL, Kalmunity Vibe Collective, Jason 'Blackbird' Selman, Kamala Sundararajan. Since 2004, she has performed her original choreographies and improvisational works in Canada, New York City, Niger, Chile and Brazil.
Parallel to Meena's dance career, she is also a video artist and community arts educator with eight years of local and international experience collaborating with under-represented groups such as youth, people of colour and incarcerated women.
She is currently performing AVAL and developing two new choreographies, one which will premiere at Tangente, Montreal, in Fall 2011. She is the founder of artistic director of meenAkshi productions.
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Meeting August 13, 2012

=Meeting Minutes August 13 2012=
== Agenda ==
#Design, Search function, Contact Us page
#Check-in from Researchers 
##Geographical Representation
#Mandate, Privacy Policy and Disclaimer
#Organizing content - use Aspects or create more categories
#Community portal 
#Continuing on past September launch
#Volunteers
==Design==
:David will report on design on Thursday (16th) meeting. 
===Categories===
ie: science, politics, arts, community organizations
:Rob - pulled out reports on the numbers in each category
:David - we'll look for broader categories for now
:Elena suggestion-
::#Fine and Performing Arts: Visual, Multimedia, Literature, Music, Theatre, Dance, Film, Architecture, Fashion,
::#Science and Technology: Science, Associations, Medicine, 
::#Communications : Journalism, Magazines, Associations, 
::#Society: Politics, Centres, Associations, 
::#Athletics: Athletes, Sports personalities, 
::#Research and Academia: Professors, Researchers, 
===Subcategories===
===Calendar===
==Check-in with Researchers==
*Aiming to exceed our original goal of 400. 
*Update your profile if necessary - adding pictures, update biographies
*Interest in recruiting volunteers for translating ACW material (esp. into asian languages). Janet has suggested contacts, Elena to contact.
*Banner for recruiting volunteers for translation
*Geographical representation - Rob will create profile about Asian immigration to Northwest Territories, Yukon, Nunavut.
*Articles - Rob will write one, Elena will write one
*Elena will write press release/translation into French for September 10th
==Mandate, Privacy Policy, Disclaimer==
Approved until any changes are proposed.
==Contact Us page==
*team [at] asiancanadianwiki.org
*Add note: ACW is volunteer-run. We aim for a 48-hour response time, however we cannot guarantee it.
==Community portal==
*Add page with questions for the community to consider
*Need at least 5 pages total
Next meeting: Thursday August 16 2012 - Design meeting
Meeting August 16, 2012

=Meeting Minutes August 16 2012=
== Agenda ==
#Design, Search function, Contact Us page
#Categories
#Subcategories
#Calendar
#Check-in with researchers
#Contact Us Page
#Community Portal
==Design==
:*Design 1 for consideration 
::* Does not allow hover on touch mobile devices
::* Use default mediawiki for mobile devices? - David will investigate
:*Elena - find background image for front page under creative commons
::*
::*
::*
:#Front page – rough version for August 27th
:#Comment September 3rd
:#Ready by September 10th
*Tab names - Change "Contribute" to "Add Page"?
*Remove Calendar or direct traffic to Main Page 
Search Function
*Change default to relevance- David
*Change all "Vancouver" to "Vancouver, B.C."?
===Categories===
ie: science, politics, arts, community organizations
:Elena suggestion-
#Art: 
##Visual, Performing, Mixed Media, Multimedia, Film, Video, Manga, Literature, Architecture, Music, Dance, Theatre, school, association, Cartoons, Carving, Photography, Institute, Gallery, Artist Collective
#Humanities: 
##history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, Institute
#Science: 
##Medicine, Engineering, Architecture, Spaceflight, Institute
#Media: 
##Journalism, Newspaper, Magazine, Television, online, radio, Cartoons
#Politics and Law: 
##Municipal, Provincial, Federal, Institute, Association, judge, activist
#Sports: 
##Hockey, Hapkido, Baseball, Basketball, Cricket, Kung Fu, Yoga,
#Community: 
##Association, Festival, Cultural Centre, Museum, Gallery
===Subcategories===
See above
===Calendar===
*Need to get rid of Calendar
==Check-in with Researchers==
*Aiming to exceed our original goal of 400. 
*Interest in recruiting volunteers for translating ACW material (esp. into asian languages). Elena to contact 
*Banner for recruiting volunteers for translation - David will look into it
*Geographical representation - complete (Rob)
*Articles - Rob will write one, Elena will write one
*Elena will write press release/translation into French for September 10th
==Contact Us page==
*To be created on new design
*team [at] asiancanadianwiki.org
*Add note: ACW is volunteer-run. We aim for a 48-hour response time, however we cannot guarantee it.
==Community portal==
*Need at least 5 pages total
Next meeting: Monday August 27th 6pm EST
Meeting August 20, 2012

=Meeting Minutes August 20 2012=
== Agenda ==
#Design, Search function, Contact Us page
#Categories
#Subcategories
#Calendar
#Check-in with researchers
#Contact Us Page
#Community Portal
#Importing AC Lists
#Soft Launch
==Design==
:*Design 1 for consideration 
::* Does not allow hover on touch mobile devices
::* May do a click function for the touch mobile
:*Elena - find background image for front page under creative commons
::*
:#Front page – rough version for August 27th
:#Comment September 3rd
:#Ready by September 10th
*Tab names - Change "Contribute" to "Add Page"?
*Remove Calendar or direct traffic to Main Page 
Search Function
*Change default to 'relevance'
*Change all "Vancouver" to "Vancouver, B.C." - change that to ; to permit Vancouver, BC
*Create Contact Us page - email should now work
===Categories===
Complete
===Subcategories===
See above
===Calendar===
*Need to get rid of Calendar
==Check-in with Researchers==
*Interest in recruiting volunteers for translating ACW material (esp. into asian languages). Elena to contact 
*Banner for recruiting volunteers for translation - David will look into it
*Articles - Rob will write one, Elena will write one
*Elena will write press release/translation into French for September 10th
==Contact Us page==
==Community portal==
*Need at least 5 pages total
==Importing AC lists==
*Can be done - aim for Sunday import - David
*Provide list of AC page names to David by Sunday - all
==Soft Launch==
*Small group test - send Elena list of emails by Sunday afternoon
Next meeting: Monday August 27th 6pm EST
Meeting August 24, 2014

====Meeting Minutes====
Please find below a summary of the online meeting, August 24th 2014
Attendance: Janet, Elena
Those in attendance reviewed the progress of last meeting's 3 core objectives listed below.
#Increase ease of access to website
#Increase visibility and community engagement of AC Wiki
#Increase multimedia use in AC Wiki
* Increase ease of access to the website
** Solicit 3 new moderators for this ACWiki team
** Editing of "Contribute!" page instructions would allow users to more easily create profiles
** Create video clip of steps to contribute? 
** Janet to created "How to create a page if this is your first time" instructions
**Action: Streamline remaining text of Contribute! page. Instructions should be no longer than 5-6 steps each
* Increase visibility and community engagement of AC Wiki
**Adrienne's Facebook promotion of the wiki has brought more traffic to the site and promoted it's content
**Janet involved in Chinese Canadian Literature database on AC Wiki, which brought together Chinese-Canadian authors. 
**Janet involved in founding and organizing "Ginger Garden" event in Montreal, directing community participants to create profiles on the AC Wiki
**Frequent users are now self-sufficient in editing and adding profiles
**Action: Elena to add Japanese Canadian literature database on same template, 50 authors by end of 2015
**Action: Connect with multimedia/literary organizations in A-C communities in anticipation of 5th anniversary of AC Wiki
* Increase multimedia use in AC Wiki
**Last meeting David allowed Youtube video embedding on the site. There are now 2+ pages with multiple Youtube videos embedded. 
**Action: Reach 48 pages with Youtube video embedded by beginning 2015
The meeting concluded one hour later.
Meeting August 27, 2012

=Meeting Minutes August 27 2012=
== Agenda ==
#Design
#Soft Launch
#Numbers
#Newfoundland and Labrador
# Community Portal
==Design==
:Go forward with latest design - will be ready for next week
==Soft Launch==
:Date: Monday September 3rd
:Elena can do the initial one and compile comments
:David would do that throughout the month
::*after September 10th, David will respond to queries
==Numbers==
*Have reached 600
*Goal for December:1000
==Newfoundland and Labrador==
*prioritize - adding profiles
==Community portal==
*Need 2 more pages
Next meeting: Monday September 3rd 6pm EST