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Karen David

Karen Shenaz David (born April 15 1979), was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, in northeastern India, is a Canadian-British actress, singer and songwriter, who is best known for portraying "Cesca"_Montoya Francesca "Cesca" Montoya (Francesca "Cesca" Kirby) in the BBC television series, Waterloo Road, and Layla in the American action film, The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior.
David currently stars in Pixelface, a CBBC children's television series, where she plays Alexia, the glamorous legend hunter.
She made one appearance as Kayla Graham in the Fox television series Touch, with Kiefer Sutherland and Danny Glover. She performed "Three Little Birds", as Graham in the show, and the version was released as a soundtrack single, with Wendy & Lisa, on iTunes by 20th Century Fox TV Records on February 28, 2012.
Kash Heed

Kash P. Heed (Kashmir Singh Heer) is a Canadian politician, who was elected as a BC Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2009 provincial election, representing the riding of Vancouver-Fraserview.
He formerly served as the Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General. He was formerly chief constable of the West Vancouver Police Department and a former superintendent with the Vancouver Police Department and was the first Indo-Canadian police chief in Canada.
Heed graduated from the B.C. Police Academy in 1979 and began his career as an officer with the VPD. In June 2007 he lost out to Deputy Chief Jim Chu for the position of Chief Constable of the VPD, but days later was appointed to that title in West Vancouver. He led the West Vancouver Police Department for 19 months and resigned on February 23, 2009.http://www.news1130.com/news/local/more.jsp?content=20090223_181612_5112
He was the superintendent in charge of the south part of Vancouver, and as an Inspector was commander of District 3, which corresponds to the southeast quadrant of Vancouver. 
Other roles in his career with the VPD have included heading the drug squad and Indo-Canadian gang task force, as well as implementing the department's COMPSTAT information technology system.
He is a published author who also teaches criminology and criminal justice at two B.C. colleges. He pioneered initiatives aimed at crime reduction and prevention as well as greater community and police engagement. He led the Indo-Canadian Task Force and inspired the formation of grassroots organizations dedicated to preventing gang violence.
Kashif

Kashif (also spelled Kaashif, Kaşif, or Kashef, ) is an Arabic word, commonly used as a male given name in the Muslim world. Its meaning is close to the English words 'revealer', 'discoverer', 'uncoverer' or 'pioneer'. 
When used by Muslims, it is done so in the context of its Qur'anic usage referring to God as 'the One who reveals.' When applied to an individual, it means that the person has the quality of spiritual vision. The truth is obvious to them while hidden to others. For example, in the Qur'an (Surah Al-Sajdah Chapter 32 : Verse 13), God refers to a people who have just died and suddenly see the error of their ways and the purpose of life which previously eluded them. After this realization, they ask God to send them back, as they now believe and want to do good works. Those who are 'Kashif' have that understanding before death.
Kate Rigg

Kate Rigg is well known in the Asian American community as a comedian, speaker, actor and lead singer for the band "Slanty Eyed Mama". She grew up in Toronto Canada where was a regular on the CBC teen news show "What's New?" giving movie reviews for teenagers by teenagers. She also appeared in the CTV Drama The Campbells and throughout HighSchool won awards for writing and acting before heading to college in Melbourne Australia at her fathers alma mater The University of Melbourne. In Australia, she wrote and directed several plays outside of college and received the Comedy Festival Award at Melbourne University as well as an Australia Council Grant for her first one person show "m/Other/land" which was produced at La Mama Theater in Melbourne and subsequently at the Tarragon Theater in Toronto. 
She was accepted into Australia's prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney but ultimately decided to attend the Juilliard School in New York where she won the Interarts Award for inter-disciplinary work. After Juilliard, Kate worked in several off Broadway productions including Dogeaters at the Public Theater directed by MIchael Greif, The Vagina Monologues directed by Joe Mantello, and several regional plays. Kate has also built a stand up and sketch comedy career parallel to acting. With a debut at Carolines on Broadway she developed the show "Kate's Chink-O-Rama"which toured nationally to great acclaim and did stints at The HBO Time Warner Workspace in L.A. and PSNBC in New York. Her play "Birth of a nAsian" was invited to the Smithsonian Institute and she wrote three plays while in various residencies at the Mark Taper Forum Los Angeles. She continues to work in the Asian/Pacific Islander community as a comic and speaker between acting engagements.
Kayumanggi Philippine Performing Arts

The Kayumanggi Philippine Performing Arts of The Philippine Association of Manitoba is a volunteer performing group that promotes understanding and education of Philippine culture through songs, music, dance and other performing art forms. The Kayumanggi has also helped the community in providing options for young people to have an extra curricular activity that proliferates team work and camaraderie it is also a setting for young people to express their creativity, exercise responsibility and learn the Philippine culture. Thus The Kayumanggi has been very proud to be contributing in propagating a peaceful and creative society.
Keanu Reeves

"Keanu Reeves, whose first name means "cool breeze over the mountains" in Hawaiian, was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1964. His mother, Patricia Taylor, was a showgirl; his father, Samuel Nowlin Reeves, a geologist. After their marriage dissolved, Keanu moved with his mother and younger sister, Kim Reeves, to New York City, then Toronto. Stepfather #1 was Paul Aaron, a stage and film director - he and Patricia divorced within a year, after which she went on to marry (and divorce) rock promoter Robert Miller and hair salon owner Jack Bond. Reeves never reconnected with his biological father.. In high school, Reeves was lukewarm toward academics but took a keen interest in ice hockey (as team goalie, he earned the nickname "The Wall") and drama. He eventually dropped out of school to pursue an acting career.
After a few stage gigs and a handful of made-for-TV movies, he scored a supporting role in the Rob Lowe hockey flick Youngblood (1986), which was filmed in Canada. Shortly after the production wrapped, Reeves packed his bags and headed for Hollywood. Reeves popped up on critics' radar with his performance in the dark adolescent drama, River's Edge (1986), but his first popular success was the role of totally rad dude "Ted Logan" in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989). The wacky time-travel movie became something of a cultural phenomenon, and audiences would forever confuse Reeves's real-life persona with that of his doofy on-screen counterpart. Over the next few years, Reeves tried to shake the Ted stigma with a series of highbrow projects. He played a slumming rich boy opposite River Phoenix's narcoleptic male hustler in My Own Private Idaho (1991), an unlucky lawyer who stumbles into the vampire's lair in Dracula (1992), and Shakespearean party-pooper "Don John" in Much Ado About Nothing (1993).
In 1994, the understated actor became a big-budget action star with the release of Speed (1994). Its success heralded an era of five years in which Reeves would alternate between small films, like Feeling Minnesota (1996) and The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997), and big films like Johnny Mnemonic (1995) and Chain Reaction (1996). After all this, Reeves did the unthinkable and passed on the Speed (1994) sequel, but he struck box-office gold again a few years later with the Wachowski brothers' cyberadventure The Matrix (1999). Reeves continues to reel in choice roles and fat paychecks. Whatever he knows, he's not telling the public--his mysterious private life provide little insight into his artistry. As far as Reeves is concerned, he's just a regular guy who rides a motorcycle and shows up every now and then for a movie shoot."
Ken Adachi

Ken Adachi (1929 – February 9, 1989) was a Canadian writer and literary critic, who was associated with the Toronto Star's literary section from 1976 until his death.
Born to Japanese immigrants in Vancouver, British Columbia, Adachi was interned with his family at Slocan during World War II. Following the end of the war, Adachi became editor of the New Canadian, a Japanese Canadian newspaper formerly edited by Tommy Shoyama, and studied English literature at the University of Toronto. He subsequently taught at the University of Toronto from 1958 to 1971, and at the University of Maryland from 1964 to 1968.
He then joined the Toronto Star in 1972 as a copy editor, rising to become editor of the books section in 1976. That same year, he also published the book The Enemy That Never Was, a history of the Japanese Canadian community which was later hailed by Robert Fulford as the definitive book on Japanese history in Canada.
Adachi was fired from his position with the Star in 1981 after a plagiarism accusation, although he was soon rehired as a book reviewer and literary columnist. He remained associated with the Star until 1989, when he committed suicide after a second accusation that he had plagiarized three paragraphs from a 1982 book review in TIME.
His widow, Mary Adachi, remains active in Canadian literature as a book editor.
Kenda Gee

Kenda is a filmmaker whose family origins in Canada go back to the turn of the century. He has been the Chair of Edmonton’s Chinese Head Tax & Exclusion Act (Redress) Committee since 1998, and had the distinction of delivering the keynote address at the Going Global Conference of New Zealand’s Chinese community in Auckland, 2007. A graduate of the Documentary Production Workshop at Ryerson University through the support of the National Film Board of Canada, Kenda was also selected as a finalist of the 2005 National Producer Apprenticeship Programme by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television and for the Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association Producers Programme in its inaugural year from which he graduated among the top three. In 1998, he produced and directed a documentary short with the Edmonton Chinese Television Society, entitled, China Clipper on Larry Kwong, the first Chinese Canadian player in the National Hockey League. Kenda is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto and the recipient of a United Nations Secretariat graduate internship in New York with the Offices of Political and Legal Affairs.
His landmark feature documentary, Lost Years, which touches upon 150 years of the Chinese diaspora in Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Australia, has received over 21 international awards and award nominations to date. The film premiered on December 5, 2011 at the Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, where it won the Best Documentary Award for history and culture.
The award-winning work has also been shown as a two-part television mini-series for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, nationally, February-March 2012, with extended episodes on CTV Two Alberta, June 2013. It holds the distinction as the first Chinese (Asian) Canadian documentary mini-series to be broadcast on a major national network in Canada and is currently on pace to becoming the most viewed Canadian-made production in television broadcast history before the end of 2014 with an international audience in Asia and Oceania. It was nominated for two Canadian Screen Awards for Best Original Music, and Best Sound in a Documentary Program or Series, Toronto, March 3, 2013, in the nation event's inaugural year. 
Lost Years is a multiple Winner at the International Film Festival Manhattan for Best Feature Documentary, Best of the Best (Festival), and Film Achievement & Social Advocacy, Oct 17-20, 2013; the Winner, Best Feature Documentary, Asians on Film Festival, Los Angeles, February 15-17, 2013; and, the Grand Prize Winner, Best Feature Documentary, 16th Rhode Island International Film Festival, August 7-12, 2012. 
The film represented Canada at the biennial Sichuan TV Festival, November 16-18, 2013, where it was nominated for the Special Jury Award (Society), its 21st award nomination, to date. In July 2012, Lost Years was named one of the top films of the past decade by Guangzhou International Documentary Festival's "Golden Days".
See also:
http://writinglikeanasian.blogspot.ca/2015/05/feature-five-qs-with-kenda-gee.html
http://www.facebook.com/lostyearsface
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4596519/
http://www.lostyears.ca/team.html
Kevin Chong

Kevin Chong (born 1975) is a Canadian author. Born in Hong Kong, Chong studied at the University of British Columbia and Columbia University, where he received an MFA in fiction writing.
His first novel, Baroque-a-Nova, was published in Canada by Penguin in 2001, in the United States by Putnam in 2002, and in France by Ballard in 2002. The New York Times Book Review describes the book as "a readable, if slightly gray, coming-of-age novel." The Quill and Quire described the book as "compact, clear-sighted, and nervy. Chong’s grasp of suburban tackiness is laugh-out-loud awesome, right down to the ubiquitous copies of Maclean’s magazine on parental coffee tables and trick or treaters dressed as Orville Redenbacher." 
His second book Neil Young Nation (2005), a non-fiction work, traces the steps of Neil Young's 1970 trip across Canada and the United States. New York Times Book Review of compared the book to "watching an endless home movie in which a not very close friend visits all the houses he grew up in." The Georgia Straight suggested that "Still looking for happiness, community, and fulfillment, Chong is a genuine seeker-and his journey is a ride worth taking."
Chong works extensively as a freelance journalist. He is a practitioner of the martial art-like aerobic exercise form Tae Bo, and had a minor role in the film Bloodsport II: The Next Kumite He is also active in Vancouver's underground music scene, performing jazz under his stage name, "Butterscotch Panda."
In 2010, Chong gained a heightened degree of infamy after novelist Peter Darbyshire confronted him at a book launch regarding a negative review Chong gave one of his books. Both men were visibly drunk and engaged in a fistfight on stage, resulting in Chong and Darbyshire's arrest. According to the National Post, Chong allegedly struck Darbyshire with a fire extinguisher.
Chong lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is an accomplished show dog handler as well as an editor for Joyland: A hub for short fiction.
== Bibliography ==
Novels
*Baroque-a-Nova Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2001.
*Beauty Plus Pity Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp, [forthcoming, Fall 2011], ISBN 978-1-55152-416-0
Non-fiction
*Chong, Kevin (2005). Neil Young nation: a quest, an obsession, and a true story. Vancouver, Berkeley, CA: Greystone Books. ISBN 978-1-55365-116-1. OCLC 61261394. Crisscrossing the continent, Chong follows the route that led Neil Young to become a musical legend.
Kevin Lau

KEVIN LAU is a writer and director born and raised in Los Angeles to working-class, immigrant parents. A Regents Scholar at UCLA, Kevin honed his craft in music and photography before dedicating his artistic pursuit to filmmaking. A former theatrical film distributor and film festival programmer, Kevin left California in 2009 to pursue his filmmaking ambitions at Columbia University's MFA Film Program where he received numerous awards and fellowships, including the coveted Faculty Select prize--the highest honor bestowed upon a feature-length screenplay. His thesis film, MADE IN CHINATOWN, was a recipient of the Panavision New Filmmaker Grant, SimonSays Entertainment Award for Innovative Filmmaking, and has won multiple awards on the festival circuit, including Best Film, Best Writing, and Best Actor at the NBCUniversal Shortcuts Competition.
Kevin recently completed a screenplay set in Hollywood's Golden Age for Emmy-nominated actress Lucy Liu, and is currently developing a television series about America's Gilded Age as seen through the eyes of the first Chinese-American gangster, as well as a first feature to direct set in Cambodia during the rise of the Khmer Rouge. He has also been selected as one of four Program Fellows for Sony Pictures Television's inaugural Diverse Directors Program and has most recently been awarded a CAPE New Writers Fellowship under the mentorship of Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang. Kevin currently resides in Brooklyn and, in his spare time, dreams of becoming an NBA superstar.
Khosro Berahmandi

Khosro Berahmandi, Iranian-born painter, moved to Canada in 1983. He currently lives and works in Montreal. Graduate in Fine Arts from Concordia University in Montreal, as well as the University of Paris VIII, he has already participated in over thirty solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States and Europe. Recipient of several awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, he is engaged in various artistic projects exploring the relationship between his art and other forms of artistic expressions. Three art books on Khosro’s work have already been published by Maison d’édition Ketabe Iran Canada and by Les éditions du Noroît. Khosro is presented by MEKIC gallery in Montreal and Queen gallery in Toronto.
Upcoming exibition: Bone of the Moon
From November 10 to December 22, 2017
MEKIC Galery, Montreal
Monday and Tuesday : Closed
Wednesday – Friday : 2pm – 7pm
Saturday and Sunday : 12pm – 5pm
Opening reception, Friday, November 10 from 6: pm to 9: pm
For more information please visit: www.khosro.info
Khosro Berahmandi/fr

Né à Téhéran, en Iran, Khosro Berahmandi peint depuis l’âge de 25 ans. Ses années de formation le conduisent de l’université Western Ontario à l’Université Concordia de Montréal et à l’Université de Paris VIII où il obtient une maîtrise en arts plastiques.
Artiste accompli et prolifique, lauréat de plusieurs bourses du Conseil des Arts du Canada, Khosro Berahmandi, s’engage fréquemment dans divers projets artistiques. Parmi les plus récents, mentionnons le spectacle multidisciplinaire Éclats nocturne (2009) et le projet de danse Baiser tellurique (2010) qui explore la relation entre son art et d’autres formes d’expressions artistiques. Il a participé déjà à une quarantaine d’expositions en solo et de groupe au Canada, aux États-Unis et en Europe.
Trois livres d’art ont été consacrés à l’art de Khosro Berahmandi. Le premier, Le même à l’écart (2009, Maison d’édition Ketabe Iran Canada), présente l’art de cet artiste aux côtés des poètes iraniens Yadola Royai, Hossein Sharang, Hossein Model et Bahman Sadighi. Le deuxième, Oubli et silence (2010, Maison d’édition Ketabe Iran Canada), est une rétrospective de son travail artistique des années 2002 à 2010 préfacé par Bahman Sadighi. Enfin, le troisième, Traversée des feux (2012, Édition du Noroît) présente ses peintures et les poèmes de José Acquelin, de Martine Audet, de Paul Bélanger, de Yadolah Royaï, de Bahman Sadihgi et de Hossein Sharagn, que ces peintures ont inspirés.
L’art de Khosro Berahmandi révèle un univers singulier duquel surgit une mythologie personnelle, prodigieuse et captivante. L’artiste utilise les panneaux en bois peints en noir ou en brun foncé comme surface de prédilection pour y multiplier les couleurs, les lignes, les carrés, les cercles et les divers symboles essentiels autour desquels son art s’articule. Influencé autant par l’art amérindien que par l’art pictural indo-iranien de la miniature du 11e au 16e siècle, le travail créatif de Khosro Berahmandi développe une esthétique originale qui plonge le spectateur dans un labyrinthe infini de créatures énigmatiques qui interpellent et fascinent le regard.
Khosro Berahmandi vit et travaille à Montréal depuis 1990. Parallèlement à son travail de peintre, l’artiste se consacre à son travail de directeur général et artistique du Festival Accès Asie. Khosro est représenté par la galerie MEKIC de Montréal et par la galerie Queen de Toronto.
Exposition à venir:
Os de la lune
Du 10 novembre au 22 décembre 2017
Galerie MEKIC, Montréal
Lundi et mardi – Fermé
Du mercredi au vendredi : 14h à 19h
Samedi et dimanche : 12h -17h
Vernissage, le vendredi 10 novembre de 18h à 21h
KimPossibleMusic

Multi-talented soul artist and activist Kim Vigilante was born and raised in Vancouver. She graduated at the University of British Columbia studying Visual Arts.
She is active in the Filipino community as well as the Queer community, hosting and organizing events throughout the city.
Kim has recently led and worked on a mural project that used her passion for art to solidify a community. In collaboration with UBC's Learning Exchange Program, the mural project tackled the issue of social isolation identified among tenants living at the Oasis building on East Hastings Street and to address the graffiti in an alley behind the building, a scene of frequent drug use. The project was a huge success, building a stronger sense of community and enhanced the social atmosphere.
Kim Hoang

Kim Hoang is an emerging illustrator and comic book artist, recently graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus in drawing and printmaking.
Her work can be described as mainly figurative drawings in defined line work and bright colouring: a hybrid of both western and eastern comic book styles. Her mediums of choice range from traditional ink, pencil, and silkscreen, to more modern methods utilizing digital processing and printing. Her stories are currently exploring themes around identity, love, and the occasional quest, with a slice-of-life approach.
Kim has a keen interest in self-publishing and small press art books. She tends to work collaboratively; contributing comics for anthologies such as You Ain’t No Dancer 3. She has also produced an extensive body of work as part of the Radar Friends collective.
An additional interest in curating has also spawned numerous online fanzines and projects such as Kissybook, an illustrated art book featuring the work of emerging international artists. Her commissions include visual content on projects such as Ian Verchere’s “Localman” comic for his 2006 book, "General Delivery: V0N 1B0", and Ingrid McCarthy’s proposal for "The Black Pearl of Osis" children’s graphic novel series. Kim also creates original illustrations for various clients, including Ricepaper magazine.
Kim currently resides in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, surrounded by culturally diverse art and artists, which fuel her eagerness to always be learning.