Come out and celebrate the start of our fifth season with an evening of poetry, prose, music and film. The concept of this iteration builds from the importance of family in Asian cultures, the tensions between blood family and the family we come to choose.
This May, Ellen Chang-Richardson brings together two creators from the pan-Asian diaspora and two creators, not, whose works deal with the notion of family — roots, lineages and futures — to deepen and expand this conversation of intersectional familial relationships and the boundaries, blurred and distinct, between eastern and western understandings.
Wayne Ng and Jean Van Loon will present in-person readings, ViNa will stream in with a live performance from Treaty 6 and 7 territories, and we will screen Desmond Simon's Mitata | Grandfather followed by a live Q&A via video stream.