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“My Art is Activism” – In conversation with Sid Chow Tan
August 7, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT
Free
Island Mountain Arts is honoured to be hosting video documentarian, community organizer, and media producer Sid Chow Tan – along with a team of researchers/artists – in a residency through the beginning of August. Join us for a conversation on August 7th in the Island Mountain Arts Gallery as we delve into Sid’s prolific career, inspired activism, and community-centric approach to organizing and effecting change.
SID CHOW TAN 周明輝 is perhaps best known for his anti-racism work, community organizing, and community-based media productions. Most significant is his highlighting the injustices of 62-years of racist Chinese head tax and exclusion legislation and its ongoing generational impacts. Working actively as a producer, videographer, teacher, and organizer since 1986, he is a founding director and member of the Community Media Education Society (https://www.vcn.bc.ca/cmes/1pages/about.htm), Head Tax Families Society of Canada (http://www.headtaxfamilies.ca/), and past President of Full Figure Theatre Company Society dba Full Figure Media and ACCESS Community Television (Facebook @ACCESSCOMMUNITYTV). Semi-retired, he continues to reside in Vancouver’s Chinatown (100 block East Hastings) on the unceded and traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples – sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations.
Here is a photo of Sid Chow Tan with his heroes, the late Charlie Quan and Gim Wong.
(From left to right: Sid Chow Tan, Charlie S. N. Quan, and Gim Foon Wong.)
Photo by Eric Chan
(From left to right: Sid Chow Tan, Charlie S. N. Quan, and Gim Foon Wong.)
Photo by Eric Chan
Location: Island Mountain Arts Public Gallery (2323 Pooley St.)
Light refreshments will be served!
