Saturday, April 18, 2009
11:00am – 4:00pm
UBC Asian Centre (1871 West Mall)
Everybody welcome! Free admission!

This is the first of its kind in UBC where more than ten UBC departments and units work as a team to offer a one-day event to celebrate Asian Heritage Month. Stroll along the northwestern part of the UBC campus, partake in the rich Asian cultures and enjoy the myriad resources on campus. Asia Voila features traditional Asian dance and music performances, art and photo exhibitions, lectures on poetry chanting and calligraphy, guided library tours and workshops, Asian languages round robin, book sale, Nitobe Garden tours and more!

For more information please visit: www.library.ubc.ca/asian/asiavoila
Enquiries: 604-822-0019 Asian Studies Department

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CASTING CALL

An independent film project, Henry’s Glasses, is holding a casting which will take place at the National Nikkei Museum and Heritage Centre on April 9, 2009.

Henry’s Glasses is a short film based in a tough time in Canadian history. The setting for the film is in the Japanese Canadian internment camp known as Tashme in 1945. It’s a tender story about finding and sharing light in dark times.

Synopsis
In a Japanese Canadian internment camp in 1945, Henry, an eight-year-old boy has a mystical gift that makes the extraordinary happen. Even to the old and broken Mr.
Yamamoto, this gift may hold the extraordinary power to make a skeptic believe.

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