LANC Sings! 2025 - Thursday March 15th
The Department of Language and Cultures is celebrating the diversity of our multilingual and multicultural student body with a singing event - LANC Sings!
Last year, participants shared songs in Cantonese, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Punjabi, and Tagalog…
It would be great to have even more languages represented this year!
Free refreshments will be provided and all singers will receive a special gift courtesy of the LANC Department
If you would like to sing (by yourself or with friends), please register by emailing; justin.stein@kpu.ca
📆 Thursday March 13th 2025
🕒 3:00 - 5:00pm
📍 Grassroots Café, KPU Surrey campus
KDocsFF: Big Fight in Little Chinatown - Sept 27th
KDocsFF Community Outreach, in partnership with Chinatown Together (華埠團結), is hosting a community screening of Karen Cho's ‘Big Fight in Little Chinatown’ on Friday September 27th (Richmond campus, Wilson School of Design) to take action on this issues of neighbourhood gentrification and minority neighbourhood erasure.
The event includes a screening of the documentary and a panel discussion featuring Chinatown elders, community activists, and KPU faculty (Clement Tong).
A special Hakka Qilin (Chinese unicorn) dance performance to awaken our resistance and solidarity will open the event, which will also feature a speaker from the Punjabi Market Collective (Jag Nagra) to discuss gentrification in Vancouver's Indiatown.
Cocktail buns and pineapple buns direct from Vancouver's Chinatown will be served with light refreshments.
ASL interpreters will be on site for both dates.
Register for your free ticket on Eventbrite
Gabriela BC online talk - Strength in Solidarity
The Asian Studies program will be hosting an online student talk, via Teams, next Thursday, September 12, from 3 – 4pm.
Rousbel Rabanal, a second-year KPU accounting student, will outline the work being done by the BC chapter of Gabriela Philippines, a group that advocates for the rights and welfare of Filipino women, and its efforts to create transnational solidarity with other groups advancing women’s rights, combatting gender-based violence, and promoting social justice across borders.
To join, follow this link - bit.ly/GabrielaBC
Declaration Month (February 2022)
To learn about the advantages of declaring a major/minor in Arts
#IDoDeclareArts and #KPUArts
Stop Anti-Asian Hate (Fall 2021):
Asian Studies & KDocsFF Screenings and panel discussions
Emergence:Out of the Shadows (Vinay Gridhar, 2021) on October 11, 1-4pm
KDocsFF Presents Emergence: Out of the Shadows
The Six (Arthur Jones, 2021) on November 19th
Asian Heritage Month (May 2021)
To explore BC's Pan-Asian cultural and arts scene
For explore ASIAN events, see https://explorasian.org/
Sikh Heritage Month (April 2021)
To celebrate the contributions of Sikh Canadians
For Sikh Heritage Month BC events, see https://www.sikhheritagemonthbc.ca/
Declaration Month (February 2021)
To learn about the advantages of declaring a major/minor in Arts
#IDoDeclareArts and #KPUArts
