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SUMMARY:Fireside Chat with Chris Lau and Richmond Lam
DESCRIPTION:Join photographers Chris Lau and Richmond Lam for an intimate discussion about their creative process for the current exhibition at Chinatown House\, Made in Chinatown II: Portraits of Montréal Chinatown businesses. This will be your chance to hear all about their inspirations and stories for this project\, from reaching out to the iconic businesses that are portrayed all the way to setting up inside Chinatown House. The follow-up to the highly successful Made in Chinatown I portraits which were postered right on Clark Street\, this second phase of the Made in Chinatown project dives deeper into Chinatown legacy businesses as spaces of intergenerational cultural transmission and exchange. \n\n\n\nOur Fireside Chat series provides the space to meet the people who help craft our exhibitions\, giving centre stage to the stories that bind us together. \n\n\n\nChris Lau is a professional photographer\, videographer and visual artist specializing in documentary photojournalistic portraiture that reveals people’s realities and authenticity through an anti-oppressive lens. He believes photography has the power to change people’s attitudes and lives. In 2023\, Chris produced a documentary portrait series\, titled ‘Out of the Shadows’\, which creatively used light and shadow to recognize people living on the margins of society (https://chrislauphoto.ca/out-of-the-shadows). \n\n\n\nRichmond Lam is a portrait and documentary photographer based in Montréal\, originally from Hong Kong\, with formative years spent in London. His practice is grounded in a quiet\, empathetic gaze—attuned to subtle gestures and unspoken atmospheres. Working fluidly between personal and commissioned projects\, Richmond creates intimate\, psychologically rich portraits that explore presence\, identity\, and place.
URL:https://jiafoundationmtl.org/event/fireside-chat-with-chris-lau-and-richmond-lam/
LOCATION:CHINATOWN HOUSE – 116 de la Gauchetière Ouest\, 1st floor\, 116 de la Gauchetière Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2Z 1C3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Chinatown House,Exhibition,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Everything I Learned\, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, April 25\, join us at Chinatown House for a conversation with author Curtis Chin. His memoir\, Everything I Learned\, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant delves into his memories of his family’s Chinese restaurant\, located in the Cass Corridor in Detroit. \n\n\n\nCurtis Chin grew up in 1980s’ Detroit. As one of six kids\, he spent his childhood roaming the backstore of Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine\, the Chinese restaurant his great-grandfather started in the 1940s. As a young closeted Asian man at the height of the AIDS crisis\, the family restaurant was a place of refuge for him as well as for generations of Detroiters navigating their city’s economic collapse\, many of whom were decades-long regulars. Throughout Turtle Island\, Chinese restaurants are known for their affordable menus and long open hours. In that way\, Chung’s became a gathering spot for a diverse community to bond over egg rolls and spontaneous conversations. \n\n\n\nCurtis Chin is now bringing stories of his family’s restaurant on a Canadian tour. Don’t miss his stop at Chinatown House\, where our current exhibition focuses on legacy businesses in Montréal’s Chinatown. These businesses are more than restaurants\, herbal shops\, hair salons\, and art studios. They act as vital anchor points for a living\, vibrant community\, to gather in. \n\n\n\nThis event is free. No registration is required. \n\n\n\n🏠 Chinatown House (116 De La Gauchetière West)🪧 Saturday\, April 25 🕟 11am – 1pm \n\n\n\n\nEVERYTHING I LEARNED\, I LEARNED IN A CHINESE RESTAURANT \n\n\n\nABOUT CURTIS CHINA co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City\, Curtis Chin served as the non-profits’ first Executive Director. He went on to write comedy for network and cable TV before transitioning to social justice documentaries. Chin has screened his films at over 600 venues in twenty countries. His memoir\, “Everything I Learned\, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant” was named one of the best books of the year by the Boston Globe in 2023. 
URL:https://jiafoundationmtl.org/event/author-talk-curtis-chin-in-conversation-with-eric-leong-komodo-of-paifang/
LOCATION:CHINATOWN HOUSE – 116 de la Gauchetière Ouest\, 1st floor\, 116 de la Gauchetière Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2Z 1C3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Chinatown House,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Traditional Chinese Medicine Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join us after hours at Chinatown House on Sunday\, April 26 | 4pm-6pm for a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) workshop with Kenny Hui of Hui Tack Wing\, one of the four legacy businesses featured in our current exhibition\, Made in Chinatown II: portraits of Chinatown businesses. \n\n\n\nThis event will include a presentation on medicinal plants\, an introduction to certain concepts of TCM\, and a demonstration of a consultation. A tea tasting will also be offered! \n\n\n\nLocated at 1063 Blvd St-Laurent\, Hui Tack Wing is an herbal store supplier of all things related to Traditional Chinese medicine. It is also the living embodiment of a multigenerational business\, with three generations of family members sharing in the transmission of centuries-old ancestral healing knowledge.  \n\n\n\nFree event\, registration required. Sign up here. \n\n\n\n\nPhotos : Chris Lau
URL:https://jiafoundationmtl.org/event/traditional-chinese-medicine-workshop/
LOCATION:CHINATOWN HOUSE – 116 de la Gauchetière Ouest\, 1st floor\, 116 de la Gauchetière Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2Z 1C3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Chinatown House,Exhibition,Workshop
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