May 1-31 – explorASIAN Festival 2022!
- Learn more about the explorAsian Festival and all the virtual and in-person events and offerings presented by various community partners for this year's Asian Heritage Month.
May 5 – Have You Eaten Yet? Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World: North American Association of Asian Professionals (NAAAP)
- Join filmmaker and author Cheuk Kwan who weaves a fascinating travelogue of culture, family and place, ultimately revealing how a delicious meal always tells an even better story. Register here.
May 6 – The Government of Canada: Celebrating Innovation and Perseverance
- This commemorative event showcases the innovation and perseverance of public servants of Asian descent and their impact across the federal public service. Join in as a diverse group of panellists share their lived experiences and highlight their work to eliminate racism and discrimination towards creating a more diverse and inclusive public service. A Q&A session will follow the live panel discussion.
May 7 – Opening Ceremony: Asian Heritage Month Festival 2022
- Join the opening ceremony celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the signing of Asian Heritage Month Declaration.
May 7 – Liter Asian Opening Night Event: Finding Our Voices, Telling Our Stories
May 12 – Representation Matters: A Japanese Family Restaurant on Screen
- Koto: The Last Service is a moving short documentary film that offers a soothing balm to anti-Asian racism by showing the care and appreciation that surrounded the Maeda family's Koto Japanese Restaurant. The restaurant provided authentic Japanese food in the small town of Campbell River, BC for nearly 40 years starting in 1980. Join this discussion with Joella Cabalu (director and producer of the film) and Kenji Maeda (co-producer, and member of the Maeda family) as they are interviewed by John Paul (JP) Catungal to talk about storytelling through the medium of documentary film, and how it can be used to explore and represent the experiences of Asian Canadians while pushing back against discrimination in these communities.
May 18 – Cook and Tell: Vancouver Public Library
- This Zoom session will be a celebration of Asian cooking to celebrate Asian Heritage month. Share your favorite recipes, your best dim sum spot, and discover VPL resources to learn how to make authentic Asian eats.
May 19 & 20 – Passages of Rhythms
- Passages of Rhythms is a hybrid full-length evening of cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural collaboration celebrating Asian Heritage Month.
Ongoing – A Seat at the Table: Museum of Vancouver
- A Seat at the Table is a multi-sited and collaborative exhibition project by the Museum of Vancouver that explores historical and contemporary stories of Chinese Canadians in BC and their struggles for belonging. Using food and restaurant culture as entry point, the project highlights stories that reveal the great diversity of immigrant experiences and of the communities immigrants develop. It also addresses themes of belonging, racism, agency, resilience and reparation as important facets of the complex picture of Chinese migrants and their descendants in the province.