Community Formed from Displacement

Activism/Social Change, Arts Community, Inspiring People, Life, Love, New Media, News, Travel, Writing
July 3, 2018/by
After I flew into Nainaimo and did our first day of tech at the Port Theatre for The Sun and the Moon, I went to get some groceries to make dinner at the condo I’m staying at. I walked by the this Tent City thing, which seemed similar to what has been going on in the DTES but with a much higher concentration in...
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The Sun and the Moon – July 5, 9 & 11

Activism/Social Change, Arts Community, Dance, Inspiring People, Life, Love, Media Presence, New Media, News, Uncategorized
July 3, 2018/by
Sammy's new video/projection design work for dance with Chimerik 似不像 (with design assistant Kimia Koochakzadeh), we premiere the work on July 5th in Nanaimo and then we're back in Vancouver for Dancing on the Edge Festival July 9 & 11, 2018. The Sun and the Moon Development, choreography and direction by Holly Bright based on a story of the same name by Snuneymuxw author, Celestine Aleck. Co-created...
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Proximity Remix at the Queer Arts Festival, June 26 & 26

Activism/Social Change, Arts Community, Dance, Inspiring People, Life, Love, Media Presence, New Media, News, Uncategorized
June 26, 2018/by
Proximity Remix opened last night at the Queer Arts Festival! MACHiNENOiSY Dance Society, has been working on the concept of this project for half a decade. Each project invites new LGBTQ2+ identified youth participants to workshop and create a performance based on their stories. As the project evolves, they are turning the dialogue from gender politics and integrating racism and other social issues as...
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Camera Obscura (Hungry Ghosts) June 20 – 23

Activism/Social Change, Inspiring People, Life, Love, Media Presence, New Media, News, Uncategorized
June 21, 2018/by
I’ve waited a while to post about this project because the weight and significance of it is so tremendous. I wanted to focus all my energy on preparing for the show. The show has finally opened, beautifully and successfully. I’m so happy to finally announce this big, heavy project about this super important, pioneer in the artist community, whose work touches on issues of...
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Open Letter to the Vancouver Art Gallery

Activism/Social Change, Arts Community, Feedbacks, Inspiring People, Writing
April 24, 2018/by
I wrote a letter to the Vancouver Art Gallery after attending an art tour in Mandarin Chinese for the Takashi Murakami show, I thought this letter might just be read by their costumer service, or might not even make it to anyone— I can’t believe that in the end, not only they read it so carefully, the letter even went viral in the VAG...
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Moving Stories Behind Eco-Fashion Brand TildArt

Arts Community, Inspiring People, Travel
March 22, 2018/by
I got to meet up with Matilda who’s the designer/founder of TildArt, a London fashion brand that focuses on reuse, recycle and revive materials that often just becomes wastes. For those of you have seen my modelling photos, her work has been featured in my past photo shoots, some of my favourite garments and the best money that I’ve spent on. I met Matilda...
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Art that can change the world可改變世界的表演

Activism/Social Change, Arts Community, Dance, Inspiring People, Interdisciplinary Performance
December 26, 2016/by
I just sat in a dress rehearsal of an experimental physical theatre piece performed and created by mostly people with physical disabilities, it was one of the most powerful performance I've seem in a long long time. I started bawling within 10 min into the show, I highly recommend anyone in taiwan to come see this piece, and I hope to find ways to...
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opening performance for 2016 Taiwan Best Design 100 with Lim Giong 林強

Inspiring People, Media Presence, New Media, News
December 18, 2016/by
After years of patience with fate, I finally got to work with one of hero Lim Giong 林強 aka Lin Chiang, a musician, DJ, songwriter, composer, music producer, music director, actor, and an active figure on the Taiwanese experimental electronic music scene, the composer of Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s films (Millennium Mambo: 千禧曼波, Goodbye South, Goodbye: 南國再見,南國, The Assassin: 聶隱娘...etc) and numerous awards winner (Cannes Film...
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