We want to support local emerging or newcomer artists who are navigating the creative and cultural spaces! As a part of our second event from the HK House Artists + Creators Series, we’re featuring a panel of artists and creatives who can share their insights. Join us on Nov. 4 for a fun afternoon of Q&As, connections and opportunities! Limited space available! 

HK House Artists + Creators Series: Local Creatives Panel

Saturday, November 4, 2-5pm
The Nest, Granville Island (1398 Cartwright St, 3rd Floor)
Pay what you can: $0, $5, $10, $15, $20

Register for our Local Creatives Panel now

Schedule:

• 2:00pm: Doors Open
• 2:15pm-3:00pm: Panel and Q&A
• 3:00pm-4:00pm: Up close with panelists and networking
• 4:00pm - 5:00pm: Mingling continues
• 5:00pm - 7:00pm: Informal Jam Session (private event for HK House artist and creators exchange). Email us at hkhouse.events@gmail.com if you'd like to join our artist exchange and join this event.

 

香港屋一向都全力支持本地新進同新到埗嘅藝術家同創作人，希望透過唔同嘅方法去幫佢哋喺創意同文化領域發光發熱。

繼今年初嘅交流活動之後，香港屋藝術家＋創作人系列推出第二擊：在地藝談！請嚟幾位藝術家同創作人分享吓喺溫哥華從事藝術創作嘅大小事；當日仲會有問答環節同聯誼機會，分分鐘啟發你發掘到更多可能性！座位有限，快啲登記啦！

香港屋藝術家+創作人系列：在地藝談

11月4號（星期六) 下午2點至5點
The Nest, Granville Island (1398 Cartwright St 3rd Floor)
隨心畀錢 (PWYC): $0, $5, $10, $15, $20

現正開放畀香港屋藝術家同創作人社群報名!

時間表：

• 2:00pm - 2:45pm：座談會及問答環節
• 2:45pm - 3:30pm：與嘉賓近距離交流
• 3:30pm - 5:00pm：聯誼機會
• 5:00pm - 7:00pm：輕鬆Jam一Jam - （僅限HK House香港屋藝術家同創作人社群嘅私人活動）。想參加我哋嘅藝術家社群嘅交流活動，可以經hkhouse.events@gmail.com 聯絡我哋。

 

Terms & Conditions 條款及細則

• This is a General Admission event, no seats will be assigned. Each ticket admits one. 憑票入場，不設劃位。
• Each person can register for up to four tickets. 每人最多可登記四張門票。
• Cancellations before November 1st are eligible for a full refund. 11月1日前取消可獲全額退款。
• In case of disputes, HK House reserves the right for final decision. 如有任何爭議，香港屋保留最終決定權。

Event rules 活動規則:

• To respect others’ privacy, please refrain from asking others their names and identifying details unless they proactively tell you. Instead, try asking “How should I call you”? 為咗尊重他人嘅隱私，除非佢哋主動話你知，如果唔係請唔好詢問人哋嘅姓名同其他個人資料。 或者可以試下問“我應該點稱呼你”？
• Please do not take photos without consent, try asking “Would you like to be in the picture?” 未經同意請唔好影相，不如試下問“可唔可以影埋你呀？”
• Please be respectful, kind and considerate. 請大家互相尊重，待人友善，同埋多多包容。
• Please have fun and enjoy! 請玩得開心啲！

 

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Panelists 嘉賓:

Derek Chan (陳嘉昊) 

Managing Artistic Director, Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre

Derek Chan 陳嘉昊 grew up in colonial Hong Kong, lived in Norway, and now lives and works on the unceded, stolen, and ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, colonially known as Vancouver. A playwright, director, performer, translator, and producer, Derek is the Managing Artistic Director of Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre. Before that, he was co-artistic director of rice & beans theatre from 2010 to 2021.

In 2015, Derek was awarded the Vancouver Fringe New Play Prize with Starstuff: per aspera ad astra. At the 2016 Glassco Translation Residency hosted by Playwrights' Workshop Montréal, Derek translated Jovanni Sy’s A Taste of Empire (Cantonese title: 食盡天下/Sik Zeon Tin Haa). The play was subsequently nominated for a Dora Award (Best Touring Production) in 2018. His play, Chicken Girl (2019/20), won the Sydney Risk Award for Outstanding Original Play by an Emerging Playwright, and was nominated for Outstanding Original Script at the Jessies. Derek was part of the 2020/21 Banff Playwrights Lab, and has been a National Arts Centre English Theatre Artist in Residence (19/20) with yellow objects, a new installation-exhibition in support of the ongoing pro-democracy struggle in Hong Kong. yellow objects won an innovation award at the Jessies. He was the co-recipient of the 2021 Simon Fraser University FCAT Young Alumni Award for his work at rice & beans theatre.

Derek has also worked on: The Eternal Sailor (playwright, Sound the Alarm); Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land (director, CCPA); (behindPARADISE.) (co-writer, Caravan Farm Theatre); 蝦仔Little Shrimp (co-creator, Carousel Theatre for Young People); tonight, just the two of us; MH370 (writer, fu-GEN Theatre); Carried Away on the Crest of a Wave (assistant director, Arts Club); No Foreigners (performer/translator, Hong Kong Exile/fu-GEN); Pick a Number (co-writer/performer, Boca del Lupo/FUSE). With rice & beans: Loomings; or The Whale (playwright/director), Mis Papás (performer), Last Train In (director); and Sik Zeon Tin Haa/A Taste of Empire (translator/performer, with Gateway Theatre’s Pacific Festival (2016) and Cahoots Theatre (2018)).

 

Clare Yow

Visual Artist

Clare Yow is a Chinese-Canadian visual artist working primarily in photography with documentary as its basis. Her practice is concerned with unpacking the politics of diasporic identity, community, place, and labour alongside her lived experiences as a first generation immigrant-settler and feminist mother of colour. Born and raised in Singapore and Ontario, Clare lives, works, and parents on the unceded, ancestral and occupied homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw and səlilwətaɬ, so-called Vancouver, BC.

Ho Tam

Media/ Visual Artist of Hotam Press

Born in Hong Kong, HO TAM is a media/visual artist who has worked in advertising and community psychiatry. He received a BA from McMaster University and an MFA from Bard College (NY). From 1996 to 1997, he was a participant at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Tam has exhibited in public galleries and alternative spaces across Canada, including the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (2001) and and two survey exhibitions, A Portrait of the Photographer, Paul Petro Contemporary Art (2015), and Cover To Cover at the Richmond Art Gallery, BC (2018). Tam's work was also included in The Tin Man Was A Dreamer: Allegories, Poetics And Performances Of Power at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2020). Over 15 of his experimental film/video works are in circulation including screenings at Centre Pompidou, Paris, Toronto International Film Festival, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival and the travelling exhibition Magnetic North: Canadian Experimental Video organized by the Walker Art Center, Minnesota.

Tam is a recipient of various grants and awards, including the Grand Marnier Video Fellowship (2003) from the Film Society of Lincoln Center (New York) and the Best Documentary Feature at Tel Aviv LGBT Film Festival. From 2004 to 2011, Tam taught in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Victoria. Ho Tam lives in Vancouver, B. In 2011, he edited and published Frontline: Interviews with International Photo-based Artists. He is currently the publisher of Hotam Press, an independent press of artist books, and runs a bookshop and gallery of the same name.

In the past two years, Tam has participated in the Hong Kong Market organized by HK House. His upcoming activities include taking part in a zines exhibition at Brooklyn Museum (NYC) in November and at Artist Self-Publishers' Fair (London, UK) in December.

Ziyian Kwan

Artistic Director of Dumb Instrument Dance

Ziyian Kwan (she/her) is a Chinese Filipina Canadian who immigrated in with her family in 1973, from Kowloon, Hong Kong to what is colonially referred to as Vancouver, on the unceded, ancestral and occupied terriotries of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations.

Ziyian has been a dance artist since 1988. As an interprète, she has performed over 100 original creations by an eclectic range of choreographers on international stages, and is recipient of The Dance Centre’s Isadora Award for excellence in performance. Highlights include engagements with battery opera, Lola Dance, Par B.L.eux, David Pressault Danse, Mascall Dance, Co.Erasga, Kokoro Dance, Rouge Gorge - plus commissions of Angelique Wilkie, Peter Bingham, Susan Elliott, Josh Martin, Robin Poitras and Tedd Robinson- to name a few of many cherished experiences. In 2014, Ziyian received The Dance Centre’s Isadora Award for excellence in performance.

As Artistic Director of Dumb Instrument Dance, Ziyian’s creations abstract lived experience to form collages of imagery, movement and language. Her work that is in collaboration with colleagues from across disciplines, explores themes related to her intersectional ethos that posits art as a root expression of power. She is keenly invested in artfully challenging the status quo and since she began choreographing 2013, has 13 created 30-50 minute pieces, several shorter works, and has also been commissioned many times to collaborate or participate in improvisational events. As well, her advocacy for social justice shows up in a variety of collaborations with artists and in partnerships with organizations.

In July 2020, with Dumb Instrument Dance, Ziyian visioned and opened Morrow, an intentional cultural space hub that supports the creative work of artists from across genres. Ziyian is also active as a mentoring friend who supports the work of emerging dance artists.
Many remarkable artists inspire Ziyian’s artistic practice.

‘I am my heart’s dumb instrument’
www.dumbinstrumentdance.com

 

Davey Samuel Calderon

Playwright's Theatre Centre

Davey Samuel Calderon (he/they) is Playwright’s Theatre Centre's Dramaturg, Public Engagement. His dramaturgy and artistic mandate revolves around community-centred values, collaboration, performance experimentation and artistic agency. He has his BFA in Theatre Performance and Communication from Simon Fraser University and is Co-Founder of New(to)Town Collective, a theatre collective aspiring to provide economically accessible, experimental training workshops and creating new interdisciplinary works. Davey’s first written solo show, Big Queer Filipino Karaoke Night!, premiered at the 2018 Vancouver Fringe Festival (Produced by Tender Container and associate producers New(to)Town Collective and Neworld Theatre) with a reading at the 2020 Tales of the Flipside Festival (Carlos Bulosan Theatre, Toronto) and presented as part of the 2022/23 Evergreen Cultural Centre season. Currently, he’s writing a queer-Filipinx Canadian fired chicken musical, Deep Fried: A Pinoy Musical!, and adapting Big Queer into an interactive livestream, BQFKN! ONLINE.