Upcoming Events
AUGUST
2019
2019
🔴 Pride in Chinatown 🔴
Thur AUG 1 • 7PM – 11PM
50 East Pender St, Vancouver
Thur AUG 1 • 7PM – 11PM
50 East Pender St, Vancouver
A one night only magical twilight event in a spectacular setting in the heart of Vancouver’s historical Chinatown. This very special event will take over the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Park, the Classical Chinese Garden, and the public plaza. Pride in Chinatown celebrates queer Asian-Canadian art and artists that will tantalize all five senses.
Pride in Chinatown will be a momentous and historical festival for LGBTQ2 people, our allies, friends and family to be out loud and proud in Chinatown. It has been 50 years since the start of decriminalization of homosexuality in Canada and the Stonewall riots in New York City, which triggered the modern day Pride movement. Presented by On Main Gallery, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, and Vancouver Art and Leisure as part of Alternative Pride Vancouver 2019. This will be an interdisciplinary art experience that will feature new experimental and traditional art forms which include electronic music, immersive theatre, media art installations, lion dancing, martial arts, drums, opera, culinary treats, drag and other non-binary encounters. TICKETS: https://leisure.events/pride-in-chinatown-2019 |
Film screening: Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny
Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Tues AUG 20 • 7:00 pm
VIFF Vancity Theatre
Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Tues AUG 20 • 7:00 pm
VIFF Vancity Theatre
Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny is a new short documentary from local filmmakers Love Intersections that probes the nuances of Queer Chinese Canadian identity. The film investigates how being part of a distant diaspora, as well as being othered as outsiders in Canada, informs the racial and queer identities of the subjects. We follow local drag artist Kendall Yan, otherwise known as Maiden China, along with other local queer Chinese performers and activists as their intimate interviews reveal the ways in which being “marked” as the embodiment of femininity, to the lack of representation, to sexual racism, informs the forging of identities by queer Chinese Canadians.
Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny | David Ng, Jen Sungshine | Canada | 2019 | 20 mins | English Directors Jen Sungshine and David Ng of Love Intersections and interviewees will be in attendance for a Q&A. TICKETS |
Collaborative Documentary Filmmaking with Love Intersection
Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Sat AUG 17 • 1:00 pm
SFU Goldcorp World Arts Centre
Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Sat AUG 17 • 1:00 pm
SFU Goldcorp World Arts Centre
Building trust with your subjects is one of the greatest and most important challenges of documentary film-making. Local filmmakers Jen Sungshine and David Ng from Love Intersections will share their experiences as documentary filmmakers and collaborators who centre their subjects and engage them in a collaborative filmmaking process. They will outline the challenges and joys of the collaborative filmmaking practice with participants, and share strategies for building trust while upholding artistic integrity and creativity.
This workshop is free to attend. |
PAST EVENTS
2019
2019
Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny at Queer Arts Festival: 'relational rEvolutions'
Mon JUN 17 – Wed JUN 26 | Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre “Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny" explores the nuances of queer Chinese diasporic culture through the medium of the Chinese elements. In Chinese culture, the elements also have numerous approaches to understanding ways of “being”; they also have principles of metaphysics, and temporalities. In this installation, we invoke these elements through different images, as a conduit to understanding queer East Asian cultural formations, as not an intellectual delineation, but a way to investigate the embodiment of queer Chinese, diasporic identity. This intimate artistic exploration is an invitation to engage with the ways that as queer and racialized people, our sexualities are deeply imbricated with our cultural identities. The installation offers three performances: The first one juxtaposes (drag artist) Maiden China in a bridal gown on the land, referencing intersections between Chinese people in the diaspora, and our relationships to the land, and also complicity to the settler-colonial state. The second performance is an ancestral veneration ceremony performed at Larwill Park, which was the original gathering site for the anti-Oriental riots in 1907. The ceremony invokes a "temporal glitch" (referencing Saidiya Hartman), illuminating how the violence towards racialized (queer) bodies in the past, runs parallel to the lived experiences of queers of colour today. The third performance is the “rice burial and dance”; using the metaphor of rice - as a metaphor for nourishment, as intrinsic to numerous cultures, particularly Asian cultures - and the movement of the queer asian subject, circulating, and circulating, and diving, and pushing, feeling, the messiness of the diasporic, and hyphenated identity. The “rice burial” invokes a deep immersion into the messiness of diasporic identity, with the reversal of the shot detailing the individual grains of culture and identity that “come together” to form a subject.” |
PAST EVENTS
2018
2018
UBC Equity & Inclusion Movie Night
Wed NOV 28 • 5pm - 7pm Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability Come and get connected! The UBC Equity & Inclusion Office is hosting a movie night for Queer and/or Trans students and their allies. Join us for dinner and a screening of Finding by Love Intersections followed by a Q&A discussion session with the filmmakers, Jen Sungshine and David Ng. Finding is a short film series about finding queer history, queer dance, queer disability language, queer sports, and queer family & hope. |
Community Digital Storytelling with Love Intersection
Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Sat AUG 11 • 2:00 pm
SFU Goldcorp World Arts Centre
Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Sat AUG 11 • 2:00 pm
SFU Goldcorp World Arts Centre
What began as a wild idea in simply wanting to tell their own stories became a collaborative filmmaking journey that transformed how we understand community, queerness, and creative collaboration.
Love Intersections invite you to think about this vital connection between relationships, representation, and story. Come prepared to share your own wild ideas and stories in front of their camera—with hosts Jen Sungshine and David Ng—and work together in thinking through these questions: How do you see yourself, your friends and chosen family, your communities all show up in film and media? What stories are still waiting to be told? More deeply, how do we develop elastic relationships in community with one another and cultivate social trust? Relationships in community can be beautiful, broken, on the mend, in process, in historical resonance and in future. And we can’t wait to brainstorm with you in collaborative solidarity. This workshop is free to attend. |
Love Intersections: New and Retrospective
Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Sat AUG 18 • 2:00pm
SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Sat AUG 18 • 2:00pm
SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
Join Love Intersections as they premiere their new 6x6 “Finding” short film series with TELUS Storyhive (Finding Queer Origins, Finding Queer History,Finding Queer Dance, Finding Queer Disability Language, Finding Queer Sports, and Finding Family & Hope), as well as past films from the Love Intersections Anthology showcasing the depth of their body-of-work. And expect a few surprises, guest appearances from co-collaborators, film subjects and local queer magic makers: a Love Intersections 4D experience! (Films in this program are closed captioned in English, and also will be ASL interpreted.)
Tickets: https://www.goelevent.com/VQFF/e/LoveIntersectionsNewandRetrospective |
CURRENT: Feminist Electronic Art Symposium
Fri JUL 27 • 7:00pm – 9:30pm
Emily Carr University of Arts + Design - Reliance Theatre
Fri JUL 27 • 7:00pm – 9:30pm
Emily Carr University of Arts + Design - Reliance Theatre
7pm Panel #1 Intersectionality in Electronic Music & Art
Panelists: Stud1nt, Alanna Ho, Cease Wyss, Caroline Park Moderator: Jen Sungshine The intention of this panel is to highlight the importance of understanding electronic music and art practices through an intersectional lens. How does vectors of oppression and privilege (gender, race, age, class, ability, language, ethnicity, education, family status, history, culture, etc) affect one’s opportunity to participate in electronic music & art? 8:30pm Panel #2 On Producing Safer Spaces: Accountable Culture Creation Panelists: Gabi Dao, Ana Rose Carrico, Karla Cruz, Reverend Dollars Moderator: Jen Sungshine The intention of this panel is to discuss how cultural organizers and organizations can be more accountable when creating culture through organizing events, curating, managing spaces, navigating gentrification, hiring representational staff, and creating partnerships. |