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Chinese-Canadian Museum celebrates Chinese-Canadian culture with “Strength of Tradition: Embracing Chinese-Canadian Heritage” event.
The new event proposed by the Chinese-Canadian museum located in Vancouver, invites people of all backgrounds on Saturday 30th March 2024 to an array of online performances, exhibitions, to celebrate and honor the heritage, traditions and values of the Chinese-Canadian community, upon the recovery of new historical archives.
Vancouver, BC – March 4, 2024
In recent recovery of new archives the Chinese-Canadian museum has proposed an event to celebrate the Chinese-Canadian culture and community. To overcome a history of erasure, silencing, exclusion and racism, the museum want to bring awareness and education to people about the heritage of Chinese people in Canada. The new archives show Chinese villages and community pictures in Canada in 1800.
Grace Wong, board-chair of the museum invites people to share a day remembering Chinese-Canadian history. The museum opens its doors to commemorate the centuries of the community’s stories and culture in Canada. She explains how “Having a dedicated institution means that those stories are being told from the community’s voice, there is a real resonance to the community”. It is important to recover archives, because they determine the meaning of the past, it is a way to educate people and don’t forget the importance of celebrating the Chinese culture and its roots in Canada.
Chinese people have been in Canada for centuries, however they have always been portrayed as “perpetuate foreigners”. Therefore, by acquiring and exhibiting archives, the Chinese community reclaims that sense of belonging, they can connect to the past. In the archives showing Chinatowns that are now inexistent, people learn and acknowledge that Chinese ancestors have been in Canadian territory, and they were part of the social life.
The Chinese-Canadian museum was established in 2017, and it’s dedicated to celebrate the Chinese-Canadian community. It is a public museum, where history and heritage is honored with exhibitions. The upcoming event is a way to educate and commemorate the new recovered archives and also the large history of Chinese-Canadians with cultural performances, and exhibitions, all done in a special link in the museum’s website.
For more information, contact Paula Delgado, Public Relations Manager for the Chinese-Canadian museum, (paulamartina99@hotmail.com)