Editing National Asian Heritage Month Videoconference 2011 (section)

=== Toronto Event Details ===

<br>University College (main building)
<br>University of Toronto
<br>15 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H7
<br>Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) Inc.

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<br>Biography of the Toronto Asian Heritage Month representative:
<br><i>Dr Kay Li</i> is President of Asian Heritage Month--Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) Inc. She is Project Leader of the [http://asiancanadianwiki.org/wiki/Virtual_Museum_of_Asian_Canadian_Cultural_Heritage Virtual Museum of Asian Canadian Cultural Heritage (VMACCH)] and the Asian Heritage Month Festivals funded by Canadian Heritage, Citizenship and Immigration Canada and Toronto Arts Council. Kay also organizes the annual Asian Heritage Month Lectures and Education Roundtables at University of Toronto and York University.

<br>Toronto Asian Heritage Month is offering a combination of presentations by academics,
scholars and artists. There will be three main sections corresponding to each hour.
Professor Roland Sintos Coloma, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto will talk about teaching Asian
Canadian Studies. Then Dr. Julie Mehta will talk about Asian Canadians from a cultural
perspective. The Toronto presentations will conclude with the presentations by
internationally renowned Asian Canadian writer Dr. Lien Chao and artist Ma Peng.

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<br><i>[http://asiancanadianwiki.org/wiki/Roland_Sintos_Coloma Professor Roland Sintos Colama]</i>
<br>Professor Roland Sintos Colama will be presenting "Teaching Asian Canadian Studies".
<br>Professor Roland Sintos Coloma is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Equity
Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the
University of Toronto. His research and teaching areas focus on Filipina/o and Asian
Canadian studies; transnationalism, empire, and diaspora; subjectivity, affect, and
sociality; history and cultural studies. In particular, he examines the historical trans-
Pacific dynamics between Asia and North America from critical race, feminist, and
poststructuralist perspectives. Along these lines, he is working on three research projects:
(1) a history of the public school system in the Philippines under United States rule from
1898 to 1926; (2) a history of Canadian Catholic missionaries in the Philippines from
1955 to 1985; and (3) a comparative history of Asian Canadian social movements for
justice and reparation. Roland completed his PhD in Cultural Studies and Minor in
African American Studies from The Ohio State University, and his MA and BA from the
University of California, Riverside. Prior to becoming an academic, Roland was a high
school teacher, university administrator, and community organizer.

<br><i>[http://asiancanadianwiki.org/wiki/Julie_B._Mehta Dr. Julie Mehta]</i>
<br>Dr. Julie Mehta will be presenting: Collaborating Heritage: Readers and Writers Sharing Asia in Canada
<br>Dr. Julie Mehta is the author of Dance of Life: Mythology, History and Politics of
Cambodian Culture (2001), and co-author of the best-selling biography of Cambodian
Prime Minister Hun Sen: Strongman of Cambodia (1999). A postcolonial scholar of
South Asian Literature and Culture and a specialist of Asian diasporic Literatures, she
teaches the Chancellor Poy-endowed course “Asian Cultures in Canada”, at the
University of Toronto’s Canadian Studies Program. Extensively published and actively
involved in promoting cross-cultural production. Dr. Mehta’s English translation of
Tagore’s play The Post Office will be performed in May by Pleiades Theatre, at the
Berkeley Street Theatre in Toronto, as a part of the celebrations of 2011 as Canada’s
Year of India.

<br><i>[http://asiancanadianwiki.org/wiki/Lien_Chao Dr. Lien Chao]</i>
<br>Dr. Lien Chao is an award-winning, bilingual (English and Chinese) writer. She came
to Canada in 1984 to pursue her graduate studies, completing her M.A. in 1986 and Ph.D
in English in 1996.
<br>Books published:
<br>1997: Beyond Silence: Chinese Canadian Literature in English, winner of Gabrielle Roy
Award for Canadian Criticism.
<br>1999: Maples and the Stream (bilingual poetry);
<br>2001: Tiger Girl: Hu Nü (creative memoir);
<br>2003: Ed. Strike the Wok: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Canadian Fiction;
<br>2004: More Than Skin Deep (bilingual poetry);
<br>2008: The Chinese Knot and Other Stories.
<br>Art books published:
<br>2004: China-Canada Friendship Sculpture Garden;
<br>2008: Peng Ma: Chinese Brush Painting;
<br>2008: Wang Dehui: Oil and Chinese Brush Paintings;
<br>2011: Peng Ma: Abstract Ink Painting (forthcoming).
<br>She is a Fellow of Stong College of York University; vice-president for the Canadian
Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ont.) Inc.; the vice president for the Chinese Pen
Society of Canada.

<br><i>Peng Ma</i>
<br>Peng Ma is a versatile professional artist. He graduated from Zhejiang Fine Art
Institute, now China’s National Fine Art Institute in 1961; for the next 30 years, he
had taught fine art at the same university while creating numerous artworks for
exhibitions.
Ma immigrated to Canada in 1989. Since then, he has participated in fifty
some solo and group exhibitions in Canada and in Asian. As a sculptor, his most
recent outdoor public sculptures were installed in Toronto, Saskatchewan, Vienna,
Beijing as well as Qufu, hometown of Confucius. Among them, 13 large outdoor
sculptures have made up the China-Canada Friendship Sculpture Garden in
Beijing.
As a painter, Ma has been engaged in both oil and Chinese brush painting.
His strong belief that the Western and Eastern art media share the same principles
but differ in techniques has guided him through many years of research and artistic
experiments.
As a result, his paintings demonstrate freedom from constrains and
formulas; his portfolio becomes a multidimensional portal from the ancient past to
the present, and from the East to the West. With his energetic and exquisite
brushstrokes, Ma has created shape, volume, space, motion, and emotions on Xuan
paper as well as canvas.
Publications of his art include A Collection of Peng Ma’s Chinese Brush
Painting (1997, Taiwan), China-Canada Friendship Sculpture Garden (2004,
Beijing), Peng Ma’s Chinese Brush Painting (2008, Canada), and Peng Ma:
Abstract Ink Painting (2011, forthcoming, Canada).
Throughout his artistic career, Ma has won numerous awards for his sculptures
and paintings.