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Category Archive: Chinatown

Chinatown Victory at 105 Keefer: VANDU Interviews Vince Tao

Vince Tao March 15, 2018

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In November 2017, members of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) interviewed Vince Tao, organiser with Chinatown Action Group (CAG). They discussed the recent victories of the Chinatown community at 105 Keefer, drawing lessons for the ongoing fight for 100% social housing at welfare rate at 58 West Hastings.

Chinatown, City Hall, Downtown Eastside, Drug Users

Artists Align with Anti-Displacement Movements

Editors February 9, 2018

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In the past year, across North America, artists in solidarity with anti-displacement struggles are voicing their discontent with the neoliberal turn towards developer-driven artwashing and displacement, but are they being heard?

Art & Culture, Chinatown, Downtown Eastside, Gentrification

United Against Neoliberalism: A Conversation on Artists and Organizers in Vancouver’s Chinatown

Steffanie Ling and Jannie Leung December 7, 2017

Steffanie Ling and Jannie Leung sit down for a discussion on the insidious nature of art-washing, raising political consciousness in the face of neoliberal capitalism, and strengthening the emerging alliance between cultural workers and community organizers in Vancouver’s Chinatown.

Art & Culture, Chinatown, Uncategorized

Condos Love Culture: New Arts Development Brings “Creative Placemaking” to Chinatown

Andrei Mihailiuk July 4, 2017

While arts and culture aren’t bad things, governments and developers have increasingly instrumentalized them as a way to stimulate market value in marginalized and working class communities. Under intense pressure by the City to develop, BC Artscape is the latest wolf in sheep’s clothing making an incursion into Chinatown.

Art & Culture, Chinatown, Gentrification

New displacement tower in Chinatown faces opposition

Maria Wallstam and Nathan Crompton October 6, 2015

keeferChinatown might soon be the site of yet another high-end condominium development. The Beedie Group wants to build a 13-storey condo tower at 105 Keefer Street, at the intersection of Columbia and Keefer. If approved, community organizers fear that the tower’s 127 market rate units will add to the displacement pressures currently facing Chinatown.

Chinatown, Gentrification

FILM REVIEW | Everything Will Be: How do you know when you’ve fallen off a horse?

Steffanie Ling August 24, 2015

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Julia Kwan’s new documentary is contentious not in its lack of sincerity, but in an absence of on-screen controversy.

Art & Culture, Chinatown

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