AWARDS

2020 BC Heritage Awards

Outstanding in Education, Awareness and Communication
“Hot+Noisy” Chinatown Mahjong Social

Honour in Education, Awareness and Communication
Vancouver Chinatown Cantonese Saturday School

2019 BC Museums Association Awards for Outstanding Achievement

Award of Merit in Excellence in Community Engagement
Cross Cultural Strathcona Walking Tour (one of 17 partner organizations)


in the press

Vancouver Sun: Community organizers connect Vancouver Chinatown to book about seniors' fashions and lives (Oct 2020)

National Trust for Canada: Place-keeping in Vancouver’s Chinatown: Reviving a Threatened Area with “Hot and Noisy” 熱鬧 Mahjong Nights and a Historic Cantonese School (July 2020)

Canadian Art: What the Pandemic Means for Chinese Canadian Art Communities (May 2020)

The Tyee: For Chinatown Seniors, Survival Means Staying in Touch (May 2020)

UBC Department of Asian Studies: Re-discovering the love of Cantonese language (Mar 2020)

Love Intersections: Ching Ming (Mar 2020)

Toronto Star: From shame to pride: Why I lost my Cantonese and want to get it back (Feb 2020)

CBC The Current: How these 'bright stars' are 'creating space for the community' in Vancouver's changing Chinatown (Feb 2020)

CBC The Current: 'The physical legacy of struggle and sacrifice': How Chinatown is part of Vancouver's past—and its future (Feb 2020) - note: interview starts at 55:47

CBC News: Welcoming the Year of the Rat in Vancouver's changing Chinatown (Jan 2020)

CBC Early Edition: Chinatown Soundwalk (Nov 2018) - note: interview starts at 1:50:25

SFU SIAT for Vancouver Public Library morph exhibit: ‘Living Language’ (Fall 2018)

Sing Tao Dushi: 华埠需中华文化氛围 "香蕉人" (Aug 2018)

Global News: 5 things to do this weekend for Friday, Aug. 3, 2018 (Aug 2018)

CBC News: Seniors' style turns Chinatown sidewalks into catwalks for photography project (July 2018)

Telus STORYHIVE: In Chinatown - Ep3 Longevity 壽 (Spring 2018)

Ming Pao Daily: 「青心在唐人街」廣場麻雀打起來 (May 2018)

Sing Tao: UBC邀专家办工作坊 探讨加国粤语传承挑战 (May 2018)

Vancouver Sun: Vancouver Chinatown's history woven into Chinatowns across the globe (Feb 2018)

MetroNews: 'It changes every day': Vancouver commissions retail gentrification study in Chinatown (Dec 2017)

The Tyee: Growing Up Chinese Canadian: A Century of Stories Part 5: A New Generation Embraces Its Chinatown Roots (July 2017)

Zolima CityMag: Hong Kong in Vancouver – Part II: The New Generation of Activists Building a Future for Chinatown (June 2017)

KCTS9: Vancouver's Vanishing Chinatown (Feb 2017)

Sing Tao Daily: 華埠承載美好回憶 教粵語回饋社區 (Dec 2016)

Sing Tao Daily: 衝出街頭教粵語 姊妹花華埠創新風 (Dec 2016)

Roundhouse Radio, Sense Of Place - Guest Host Patrick Maliha - Doris Chow (Nov 3, 2016)

Globe and Mail: Vancouver seeks to protect character of historic Chinatown (Oct 2016)

CBC News: Vancouver Chinese school turns Chinatown into classroom (Oct 2016)

CBC Radio, On the Coast: Vancouver Chinese school turns Chinatown into classroom (07:39) (Oct 2016)

MetroNews: New spin on Chinese school focuses on Chinatown’s Cantonese conversations (Sept 2016)

Ming Pao Daily: 華埠義工組織辦周末粵語班 聯手黃氏宗親會 (Sept 2016)

Sing Tao Daily: 推廣應用廣府話 文彊學校今秋重開 (Sept 2016)

Ming Pao Daily: 華埠教粵劇甩水袖護草根文化「青心在唐人街」周六舉辦 (Aug 2016)

Vancouver Sun: Vancouver Chinatown real estate bustle puts hundreds of historic photos, documents at risk (July 2016)

CBC News: Chinatown development to be publicly debated (Jan 2016)

Roundhouse Radio: Chinatown gathers over development concerns (Jan 2016)

Vancouver Biennale: Discussion: Diversity and the Built Environment: The Case of 105 Keefer (Jan 2016)

Sing Tao Daily: 華埠開檯交流 族裔合力保傳統 (Dec 2015)

Vancouver Sun: A new generation defends Vancouver’s Chinatown traditions: Opposition keeps growing to a proposal for a 13-storey condo building (Dec 2015)

Fairchild TV: 'Magazine 26' documentary on Vancouver Chinatown (Nov 2015)

Ming Pao Daily: 反對華埠過度開發 數十人漫遊「憑弔」(Oct 2015)

Sing Tao Daily: 华埠步行导赏团 “送别”将消失景物 (Oct 2015)

Ming Pao Daily: 反對過度開發 華青明華埠「憑弔」(Oct 2015)

Globe and Mail: Vancouver condo tower redesigned to better fit historic Chinatown (Oct 2015)

Sing Tao Daily: 華埠建樓辦諮詢 示威者踩場抗議 (Oct 2015)

The Tyee: 'Hot and Noisy': The Communal Power of Mahjong (June 2015)

New Canadian Media: Getting Hot and Noisy in Vancouver's Chinatown (June 2015)

Sing Tao: 11檯麻雀露天打 現華埠懷舊耍樂 (June 2015)

Ming Pao Daily:「青心在唐人街」戶外聯誼 華埠開枱打牌賀端陽 (June 2015)

CBC Radio: Interview with Event Organizer Doris Chow (June 2015) - note: interview starts at 1:20

Vancity Buzz: Free mahjong social happening this Saturday in Chinatown (June 2015)

Vancouver Courier: Young adults fuel Chinatown's future (April 2015)