Generation One 2011

Generation One 2011

May 1, 2011

Image credit: Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society

The art exhibition, Generation One, took place at the Irving K. Barber Centre.  In partnership with the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society (VAHMS), explorASIAN is month-long series of events in the province of British Columbia.  As a platform for local Asian artists to showcase their artworks in the community, explorASIAN collaborated with both professional and emerging artists to carry out Generation One as an art exhibition that strove to foster communication among artists from different Asian regions and generations.

This group of professional artists exhibited their work in the main hallway of Irving K. Barber Centre and also Ike’s Cafe Gallery space.  Artists included the Filipino-Canadian Dimasalang III group (www.dimasalang.ca), Raymond Chow, Edgardo Lantin, Sofronio Y. Mendoza, and Yukman Lai, as well as a select group of UBC’s Visual Art students.

To see more photos of this exhibition, please find here.

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IKBLC Presents the Art Exhibit Generation: 1

April 29, 2011

Generation:1 is an exhibit which showcases local Asian artists and their artworks in the community at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.  Since 1996, the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society has endeavoured to explore the diversity of Asian Canadian life and culture and promote the discussion of relevant issues and concerns within and beyond the Asian Canadian community.  Year 2011 is the second anniversary for VAHMS to host Generation:1 Art Exhibition at UBC’s Irving K. Barber Centre.

This year Generation:1 will collaborate with both professional and emerging artists to carry out an art exhibition that strives to foster communication among artists from different Asian regions and generations. From May 2nd to June 25th, a group of featuring professional artists will exhibit their work in the main hallway of Irving K. Barber Centre. From May 2nd to June 5th, there will be the First Wave of artists from Dimasalang III group and UBC’s Visual Art students displaying their artworks on the walls of the IKE’S CAFE. Starting June 6th to June 25th, the second wave of emerging artists who submitted their entry form prior to May 15th may also be able to participate in Generation:1.

As an encouragement for the second wave of emerging artists, VAHMS will give out cash prize of $100 each for three artists who can collect the most votes during the period of exhibition. These awards will be presented to the winning artists at our closing ceremony.

Submit your application for Second Wave

Featured Artists:

Raymond Chow
Raymond Chow an internationally renowned artist based in Richmond, British Columbia. He won early recognition in his teenage years when many art dealers would come knocking on his door with cash in hand, eager to buy a drawing. Since then, he has exhibited with some of the most prominent contemporary artists in the world including AJ Casson, Andrew Wyeth, and many more. Raymond Chow’s artwork has gone from art galleries across Canada to as far as the Royal Palace of India in Rajasthan with some of his collectors including Indira Gandhi, Sir Roger George Moore, Raymond Burr, and Samantha Eggar.

Yuk-man Lai
Yukman was born in China in 1949. He received his BA degree from the University of East Asia in Macau in 1986 and Diploma from the Hong Kong Robert Black College of Education. He won the First Prize at The Whole of China Taipei Cup Competition of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in 1989 and has also been listed among the “Outstanding People in Art of the 20th Century” by The International Biography Centre, Cambridge, England in 1999. Yukman Lai has also published several painting albums, including “Painting, Calligraphy and Seals”, “My Rockies, Landscape Paintings” and “A Sentimental Journey, Landscape Paintings”

SYM [Sofronio Y. Mendoza]
The founding leader of Dimasalang Artists. Better known by his initials SYM, Sofronio Ylanan Mendoza, is a multi-awarded, legendary artist highly esteemed by his peers and colleagues in the art community. He loves to share his vast knowledge on all nuances of art, and finds great joy in mentoring aspiring artists. SYM’s devotion and passion to art is evidenced in his prolific masterworks. The only Filipino artist who switched, even at the height of his successful career, from traditional to abstract art. Introducing a new concept he calls “neo-classical cubism”. SYM continues his high level of commitment to art, reflected in his works.

Wayne Wong
In 1984, wayne Wong studied oil painting at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Later on in 1989, he graduated from the Sculpture Department of Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in China. He received a BA degree in 1989 and worked in the Guangdong branch of Chinese Arts Association in various parts of China. He received several art awards, and in 1993 he moved to Canada with his family.

Edgardo Lantin

Internationally known contemporary artist, Edgardo Lantin received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines. He pursued his passion for portraiture by studying under accomplished artist, SYM Mendoza; and furthered his studies at the Art Student League and New York Academy of Art through a scholarship program. Lantin’s dedication and commitment to each painting he paints are revealed in the elegance and sophistication of the finished artwork. This multi-awarded artist best known for his portrait paintings of dignitaries and personalities, is highly respected and recognized in his field. As an active signature member of the Dimasalang III International Artist Group, he is a major influence and inspiration to many young artists in Vancouver. Also, as a signature member of the Federation of Canadian Artists (SFCA), he presents lectures and demonstrations at select workshops.

This exhibit at IKBLC can be seen in Learning Centre foyer and Ike’s Cafe Gallery, from 7am to 1am, Mondays to Sundays.

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IKBLC Webcast Presents Michael Souza's "The Psychology of Gambling"

April 26, 2011

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Dr. Michael Souza is a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia. In this lecture, he will review reward and addiction from a behavioral, cognitive and neurobiological standpoint. Souza also examines the social psychology behind gambling behavior, casino structuring and casino marketing.

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Health Information Series Talk with Dr. John Oliffe

April 14, 2011

South Asian men—defined as men who were born in/originate from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal or Sri Lanka—are amongst the largest groups of immigrants in British Columbia, Canada. Little is known about their health behaviours; experiences of illness; or how they relate to, and engage with Canadian health care services. South Asian men’s groups (SAMGs) are naturally occurring groups meeting each week at various BC rural and urban temples and attract typically senior South Asian immigrant men. The SAMGs provided us with an opportunity to develop in-depth knowledge of a unique cultural milieu, and describe the connections between masculinity and older South Canadian immigrant men’s health.  John Oliffe’s work has been highlighted in UBC Reports.     Come join us as Dr. John Oliffe, Suki Grewal, and Bindy Kang share their expertise in this important area of health research at the Surrey Public Library, Newton Branch Library.

The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre-sponsored Live Webcast can be viewed here.

For more information about the Health Information Series, please find here.


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BC History Digitization Program: 2011 recipients

April 7, 2011

Twenty-one projects from around the province have been named as successful recipients of the 2011 B.C. History Digitization Program (BCHDP) funding awards.

The digitization program, an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, was launched in 2006. It provides matching funds that help libraries, archives, museums and other organizations digitize unique historical items, including images, print and sound materials.

Learning Centre funding totalled nearly $180,000 for the 2011 round. Altogether, BCHDP funding has totalled more than $820,000 for 98 projects throughout British Columbia.

This year’s wide range of projects includes the digitization of First Nations materials, historic photographs and oral histories of BC communities, pressed plants specimens and entomological collections, items chronicling Vancouver’s punk rock scene, material highlighting the feminist movement in the West Kootenays, archival maps and newspapers, and more.

Congratulations to this year’s recipients! You can view a complete list of grant recipients and project descriptions here.

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Global Islam: Past, Present and Future

March 31, 2011

UBC Continuing Studies collaborates with other members of the UBC community to provide an ongoing series of free lectures, dialogues and debates on topics of interest to the general public – locally, nationally and internationally.

The Lifelong Learning Series is held in the fall and winter terms at UBC Robson Square and is sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre as part of its webcast collection.   In its second series of talks, UBC Continuing Studies partnered with the Department of Asian Studies at UBC, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and the Laurier Institution in presenting the Global Islam: Past, Present and Future, public lectures delivered by some of the world’s most renowned scholars in Islamic studies.

Islam and the Contest of Faculties in Iran by Dr. Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi

The Meaning of Global Jihad by Dr. Faisal Devji

Indonesian Islam: The Modern, Global Shapings of a National Tradition? by Dr. Michael Laffan

 

For more information, please contact Allan Cho

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Vancouver Institute's Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Lecture Welcomes Dr. William McKibben

March 30, 2011

The Vancouver Institute Presents
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Lecture

Eaarth:
Making a Life On a Tough New Planet

April 9, 2011 – 8:15pm

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Described by the Boston Globe as “the nation’s leading environmentalist,” Professor McKibben is the author of more than a dozen books, including The End of Nature, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, and Deep Economy. A former staff writer for the New Yorker, he writes often for Harper’s, National Geographic, and the New York Review of Books, among other publications. He is the founder of the environmental organizations Step It Up and 350.org, a global warming awareness campaign that in October 2009 coordinated what CNN called “the most widespread day of political action in the planet’s history.”

Location:  Woodward Instructional Resource Centre, Lecture Theatre #2.  Directions are available here. Doors open at 7:30pm.

Vancouver Institute Lectures are free and open to the public.

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David Owen – Why Manhattan is the Greenest City in North America

March 28, 2011

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and presented by the Global Civic Policy Society and the School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture at UBC. David Owen has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1991. Before joining The New Yorker, he was a contributing editor at The Atlantic Monthly and, prior to that, a senior writer at Harper’s. He is also a contributing editor at Golf Digest. He is the author of more than a dozen books: High School, about the four months he spent pretending to be a high-school student; None of the Above, an exposé of the standardized-testing industry; The Man Who Invented Saturday Morning, a collection of his pieces from Harper’s and The Atlantic Monthly; The Walls Around Us: A Thinking Person’s Guide to How a House Works; Around the House, a collection of essays about domestic life; The First National Bank of Dad: The Best Way to Teach Kids About Money; Copies in Seconds, about the invention of the Xerox machine; and Sheetrock & Shellac, a sequel to The Walls Around Us. In addition, he has written four books about golf—My Usual Game, The Making of the Masters, The Chosen One: Tiger Woods and the Dilemma of Greatness, and Hit & Hope—and he co-edited a collection of golf stories entitled Lure of the Links. His most recent book is Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability, which grew out of a widely discussed 2004 New Yorker essay called “Green Manhattan.” He lives in Washington, Connecticut, with his wife, the writer Ann Hodgman.

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Michael Laffan – Indonesian Islam: The Modern, Global Shapings of a National Tradition?

March 26, 2011

Global Islam: Past, Present and Future is presented by UBC Continuing Studies, the Department of Asian Studies at UBC, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and the Laurier Institution. It is part of UBC Continuing Studies’ Lifelong Learning Series. Laffan is a Professor of History at Princeton University where he studies the history of Southeast Asia, focusing at present on Islam, nationalism, Dutch colonialism and orientalism. He earned his B.A. in Asian Studies (Arabic) at the Australian National University in Canberra (1995) and got his Ph.D. in Southeast Asian History from the University of Sydney (2001). He came to Princeton in 2005 from a postdoctoral fellowship at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands. In his first book, Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia: The Umma Below the Winds (2003), he argued that Islam played a central and largely unacknowledged role in the Indonesian nationalist movement, which historians have tended to associate mainly with a secular, Dutch-educated elite. His forthcoming book, The Makings of Indonesian Islam, looks at the results of an engagement between Islamic reformers with intellectual links to Cairo and influential colonial scholars, arguing that they set the parameters for the ways in which Islam has been, and still is, imagined in specific ways in both Southeast Asia and the Academy. The next project, will use Sri Lanka as a lens to discuss a history of Indian Ocean mobilities and religious exchange. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

Select Articles Available at UBC Library

Laffan, M. F. (2011). The makings of Indonesian Islam: Orientalism and the narration of a Sufi past. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press.

Laffan, M., & Ebrary Academic Complete (Canada) Subscription Collection. (1999). The resurrection of Ireland: The Sinn Féin party, 1916-1923. Cambridge, UK; New York, N.Y: Cambridge University Press. [Link]

Laffan, M. F. (2003). Islamic nationhood and colonial Indonesia: The Umma below the winds. New York; London: RoutledgeCurzon. doi:10.4324/9780203222577. [Link]

Laffan, M. (2007). “Another Andalusia”: Images of colonial southeast Asia in Arabic newspapers. The Journal of Asian Studies, 66(3), 689-722. doi:10.1017/S0021911807000939. [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

Asian Studies

Southeast Asian Studies

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David Der-wei Wang – Writing History after "Post-History"

March 23, 2011

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and the Wat Endowment and hosted by the Department of Asian Studies. Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture. David Der-wei Wang is Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies at Harvard University. The world’s leading scholar of modern Chinese fiction, his research specialties include modern and contemporary Chinese literature, late Qing fiction and drama, and comparative literary theory. Wang received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and has taught at National Taiwan University and Columbia University. His many honors include an honorary doctorate from Lingnan University (Hong Kong), and his appointments as an Academician of the Academia Sinica (Taiwan) and as a Yangtze River Scholar affiliated with Fudan University (Shanghai). Writing at a time when History has collapsed and Revolution has lost its mandate, writers cannot take up the two subjects without pondering their inherent intelligibility. Drawing upon theories on “post-history” as developed by scholars such as Jacques Derrida, Li Zehou and Liu Zaifu, and contemporary fictional works as created by writers such as Mo Yan, Yan Lianke and Wang Anyi, this lecture will address the following three issues: History after Post-History, Enlightenment versus Enchantment and Socialist Utopia and “the Best of all Best Possible Worlds”.

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