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face="Times New Roman">For Immediate Release</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%">Underwater
Chinatown: Digital Stories</SPAN></I><SPAN lang=EN-US
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is a series of artist-facilitated community digital storytelling workshops
focused on unearthing alternative histories of Vancouver’s Chinatown.
Participants of the workshops researched and discovered the cultural currents
that connect them to Chinatown's past and present, learned how to create story
boards, craft an engaging story, record voice overs, perform basic audio editing
and produced their own digital audio Chinatown stories.</SPAN> The digital audio
stories premiered at the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum on December 19, 2015.
Since then the stories are available for listeners at </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-language: zh-cn"><A
style='href: "https://underwaterchinatown.wordpress.com/stories/"'><FONT
color=#0000ff>https://underwaterchinatown.wordpress.com/stories/</FONT></A>
</SPAN></FONT><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: "><BR><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%"><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">- A Little Chinatown Up North by Joys Chow
</FONT></SPAN></SPAN><BR
style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; WIDOWS: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%"><SPAN
style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; WIDOWS: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">- Me, My Great-Grandma and Chinatown by Sophie
Fung</FONT></SPAN></SPAN><BR
style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; WIDOWS: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%"><SPAN
style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; WIDOWS: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">- Yip Sang
– What Kind of a Man? by Godfrey Tang & Joanna Kobylka</SPAN></SPAN><BR
style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; WIDOWS: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%"><SPAN
style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; WIDOWS: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">- Mah
Society Kung Fu History by Edmund Ma</SPAN></SPAN><BR
style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; WIDOWS: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%"><SPAN
style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; WIDOWS: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">- Legendary
Chinese Hat Lady by Dan Seto</SPAN></SPAN><BR
style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; WIDOWS: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%"><SPAN
style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; WIDOWS: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">- Chinatown
in the 70s by Dan Seto</SPAN></SPAN><BR
style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; WIDOWS: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%"><SPAN
style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; WIDOWS: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">- Yolanda’s
Story by Yolanda Li and Shelby Tay</SPAN></SPAN><BR
style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; WIDOWS: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%"><SPAN
style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; WIDOWS: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">- When I
Think of Chinatown by Jessica Whu</SPAN></SPAN><BR
style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; WIDOWS: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%"><SPAN
style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; WIDOWS: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">- Alan’s
Story by Alfred Woo</SPAN></SPAN><BR
style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; WIDOWS: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%"><SPAN
style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; WIDOWS: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">- Moments
Worth Savouring by Bob Sung and Elizabeth Cheong </SPAN></SPAN><BR
style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; WIDOWS: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%"><SPAN
style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; WIDOWS: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">- Excerpts
from "The Lion Men Revisited" by Lance Lim</SPAN></SPAN><BR
style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; WIDOWS: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"></FONT><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%"><BR><SPAN
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face="Times New Roman">Partially funded by the </FONT><A
style='href: "http://www.cacv.ca/"' target=_blank><SPAN
style="TEXT-DECORATION: ; COLOR: ; text-underline: none"><FONT
color=#000000><FONT style="TEXT-DECORATION: none"
face="Times New Roman">Community Arts Council of
Vancouve</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><A style='href: "http://www.cacv.ca/"'
target=_blank><SPAN
style="TEXT-DECORATION: ; COLOR: ; text-underline: none"><FONT
color=#000000><FONT style="TEXT-DECORATION: none"
face="Times New Roman">r</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT face="Times New Roman">,
the<B> </B>Underwater Chinatown Community Art Project is co-presented by
</FONT><A style='href: "http://www.cccvan.com/"' target=_blank><SPAN
style="TEXT-DECORATION: ; COLOR: ; text-underline: none"><FONT
color=#000000><FONT style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" face="Times New Roman">Chinese
Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> and </FONT><A
style='href: "http://www.cinevolutionmedia.com/education/"' target=_blank><SPAN
style="TEXT-DECORATION: ; COLOR: ; text-underline: none"><FONT
color=#000000><FONT style="TEXT-DECORATION: none"
face="Times New Roman">Cinevolution Media Arts
Society</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT face="Times New Roman">. Digital media
instructor: Catrina Longmuir. We acknowledge the financial assistance of the
Province of British Columbia.</FONT></SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman"> Special
thanks: Larry Wong and Shelby Tay</FONT></SPAN><FONT
face="Times New Roman">.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman">Media Contact: Toni Zhang McAfee, </FONT><A
style='href: "mailto:museum@cccvan.com"'><FONT color=#0000ff
face="Times New Roman">museum@cccvan.com</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman">, 604.658.8883</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Toni Zhang McAfee<BR>Museum Manager<BR>Chinese Cultural
Centre of Greater Vancouver<BR>555 Columbia Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6A 4H5,
Canada<BR>604-658-8883, museum@cccvan.com<BR>Office hours: Tue - Sat
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