29 min
Cultural and Community Work in Chinatown with aiya哎呀 collective Rhizome Podcast
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- Society & Culture
In our final episode of this series on the Rhizome Podcast, we explore what it means to collectively resist and heal together in effect of the ongoing displacement and cultural erasure of Chinatown. Especially with the rise of violence towards Asian people during Covid, we wanted to highlight how a local force in our community have been responding to anti-Asian racism, neoliberal capitalism, and colonialism.
In this episode, we talked with Shawn Tse 謝兆龍, a member from aiya哎呀 collective. aiya哎呀 is an intergenerational group of artists and cultural workers offering spaces to remember the emotional and geographic loss of amiskwacîwâskahikan -- particularly in its Chinatown. aiya哎呀 works to form openings for liberation and belonging. Although we only hear from Shawn in this episode, the core members of aiya哎呀 collective include: Grace Law, Lan Chan-Marples, Wai-Ling Lennon, and Shawn Tse.
Follow aiya哎呀 on Instagram and Facebook to keep updated on their work.
Although this is our final episode, Roots4Change still has some exciting news up our sleeves. Follow us on Instagram to find out what is next!
Big gratitude to the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights for supporting Roots4Change. And thank you to our funders, the Edmonton Community Foundation, for making this podcast possible.
Catch us on the radio, on CJSR 88.5FM!
Music by: Pictures of the Floating World - Nomadic and Elevator
Transcripts of this episode can be found on our website.
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In our final episode of this series on the Rhizome Podcast, we explore what it means to collectively resist and heal together in effect of the ongoing displacement and cultural erasure of Chinatown. Especially with the rise of violence towards Asian people during Covid, we wanted to highlight how a local force in our community have been responding to anti-Asian racism, neoliberal capitalism, and colonialism.
In this episode, we talked with Shawn Tse 謝兆龍, a member from aiya哎呀 collective. aiya哎呀 is an intergenerational group of artists and cultural workers offering spaces to remember the emotional and geographic loss of amiskwacîwâskahikan -- particularly in its Chinatown. aiya哎呀 works to form openings for liberation and belonging. Although we only hear from Shawn in this episode, the core members of aiya哎呀 collective include: Grace Law, Lan Chan-Marples, Wai-Ling Lennon, and Shawn Tse.
Follow aiya哎呀 on Instagram and Facebook to keep updated on their work.
Although this is our final episode, Roots4Change still has some exciting news up our sleeves. Follow us on Instagram to find out what is next!
Big gratitude to the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights for supporting Roots4Change. And thank you to our funders, the Edmonton Community Foundation, for making this podcast possible.
Catch us on the radio, on CJSR 88.5FM!
Music by: Pictures of the Floating World - Nomadic and Elevator
Transcripts of this episode can be found on our website.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/roots4changerhizomepod/message
29 min