2024 - 2025
Canada
The School of Contemporary Art (SCA) at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver is a respected interdisciplinary art school that encompasses dance, film, music, theatre performance and production, and visual art. SCA has been an important contributor to the cultural ecology of the city of Vancouver and has been instrumental in both bringing visiting artists to the city and connecting them with the cultural community. This grant will allow SCA to host Ming Wong, an internationally renowned Berlin-based Singaporean artist, while he develops an ambitious project to explore the emergence of Cantonese opera cinema.
Support for a community-based process to plan and design a public art masterplan to interpret the significant stories of the historic sites of the Eng Family Homestead (one of the last remaining and most intact single-family homes in the Chinatown-International District in Seattle) and adjacent Canton Alley.
Support for a research and community-building project centered on facilitating relationships between multidisciplinary artists and history bearers (descendants, land stewards, family archivists and institutions). The research project will focus on 3 different themes: personal archives, family associations, the history of railroad construction and mining.
Initiating research into and creative exploration of the history of forced deportation of Chinese seamen in Liverpool