Asian Heritage – Edmonton

Dentons & TD Present A Chinese New Year Celebration at Northlands: Evening Gala February 6, 2016 @ 5:00 pm Edmonton EXPO Centre Alberta Ballroom Cost: $100 / person Join us for a special evening filled with great food and amazing entertainment. Together we’ll celebrate the beginning of the New Year with special entertainment! Ticket includes … Continue reading Chinese New Year Evening Gala at EXPO Centre →

We are excited and pleased to announce that NEBA North Edmonton Business Association will be hosting in collaboration with Londonderry Mall - very first Lunar New Year Event in North Edmonton The event is held inside the mall and free for everyone to attend and watch performances from 11 am - 6 pm. There are … Continue reading Chinese New Year at Londonderry Mall →

Chinatown, 97 Street & 107 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta February 14 2016 Hey, did you already give up on your New Year’s Resolutions? Well, not to worry! Now, you have a second chance! Celebrate another new year in Edmonton at the Lunar New Year Celebration in Chinatown. Starting at noon on February 14 with a parade … Continue reading Lunar New Year and Chinatown Celebration →

Dynamic Directions Presented by: Alberta Ballet Featuring: choreography by Wen Wei Wang, Aszure Barton and Yukichi Hattori When: Feb. 19 and 20 Where: Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium Tickets: Start at $29 available at 780-428-6839, ticket.albertaballet.com Three distinctively different choreographic voices are set to take over Alberta Ballet stages for Dynamic Directions, a contemporary mixed bill … Continue reading Alberta Ballet Presents Dynamic Directions →

Silent Auctions Performances Dinner Ticket $30 each Portion of the proceeds will go to Edmonton KidSport Tickets: Lion Leah at 780 445 9016 leahhenderson@shaw.ca RSVP by February 15

The Mactaggart Art Collection Lecture Series All lectures are held at the TELUS International Centre, Room 134 Registration Required 7:00 – 8:30 pm "Visualizing China’s Imperial Order, Or, Why Paint Architecture?" Guest Speaker: Prof. Nancy S. Steinhardt (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.) Location: TELUS International Centre (Room 134) A surprising number of Chinese paintings … Continue reading Visualizing China’s Imperial Order, Or, Why Paint Architecture? →

A riveting documentary produced by anthropologist and filmmaker Dr. Niobe Thompson on the origins of humanity and its path to the present was given life with the music of former Edmonton composer Darren Fung in a series presented on CBC’s The Nature of Things. See a specially-prepared version of the film projected above the musicians … Continue reading Darren Fung Composer – The Great Human Odyssey in Concert →

Guest Speaker: Prof. Kristina Kleutghen (Washington University, St Louis, MO, U.S.A.) Location: TELUS International Centre (Room 134) When the Kangxi emperor’s Southern Tours disembarked in Suzhou in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries, the ruler arrived in a city famous across the empire for its optical devices. Popular use of these devices in and around Suzhou … Continue reading Seeing Suzhou in Chinese Painting →

Guest Speaker: Prof. Michael G. Chang (George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, U.S.A.) This presentation will focus on the well-known southern tours of the Qianlong emperor (1711-1799, r. 1736-1795), the fourth Manchu emperor to rule over China-proper. Each of Qianlong’s six southern tours, which took place between 1751 and 1784, were extended affairs during which the … Continue reading The Emperor Qianlong’s Tours of Southern China in Painting, Poetry, and Logistical Practice →

Panel Discussion Prof. Nancy S. Steinhardt (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.) Prof. Michael G. Chang (George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, U.S.A.) Prof. Martin Powers (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.   1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Mactaggart Art Collection tours