Vancouver artist Paul Wong is launching a year-long project called Occupying Chinatown, starting the same day that the City of Vancouver issues a formal apology for historic discrimination against Chinese-Canadians on Sunday.
During the upcoming year of residency at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, Wong plans to create a series of multidisciplinary artworks based on hundreds of letters written to his mother over 70 years.
“This project really is centred around the translation of 700 letters that were
This story was originally published on CBC News. To read the rest of this news worthy story, please visit http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/paul-wong-occupy-chinatown-project-1.4628423?cmp=rss.