A new generation of community organizers engage with beloved Chinatown/DTES activist Sid Chow Tan’s vast archive of volunteer-produced video journalism. Reflecting on resistance, victories, celebrations, and everyday lives within DTES and Chinatown communities, respondents from intersecting grassroots struggles respond to documentation spanning over four decades. Fostering intergenerational, cross-cultural connections and knowledge-sharing, this evening is an iteration of an ongoing project, led by Byron Peters, to nurture and sustain the spirit of solidarity, humour, and class-consciousness that animated Sid’s art of activism.

Refreshments will be served. Cantonese and Mandarin translation will be provided. This screening is presented with gratitude and in solidarity with the many friends, organizers, community television volunteers and staff who made possible the production, broadcast, and archive of these videos. Additional program partners: VIVO Media Arts and KPU.