Tag: Vancouver

  • Hapa-palooza 2014 is coming: Mark Your Calendars! Vancouver, Canada 2014-09-24 through 2014-09-28 Hapa-palooza is Canada’s biggest festival celebrating mixed-roots identity, scheduled for every September in Vancouver, Canada. This year, Hapa-palooza takes place September 24-28, 2014, marking our four year anniversary. Hapa-palooza Festival is organized by the Hybrid Ancestry Public Arts Society, a non-profit society dedicated…

  • Don’t miss Hapa-Palooza 2013: Celebrate mixed ethnicity and third culture in Vancouver Vancouver Observer Vancouver, British Columbia 2013-09-13 Jordan Yerman Celebrate the whole you with literature, film, art, and dance. This is Hapa-Palooza. The third annual Hapa-Palooza Festival kicks off on September 18, once again bringing three days of art and culture to Vancouver. Focusing…

  • Mismatched racial identities, colourism, and health in Toronto and Vancouver Social Science & Medicine Volume 73, Issue 8, October 2011 pages 1152–1162 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.07.030 Gerry Veenstra, Associate Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia Using original telephone survey data collected from adult residents of Toronto (n=685) and Vancouver (n=814) in 2009, I investigate associations between…

  • Call for Robson Square Art Installation: Hapapalooza Festival Hapa-Palooza Festival seeks outdoor art installation proposal to show-case work by individual artist and/or groups of mixed cultural descent whose artistic work explores mixed roots/cultural heritage/hybridity/identity. Submission Deadline: 2011-07-15 Contact: Ella Cooper – ella@ecoartslab.com Hapa-Palooza: A Vancouver Celebration of Mixed-Roots Arts and Ideas is a new cultural…