{"id":44315,"date":"2015-11-28T16:39:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T16:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44315"},"modified":"2015-11-28T16:39:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T16:39:10","slug":"hapa-palooza-2015-talking-hapa-with-canadian-broadcaster-margaret-gallager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44315","title":{"rendered":"Hapa-Palooza 2015 | Talking Hapa With Canadian Broadcaster Margaret Gallager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/schemamag.ca\/2015\/09\/17\/hapa-palooza-2015-talking-hapa-with-canadian-broadcaster-margaret-gallager\" target=\"_blank\">Hapa-Palooza 2015 | Talking Hapa With Canadian Broadcaster Margaret Gallager<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/schemamag.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Schema Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n2015-09-17<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marissa Willcox<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hapapalooza.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hapa-palooza<\/a> is here! Celebrating what <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vancouver\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver<\/a> does best: mixed-heritage and blended cultural identities. Drawing from the Hawaiian origin of the word \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=329\" target=\"_blank\">hapa<\/a>\u201d (used by many people in Canada and U.S. who identify as being of mixed-heritage) Vancouver is a perfect venue this year\u2019s diverse array of speakers, workshops and family events.<\/p>\n<p>This festival spans over four days and features many mixed-heritage voices, including Vancouver\u2019s much-loved broadcaster <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/mediacentre\/margaret-gallagher.html#.VlnXW4-cGMo\" target=\"_blank\">Margaret Gallager<\/a>. An award winning <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation\" target=\"_blank\">CBC<\/a> radio host, she joins <a href=\"http:\/\/lawrencehill.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence Hill<\/a> on September 17th for a much-anticipated evening of stimulating conversation at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/mecs\/facilities\/goldcorp-centre-for-the-arts.html\" target=\"_blank\">GoldCorp Centre for the Arts<\/a>. Marissa Willcox had a chance to ask her a few questions about her cultural identity and work in Canada\u2019s public broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Marissa Willcox<\/strong>: As a broadcaster and community member of mixed-heritage, to what extent is Vancouver\u2019s ethnic and cultural diversity an aspect of the stories you cover?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Margaret Gallager<\/strong>: As someone who works for the public broadcaster, it\u2019s part of my job (and privilege) to reflect Canadian society through the stories I bring to air. And diversity is a huge part of who we are, especially in Vancouver. So, if you\u2019re doing your job right, some of those stories are naturally going to come from diverse communities.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d say that cultural diversity is better reflected in the media these days than it was when I was growing up, whether that is in the stories that are told, or the people who are presenting them. And I think that change came about in part through a conscious effort that has taken years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"http:\/\/schemamag.ca\/2015\/09\/17\/hapa-palooza-2015-talking-hapa-with-canadian-broadcaster-margaret-gallager\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hapa-Palooza 2015 | Talking Hapa With Canadian Broadcaster Margaret Gallager Schema Magazine 2015-09-17 Marissa Willcox Hapa-palooza is here! Celebrating what Vancouver does best: mixed-heritage and blended cultural identities. Drawing from the Hawaiian origin of the word \u201chapa\u201d (used by many people in Canada and U.S. who identify as being of mixed-heritage) Vancouver is a perfect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,19,13743,8],"tags":[2138,7501,22090,22089,13282,6790],"class_list":["post-44315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-canada","category-interviews","category-media-archive","tag-british-columbia","tag-hapa-palooza","tag-margaret-gallager","tag-marissa-willcox","tag-schema-magazine","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44316,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44315\/revisions\/44316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}