UBC LECTURE ON MULTICULTURALISM

June 22, 2004 (7 pm)
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
UBC Campus, Vancouver

To celebrate Canada's National Multicultural Day, we invite you to
attend the UBC Lecture on Multiculturalism presented by CBC Radio and
Television.

Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Mina Shum will be the featured guest
speaker for this year's lecture entitled New Day Rising: Journey of a
Hyphenated Girl. Shum, born in Hong Kong and raised in Canada, rose
to fame with her film Double Happiness, which premiered at the 1994
Toronto International Film Festival and went on to win critical
acclaim in Vancouver, Torino and Berlin. The film struck a chord with
Canadians who straddle the divide between fighting and accepting
cultural roots and carving a sense of self. By sharing specific
stories of how she came to embrace her hyphenation in her lecture,
Shum hopes to celebrate and encourage all unique selves.

Music group Tandava will perform enchanting world music to set the
evening. Tandava is a contemporary world music ensemble inspired by
the folk and classical music of India and Bangladesh, with influences
from China, the Middle-East, Africa and the West.

Hosted by Paul Kennedy, the lecture will be broadcast across the
country on the Ideas program on CBC Radio One (690 AM Vancouver) and
a feature documentary based on the lecture will be produced for CBC
Newsworld. After the lecture, audience members will have the
opportunity to address Mina in a Q & A session moderated by Paul.
This event will prove to be interactive, entertaining, and thought provoking.

For more information, contact:
Christine Evans
Communications Coordinator
Office of UBC International
Asian Centre
Room 606-1871 West Mall
Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 1Z2

Telephone: (604) 822-0810
Fax: (604) 822-5597
Web site: http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/ubcintl