The Long Road is a 3 min personal piece about nostalgic memory blending inspiration to carve a path towards the future. It is documented from archival YouTube travel vlogs in 2015. While the main idea is centered around remembrance, motivation and…

I am a Japanese Canadian Circus Artist and Contortionist based in Vancouver.

Alger's recent short-film, looking for oranges, is a site specific video piece that pays homage to cultural grief and collective mourning.

Alger Ji-Liang (he/him), is an emerging photographer, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist living, breathing, and learning on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam peoples. His works situate the body as the centre…

"Idyoms" is an exploration of Filipino Idiomatic Expression. The idiom is a phrase with a different meaning from the literal meaning of the words. These projects explore the relationship between the mother language and culture's…

Juneeta Vangala is a high-school student. She self-learnt filming and editing. She is passionate about painting, reading and writing. She is a landed immigrant. She actively involves in increasing mental health awareness, diversity and inclusiveness…

This piece is called “Phases of Quarantine” and it was created using Procreate. Over the past year (and a bit) of being mostly confined to limited spaces – I somehow found that the relationship with myself had become warped. I often grew tired of…

莫 (Mò) represents absence. Something that isn’t there or isn’t able to be done. I was drawn to this character when it appeared in a movie to represent the spirit realm. This piece was also a way for me to process the feelings and philosophical…

Tadafumi Tamura is a photographer who loves to depict ordinary subject matters found in his daily life.

This series experiments with space by documenting sites where I felt the most fulfilled within my own body movement during COVID-19. Through the process of printmaking with dried hand sanitizer cloths, this allowed me as the artist to learn more…

Yasmine Ross grew up in Beijing where she first developed a passion for film. After being accepted into the program at UBC, her main passion lay in cinematography. However, over the years she has grown to love production design and acting. However,…

Andy Wong is a co-producer of the fabulous QQ in BC. He was inspired to bring the Toronto Initiative to BC to be a part of something he thought was an incredibly special project, especially because he had a project he wanted to submit to this…

The song was written in an attempt to process my anxiety and the photograph was the first picture I took that felt like a one-in-a-million chance shot.

Promote awareness of Asian-hate crimes.

Online Classes is a fun take on the new experience students today have when attending their classes online, from home.

Annika likes to download free computer apps on her (self-built, or so she claims) computer - and trying out DaVinci Resolve led her here somehow. For that same reason, she's also tried out digital art, graphics editing, coding, and other stuff…

"""COVID・Snowfall・nin4 jaa6 cat1"" is a 2 minutes silent short film about COVID-19 quarantine and family connection. The film is inspired by an original voice message sent by my father about being cautious of the COVID-19…

莫 (Mò) represents absence. Something that isn’t there or isn’t able to be done. I was drawn to this character when it appeared in a movie to represent the spirit realm. This piece was also a way for me to process the feelings and philosophical…

I am a Japanese American student currently finishing up my undergraduate degree at UBC working from home. I am finishing up my degree in psychology and the idea of entering the workforce has been daunting yet exciting for me. I love to paint and…

This mixed media illustration, "Misfortune Cookies", uses the paper fortunes protruding from the iconic Americanized idea of Chinese food to voice negative commentary. The negativity can be interpreted as personal inner monologue of self-…

Pamela Chen is a first generation Chinese-Canadian illustrator based in Vancouver, Canada with a BFA in Visual Arts. She is enthralled by botanical and scientific illustrations, as well as tattoo culture and flash. Her work often combines unusual…

This series experiments with space by documenting sites where I felt the most fulfilled within my own body movement during COVID-19. Through the process of printmaking with dried hand sanitizer cloths, this allowed me as the artist to learn more…

Being confined in a small apartment room, my footprint had become smaller and smaller. So did my artwork. My minuscule painting reflects the psychological and physical state of the creative process under lockdown. Fuzzy shapes float and multiply in…