My piece is an abstract contortion film created during the Covid-19 pandemic, in the context of increased anti-Asian sentiment and life in lockdown.

"COVID BLUES" is a piece based around the struggles of a fresh grad navigating mental health and the post pandemic world. This coming of age piece speaks much to the artist's own experiences, traversing career expectations and her…

Karen is a first generation Chinese immigrant, a digital comic artist (@bigbrowcomics) and writer. She's a recent graduate from UBC with a Bachelors of Commerce and is currently based out of Vancouver. She enjoys poetry, animated films and flea…

This piece is about the term “home” and the ways we may bridge the distances between our homes- spaces that we can identify as encompassing safety. It’s a brief telling of our bodies’ histories on this unceded land and lands we may long for.…

Shana Wolfe is a dance artist on the territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her artistic practice is based in dancing, performance and more recently in choreography, crocheting, and houseplant crafting. She toured…

Hello, I'm Sonia (She, Her, Hers), a 3rd year undergraduate media studies student at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. I grew up in Hong Kong & Macau, then I came to Canada in 2016. I am interested in different forms of…

Day Sixty is a film made with Socially distanced protocols. All set ups were either 6 feet apart, or were shot with techniques such as an unmanned camera, in order to ensure that we were maintaining the strict Covid Guidelines in place in May of…

I wrote this song last June on the piano, and when I read about QQ, it seemed so appropriate that I decided that I would submit it. It was and is literally my Asian Canadian experience with the COVID quarantine. I had to do some cutting and…

It's a mix of real experience and fiction. The song is about my most recent ex girlfriend. When we first met, we clicked and were having a great time together. But as we got close and were on the edge of progressing to the next part of our…

Isolation is a portrait of an individual, but a shared human experience. A lot of the shots and editing pace were used to emphasize how disoriented quarantine can feel. Each day blends together, as we dissociate from our temporal structures. This…

Gavin Tran is a Vietnamese-Canadian Film Editor and Filmmaker from Vancouver, BC who enjoys crafting the story and energy behind the keyboard in the editing room. He has graduated from Capilano University with a Bachelors's Degree in Motion…

This self-portrait is titled “TRAPPED”. I wanted to embody the overwhelming sensation of feeling alone throughout the pandemic. For me COVID-19 only proved to amplify the issues I’d been dealing with, making it more difficult to cope. Ultimately, I…

Jared is a recent graduate from UBC and was born here in Vancouver, BC. His art style consists primarily of self-portraits and photos of friends.

"A film created and produced by Kaylee Louie finds its catalyst over the course of isolation during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Being stuck in her home for the course of 2020, this film was the first time Kaylee has explored capturing movement,…

"Hiatus, Hope, Harmony. All is good. And then, something changes. You feel incomplete, unaccomplished and restless. You almost disappear. It is a pause, a hiatus, a break...anything but a stop. It is time to pay attention to your mental health…

During the Quarantine, I've seen lots of examples that stigmatizes products, creatures and even people from Asian countries. I photographed a vegetable that is often consumed in Asian countries in the way that it looks like "Alien".

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…

The piece I am submitting was created in Feb 2021 by my 8 yr old grandson Matthew. He created this ink drawn and coloured still life while adhering to all COVID-19 safety protocols during his first ever Arts Umbrella Program Drawing and Painting.…

In nothing is permanent, I used my cell phone as a means of documenting my POV in an ever-changing world while utilizing my extensive library of videos. The video is a compilation of my contributions to CO-VID 19: 2-gather-a-part, a 2020…

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…

Jasmine Liaw is an emerging, Chinese-Canadian cross-disciplinary artist in dance performance and digital art. Currently residing in Vancouver, Jasmine graduated with Distinction with the Conteur Academy, a contemporary dance training program under…

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.

I am a Canadian of Indonesian descent living in BC. I am an actor/writer/photographer/musician. I was born in Jakarta and came to BC when I was a year old.

Sarah Hin Ching U (she/her) is a Vancouver based emerging dance artist and choreographer. Her work is often inspired by the human experience. She makes work on conversations, trips, books, and music that touches her because that is the most honest…