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Kaylee Louie is a Chinese-Canadian contemporary dance artist and filmmaker working in Vancouver, Canada*. She has completed her BFA in Contemporary Dance at Simon Fraser University. During her time there, Kaylee became inspired by multi-faceted…

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 was not planned as it was more of an accidental shot. Due to the quarantine, many of us have changed our perspectives and adapted to the circumstances. Me and a friend have decided to get out of the city since we were tired of being…

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…

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…

Nearly a year ago, I began the process of remotely photographing individuals over FaceTime and video chat in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so I sought to create a collective document and alternate archive of the moment in time,…

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…

Our piece 'Smoke and Mirrors" is a collage of movement and emotion that expresses how we felt during quarantine. It is an intimate, visual dance film about the longing for one’s touch, the inescapable desire to connect with another person…

"""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…

Born in Victoria, I've been playing music my whole life – piano and school band when I was younger, and then teaching myself guitar as a teenager and going out to play rock and/or roll music. Since then I've been in a few bands, the last…

I am a visual artist and illustrator with an interest in storytelling. I enjoy working with others, helping them express their messages and unique experience through creative mediums. I graduated from ECUAD back in 2019 with a Bachelors in Design…

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…

I was born and raised in Japan. When I came to Canada in the early nineties, I first landed in Toronto and then moved to Vancouver a few years later. Vancouver is a fascinating place where mountains and oceans meet and greyish urban setting in a…

My name is Long Xi Vlessing (龙喜; happy dragon) and I was born, and continue to live and work, on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including that of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-…

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…

In the early stages of the pandemic, I had resigned myself to the fact that I was powerless over the lockdown. In defiance, I decided to fight back by making art. . . through painting. The Chinese characters of crisis ( danger + opportunity )…

I am John, I moved to Canada in 2003, and have been living in the lower mainland ever since. I had done some water color paintings in the past. I love nature and painted dramatic landscapes. I did this for a number of years, I had accumulated a…

"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,…

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.

"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…

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…

"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…

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…