This is an archived event from Culture Days 2025.
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Artist Talk: Emily Chu
In-person
Date and time
Location
AGA Main Hall, 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square
Edmonton, AB
Access
Free.
Offered in English.
About
Artist Talk with Emily Chu:
Join us from 12-1pm for a one-hour talk exploring the idea of home and belonging that inspired Emily Chu’s mural, Preserving Fragments. Sharing her journey, culture and her connection with her family, Emily dives into that idea of home, a place, a feeling, a culture and people to share it with.
Collective Zine Creation with Emily Chu:
Following the talk, on the Lower Level of the AGA, come get your hands and heads working to collaborate towards the creation of a collective zine. Home, belonging and doorways are going to be some of the ideas through which stories are shared, and art comes alive.
About the artist:
Emily Chu is a Chinese illustrator and visual artist based on Treaty 6 (Edmonton). Emily's practice includes commercial illustration, murals, storytelling, sketching, and community-arts initiatives.
Emily is the founder and lead organizer of Chinatown's newest LNY Market: Togather Chinatown Arts Festival, and storytelling map project: Chinatown Stories Map. She is also co-organizer of the arts fundraiser project: Chinatown Greetings.
She is currently working on a graphic novel about her childhood immigration story to the Canadian prairies in the 90’s, funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Links
- Organizer Website youraga.ca