Hope in Shadows in Chinese
Posted by Hope In Shadows on May 19, 2009
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The CCM Gallery is in the food court on the 2nd floor of the Crystal Mall, Burnaby. You can visit the exhibition from Monday - Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. until March 20.
Vancouver, March 6, 2009 - The 2008 Hope in Shadows exhibition is hanging in public again, but with a whole new potential audience - Vancouver's large Chinese-first-language-speaking population.
Almost 400,000 people in the Greater Vancouver area identify themselves as of Chinese origin, and 80 percent of those people were born in China, Hong Kong or Taiwan.
Angela Kan, executive director of the CCM community centre in Burnaby, says that they invited Hope in Shadows to their gallery and they translated the stories for very good reasons. She said the exhibition was educational and it is a good opportunity to get to know the life in the Downtown Eastside.
"It has changed people's perceptions of the Downtown Eastside. The pictures speak... ...to us - we see the positiveness and the hope, the daily life of ordinary people down there. We share a lot of common values - family... ...we [all] love our kids."
Funded by local churches, the CCM has been running the community centre in the Crystal Mall since 2000.
