Shawn shares how his parents are from Hong Kong, and he grew up in Toronto. He graduated from film school and went to Taiwan and Hong Kong to teach. He noted there is a need to support Asian artists and disrupt the question of what it means to be an artist in a colonial and capitalistic society. He voices there is a need for a critical mass so more underrepresented folks can ground themselves toward how systems work; there needs to be more space for the representation of diverse voices.
Shawn Tse 謝兆龍 (he/him) is a father, artist, filmmaker, and community organizer. He is a consultant for the CanAsian Arts Network, a national digital platform supporting Asian Canadian artists, an actor and coordinator for Third Space Playback Theatre, committed to creating spaces of dialogue to promote community change and social justice, a member of aiya哎呀, a collective creating spaces to remember the emotional and geographic loss of ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ | amiskwacîwâskahikan | Edmonton’s Chinatown, and co-organizer of Chinatown Greetings, an arts-based fundraising platform exploring ways to build relationships between the artist and Chinatown community.
Photo, please credit Jordon Hon: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SSgt8-fFadC03zt0czn6XJANn2p5R6Xg/view
