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Chinatown Transformation Collaborative Society of Edmonton The Chinatown Transformation Collaborative, or CTC, is collectively working towards making Chinatown a vibrant and inclusive place to visit and live in.

On Thursday, the Edmonton Chinatown Safety Council is holding a town hall on the community impacts of correctional relea...
10/06/2026

On Thursday, the Edmonton Chinatown Safety Council is holding a town hall on the community impacts of correctional releases. Chinatown Transformation Collaborative Society and Chinatown BIA are leading it. We want to hear your experiences, your concerns and your ideas, wherever you stand on the issue.

Residents, business owners, workers and neighbours are all welcome at the table. Come ready to listen and ready to be heard.

🗓️ Thursday, October 8
🕕 6:00 – 8:30 PM
📍 Dynasty Century Palace, #206, 9700 105 Ave NW

It’s free. Register at the link in bio or email [email protected].

Bring a neighbour. 🤝

Every session, every room and every evening of the International Chinatown Conference, one day to a page. Saturday: open...
09/25/2026

Every session, every room and every evening of the International Chinatown Conference, one day to a page. Saturday: opening, Truth and Reconciliation, and Dr. Morris Lum. Sunday: Chinatown Day, free admission, and the keynote luncheon with Carol Lee. Monday: housing, safety, BIAs and new business. Tuesday: heritage research, development and the closing keynote. Wednesday: Truth and Reconciliation Day.

Sessions run 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Saturday to Tuesday, at the DoubleTree and the Brighton Block on Jasper Avenue. Register at the link in bio.

Wednesday 30 September is Truth and Reconciliation Day. There are no conference sessions. Delegates are invited to join ...
09/25/2026

Wednesday 30 September is Truth and Reconciliation Day. There are no conference sessions. Delegates are invited to join mâmawi nîpawiwin – Standing Together for the Orange Shirt Day Community Walk, in honour of the survivors who are gone and those still walking with us. All are welcome.

12:00 pm, meet at Multicultural Family Resource Society, 9538 107 Ave NW. 12:30 pm, the walk begins. 1:00 to 3:00 pm, gather at Giovanni Caboto Park. Orange shirts and bagged lunches are provided to all participants.

Doors open tomorrow. For four days, the people who look after Chinatowns share one programme: association leaders, artis...
09/25/2026

Doors open tomorrow. For four days, the people who look after Chinatowns share one programme: association leaders, artists, researchers, business owners, planners and neighbours. Sessions run 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Saturday to Tuesday, at the DoubleTree (9576 Jasper Avenue, 2nd floor) and the Brighton Block (9666 Jasper Avenue, Floor 4). Registration and the Help Desk open at 8:00 am in The Gallery, DoubleTree 2nd floor.

Chinatowns are a global subject, and three more countries join the conversation in Edmonton.Philip Wang, Associate Profe...
09/20/2026

Chinatowns are a global subject, and three more countries join the conversation in Edmonton.

Philip Wang, Associate Professor in Recreation, Park and Tourism Management at Kent State University and a Certified Interpretive Guide Trainer, presents two sessions on the academic track, including “Chinatown: through Personality into Heritage”.

Dr. Rui Su, Senior Lecturer in Tourism at Middlesex University London , London, on “Taste of Memory”, the hidden British Chinese food community in London.

Dr. Felix Kwabena Donkor, University of Education, Winneba, on Chinatowns in Africa, with case studies from Ghana, Kenya and South Africa. A whole continent of Chinatowns, in one session.

Student delegates $275 with valid ID. Sept 26–30, Edmonton. Link in bio.

Chinatown research from five countries, in one room. Come and hear it, and bring your own.Researchers from Edmonton, Tor...
09/20/2026

Chinatown research from five countries, in one room. Come and hear it, and bring your own.

Researchers from Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal, Manitoba, London, Barcelona, Milan and Kolkata are presenting on Chinatown heritage, placemaking, entrepreneurship, housing and the visitor economy, in the same rooms as the fireside chats. There are more than twenty peer-reviewed sessions across the four days.

A few of them:
Christine Van Winkle, Professor at the University of Manitoba, on twenty years of asking whether festivals actually work: research with more than 30 festivals, and current work on the role of events in disaster recovery.

Dr. Andrea Del Bono, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, on placemaking in Milan’s Zona Sarpi and Prato. Italy has two Chinatowns.
Mingqing Yin, Universitat de Barcelona, on consumption and community invisibility in Barcelona’s Chinese neighbourhood.

Dr. Henry Tsang, Athabasca University. Elaine Yip 葉曉菱, Edmonton Heritage Council. Dr. Paul Boniface Akaabre, University of Alberta.

If you work in a university, this is your conference too. Student delegates are $275 with valid ID.

One evening in Chinatown with Morris Lum. $75.The talk: Morris Lum 林耀基, Tong Yan Gaai | Chinatowns, in conversation with...
09/20/2026

One evening in Chinatown with Morris Lum. $75.

The talk: Morris Lum 林耀基, Tong Yan Gaai | Chinatowns, in conversation with Shawn 謝兆龍 🐲, with Q&A and a book signing. Sponsored by McBain.

The tour: a walk through South Chinatown with Morris and Shawn, past the sites in his photographs and the new Chinatown Gate.

The dinner: the Chinatown Transformation Collaborative Society award-winning Dragon Food Tour team at 7-Kitchens Restaurant.

Saturday September 26, Edmonton. Talk, tour and dinner, $75. Link in bio.

DragonFoodTour

The building is the canvas.Lance Cardinal, artist and designer of Soulflame, gives a Sunday spotlight at the Internation...
09/18/2026

The building is the canvas.

Lance Cardinal, artist and designer of Soulflame, gives a Sunday spotlight at the International Chinatown Conference.

A First Nations (2-Spirit) artist, designer, entrepreneur and television personality from the Bigstone Cree Nation in Treaty 8 territory, with a thirty-year career in the arts.

His murals stand in the buildings Edmontonians already use — Telus World of Science, Re/Max Field, the Edmonton Public Library, MacEwan University, Grande Prairie Hospital. His mural for Avenue Living’s Sunrise tower — “The Land We Share”, 379.01 square metres — holds the Guinness World Record for the largest solar panel artwork in the world, ratified 27 May 2025. He made it to honour the neighbourhood’s First Nations and Chinese cultures: the two histories that share that ground in Edmonton. He is the Indigenous consultant and designer for the Edmonton Oilers, wrote their pre-game land acknowledgement video and designed the Turtle Island logo, and designed the medals for Canada’s World Rugby Sevens Series in Edmonton in 2021.

His Kunitz Shoes collection sold out in two days and raised money for the MMIWG movement, and is now in the collection of the Royal Alberta Museum. His children’s programme Indigenous Art Adventures is in its second season on APTN and won a Canadian Screen Award for best children’s series.

Every Chinatown in the room is arguing about its buildings — what to keep, what to fill, what to put on the wall facing the street. Bring the question about your own walls.

Sunday September 27 ¡ Brighton Block, Floor 4. Link in bio.

Bring your Chinatown to ours.Sandy Pon, Chair and co-founder of the Chinatown Transformation Collaborative Society of Ed...
09/18/2026

Bring your Chinatown to ours.

Sandy Pon, Chair and co-founder of the Chinatown Transformation Collaborative Society of Edmonton, is opening the doors on September 26.

Edmonton has spent years building a Chinatown Strategy. For four days we are handing the floor to everyone doing the same work somewhere else — Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, Toronto, and a dozen countries beyond.

Come as a delegate. Bring what you have learned. Take back what you need.

Full delegate $600 ¡ NGO $350 ¡ Student $275 ¡ Day pass $150
Registration is open — link in bio.

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