Communities of Resilience: Chinatown Vancouver

November 4, 2025, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

Vancouver Campus

2332 Main Mall

Place and Memory - Donna Seto 

Join us for a talk by Donna Seto, the author of Chinatown Vancouver: An Illustrated History. Donna's talk explores the resilience of communities that inhabit cultural sites like Vancouver’s Chinatown and helps us understand how our connection to place, the past and the future preserve these communities.

Mapping Communities of Resilience 

Following the talk, participants are invited to locate their own communities of resilience on a lower mainland map by guided place and memory prompts to produce a map of collective communities that are tied our wellbeing, resilience and identity. This exercise attempts to leverage our personal histories and memories tied to the built environment to develop a collective and visual representation of resilience rooted in place, in communities, and in conjunction to one another. 

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