[WAM!Van] WAM! Public lecture at Langara next Wed: Promoting social change through media and the arts

[Joanna Chiu]

Vancouver friends and fellow WAMmers, I'd love to invite you all to this
free public talk next Wednesday at Langara.

I'm very happy to be back in Vancouver after 8 years abroad and I'm looking
forward to reconnecting with many of you and getting back to volunteer work
with WAM! Vancouver. Please let me know if you have suggestions for future
events/trainings/socials that we can help facilitate.

Title: Promoting social change through media and the arts: Reflections from
a foreign correspondent on the launch of WAM! Vancouver and the
China-focused editorial collective, NüVoices.

If you come please let me know and we can have lunch. 😊 More info at the
link or below. No RSVP necessary.
https://langara.ca/news-and-events/events-calendar/180919-pccn-lecture-series.html


Peace & Conflict Studies Lecture Series: Transforming Culture for Social
Change

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*Date:* *Sep 19, 2018*
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Website: http://www.langara.ca/pccn-lectures
Phone: 604.323.5392
Location: A130

Peace & Conflict Studies is excited to announce three compelling lectures
for the fall semester. This year's series focuses on *Transforming Culture
for Social Change*. Sessions take place from 12:30 pm–1:30 pm in Room A130.
Bring a student, friend, or colleague! Everyone welcome. Free to attend.


*Wednesday, September 19 | Promoting social change through media and the
arts: Reflections from a foreign correspondent on the launch of WAM!
Vancouver and the China-focused editorial collective, NüVoices**Joanna
Chiu, Founder, WAM!Vancouver (Women Action and the Media)
<http://www.codev.org/>*

Joanna Chiu is a journalist who recently relocated back to Vancouver after
being based out of Beijing and Hong Kong as a foreign correspondent
covering social issues, politics, arts and culture in Greater China for
AFP,  DPA and the South China Morning Post, She has written for outlets
like The Economist, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Quartz, and Mashable,
among many others. She is the founder and chair of NüVoices, an editorial
collective celebrating the work of women writers and creators on China
subjects. NüVoices has launched chapters in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong,
Berlin and Taipei and produces original media such as podcasts and articles
emphasizing women's work on China as well as the upcoming publication of a
print anthology.

Joanna was the lead researcher on a study on Chinese writers' and artists'
use of social media and struggles against internet censorship for PEN
America <https://pen.org/forbidden-feeds/%20>. She is also the founder of
the Vancouver chapter of WAM!
<https://womenactionmedia.org/chapters__trashed/vancouver/>(Women, Action &
the Media), which has been organizing events to promote gender justice in
media in the Greater Vancouver area since 2012.

Other lecture series:

   - *Wednesday, September 26 | Activism through the Lens of Art*
   <https://langara.ca/news-and-events/events-calendar/180926-pccn-lecture-series.html>
   - *Wednesday, October 3 | The Colonial/De-Colonial Power of Stories*
   <https://langara.ca/news-and-events/events-calendar/181003-pccn-lecture-series.html>

For more information, contact Lealle Ruhl at lruhl at langara.ca.

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*Joanna Chiu*

*reporter & Editor *
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www.joannachiu.com  <http://www.joannachiu.com/>
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