Kick off – at Glenbow Museum
Free admission
Opening Reception 6-8pm
Level 2, Lobby

The Glenbow evening formally launches ImaginASIAN 2009 with the announcement of Asian Heritage Foundation programs and events in celebration of Asian Heritage Month. The evening’s program highlights Youth in the Arts with music featuring pipa and guitar and dance numbers of different genres, all performed by young artists.

A feature will be this a reception for the exhibition Elsewhere. Christine Cheung, one of 2008’s award winning Alberta Governor General Emerging Artists will exhibit her work which examines diaspora and place. Born and raised in Calgary, Cheung is a graduate from the Masters of Fine Arts program at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and a recipient of the 2008 Alberta Lieutenant Governor General’s Emerging Artist Award. In 2008, Cheung was awarded a production grant from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and traveled to Asia where she completed artist-in-residence programs at Red Gate Studios (Beijing), and Compeung (Thailand). These remarkable works from her recent trip are fresh and engaging studies that reflect a sense of place that is physical, emotional and imagined all at once.