Resources
Reorienting Our Trauma: A Workbook for the Asian Diaspora
The Workbook invites you to experience healing in a plethora of ways and features a mix of activities, holds space for reflection, and shares the language one can use to name, cope with, and rewrite our trauma.
Renovate the Public Hearing Initiative x Chinatown
In the Autumn of 2023, hua foundation, Chinatown Today, and other community organizers held workshops and targeted interviews to listen, discuss, and learn about Chinese diasporic community experiences at public hearings.
Language in Practice | A Toolkit for Equitable Communications
Hua foundation, on behalf of the Language Access Project coalition, is launching Language in Practice | A Toolkit for Equitable Communications: a web resource for communications and engagement practitioners who work in ethnically and linguistically diverse communities.
anti-racism + solidarities resource collection
Our anti-racism + solidarities resource collection is an educational resource that helps engage a wide variety of those interested in topics of anti-racism and solidarity building across communities, especially including those who may not have previously had access to these kinds of learnings.
Reorienting Our Trauma: Community Resources
A document containing compiled resources for those reflecting on Reorienting Our Trauma program topics, recommending resources on learning about these frameworks, spaces to practice our learnings, and how to build strong supports among those we are already in community with.
The Grocery Delivery Program – Project Documentation / Resource Guide
The Grocery Delivery Program – Project Documentation / Resource Guide was created as a way to share the processes and reflections behind the development and operations of the Chinatown Cares Grocery Delivery Program.
Dried Goods Guide
To add clarity and context to what can be a murky understanding of the ingredients lining Chinatown’s storefronts, hua’s 2019 summer staff compiled an illustrated, annotated guide to dried goods typically sold in Chinatowns across North America.
Seasonal Choi Guide
Our free, multilingual Seasonal Choi Guide tells you which Chinese choi are grown in BC and when they’re in season. The Choi Guide features watercolour illustrations by Janice Wu.
A Walk with Kimberley Wong and Khelsilem
Watch Skwxwú7mesh and Chinatown leaders Khelsilem and Kimberley Wong as they walk and talk about parallels between their communities, reclaiming spaces, language revitalization, and racialization around shared ancestral spaces, including the neighbourhoods of Strathcona, Chinatown, and Kitsilano.
What does facilitation mean to us? Reflections from POC Youth
A resource guide sharing reflections on the future of facilitation, by and for racialized youth. The guide is a collection of reflections, explorations, and ongoing conversations about the practice of facilitation.
Vancouver Chinatown Social Cohesion Report
With a rapidly changing small business and food landscape in Vancouver’s Chinatown, the Vancouver Chinatown Social Cohesion Report measures the social cohesion between new and traditional businesses and their networks.
Chinatown Baked Goods Guide
Vancouver’s Chinatown is known, among many things, for its memorable variety of Cantonese baked goods and food. This guide, published in summer 2018, helps you navigate the neighbourhood’s many bakeries, including some of our favourites.
It’s a-BAO-t time!
A fun foldable guide for kids of all ages providing Cantonese pronunciations for some of our favourite treats in Chinatown.
Proportional Representation (Operation Mooncake)
In the fall of 2018, a group of young people from across the Asian diaspora came together to explore how to create culturally-relevant campaign resources for our community. The final product is a collection of culturally-relevant educational resources to educate community members about the benefits of electoral reform.
Vancouver Chinatown Food Security Report
The Vancouver Chinatown Food Security Report documents the loss of food retailers in Chinatown between 2009 to 2016 and demonstrates that cultural food assets are being lost at an alarmingly rapid rate.
Sprouting Choi Growing Guide
Hua farmers in the Lower Mainland have been part of a local and sustainable food movement since arriving in southwest BC in the 1800s. Inspired by this history, this guide outlines the basics of growing vegetables year-round using organic techniques and traditional methods used in southern China.