Attend a film screening event co-presented by the Miao Collective with the Critical Media Club. The events will feature the work of three Asian women filmmakers and will be coupled with some hearty soups made by community chefs.

On October 28th, we will screen the Singaporean artist Shirley Soh’s Remember, to Eat (2019) and Montreal-based Chinese Malaysian Canadian filmmaker Emily Gan’s Cavebirds (2019). Shirley asked the elderly residents of Telok Blangah: what recipe do you want to be remembered by, while Emily followed her father’s 10-year journey building the birdnest factory in Malaysia. Emily will be present in the lab for a Q&A session after the screening.

This is a free event opening to everyone. The soup/ food will be prepared by our community chefs, and will be served on a first-come-first-serve basis. We look forward to welcoming you at the critical media lab, sharing soup moments, and creating more memories together. 

Shirley Soh began her art practice with ceramics but soon expanded her interests into agriculture, food, the environment, and sustainability. Influenced by Buddhist practices, she explores the relationship between the external world and the inner self. Her projects have included working with migrant workers, women prisoners, community cooking, and meditation.

Emily Gan, a filmmaker, photographer, and yoga instructor from Montréal, focuses on themes of home and diaspora. She won the Emerging Canadian Filmmaker Award at Hot Docs 2019 for her documentary *Cavebirds* and co-directed the film *Pink Lake* in 2020. She is currently working on new film projects.