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Events
Supporting research, knowledge-sharing, and dialogue through meetings, conferences, and other events
The Foundation hosts events throughout the year with guest speakers from a variety of countries, sectors, organizations, and backgrounds who share their expertise on specific topics in roundtable settings. External meetings and conferences take place across the country and throughout Asia and range from small, invite-only meetings to large, public events.
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Upcoming Events
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November292024Partner Event
November 29: 1st Canada-ASEAN Energy Transition Summit
Nov 29, 2024, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. GMT+8
SingaporeNov 29, 2024, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. GMT+8
SingaporeWhere
Grand Hyatt Singapore, 10 Scotts Rd, Singapore 228211
Contact
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Grand Hyatt Singapore, 10 Scotts Rd, Singapore 228211 " options="['Apple','Google','iCal','Microsoft365','Outlook.com','Yahoo']" timeZone="America/Vancouver" trigger="click" inline listStyle="modal" iCalFileName="Reminder-Event" > The Canada-ASEAN Business Council (CABC) is hosting the first Canada-ASEAN Energy Transition Summit in Singapore, on November 29th, 2024.
By 2040, the Indo-Pacific will represent 50% of global GDP. Energy transition is a key consideration for this high-growth economic region to support rapidly growing electrification needs and to meet net-zero goals.
Canada offers world-leading energy solutions, resources, and technology. This high-impact, inaugural Summit will profile Canada’s role as the go-to partner to meet the region’s unique energy security and sustainability needs. This will also serve as a landmark initiative to establish the Canada-ASEAN energy transition partnership, which will generate value for the Canadian economy and create long-term commercial opportunities for its energy sector.
This Summit will provide a sought-after platform for exchanging insights, forging partnerships, and exploring bilateral investment opportunities. By convening senior stakeholders and decision-makers, sharing best practices, and exploring the immense investment potential Canada poses, this event will result in mutually beneficial economic outcomes and an acceleration of the energy transition on both sides.
Objectives:
- Establish Canada as a global leader and key partner to ASEAN in meeting the region’s unique energy security needs.
- Showcase Canada’s clean and renewable energy expertise, solutions, resources and R&D in nuclear energy, LNG, hydrogen/ammonia, CCUS, and more.
- Foster outcome-oriented dialogue between Canadian and Southeast Asian policymakers and businesses on how to form partnerships to advance the energy transition in the region.
- Raise awareness among multinational corporations and energy companies on the opportunities that Canada presents for energy investment.
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November292024APF Canada Event
November 29: Canada, Japan, and the Indo-Pacific with Ambassador Ian McKay
November 29, 2024, 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. PT
VancouverNovember 29, 2024, 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. PT
VancouverDowntown Vancouver (details to follow)
" options="['Apple','Google','iCal','Microsoft365','Outlook.com','Yahoo']" timeZone="America/Vancouver" trigger="click" inline listStyle="modal" iCalFileName="Reminder-Event" >In this discussion, Ambassador Ian McKay, Canada’s Ambassador to Japan and Special Envoy to the Indo-Pacific, will touch upon the current political dynamics in Japan and what they might mean for Canada-Japan relations.
Amb. McKay will also share his thoughts on the state of Canada’s Indo-Pacific engagement two years into Ottawa’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, as well as takeaways from his recent participation at last month’s ASEAN-Canada Special Summit in Vientiane, Laos and the recently concluded APEC Leaders’ Summit in Lima, Peru. Click here to register.
Recent Events
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November122024APF Canada Event
November 12: Ek Khaale (‘Once Upon a Time’): The Rohingya: A Visual Restoration
November 12, 2024 | 4:30-6 p.m. PT
(Light refreshments to follow)
VancouverNovember 12, 2024 | 4:30-6 p.m. PT
(Light refreshments to follow)
VancouverJoin us for an encore presentation of the acclaimed social justice project Ek Khaale with photojournalist Greg Constantine, who spent the past three years with the international Rohingya community to create this collaborative, co-participatory storytelling and visual restoration project.
Constantine will share microhistories, journeys, historical narratives, and other notes from the Ek Khaale project, which opened at Hart House at the University of Toronto and contributed to Rohingya and Burma-related events in Toronto, Ottawa, and online this October.
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Returning to the West Coast of Canada, Constantine will lead a presentation and discussion on this groundbreaking project at the Foundation’s offices in Vancouver.About the Project
For people in Myanmar, the Rohingya community’s history has been, at best, questioned, and at worst – and in reality – rejected outright. Much of the Rohingya’s visual history has been lost, confiscated, or destroyed during waves of violence, forced displacement, and genocide over the past 60 years. This destruction continues today. This has severely undermined ways in which the Rohingya preserve and share their collective memory, identity, and history with others.
In late 2021, several years after genocidal violence forced three-quarters of a million Rohingya into Bangladesh, the project Ek Khaale was launched by photojournalist Greg Constantine. Ek Khaale is the Rohingya expression for ‘Once Upon a Time.’ It is a collaborative, co-participatory storytelling and visual restoration project. It was launched in collaboration with Rohingya in refugee camps in Bangladesh, as well as those still living inside Burma, and among the diaspora in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Malaysia, and Europe.
Working with Rohingya youth and Rohingya elders, the project seeks out historical visual materials that Rohingya have miraculously preserved, secretly held on to all these years (often at great personal risk) or have salvaged and carried with them under the most unimaginable circumstances. Old photographs, family collections, documents, letters and illustrations contributed by Rohingya are combined with historical materials from a variety of public and private archives. These memories of family and evidence of historical existence as a community have been displaced and separated into pieces all over the world, just like the Rohingya community.
This project brings these materials and stories from the past back together again and activates them in the present. By exposing this unseen past, this project aims to share a visual portrait of the Rohingya most people have never seen before. It also challenges narratives and reconstructs what Burmese regimes and other communities have spent decades trying to destroy.
Constantine will talk about the history of this groundbreaking project and its significance for the Rohingya community, share several of the most important discoveries over the past three years, and discuss the stories behind them.
About Greg Constantine
Greg Constantine is an award-winning documentary photojournalist and author. He has dedicated his career to long-term, independent projects that explore the intersection of human rights, inequality, injustice, citizenship, identity, belonging and the power of the state. His long-term projects include Nowhere People, Exiled To Nowhere and Seven Doors. He is the author of three award-winning photography books, and his work has been exhibited in over 40 cities worldwide. Constantine has been documenting the persecution of the Rohingya community for the past 18 years. In 2021, a major exhibition of his work on the Rohingya genocide, titled Burma’s Path To Genocide, opened at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. For the past four years, he has been working with Rohingya on the Ek Khaale project.
Greg received his PhD from Middlesex University and most recently was an Early Career Fellow with the Independent Social Research Foundation and Queen Mary University in London.
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