CSAA has organized several themed fund raising events. The events had silent auctions and live auctions of Asian art objects, games, banquets, raffles, and other activities.
40th Anniversary Celebration Event
Saturday November 14, 2009 6:30pm
Seasons in the Park Restaurant, Vancouver, B.C. Canada
The event featured Asian fusion music by Isshin Denshin Atmospheric Ensemble, special event The Enchantment of Poetry, Painting and Calligraphy by Dr. Jan Walls and Yuk Man Lai, and auctions.
Photographs
Live Auction Items
Contemporary Silk Carpet, 1995
Leshan Lejia Carpet Co. Ltd, Sichuan, China
This Carpet was featured in CSAA’s China Applied Arts Exhibition 1995
Donated by Sam Carter
A Vanished Beijing Courtyard Gate
Weizhi Zhang
Watercolour, 2009
16 x 20 in. image
25 x 31 in. framed
Weizhi Zhang is a Beijing based watercolour artist. He has been capturing the vanishing historical courtyard gates on his watercolour canvases since 2001.
Beijing quadrangle courtyards are the most elaborate examples of Chinese vernacular dwelling. Their ethnological character and variations of style, along with their delicate but powerful decorative elements, are of significant historic value and cultural meaning.
Book:
Decoded Messages – The Symbolic Language of Chinese Animal Painting by Hou-Mei Sung
Yale University Press 2009
Donated by Andrea Davies, Hager Books Inc. Vancouver
Mountains, Pine and Moon
Wang, Lipeng (scholar, publisher on Chinese aesthetics)
Ink on paper
19 x 16.5 in. image
28.5 x 22.5 in. framed
Untitled (Treescapes)
Lawrence Lowe
Original ink drawing, 2009
8 x 6 in. image
17 x 13 in. framed
Lawrance Lowe is a practicing artist in Vancouver, B.C. Canada, graduated from Emily Carr College of Art + Design in Print Media and has taught Print Media extensively throughout British Columbia. He has exhibited in solo and group shows and has work in private and national exhibitions. He is known for his drawings of trees and has completed a series of drawings and prints of the South False Creek area of Vancouver, with a major focus on the Burrard and Granville Street bridges.
Event Chair: Rodney Ward
2008 Spirits of Asia: The Heart of a Child
November 15, 2008
Hycroft Mansion, Vancouver
2007 An Evening of Masks
November 9, 2007
Hycroft Mansion, Vancouver
The event commemorated the gift to the CSAA of a significant collection of masks from around the world and, in particular, a collection of wonderful Asian masks. Gala proceeds support the Society’s annual programs, including preparation of an exceptional traveling exhibition of maks to other museums and exhibition centres in British Columbia and across Canada.
2006 Reflections of Asia
Friday, November 24, 2006
Spicy Court Chinese Restaurant, Vancouver
Featuring Gary Anderson, world traveler, speaker, and photographer
with a slide presentation on Travels in North Korea.
2002 Seductions of Asia
More information coming soon.
2001 Treasures from the Silk Road
More information coming soon.
1999 Mood Indigo
More information coming soon.
1998 Cobalt and Indigo
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