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An interview with Jimmy Chan about his Saving Chinatown documentary series. The magazine highlights his more than two decades of volunteer work in the Chinese community, including gathering community members to march in Montreal's Canada Day Parade and represent all proud Chinese Canadians.
The festival's 5th edition at Sun Yat-sen Place brings Asian, African, Caribbean and other communities together for Asian Heritage Month. Jimmy Chan, president and organizer of the Montreal Chinatown Multicultural Festival: “Drumming represents unity.”
Crowds line Chinatown's sidewalks for the Lunar New Year parade. Jimmy Chan, president of the Montreal Chan Lion Dance Club, explains a cultural tradition more than 3,000 years old.
The Drum for Unity festival celebrates rhythm, inclusion and diversity. Founder and organizer Jimmy Chan: “Chinatown is for everybody.”
At Chinatown Day, Jimmy Chan, Chinese committee leader and president of the Chan association, speaks about the neighbourhood's more than 100 years of history and the ancestors who paved the way.
Jimmy Chan launches the city's first multicultural drumming event to bring communities together: “drum for friendship, drum for world peace, drum against racism.”
In a Diverse City segment, Jimmy Chan, community leader and organizer of Chinese New Year celebrations in Chinatown, shares his family's traditions.
Jimmy Chan, founder of the Montreal Chan Lion Dance Club, brings traditional lion dancing back to Chinatown after the pandemic pause, explaining an art form that dates back 5,000 years.
La Presse Chinoise covers Jimmy Chan leading the Chinese community in the 2019 Canada Day Parade, organizing a large group of drummers for the Montreal Canada Day Drumming Celebration, and his Phoenix Warriors team winning gold in the Montreal Challenge 2000 m dragon boat race.