Kids Take Over the Chung | Lind Gallery at UBC Library

Explore the magic of the Nitobe Memorial Garden, the Asian Library, and the Chung | Lind Gallery by connecting to Asian culture through activities and adventures at all sites.  

At the Chung | Lind Gallery, experience two unique collections of historical materials. Focusing on intersecting themes of immigration, transportation networks, settler-colonialism, and resource extraction, the photographs, rare books, journals, diaries, maps, posters, and more within these collections each played an important role in shaping the history of British Columbia and Canada.

The Chinese Canadian Museum and the Chung | Lind Gallery invites kids and families to enjoy the Gallery space through a scavenger hunt, activity books, and kids-focused tours. Artist Stella Zheng will also host a facilitated art workshop for participants.

Event Details:

• Date: Sunday, February 16, 2025

• Location: Chung | Lind Gallery (University of British Columbia, Irving K Barber Learning Centre 2F, 1961 East Mall)

• Time: 10 A.M. – 4 P.M. (Drop-in Workshop: 11 A.M. – 2 P.M.)

• Cost: $7-20/ticket
  * GST not included

• Register: Registration link here (via UBC) [SOLD OUT - Waitlist Only]

Workshop Description:

Learn the basics of zine-making! Artist Stella Zheng will guide participants through the folds and cuts used to create your own zine during this drop-in, all-ages workshop. Each zine contains illustrations of objects in the Chung Collection with questions that can be answered through a scavenger hunt of the Gallery. After answering all the questions, personalize your zine by colouring the illustrations! This drop-in activity is available all day, with artist support from Stella only from 11 A.M. – 2 P.M.

About the Chung | Lind Gallery:

Beginning in 1848, the rush for gold prompted large migrations of people to western North America. As miners chased the ever-elusive El Dorado, or “Gold Mountain” 金山, they carried more than their gold pans—they also brought their diverse cultures and outlooks.

The Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection and Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush Collection underscore the contested perspectives that shaped this tumultuous time, and reflect the settler-colonial expansion, transnational trade, and economic development that followed. Throughout this period, people of disparate backgrounds interacted with, and adapted to, each other. As the collections show, many of these encounters resulted in conflict, discrimination, and settler dispossession of Indigenous nations—yet others led to accommodation and cross-cultural collaboration.

Within this context, the Chung and Lind collections recognize the vast human and natural costs of migration and development, while celebrating the remarkable contributions and experiences of the individuals whose lives are echoed here.

We invite you to explore the histories represented in these collections, and consider the ongoing relationship between past perspectives and life today.