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A Song That Makes You Want To Fall In Love

By: forourjxms August 26, 2018September 20, 2018
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“Right now on this earth, there’s just the two of us”

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@jaziimun

Itโ€™s a look ๐Ÿ‘€ #festivalday9 ๐Ÿ˜›
Snatching wonder between the frenetic festival rhythm. It is well.
I guess itโ€™s officially (the prettiest) winter at the 401 โ˜บ๏ธ
pre-festival. โ˜บ๏ธ
โ€œLook cool jasmine.โ€ *proceeds to close eyes by accident for the photo* ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ In other news, my barnacle turned 26 this past weekend. โ™ฅ๏ธ
#munreads micro-reviewโ€ผ๏ธ// Reading @annhuiwritesโ€™ Chop Suey Nation pre-festival and thoroughly enjoying this pacing, tone of voice, and balanced delivery of research, story and context. Alll the details!! All the attention and care to location, to food textures, to complex diasporic journeys and different positionalities animating the space of the โ€œChinese restaurantโ€. Highly recommend for anyone who wants a gentle, engaged push into one view of Chinese immigration histories here in Canada. Would also love to discuss the bookโ€™s framing methods with documentary filmmakers some time. Love it when literature crosses over with my work at @reelasian โ˜บ๏ธ //Tix for the Reel Asian Roundtable are almost sold out if not already, but Iโ€™d recommend rushing it!
philodendron.
On gratitude. On holding space and people. On hopes, dreams, pasts, presents, healings, feelings, bodies, moods, struggles, failures, disappointments, desires. Ya I do programming. But what is the real work. The elusive, untrackable, unquantifiable, invaluable, lifebuilding, tender work. On trust, affirmation, prophetic listening, vulnerability, radical creation and precarious, abundant joy. Who am I that this would be my work? On recognition. On a crown of little sounds and a road of little glories. On being prone to wander. On being loved just the same. โ€”โ€” All the feels about hitting 100%, and getting funding and being supported by such a vibrant, faithful, talented community. You are the futures I dream of. What an honour to be in relations with you.
I could. I wonโ€™t though.

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#jxmsMixtape: season transition โ˜€๏ธ๐Ÿ‚ dedicated to days of summer warmth becoming days of autumn breeze. one of our favourite mixtapes. listen at link in bio! - featuring @dalchong, @ayalkomod1974, @band_monni, @astrobunny_, @autumn_vacation, @nopartyforcaodong, @halfbasement9395, @juliawu94.
#SOTD: ์น˜์Šค๋น„์น˜ CSVC - Summer Love - A new 90โ€™s summer fresh song weโ€™ve all been waiting for.โ˜€๏ธFour indie female artists - Dalchong of CHEEZE, Stella Jang, Lovey, and Moon Chi - have joined together for a summer song so perfect in aesthetic of the 1st gen female Kpop groups, with added sweetness of their great vocals. - โ€œ๋‚˜์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฑธ ๋‹ค ๋„ˆ์—๊ฒŒ ์ค„๊ฒŒ i will give you all of me ์ € ํ‘ธ๋ฅธ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค์™€ ๋„ˆ๋งŒ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด as long as i have the blue ocean and youโ€ - ๐Ÿฌ Check it out at bit.ly/ourjxmsCSVC (link in bio)!
#jxmsMixtape: Notes for Breakfast โ˜•๏ธ Whether the morning is rainy, cloudy or sunny, whether the floor is cold to the feet or warm and sticky, whether you are refreshed and ready or still struggling through yesterdayโ€™s fatigue, we have a song for that. Take a listen at bit.ly/jxmsbreakfast (link in bio) - Featuring @standingegg, @decajoinstw, @peterpan_complex_official, Sue, @dalchong, and @sweetjohnofficial.
#SOTD: ็Žซ็‘ฐๅฐ‘ๅนด by ่”กไพๆž— / ้˜ฟไฟก. โ€œI love it when multiple versions of the same song emerge into the world. I love how both versions are deeply personal responses to tragedy and both calls to action and change in different ways. Itโ€™s one of the few times I look into the mainstream music scene and feel a deep sense of hope.โ€ - Read the full post! Link in bio โ˜๏ธ
#tbt2010 This was the year Hebe, the veritable goddess, began her solo career. This was also the year the folk duo Okdal debuted with a love letter to the days weโ€™ve felt the lowest. Soulful & lyrical hip hop was growing as Supreme Team reached its peak, while rappers like Soft Lipa gathered a loyal group of followers. - Check โ€˜em highlights out at link in bio ๐Ÿ‘
#SOTD: ์ƒˆ์†Œ๋…„ - ๊ธด ๊ฟˆ / Se So Neon - A Long Dream ๐Ÿ’ซ - After a thrilling debut in 2017, this alt rock band announced their last concert in December 2018 as the two male members had to go for their military service. The vocalist & guitarist @sleeep__sheeep went solo, until early this summer two new members joined to restart the band. - The title song that put them on the radar, โ€œ๊ธด ๊ฟˆโ€ also made everyone fall in love with So Yoonโ€™s husky voice. From xylophone beats to drum echoes, itโ€™s a surreal adventure through a long-winding lucid dream. - โ€œ์ˆ˜์ƒํ•œ ๋ฐค๋“ค์ด ๊ณ„์†๋˜๋˜ ๋‚  when mysterious nights continued ์–ธ์  ๊ฐ€๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ข€ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์กŒ๋‹ค suddenly, i began to change ๋น› ๋ฐ”๋ž˜๊ฐ„ ๋‚ด ์›ƒ์Œ์ด ๋ˆˆ์น˜ ์—†์ด ์‚์ ธ๋‚˜์˜ฌ ๋•Œ when my faded bright smile left me without a hintโ€ - Check out the song, including its fun music video by Japanese animator Hoji Tsuchiya at http://bit.ly/ourjxmsdream ๐ŸŒ
#AlbumReview: ้ญๅฆ‚่ฑ - ๆœซ่ทฏ็‹‚่Šฑ / waa wei - Run! Frantic Flowers! โ€” At once playful, brooding, gentle and mildly creepy, waa weiโ€™s approach to her music has always been to slip out of easy categories. The tracks have an Alice-in-Wonderland feel to them, where the fantastical, dream-like and real elements are a perfect blend of music. โ€” ๆˆ‘ๆ˜ฏๆฏ”่ผƒๅฑ้šช็š„่Šฑ ๆœซ่ทฏไธญ็š„ๅ„ช้›… I am a more dangerous flower, the grace on the road to the end ็Šฏ่ณคไธญ็š„็€Ÿ็‘ ็‹‚ๆญŒไธญ็š„้ฃ›่Šฑ the recklessness in indecisive regret, the flowers flying through the wildest songs ่ฝๅœจๅ“ชๅฐฑ็ถปๆ”พๅœจๅ“ช ๅ …ๆŒๅˆฐๆœ€ๅพŒ็š„็…™่Šฑ blooming wherever they land, fireworks holding out till the end โ€” Check out the full album review at https://bit.ly/2SUllMt (link in bio) ๐ŸŒบ๐ŸŒผ๐ŸŒธ
#SOTD: ้€ƒ่ท‘่จˆๅŠƒ - ้–ƒๅ…‰็š„ๅ›žๆ†ถ / Escape Plan - Shining Memories โ€” "่ขซ่ฒผไธŠโ€˜ๆ–ๆปพโ€™ๆจ™็ฑค็š„ๆจ‚้šŠ ๅช่ฆ่ฉฆๅœ–็”จๆบซๆŸ”็š„ๆ–นๅผๆŠตๆŠ—้€™ๅ€‹ไธ–็•Œ๏ผŒๅฐฑๆœƒ่ขซ่ฉ•่ซ–๏ผšโ€˜ไธๅค ๅ้ชจ๏ผŒไธๅค ๅ›้€†๏ผŒไธๅค ๆ–ๆปพ."โ€จโ€œFor bands and musicians that have been given the "rock' label, any attempt on their part to resist this world with gentleness invites the critique of "not opposing enough, notย rebellious enough, not rock enough.โ€ โ€” ้‚ฃๆ›พ็ถ“็š„ไธ็Ÿฅ็–ฒๅ€ฆ (The fatigue and helplessness you knew) ๆ€Žๅ ชๆŸด็ฑณ่Œถ่ˆ‡ๆ™‚้–“ ( How could it withstand banality and time) ๅฅง ๅนด่ฏ (Years on years) ๅ”ฏๆœ‰ไฝ ๆ›พๆ”€่ถŠ็š„ๅฑฑๅณฐ (Only the mountains you have climbed) ๅ’Œๆ›พ็ตฆไบˆ็š„ๅฏฌๅฎนๅœจ่จ˜ๆ†ถไธญ ้–ƒ้–ƒ็™ผๅ…‰ (And the grace you gave; in your memory; shine) ๆ€Žๅ ชๆŸด็ฑณ่Œถ่ˆ‡ๆ™‚้–“ ( How could it withstand banality and time) ๅฅง ๅนด่ฏ (Years on years) ๅ”ฏๆœ‰ไฝ ๆ›พๆ”€่ถŠ็š„ๅฑฑๅณฐ (Only the mountains you have climbed) ๅ’Œๆ›พ็ตฆไบˆ็š„ๅฏฌๅฎนๅœจ่จ˜ๆ†ถไธญ ้–ƒ้–ƒ็™ผๅ…‰ (And the grace you gave; in your memory; shine) โ€” Check out the song at https://bit.ly/30Orpsm โœจ - @jaziimun
#jxmsMixtape: Soup Noodles & Soy Milk ๐Ÿฅฃ For your calm days of solitude, slurping soup noodle and warm soy milk. A selection of lo-fi, acoustic and chill tunes by Yo Lee, Cham-Som, Linying, Minsu, Stefanie Sun and O.zic ๐ŸŽถ Check out the mixtape at link in bio! - (Photo: @real_chamsomโ€™s [๋ถ• Pt.3] cover by @toclamp)

@miraelxx

maybe iโ€™ve been too absorbed in โ€˜when camellia bloomsโ€™ and consuming too many k tv shows, but iโ€™ve been thinking about how i miss and find comfort in this countryโ€™s landscapes and how โ€˜์ • ๆƒ…โ€™ resonates in our interactions and seeps into the spaces we move. hereโ€™s a collection of photos i took during my visit last winter, when i learned that seoulโ€™s winter is as cold as torontoโ€™s autumn, feat. a pink balloon ๐ŸŽˆ the sight of hyundai blue trucks and the voice of my dadโ€™s car gps make me feel at home. - ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์˜ค๊ธฐ ์ „ ์•„์ฃผ ์–ด๋ ธ์„ ๋•Œ ๋ง๊ณ  ์˜ค๋žœ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ์‚ด์•„ ๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์—†์ง€๋งŒ ์ด์ƒํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋„ ํ•œ๊ตญ ํ’๊ฒฝ์ด ๋”์šฑ ์นœ๊ทผํ•˜๊ณ  ํŽธ์•ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Š๊ปด์ง„๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ์ญ‰ ์ž๋ž์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถˆ๋งŒ์ด ์ฐธ ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋งŒ์กฑ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ํ‰ํƒ„ํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ์žˆ๋˜ ์ ์ด ๋ณ„๋กœ ์—†๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋Œ€์ค‘๋งค์ฒด๋งŒ ์ ‘ํ•˜๋‚˜...๊ทผ๋ฐ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์ด ์—†์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๊ธ€๋„ ๋ชป ์ผ์„ ํ…๋ฐ...
It feels like just yesterday when I joined @nativeearthperformingarts and the first major task on my plate was Weesageechak Begins to Dance. I had no idea what I was getting into, let alone what theatre and dance were (Iโ€™m still learning). - Iโ€™m now heading into my third Weesageechak (and my last) with more control, understanding and excitement. This festival line-up promises to fill you with stories (and truths) youโ€™ve never heard before, stories thatโ€™ll keep you laughing, and stories thatโ€™ll linger in your mind and heart for awhile. - I believe art is the best tool/platform/mediator to listen, learn and support. So why not see some good contemporary Indigenous performance? Opening next Wednesday. November 13-23. (These brochures are designed by Harley Haskett)
one autumn day. our last moments to be filled with beautiful warm colours until next time. but iโ€™ll still be here until the end of fallen leaves and remain unhappy that he gets to be in the heat first. - โ€œ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ํ–‡์‚ด ๊ฐ€๋“ ๋ˆˆ๋ถ€์‹œ๊ฒŒ ๋น„์ณ์˜ค๊ณ  ์„œ๋Š˜ํ•œ ๋ƒ‰๊ธฐ์— ์žฌ์ฑ„๊ธฐํ• ๊นŒ ๋ง๊นŒโ€ (์•„์ด์œ ) - โ€œ๊ฐ€์„์ด๋ž€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ์•Œ๊ณ  ๋ณด๋ฉด ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋ณด๋‹ค ํฌ๊ทผํ•œ ์œ„๋กœ์˜ ๊ณ„์ ˆโ€ (๋‹ด์†Œ๋„ค๊ณต๋ฐฉ) - โ€œ๋‚ด ๊ฐ€์„์˜ท ํ•˜๋‚˜์”ฉ ๊บผ๋‚ด ์ข€๋งŒ ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด ๋ชป ์ž…์„ ์˜ท ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ ๊ธ‰ํ•œ ๊ฒจ์šธ์ด ๋‘ํˆผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฎ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์— ... ์—ฐ ๋ธŒ๋ผ์šด์ด ์ง™์–ด์งˆ ์ฏค ๋ฌด๋ฅด์ต๋˜ ๋‘ ์ž…์ˆ  ๋บจ์„ ์ง€๋‚˜ ๋„ˆ์˜ ๋‹ˆํŠธ์— ์–ผ๊ตด ๋ฌป๋˜ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ฐ€์„๋ฐค์ด์—ฌโ€ (์œค์ข…์‹ )
When I met up with @jaziimun on the summer of 2016 over bubble tea (of course), I had no idea what I was signing up for, let alone what community arts meant. Being overly awkward and presenting an overly enthusiastic persona on @projectx40c social media, I began to slowly open up as I met, talked, and listened to numerous artists, creators, creatives, art enthusiasts and supporters of all kinds. (More to come in two months.) - The space that @projectx40c has created has been incredibly important for me โ€” a community where I felt welcomed, and hopefully where many other folks also feel welcomed โ€” where they feel like their stories and art can be shared and heard. - We are in the second half of our final year โ€” the Inheritance Year. Recently the PC government cut arts funding, and like many folks, we have been left with no significant funding. We have many projects planned to end off our five year adventure and we need your support. - ๐ŸŒฑChoose a cute herb or spice (drawn with love by me), and be part of our exciting journey. Link in bio.
the arrival of the sweater weather means the time is nearing rather fast. itโ€™s been living inside me for awhile and iโ€™ve slowly been sharing to a close few. but with a little more than two months left, i guess i really need to tell myself itโ€™s happening. iโ€™m moving to singapore this december to pursue my masters and challenge a new life. iโ€™ve been wanting to escape and branch myself to asia. the stillness and familiarity i feel towards this city had begun to make me anxious. ์–ธ์ œ๋ถ€ํ„ด๊ฐ€ ์ด ๋„์‹œ์— ์•ˆ์ •๊ฐ์ด ์ƒ๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ ๋‹ต๋‹ตํ•ด์ง€๊ณ  ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค. ์•„์ง ์ Š์€๋ฐ ํ•˜๊ณ ์‹ถ์€๊ฒƒ๋„ ๋งŽ์€๋ฐ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ๊ณ„์† ๋จธ๋ฌด๋ฅด๋ฉด ์–ด๋””์—๋„ ๋ชป ๊ฐˆ๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค. the process since getting accepted has been nerve-racking and heart trembling, and filled with lots of worrying. (my heart also flutters at the idea that my family who i have been an ocean away for seventeen years, will only be a day ride from toronto to vancouver.) i canโ€™t thank jasmine, abby, jing, justin and gihee enough, and will definitely be due much more gratitude once december comes. the sweater weather also means a hectic theatre festival season and actually having to accomplish the list of things to do. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ํ–ฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชฉํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜๋„ ์„ค๋ ˆ๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์•Š์•„์„œ ๋ฒŒ์จ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ชจ๋“  ์˜์š•์ด ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง€๊ณ  ๋‚˜์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ์—ฌ๊ธธ ๋– ๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ํ›„ํšŒ์—†์ด ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—์„œ ๋‚จ์€ ๋ฐ”์œ ๋‘ ๋‹ฌ์„ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ํ•ด๋‚ด์•ผ ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ ๊ฐ€์ง์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. - photo by abby from our trip to singapore last year, which was part of the catalyst to this decision.
love these two ๐Ÿ’• such a delight to have worked with them to make their first exhibition come alive! @projectx40c #wearwecamefrom
From the Opening Night of โ€œWear We Came Fromโ€ exhibitionโœจPeople looking at the photos taken by @in.step.with.steph, and listening to/reading the interview conducted and edited by @izzayd. Featuring stories of migration, familial history, tradition, belonging, and identity of ten individuals which are stored within clothing and accessories. Up until September 20th at Crimson Teas! Thank you to everyone who stopped by so far and shared kind words! - Photos taken by @jingdraws. @projectx40c #wearwecamefrom
an august ending in the ontario tranquility - โ€œ์ผ์š”์ผ ์•„์นจ์˜ ๊ฒŒ์œผ๋ฅธ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์†์—์„œ, โ€˜์–ธ์ œ์˜€๋”๋ผ! ๊ทธ๋•Œ ์ฐธ ์ข‹์•˜์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐโ€™ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ €์ ˆ๋กœ ๋– ์˜ค๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ธฐ์–ต๋“ค, ๊ทธ ๊ธฐ์–ต๋“ค ์†์—์„œ ๊ทผ์‹ฌ์€ ํž˜์„ ์žƒ๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง„๋‹ค. ํ˜„์‹ค์˜ ์†๋ฐ•๋“ค๋„ ์ž ์‹œ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง„๋‹ค. ์กธ์Œ ์†์—์„œ ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ํ•œ๋‹ค...์‹œ๋“ค์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์›€์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ธฐ์จ์„ ๋ˆ„๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐˆ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.โ€œ - ์ •ํ˜œ์œค <์ธ์ƒ์˜ ์ผ์š”์ผ๋“ค>
endless fields of peace interrupted by sounds of crickets while i pranced around with my wool blanket wings // ๋‹ต๋‹ตํ•œ ๋„์‹œ์—์„œ ํ‰์˜จํ•œ ์ž์—ฐ ์†์œผ๋กœ ๋†€๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ง‘์€ ํ•˜๋Š˜ ์•„๋ž˜ ์ž์œ ๋กœ์šด ํ’๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ๋งค๋ฏธ์™€ ๊ท€๋šœ๋ผ๋ฏธ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜๋„ ์‹ ๋‚˜ ๋‚˜๋ฐฉ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‹ค๋…”๋‹ค.
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