DAVID NG
Portfolio
Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny
Yellow Peril: The Celestial Elements
Yellow Peril: Queer Futures
House of 9 Dragons
Hot Pot Talks
The Sound of You Collapsing
Comrade(ry)
Preserving Legacies
Elements Unite
Channeling the Elements

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David Ng


Education
PhD (Candidate) University of British Columbia. Social Justice Institute (2018 - present)
MSocSc University of Cape Town. African Gender Institute (2012) 
BSocSc (hon) University of Cape Town. Major in Gender and Transformation. African Gender Institute (2011)
BSocSc Simon Fraser University. Major in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. (2009)

Select Awards
2021. Audience Choice Award at the Seattle Asian Film festival (for “Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny”) 
2019. Gary Brunet Memorial Award for “Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny” - An annual award celebrating best BC film at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival
2016. City of Vancouver Award of Excellence for Diversity and Inclusion (2016)

Films

2024. “Honouring queer and non-binary lives through Drag” (12:22 min)
2024. “Honouring Our Grandmothers Healing Journey” (4:54 min)
2024. “Elements Unite” (8:08 min)
2024. “Preserving Legacies: The Lim Sai Hor Kow Mock Association - Community, Heritage, Family” (6:44 min)
2022. “Yellow Peril: Queer Futures” (11:48 min)
2022. “What If?” (13:50 min) Co-produced and co-directed by Frank Theatre Company & Love Intersections

2019. “Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny” (20:44 min)
  • Exhibited at FilmPride - Brighton & Hove Pride LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, 2023
  • Exhibited at Faroe Islands Film Festival for Minorities, Faroe Islands, 2022
  • Exhibited at Taiwan International Queer Film Festival, Seattle, 2022
  • Exhibit at the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival 2021
  • Exhibit at Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival (Tunis, Tunisia) 2020
  • Exhibited at Local Sightings Film Festival, Seattle, 2023
  • Exhibited at Seattle Asian Film Festival, Seattle, 2023
  • Exhibit at WICKED Boston Queer Film Festival 2020
  • Exhibited at FilmPride - Brighton & Hove Pride LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, 2020
  • Exhibit at KASHISH Pride Film Festival, Mumbai, 2020
  • Exhibit at CinemaQ, Shanghai 2020
  • Exhibit at LGBTQ+ Toronto Film Festival 2020
  • Exhibit at Scottish Queer International Film Festival, Washington, 2020
  • Exhibit at the Leeds Queer Film Festival 2020
  • Exhibit at the Boston Wicked Queer Film Festival 2020
  • Exhibit at Divine Film Festival, Turin, Italy 2020
  • Exhibit at Los Angeles Queer Film Festival 2020
  • Exhibit at Lebanese Independent Film Festival 2020
  • Exhibit at DIGO – Goiás, Sexual Diversity and Gender International Film Festival, Brazil, 2020
  • Exhibit at Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2020
  • Exhibit at PRIDE Queer Film Festival, Washington, 2020
  • Exhibit at RapidLion South African International Film Festival 2020
  • World Premiere at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2019 
  • Exhibit at Ichalkaranji International Short Film Festival 2019
  • Exhibit at Los Angeles Asian Film Festival 2019
  • Exhibit at Aesthetica Short Film festival (BAFTA Qualifying), UK, 2019
  • Exhibit at Leeds International Film Festival (Academy Award and BAFTA Qualifying), Leeds, UK, 2019
  • Exhibit at the AKS festival for minorities, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019
  • Exhibit at the International Queer and Migrant Film Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2019

2018. “Finding Untold Queer Stories” (6 episode series)
  • World Premiere at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2018 
  • Exhibit at CinemaQ in Shanghai, China, 2019
  • Exhibit at Divine Queer Film Festival, Turin, Italy, 2019
  • Exhibit at LGBTQ Shorts Film Festival, Massachusetts, 2019

2018. “Loving Our Language: Pride in Disability Culture” (5:39 min)
  • World Premiere at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2018
  • Exhibited at KANSAI queer film festival in Osaka and Kyoto 2018
  • Exhibited at the Divine queer film festival in Torino, Italy, 2019
  • Exhibited at the KASHISH international queer film festival in Mumbai, India, 2019
  • Exhibit at CinemaQ in Shanghai, China, 2019 
  • Exhibit at :GBTQ Shorts Film Festival, Massachusetts, 2019

2016. “10,579km: A Queer Journey from Damascus to Vancouver” (9:50 min)
  • World Premiere at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2016
  • Exhibited at Filmfest homochrom Dortmund, Cologne, Germany 2016
  • Exhibited at The International Queer and Migrant Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands 2016
  • Exhibited at the Queer Minorities Film Festival in Vienna, Austria 2016
  • Exhibited at the AKS Film Festival for Minorities in Pakistan in 2016

2015. “Regalia: Pride in Two Spirits” (5:20 min)  
  • World Premiere at the Vancouver International Queer Film Festival 2015
  • Exhibited at REEL Pride: Winnipeg Queer Film Festival 2015
  • Exhibited at Image+Nation: Montreal Gay Bi Trans film festival 2015
  • Exhibited at the Calgary Queer Film Festival in 2016
  • Exhibited at the Indigenous Perspectives Society Festival
  • Exhibited at Pitos Waskochepayis Two Spirit Indigenous Film Festival, Prince Albert, Sasketchewan in 2016
  • Exhibited at the Sasketchewan Queer Film Festival in 2016
  • Exhibited at the Scotland Queer Film Festival, Glasgow, Scotland in 2016
  • Exhibited at the Reel Art Film Festival, Campbell River, British Columbia, in 2016
  • Exhibited at Outburst International Film Festival, Northern Ireland, in 2016
  • Exhibited at the AKS Film Festival for Minorities in Pakistan in 2016
  • Official Selection at the Heart of the City Film Festival in Vancouver, in 2016
  • Exhibited at Science World, Bodies Exhibit in 2018
  • Exhibited at Queerly Beloved, London, UK, in 2018
  • Exhibited at Leeds Queer Film Festival, UK in 2019
  • Exhibited at FilmPride - Brighton & Hove Pride LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, 2023

2015. Carla and Hayfa (8:54 min)
  • World Premiere at the Vancouver International Queer Film Festival 2015
  • Exhibited at the Queer Women of Colour Film Festival in 2016
  • Exhibited at the AKS Film Festival for Minorities in Pakistan in 2016
  • Exhibited at Leeds Queer Film Festival, UK in 2019

2015. Amar: Deaf is an Identity 
  • World Premiere at the Vancouver International Queer Film Festival 2015
  • Exhibited at KASHISH: Mumbai International Queer Film Festival in 2016
  • Exhibited at KASHISH Forward at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 2016
  • Exhibited at True Colors Festival in 2016
  • Exhibited at Voiceless International Film Festival California in 2016
  • Exhibited at We Care Disability Film Festival in 2016
  • Exhibited at the Calgary Queer Film Festival in 2016
  • Exhibited at Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival in 2016
  • Exhibited at the AKS Film Festival for Minorities Festival in Pakistan in 2016
  • Exhibited at the East End film festival in London, UK in 2017

2015. The Ceremony of Tea - Exhibited at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival 2015 (Vancouver International Film Centre)

2008.  Drag - Exhibited at Simon Fraser University

Visual Arts
2020. Comrade(ry)
2020. Performing Ceremony Amidst a Yellow Peril
2019 Medicine pieces

Group exhibitions:
2025. House of 9 Dragons: Histories of Chinese Labour, collaboration with Sylvan Hamburger, Jen Sungshine, and the Lim Sai Hor Kow Mock Benevolent Association (Workers Arts & Heritage Centre Gallery)
2023. In Search of Queertopias, curated by Nate Clark. Or Gallery (Vancouver)
2023. ‘13 Moons Around the Lake’, curated by Nadine Spence
2023. Bitten Peach by the Asian Arts and Culture Trust (AACT) 
2023. In Search of Queertopias, curated by Nate Clark. Or Gallery (Vancouver)
2021. Love Intersections film screening at the Museum of Anthropology Pride screenings 
2022. Vancouver Pavillion, collaboration with Maiden China, Jen Sungshine, Shira Anisman, and River 
Ironeagle, at the Chinatown Biennale
2020. Yellow Peril; The Celestial Elements co-curated by David Ng and Jen Sungshine
2019. The Haunting of Hulijing at the Queer Arts Festival, curated by Jonny Sopotiuk
2018. Queering The Five Elements at the Queer Arts Festival, curated by Elwood Jimmy

Creative Projects:
2018 - 2023 Cultivating Kin: Decolonizing Canadian Art System
Hot Pot Talks Video Podcast series (2021 - present)

Curatorial work
2023. Transformative Memory Network International Traveling exhibit (Uganda, Northern Ireland, Indonesia, Canada)
2022. Bitter Orientals: Yellow Peril Unmasked (Hybrid online and site specific, mixed media installation)
2022. House of 9 Dragons (Site specific installation in Vancouver’s Chinatown)
2023. House of 9 Dragons: Community, Family, Heritage (Massy Gallery, Vancouver)
2020-2023.  A Window in Chinatown (A public art series in Vancouver’s Chinatown)

Artistic Publications:
2020. Ng, David. “Open Justice” in Canadian Art. May 2020. 
2020. Ng, David, Sungshine, Jen, & Yan Kendell. Yellow Peril: Imagining East Asian Futures in the West. Sticky Rice Magazine. https://stickyrice-magazine.com/Volume02-Yellow-Peril-Imagining-East-Asian-futures-in-the-West

Reviews and Media
2022. Artists hosting hot pot dinner party to help restore historic Vancouver Chinatown building, CBC News.  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lim-association-fundraiser-1.6043189
2021. What the Pandemic Means for Chinese Canadian Art Communities, Henry Heng Lu, Canadian Art https://canadianart.ca/features/what-the-pandemic-means-for-chinese-canadian-art-communities/
2018: Why you should watch Love Intersections, Vancouver Magazine. https://www.vanmag.com/city/arts-and-culture/watch-love-intersections-short-film-series/
2019. Love Intersections aims to present documentary narratives of queer folks not normally seen in mainstream coverage. Georgia Straight.
https://www.straight.com/life/1278266/love-intersections-aims-present-documentary-narratives-queer-folks-not-normally-seen
2019. Interview with Filmmakers Love Intersections, Ricepaper Magazine https://ricepapermagazine.ca/2019/08/interview-with-filmmakers-love-intersections/
2017. Love Intersections. Amerasia Journal community feature.

Speaking Engagements
2022, “Decolonizing Dialogues: Building IBPOC solidarity” UBC Global Lounge. 
2022, 2021. "Power & Art: An Engagement With Social Justice." guest lecture presentation for Adler University’s Social Justice Practicum program.
2022. Hot Pot Talks ft. Jane Wong. Richmond Art Gallery.
2022, 2020. “Yellow Peril: Artistic Interventions on Anti-Asian racism” presentation for Race Politics and Critical Perspectives at Emily Carr University for Art and Design
2021, “Imperfect Constellations” panel presentation at Wordlings Conference, Griffin Art Projects.
2021, “Building an Economy for All” panel presentation at High Ground Conference Columbian Institute. 
2021, 2020. “Finding community, Finding family, Feeling heard: A workshop on gender, culture, and intersectionality in mental health.” Mental Training on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for the Richmond Mental Health Authority.
2021. “Art and Social Justice in Communities” presentation for Artivism at the University of British Columbia 
2021. “Queer Asian Resilience” International Day Against Homophobia Presentation for Lululemon  Corporation 
2021. “Love Intersections: Building Communities towards Social Justice'' presentation for Global Citizenship program at the University of Calgary. 
2021. “Decolonizing the arts” at the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival. 
2021, 2020, 2019. “Yellow Peril: Grassroots Cultural Engagement for Social Transformation” presentation for GRSJ 501 Feminist Research Methods, at the University of British Columbia.
2021, 2020, 2019. “Love Intersections: Finding Untold Queer Stories” presentation at the United Churches of Langley 
2020 “Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny - queer East Asian cultural production in Vancouver” presentation for ENGL 490 Literary and Social Movements in China, Hong Kong, and the Transpacific at the University of British Columbia 
2020. “Love Intersections: Intersectionality, Social Justice, and Art Making” presentation for University of British Columbia Pride Committee. 
2020, 2019. “Through the Lens: Finding Artful Activism at the Intersection of Race and Sexuality” presentation for the Office for Equity and Inclusion at the University of British Columbia 
2019,  Speaking in Tongues panel discussion at Centre A Gallery with Haruko Okano, Grace Eiko Thomson, Dalannah Bowen on diaspora, migration, relationships to mother tongue, and impacts of colonization
2019. “Love Intersections: Queer East Asian Cultural Explorations through Art” presentation for ACAM 250 Asian Canadians in Popular Culture, at the University of British Columbia
2019. “Love Intersections: Intersectional social justice in community” presentation for the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Inclusive Education guest lecture
2018, 2017, 2016. “Love Intersections: queer East Asian cultural explorations through art” presentation for Sociology 369 Sociology of Sexualities, at the University of British Columbia.
2017 “Community Outreach, Community Justice” presentation at Primary Colours: Decolonizing the arts. Victoria, Canada.
2016, 2017, 2018. “Transforming Equity in the Theatre Community” panel presentation on diversity and Inclusion at the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance. 

Art Residencies
2018. Primary Colours Decolonizing the arts residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
2018 Vancouver Queer Film Festival Artist in Residence

Other Works
2023. The Sound of You Collapsing (short film directed by Rylan Friday, co-produced by David Ng and Jen Sungshine)
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