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Inbetween work contracts, I was selected to be a fellow as part of an online arts fellowship alongside 12 emerging/established artists, and 9 other youth artists. We were supported by care doulas and I was grateful for some mentoring and to share space with deeply kind humans.

If anyone wants to hear my perspectives or love to talk more about queer parenting and family-making, mental health, healing and parenting; culture and parenting etc.-- I'd love to.

The format of my project was a zine but for now it's available on a website. I hope you enjoy it! 🍓

https://artspond.com/2026/02/09/13-futures-for-care-in-ontario/

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One of my prints was selected-- Gingko Leaf Impressions was selected as part of this Juried Exhibition at definitely superior art gallery.

Title: Gingko leaf impressions

Medium: Original block-print carving and acrylic paint

Size: 8.5 x 11 Year: 2025

Last year, my aunt Lily continued a battle with cancer which she survived previously. She died quietly, with support and love of close friends and family. I visited her in hospital and when she was transferred to Yee Hong Peter K. Kwok Hospice in Scarborough. In between these moments of being present with her, with family, and her friends-- I walked grocery stores, neighborhoods, reading, and sketching. On a walk, I came across a gingko tree and picked up and pressed two gingko leaves in my sketchbook. As part of processing grief, I made a carving to experiment printing impressions of this beautiful tree that is part of traditional Chinese medicine- a helper for remembering, learning, and representing resilience. Shamans would carve on the wood of gingko to communicate with the spirit world. Gingko trees demonstrate new growth, despite facing atomic bomb radiation.

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An Unofficial Guide to Caring for a Young Person Who Uses Substances

A few details of the illustrations I was invited to create recently. Please check out this incredicle resource Parents Like Us: An Unofficial Guide to Caring for a Young Person Who Uses Substances created by parents, caregivers, youth and families, artists including @ckajorin @mindful_makers_collective @ardelleshegotaway @creactioncollective and various supportive community partners on the @tbdhealthunit website. Connected to an organization? You can order 10 free print copies. You are not alone ❤️🍓Healing is non-linear. Your hurts that you carry deserve tending and care. https://www.tbdhu.com/parentslikeus

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VIDEO: Youth in Solidarity Against Racism and Hate Project reveal art mural

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Roadshow Northern Tour teaching about sexual assault on display in Thunder Bay

Award-winning filmmaker Michelle Derosier and Full Moon Memory Walk organizer Sharon Johnson are looking forward to hosting the Sexual Assau

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REBUILDING THE CIRCLE — CO. LAB Gallery & Arts Centre

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Every moment change is available around me.

I am ready to open to the weather.

When I rest, my bones fold up compact and my skin is like a fish.

When I open, I care for those that need relief from the hot sun or cool rain. It's time.

Underneath me are many footsteps. The people are gathered. From light -- a rainbow is revealed.

Spinning, playful expression. The air is electric with song, and bodies readying for collective movement.

In this periphery my offering is protection.

A step forward, another and another.

In front, behind, beside me -- we walk together.

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A little poem I wrote in the Seeds of Stories workshop, facilitated by Elizabeth Hill and Lorrina Belluz during the Mindful Makers Collective spring season. Thank you Carol Kajorinne for bringing together folks!

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Listen to the most recent episode of my podcast: Yum Cha Everyone - We Resist. We Persist. We Love. https://anchor.fm/yumchaeveryone/episodes/Yum-Cha-Everyone---We-Resist--We-Persist--We-Love-e26idqa

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Listen to the most recent episode of my podcast: Yum Cha Everyone - We Resist. We Persist. We Love. https://anchor.fm/yumchaeveryone/episodes/Yum-Cha-Everyone---We-Resist--We-Persist--We-Love-e26idqa

Yum Cha Everyone - We Resist. We Persist. We Love. by Yum Cha Everyone

This episode of Yum-cha dai-ga - 飲茶大家 (let's have tea/dim-sum together) features advice and affirmations for tender baby queers, our younger

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Places and Faces: Gathering Older Adults' Stories of Connecting, Belonging, Placemaking in Thunder Bay - Thunder Bay Museum

https://vimeo.com/showcase/10284235 This series of eight digital video stories was created through the 2023 Places & Faces project. The Thunder Bay Museum and Age BIG hosted a digital storytelling workshop in December 2022, made possible through support from the Government of Ontario. Together, eight older adult storytellers gathered to write, record…

Congratulations to my dad, Lloyd Chung for participating in a unique digital storytelling project!

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Storytelling Through Podcasting with Jayal Chung — mindful makers

This workshop will be an intergenerational conversation. A cantonese expression 'the heart knows, the stomach understands' and engaging the

Thankyou mindful makers & Ontario Arts Council!

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Episode Twelve: We Grow Up 長大 by Yum Cha Everyone

On episode 12 of Yum-cha dai-ga - 飲茶大家 (let's have tea/dim-sum together) I made a new friend named TG Wong. We chat in Cantonese and English

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On episode 11 of Yum-cha dai-ga - 飲茶大家 (let's have tea/dim-sum together) I explore a Cantonese phrase 心知肚明 sam1 zi1 tou5 ming4 (the heart knows, the stomach understands). The conversation starts with my parents. Then with curiosity and care, I invited people of differing levels of closeness and intimacy to respond.

You will hear from my parents, Carly Forbes, Céline Mundinger, Sheila Wilson, Lora Northway, Cornelius Beaver, and Ma-Nee Chacaby. Plus, the lil' baby with a big voice.

Stay tuned for a followup episode that continues to build on this prompt.

Episode Eleven: the heart knows, the stomach understands 心知肚明 by Yum Cha Everyone

On episode 11 of Yum-cha dai-ga - 飲茶大家 (let's have tea/dim-sum together) I explore a Cantonese phrase 心知肚明 sam1 zi1 tou5 ming4 (the heart kn

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"Making Visible" - Podcasting & Art As Activism

THURSDAY JULY 21 6-7:30 PM at Co.Lab Gallery! The Solidarity Collective is proud to present a workshop exploring the use of podcasting as

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On episode 10 of Yum-cha dai-ga - 飲茶大家 (let's have tea/dim-sum together) I catch up with a lovely friend, Blake Evans, who moved to China during the pandemic. Though a twelve hour time-difference exists between us-- our chat feels luscious, expansive, and reflective about how we are in relation to our environment. We chat about practicing language, growth, queerness, and more.

Photo credit 📸 Linda Ye

Listen on anchor.fm, Spotify, Google podcast platforms etc.

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On episode 9 of Yum-cha dai-ga - 飲茶大家 (let's have tea/dim-sum together), I shoot the breeze with Eric Taylor aka @the_breastfeeding_father on Instagram. We chat parenting, nerd out about a TV show, and talk about the ultimate snack.

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Wishing you a happy nowruz, spring equinox, sugar moon.

Today marks one year of my podcast that's been in development for about the same number of years as this fortunate, lucky, number 8 episode drop! It features my mama.

Becoming a parent has been a big motivation to make this, do my own intergenerational healing work and invite you into the process of sharing who I am