No Foreigners is a multimedia performance created by Hong Kong Exile (Vancouver) and fu-GEN Theatre (Toronto), produced in association with Theatre Conspiracy (Vancouver) and the Theatre Centre (Toronto). It considers North American Chinese shopping malls as racialized spaces of cultural creation and clash. Several original stories begin in a mall and quickly diverge—catapulting across cities, between Cantonese and English, in and out of the afterlife, and through past, present, and future. Through live performance and a micro-to-macro camera apparatus, No Foreigners weaves together text, miniatures, and media design as it attempts to unpack what is at the heart of “Chineseness” and what the future can hold for all of us as visitors and settlers. HKX PROJECT LEAD Milton Lim fu-GEN PROJECT LEAD David Yee CREATED BY Hong Kong Exile (Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Milton Lim , Remy Siu) + fu-GEN Theatre PERFORMERS & CO-CREATORS April Leung + Derek Chan DIRECTION Milton Lim TEXT David Yee MINIATURE DESIGN Natalie Tin Yin Gan w/ April Leung + Derek Chan MEDIA APPARATUS DESIGN Remy Siu PROJECTION AND SOUND DESIGN Milton Lim + Remy Siu CANTONESE TRANSLATION Derek Chan RUNNING TIME approx. 90 minutes VIDEO DOCUMENTATION Daniel O'Shea EDITED BY Milton Lim hongkongexile.com/no-foreigners
No Foreigners is a multimedia performance created by Hong Kong Exile (Vancouver) and fu-GEN Theatre (Toronto), produced in association with Theatre Conspiracy (Vancouver) and the Theatre Centre (Toronto). It considers North American Chinese shopping malls as racialized spaces of cultural creation and clash. Several original stories begin in a mall and quickly diverge—catapulting across cities, between Cantonese and English, in and out of the afterlife, and through past, present, and future. Through live performance and a micro-to-macro camera apparatus, No Foreigners weaves together text, miniatures, and media design as it attempts to unpack what is at the heart of “Chineseness” and what the future can hold for all of us as visitors and settlers. HKX PROJECT LEAD Milton Lim fu-GEN PROJECT LEAD David Yee CREATED BY Hong Kong Exile (Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Milton Lim , Remy Siu) + fu-GEN Theatre PERFORMERS & CO-CREATORS April Leung + Derek Chan DIRECTION Milton Lim TEXT David Yee MINIATURE DESIGN Natalie Tin Yin Gan w/ April Leung + Derek Chan MEDIA APPARATUS DESIGN Remy Siu PROJECTION AND SOUND DESIGN Milton Lim + Remy Siu CANTONESE TRANSLATION Derek Chan RUNNING TIME approx. 90 minutes VIDEO DOCUMENTATION Daniel O'Shea EDITED BY Milton Lim hongkongexile.com/no-foreigners

No Foreigners [2018]

Shopping malls become a portal into surreal worlds that carry the nuanced stories of loss and resilience from the Chinese diaspora. No Foreigners is a multimedia performance that meditates on North American Chinese shopping malls as spaces of cultural creation and clash. Multiple storylines begin in a mall and quickly diverge—catapulting us across cities, between Cantonese and English, in and out of the afterlife, through past, present, and future.

Weaving together text, miniatures, digital backdrops and live cameras, No Foreigners examines our changing relationships to these social spaces and the histories, characters, experiences, and ephemera that keep inviting us back.

HKX PROJECT LEAD Milton Lim
fu-GEN Theatre PROJECT LEAD David Yee
CREATED BY Hong Kong Exile (Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Milton Lim, Remy Siu) + fu-GEN Theatre

PERFORMERS & CO-CREATORS April Leung + Derek Chan

DIRECTION Milton Lim
TEXT David Yee
MINIATURE DESIGN Natalie Tin Yin Gan w/ April Leung + Derek Chan
MEDIA APPARATUS DESIGN Remy Siu
PROJECTION AND SOUND DESIGN Milton Lim + Remy Siu
CANTONESE TRANSLATION Derek Chan
PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE Maria Zarrillo
TOUR MANAGEMENT Dani Fecko (Fascinator Management)

RUNNING TIME approx. 90 minutes

VIDEO DOCUMENTATION Daniel O'Shea + Rheanna Toy
EDITED BY Milton Lim

No Foreigners is a co-production between Hong Kong Exile (Vancouver) and fu-GEN Theatre (Toronto); originally commissioned in 2018 by Theatre Conspiracy (Vancouver, BC) as part of the Migration Path Project and with funding from the City of Vancouver, British Columbia Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts. The production has received generous residency and development support from Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (Burnaby, BC), the Gateway Theatre (Richmond, BC), and Carleton University Art Gallery's Open Space Lab (Ottawa, ON).

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien.

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