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Truong/Tram family videos : Muny : baby shower : Ngày Đầy Tháng
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A video clip recording from 1992 consisting of a Khmer-Krom family celebrating a birthday. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "The Truong/Tram family’s home movie footage shot in VHS format on January 25th 1992, captures the 1-month old birthday party of their youngest son in Brantford, ON, shortly after moving from Hull, Quebec. A full and lively gathering, their celebration includes families chatting over a community meal, speeches, gift giving, dancing to 80’s music, and loving footage of a peaceful baby enjoying the party. The Truongs/Trams are of Khmer-Krom ethnicity, translating to 'Khmer of the South'. The Khmer-Krom are an [unrecognised] Indigenous group and ethnic minority in the South of Vietnam. Many Khmer people who inhabited the same refugee camps in Vietnam later immigrated together to Canada. When the Truongs/Trams arrived in Hull, Quebec (now Gatineau, Quebec) in 1989, they were able to regularly connect with a Khmer community at gatherings like these. The Troung/Tram family have since relocated to Toronto ON where they continue to celebrate and take pride in their identity, and attend Khmer language and dance classes. The Khmer Buddhist Temple of Ontario in Hamilton remains central to them and their community. Mother, Trinh Nha Truong, was happy to share her footage with Home Made Visible because she wants to show other Canadians that ‘our people live in Canada too.’"
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Type
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VHS
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Accession / Box
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2018-018 / 001
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Date
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25 January 1992
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Identifier
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2018-020 / 001 (01)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1148420
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Title
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Wong family videos : family reunion 70
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Project and donor contributed description follows:"A clip documenting the Red Packet (hóngbāo) ceremony taking place at Mr Wong’s 70th birthday celebration in 2002. During this ceremony family members were called up in a particular order to accept a red envelope of money from Mr Wong. Deanna Wong, Mr. Wong’s daughter who found and digitized this video, recalls that family members were called up according to age and lineage. For example, Mr. Wong’s siblings would be called first, followed by their children and grandchildren. In this video Mr Wong's eldest son, Terry was called first, and then, since their middle son Ted was not present, Deanna, the youngest of the three, came next. Following her came Terry's kids from eldest to youngest. And since Deanna nor Ted had children at the time, the eldest cousin and his wife, and their kids etc followed. As the eldest of 13 siblings, Mr. Wong would have had many envelopes to hand out! Originally from Hong Kong, Mr. Wong came to Canada to study engineering at McGill University in the mid-1950s, where he met Deanna's mother. Mrs. Wong's father, Deanna maternal grandfather, immigrated to Canada in 1921 and paid the $500 head tax in order to enter the country. Mr Wong's father, Deanna’s paternal grandfather, was a doctor specializing in acupuncture, which was illegal in Canada at the time, so he settled in California. Now his family lives around the world, including the United States, Singapore, Japan and in various places in Canada. This milestone birthday presented a great opportunity for a family reunion. And to accommodate everyone, this celebration took place in the home of Deanna’s eldest brother and Mr. Wong’s eldest son, Terry. Now a longtime resident of Toronto, Deanna calls Winnipeg home where she and her two brothers grew up. Although they were one of the few families of colour around, she remembers her neighbourhood and her experiences fondly. Her parents, particularly her mother, worked hard to build a Chinese community where the children could have Chinese friends and be exposed to their culture. They started a Mandarin school, even though Cantonese was their mother tongue, and began a summer camp. Family and community come together again at this celebration, one of many for the Wong family."
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Type
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-040/001(01)
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Date
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2002
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Identifier
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2019-040/001(01)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1152082
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Title
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Isaac family videos : Sacré-Cœur Christmas concert
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Description
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Item consists of footage of speeches, performances such as children singing, and audience members at a francophone Catholic school's Christmas recital. Project and donor contributed description follows: "Stella Isaac’s sister films her at her elementary school, École élémentaire catholique du Sacré-Coeur during their annual Christmas concert in 2004 at la Paroisse du Sacré Coeur located at Sherbourne and College. The footage captures a particular experience and community of mostly Black students of Congolese, descent attending the French school, which was located at Sherbourne and Bloor. Now located near Christie Pits, the community and neighborhood is no longer remembered in the same way. On stage during the concert the school’s principal mentions the students’ practice of prayer exemplifying the experience of religiosity at the school. Education at Sacré-Coeur is rooted in Catholicism and Christianity. Stella recalls a time when students in the class would put their Bibles and crosses on their tables before tests for an extra blessing. This was normal practice. Stella enjoyed attending a Catholic School and has fond memories of the experience, especially when receiving mentorship from particular teachers who pushed their students to prepare for success in their futures. ""I have a slight obsession with this time period and this school, especially as it relates to what it was like educating Black students. It was in an environment where I had a teacher that completely pushed us and believed in us and our intelligence. The footage also documents images of Stella’s younger brother, Jordan, who has Down Syndrome. She describes him lovingly: "It was nice seeing my little brother making tons of noise and yelling my sister’s name, rubbing my mom’s face." In relation to Home Made Visible, Stella shares: "It’s great to allow families the opportunity to revisit old footage, explore their history and share that. A lot of people don't think of Black people in Canada just existing. It’s a great way to change the Canadian narrative."
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Type
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-030 / 001 (01)
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Date
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2004
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Identifier
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2019-030 / 001 (01)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1152025
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Title
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Jabbar family videos : America/Canada Visit Sep 89 Family Video : part 4 of 4
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Description
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Project and donor contributed description follows: "Sometime between 1987 and 1988, its summertime and the Jabbar family welcomes uncles and aunts and cousins over for a visit to Canada, staying at their apartment in Scarborough ON. Family was always welcome at the Jabbar household and they are happy and willing to stay for weeks at a time despite the small space. As their first visit to Canada, they take them to tourist sites. Pictured here are views of rides at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE). S’s father, who is the eldest sibling of their generation, attracted a lot of family to visit because it is customary for people to always visit the eldest. Since S's father was the first of his siblings to come to Canada, everyone was excited to visit. It was also quite an accomplishment for a man with a physical disability to seek an independent life overseas for himself and his family so this was often admired. The footage shows how multigenerational the gatherings are, which included S's grandmother who had recently came to live with the family."
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Type
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-032 / 001 (04)
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Date
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1989
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Identifier
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2019-032 / 001 (04)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1152055
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Joudaki family videos : Iran vacation
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Item consists of footage of landscapes, cityscapes, and heritage sites in Iran. Project and donor contributed description follows: "Both Bita and her father, Abbas, contributed to this write up. Bita felt protective of her family and their image, and chose to contribute a clip that didn’t centre people but a place. The scenery itself is a beautiful valuable contribution of a country in flux. In 1998, Abbas visits Iran with his daughter Bita for the first time in sixteen years since moving to Canada. Bita at the time was a shy eight year-old and recalls that she didn’t speak for the first three weeks of the trip and that this was her first time leaving Canada. In this clip Abbas is alone behind the camera capturing historical sites. He was prompted to take this trip because an Iranian friend in Vancouver couldn’t go home and asked him to make these movies of Cyrus the Great, Isfahan, etc. and to bring them back to show on local Persian TV. He did end up making these movies on a miniDV camcorder but never did give them to his friend. The clip starts out at night time in Shiraz, with the Takht-e Lamshid built for Cyrus the Great. Then moves on to Isfahan, the "Great Mosque" that in farsi they call the Shah Mosque based in Naghsh-e Jahan Square. Abbas recalls at the time wondering how locals knew he hadn’t been living their for 16 years. People could tell that he had left and was living somewhere else. For Abbas, these clips show a country rich with stories and pride. After years of searching for these tapes, they found them again in the summer of 2018 the night before Bita returned to Iran for the second time in her life."
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Type
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-029 / 001 (01)
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Date
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1998
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Identifier
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2019-029 / 001 (01)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1152026
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Title
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Burke family videos : Christmas '92 : Singing
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Description
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A video clip recording representing a portion of the VHS cassette from 1992 consisting of a brother cooking breakfast on Christmas and a sister filming a tour of the house. Project and donor(s) contributed description follows: "It’s Christmas, 1992, and within the short span of this clip the presence of almost Leah Burke’s whole family is felt. From her dad offscreen singing along to gospel (Mahalia Jackson’s ‘Go Tell It On the Mountain), to her brother, the then sullen teenager, seen cooking pancakes for family breakfast, to finally Leah, who weaves through the house filming. She reveals herself as the documentarian in a mirror reflection waving ‘Hi’. In present day, Leah recalls, ‘This is a typical Burke house family moment’."
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Type
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2018-029/001(05)
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Date
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25 December 1992
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Identifier
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2018-029/001(05)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1150176
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Title
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Javeed family videos : I & A (ages 7 & 3) Feb 2003 video letter for India Grandma : part 1 of 3
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Description
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Project and donor contributed description follows: "In the Javeed family’s apartment in Scarborough ON, two boys aged between 3 and 7 create a video letter to their grandmother who resides overseas in India. Both boys are born and live in Canada. The children are reciting; reciting a shopping list, nursery rhymes like “itsy bitsy spider,” and their ABCs. The video letter of the boys learning to write and spell is a way to build and maintain a relationship with their grandmother from afar. The video documents shifts in communication technologies, at a time prior to the use of communication apps like whatsapp, used to keep in touch with family. Scarborough was quite diverse by the early 2000s, and the boys generally felt connected to their peers, although their mother remembers they had experienced racism and some issues at school. She attests that they grew up differently than she did as a first generation immigrant, wherein she felt like an outsider in Toronto in the early eighties. The family had a lot of discussions as they were growing up about these issues, and ensured the boys were familiar with current affairs.”
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Type
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Date
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9 Feb. 2003
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Identifier
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2019-034 / 001 (01)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1152049
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Title
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RE:FORM, by Joseph Medaglia
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Description
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RE:FORM: Becoming Visible explores the tensions between gay visibility, representation and embodied subjectivity, challenging the assumption that visibility equals liberation and functions transparently. The overall purpose of this piece is to explore how the invisibility of gay sexuality becomes visible and manifests through the body. In order to do this, I draw from the mythic figure of the monster - a figure that embodies difference and otherness. In the video, the monstrous body erupts from a green coloured field and constitutes a visual pattern while at the same time the visual pattern constitutes the body. This relationship symbolizes the paradox of visibility, as the visual structure exists only through the display of bodies. In culture, the representation of identities exists through the visibility of identities, yet identities are limited by concrete representations that replicate dominant ideologies. The visual pattern is intended as a metaphor for structures inherent in representation that attempt to reproduce dominant ideologies. By subjecting the representation of the monster to the visual pattern, I explore the tensions between dominant ideologies and subjects. The growth and collapse of the monstrous body denotes the possibility of resistance to structures in representation. RE:FORM: Becoming Visible resists the efforts to limit identities and explores the possibilities of open, incomplete subjectivity. New forms are created through resistance. The result is a display of growth, collapse, beauty, desire, sexuality and embodiment. Joseph Medaglia is a scholar, artist, designer and educator. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Art and a Master of Arts in Communication and Culture. His research examines the relationship between representation, identity and the body, in particular as it relates to gay subjects. His creative work employs methods of experimental video, costume, interactive design and more recently, robotics and physical computing. For more information visit www.jmedaglia.ca
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Type
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Moving image
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Date
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Fall 2009
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Identifier
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intensions3-josephmedaglia
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1155994
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Title
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Javeed family videos : I & A (ages 7 & 3) Feb 2003 video letter for India Grandma : part 3 of 3
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Description
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Project and donor contributed description follows: "In the Javeed family’s apartment in Scarborough ON, two boys aged between 3 and 7 create a video letter to their grandmother who resides overseas in India. Both boys are born and live in Canada. Muslim by faith, the children practice memorizing the Quran in Arabic. Their parents teach them to recite one line at a time to ensure that they learn at a young age. They know that seeing this would bring their grandmother joy and make her proud. The video letter is a way to connect with her through these recitations of a shared faith as she doesn’t speak English. The video documents shifts in communication technologies, at a time prior to the use of communication apps like whatsapp, used to keep in touch with family. Scarborough was quite diverse by the early 2000s, and the boys generally felt connected to their peers, although their mother remembers they had experienced racism and some issues at school. She attests that they grew up differently than she did as a first generation immigrant, wherein she felt like an outsider in Toronto in the early eighties. The family had a lot of discussions as they were growing up about these issues, and ensured the boys were familiar with current affairs."
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video files
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Fonds
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Home Made Visible collection (F0723)
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Accession / Box
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2019-034 / 001 (03)
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Date
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9 Feb. 2003
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Identifier
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2019-034 / 001 (03)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1152051
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Javeed family videos : I & A (ages 7 & 3) Feb 2003 video letter for India Grandma : part 2 of 3
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Description
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Project and donor contributed description follows: "In the Javeed family’s apartment in Scarborough ON, two boys aged between 3 and 7 create a video letter to their grandmother who resides overseas in India. Both boys are born and live in Canada. The children are practicing Urdu by reciting what they know: a well-known Indian nursery rhyme about a thirsty crow, and a biryani song that the family made-up because the boys found it amusing. The video letter of the boys practicing Urdu is a way to build and maintain a relationship with their grandmother who doesn’t speak English. The video documents shifts in communication technologies, at a time prior to the use of communication apps like whatsapp, used to keep in touch with family. Scarborough was quite diverse by the early 2000s, and the boys generally felt connected to their peers, although their mother remembers they had experienced racism and some issues at school. She attests that they grew up differently than she did as a first generation immigrant, wherein she felt like an outsider in Toronto in the early eighties. The family had a lot of discussions as they were growing up about these issues, and ensured the boys were familiar with current affairs."
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Type
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video files
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Accession / Box
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2019-034 / 001 (02)
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Date
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9 Feb. 2003
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Identifier
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2019-034 / 001 (02)
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:1152050
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Title
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HIV antibody testing : an informed approach
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Description
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"The testing question is presented in a balanced and intelligent manner in this video which explains what exactly a test will tell you, whether the results are conclusive, and what the difference is between anonymous and confidential testing"--Container.
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Type
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videorecording
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Identifier
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ACT 0201
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:278534
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Title
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The HIV antibody blood test : a guide to counseling
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Description
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Intended for medical professionals who deal with people considering the HIV antibody test. It strongly advises counselling all clients about the test, signs and symptoms, risk reduction, and planning for test results. The video contains three counselling sessions, and points out steps to follow when counselling a client.
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Type
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videorecording
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Identifier
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ACT 0176
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Identifier (PID)
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yul:278533
