The Transformations Project

TRANSFORMATIONS: Relearning Filial Piety

By Johnny Wu / Gateway Theatre
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  Subtitles available in English

Filial Piety. An honourable duty or a heavy burden?

Taiwanese-Canadian artist Johnny Wu dives into his own relationship with this Confucian philosophy, often considered the core principle of East Asian family dynamics.

For the full text in English, Mandarin, and French and to learn more about Johnny Wu visit: http://www.gatewaytheatre.com/transformation-project.

Relearning Filial Piety - the journey from keeping my head down to speaking up was written, recorded, and edited on the ancestral territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaking peoples.

Commissioned by Gateway Theatre. Edited by Peter Carlone.

Mandarin with English subtitles.

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