Long Time No See Collective

Long Time No See Collective The LONG TIME NO SEE Collective is a non-profit ad hoc group of friends, who are artists & educators.

Tomorrow is Red Dress Day, and we in Chinatown remember and honour Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-...
05/04/2026

Tomorrow is Red Dress Day, and we in Chinatown remember and honour Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Sprited People (MMIWG2S).

The REDress project created by Metis Artist Jaime Black in 2010 inspired the hanging of Red Dresses to honor stolen sisters from these communities.

Posters are up in and around Spadina Chinatown, in English and Chinese. Please visit, learn more about this human rights crisis happening in our country, and speak about it to your friends, families and loved ones.

Thanks and for another PACKED Toronto Living room Listening event at Missing images of our incredible Chinatown Commu...
02/24/2026

Thanks and for another PACKED Toronto Living room Listening event at
Missing images of our incredible Chinatown Community Lion Dance performance. Next post!

Our last night with our fabulous Yiu Yiu tonight 7-8:30pm .itineraries 205 Richmond Street West-room 403 with and SEE YOU THERE✨

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Another Year Another Dinner! Wishing everyone a great 🔥🐎 year from the LTNS team 💕Folks who don't know, New Sky Restaur...
02/23/2026

Another Year Another Dinner! Wishing everyone a great 🔥🐎 year from the LTNS team 💕

Folks who don't know, New Sky Restaurant has some ORIGINAL Toisan classics, not to mention a Peruvian Chinese menu!

LTNS faves are the taro duck and the salted egg bitter melon 😋

See you around the neighborhood y'all ✨

NEW LOCATION FOR SUN FEB 22 LISTENING ROOM!Our friends are hosting this session, a big thank you for helping us with a ...
02/19/2026

NEW LOCATION FOR SUN FEB 22 LISTENING ROOM!

Our friends are hosting this session, a big thank you for helping us with a last minute relocation ❤️

All sessions still have some open spots, but capacity is limited so please register soon if you are interested in coming by!

Registration Links in bio

It's been a while since we've gotten the LTNS team together! Congratulations to for three years!! A pleasure to be in c...
09/28/2025

It's been a while since we've gotten the LTNS team together! Congratulations to for three years!! A pleasure to be in community with everyone in Chinatown.

Looking forward to great work from the new team, and well wishes to the amazing board members moving on to new things ♥️

FLASHMOB END OF SUMMER BASH!!WHERE: Spadina Chinatown, Huron & Dundas SquareWHEN: FRI Sept 26th 8PM-10PMThis is a SPECIA...
09/18/2025

FLASHMOB END OF SUMMER BASH!!

WHERE: Spadina Chinatown, Huron & Dundas Square
WHEN: FRI Sept 26th 8PM-10PM

This is a SPECIAL invite to bring your friends, family, acquaintances (enemies??) to come out on FRI SEPT 26th for a big street dance party!! We've gotten a lot of great interest in fire spinning this year, but the dancing in the street part of FLASHMOB is so important to us!

Started by Artist and Activist Brenda Joy Lem, we have been called together over the years to occupy the public streets, revitalize our community energy, declare that we are HERE and DANCE OUR BUTTS OFF.

In the tradition of great activists before us, dancing in the street has long been a form of protest and community joy. Please come out and meet your neighbors, friends and let loose!! Don't be a spectator, lend us your ✨ ENERGY ✨

Feel free to share this around! LET'S SHAKE THAT SQUARE

Fire performances by https://www.instagram.com/chinatownfiredept/
POSTER ART by Stefanie JY Wang https://www.instagram.com/stefaniejywang?igsh=NmJjamx2ajFyd25z

Ticket Giveaway 🎞️We’re excited to partner with for Exclusion: Unraveling A Century in Silence, a feature directed by ...
10/30/2024

Ticket Giveaway 🎞️
We’re excited to partner with for Exclusion: Unraveling A Century in Silence, a feature directed by Keira Loughran for . This film is screening at TIFF Lightbox C3 on November 16 at 12PM.

In her directorial debut, award-winning actor and playwright Keira Loughran traces her family’s history to show the act’s devastating impact on the Chinese community, focusing on her grandmother, activist Jean Lumb, who was the first Chinese Canadian woman to receive the Order of Canada. Among the many incidents igniting Lumb’s activism was the shocking revocation of her Canadian citizenship when she married Loughran’s Chinese-born grandfather — a lesser-known requirement of the act.
🚨GIVEAWAY DETAILS🚨 We are giving away FREE in-person tickets to Exclusion: Beyond the Silence screening at TIFF Lightbox on November 16 at 12PM. To enter the giveaway, tag a friend below, and follow us and for your chance to win.

🚨GIVEAWAY DETAILS🚨 We are giving away FREE in-person tickets to Exclusion: Beyond the Silence screening at TIFF Lightbox...
10/30/2024

🚨GIVEAWAY DETAILS🚨 We are giving away FREE in-person tickets to Exclusion: Beyond the Silence screening at TIFF Lightbox on November 16 at 12PM. To enter the giveaway, tag a friend below, and follow us and for your chance to win.

Old friends and new at our Aug 30 Flashmob! Thanks to everyone for coming by! Lots of brand-new fire spinners were made ...
08/31/2024

Old friends and new at our Aug 30 Flashmob! Thanks to everyone for coming by! Lots of brand-new fire spinners were made 🔥 See you all in a month for the final Summer Flashmob of 2024!

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I always thought history was for someone else until I found our Grandfather was one of those Head Tax payers that Canada...
08/16/2024

I always thought history was for someone else until I found our Grandfather was one of those Head Tax payers that Canada was trying to keep out when I looked up his C.I.44 file. Any Chinese Canadian with a relative that came before 1923 likely has a C.I. 44. He came in 1903. We always knew him as Tom Wong but his real name was Wong Thick Tong aka Sack Chung. I have always felt restless unless I am busy, that chores are never done, the house is never clean enough, that idle pleasures are not for me. If you are a white Canadian you don’t need to look over your shoulder quite so often. My mother chose to not teach us Chinese but sent us to afterschool French classes. It’s all an echo from the legislated racism.

- Rick Wong

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Long Time No See mounted an exhibition of stories from the Chinese Exclusion Act years, in Toronto Spadina Chinatown May-July 2024. This project is supported by The Chinese Canadian Museum (CCM) of Vancouver. CCM is also the host of The Paper Trail to the 1923 Exclusion Act, a major exhibition documenting the effects of this legislation on the Chinese community, curated by Catherine Clement.
“好久不见”将于2024年5月至7月在多伦多士巴丹拿唐人街举办《排华法案》时期的故事展。 此展得到了温哥华加拿大华裔博物馆的支持。加拿大华裔博物馆也是《寻影觅迹：1923年排华法案》大型展览的主办方。该展览由嘉芙莲.卡曼策划，记录了《排华法案》对华人社区的影响。“好久不見”將於2024年5月至7月在多倫多士巴丹拿唐人街舉辦《排華法案》時期的故事展。此展得到了溫哥華加拿大華裔博物館的支持。加拿大華裔博物館也是《尋影覓跡：1923年排華法案》大型展覽的主辦方。該展覽由嘉芙蓮.卡曼策劃，記錄了《排華法案》對華人社區的影響。

Visit Lillian Smith Library on 239 College St by August 19th to see the latest installation in honour of the 100th anniv...
08/07/2024

Visit Lillian Smith Library on 239 College St by August 19th to see the latest installation in honour of the 100th anniversary of Humiliation Day. This series was made possible in partnership with the Chinese Canadian Museum.

Canada’s troubled colonialist history includes the 1923 Chinese Immigration (Exclusion) Act, which deemed people of Chinese descent “unsuitable for citizenship” and prevented entry into Canada by people of Chinese heritage for 24 years. As a result of the Exclusion Act husbands were separated from wives, parents were separated from their children. It was not until 1967 that race-based discrimination was legally removed
背景信息：
加拿大殖民历史包括1923年实施的《華人移民法》（又称《排华法案》）。该法认为华裔 “不适合入籍”，并在24年间禁止华裔入境加拿大。《排华法案》迫使夫妻、亲子分离。而这样基于种族的歧视直到1967年才被从法条中删除。加拿大殖民歷史包括1923年實施的《華人移民法》（又稱《排華法案》）。該法認為華裔 “不適合入籍”，並在24年間禁止華裔入境加拿大。 《排華法案》迫使夫妻、親子分離。而這樣基於種族的歧視直到1967年才被從法條中刪除。

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