Dim Sum Sends

Community-Initiated Microgrant 2021

A mural which features a confluence of people and foods from different cultures.
Artist Yiting Hui paints a mural, which features a confluence of people and foods from different cultures.
Artist Yiting Hui paints a mural, which features a confluence of people and foods from different cultures.
Artist Yiting Hui stands in front her mural, which features a confluence of people and foods from different cultures.
A mural which features a confluence of people and foods from different cultures.
Artist Yiting Hui paints a mural, which features a confluence of people and foods from different cultures.
Artist Yiting Hui paints a mural, which features a confluence of people and foods from different cultures.
Artist Yiting Hui stands in front her mural, which features a confluence of people and foods from different cultures.
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Title:

Dim Sum Sends

Project Completion:

2022

Medium:

Mural

Location:

South wall of the Centre Street Bridge, 122 Riverfront Ave. SW

About the Artist:

Yiting Hui, born in Hong Kong, now resides in Calgary, Canada.

Her professional background is architecture. Combining her sensitivity to design and her passion for art and illustration, she began her artistic journey in 2017. Since then, she has been invited to commission various mural works, and she has been selected for several public art projects in Alberta.

Her inspirations draw from paying attention to the simplest things in life, nature, people and stories around her.​ With the Japanese anime and Hong Kong comic influence, her works have whimsical qualities and illustrative style to them. As a visual artist, Yiting strives to create works, like nature, that would “silently” tell a story that awaken one’s imagination as a child – simple yet magical.

The Project

Artist Yiting Hui used food as a whimsical way to tell a story about the confluence of cultures in Canada — how they influence each other to create something new and unique. Just as Asian cuisine has inspired Western cuisine, and vice-versa, both cultures have had powerful impacts on the other. Food brings people together, and Hui uses these cross-sections to create a mural that embraces our shared culture.

The 2021 Community-Run Microgrant

This project was funded as part of the 2021 Community-Run Microgrant. Calgary Arts Development invited proposals for community-initiated public art projects in 2021. Community groups could apply for up to $10,000 from a total funding pool of $100,000, to hire local artists for eligible projects. Funding for this one-time program was provided through the Government of Alberta and The City of Calgary.

Learn more here.

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We acknowledge that the land we gather on, Mohkinsstsis, is the ancestral territory of the Siksikaitsitapi — the Blackfoot people — comprising the Siksika, Kainai and Piikani Nations, as well as Treaty 7 signatories, the Tsuut’ina Nation and the Îyârhe Nakoda Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney First Nations. Today this land is home to the Metis Nations 5 and 6 as well as many First Nations and Inuit peoples from across Turtle Island.

We acknowledge that there has been art, music, dance, storytelling and ceremony on this land since time immemorial and it is in the spirit of this land and its people that we do our work.

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