SPEAKER PROFILES

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• YOUR FUTURE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

• ASIAN vs. WESTERN VALUES

• BEHIND THE HEADLINES

• CROSS CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS

• MAKING ASIA PART OF YOUR LIFE

• YOUTH ACTION FORUM

Joy Haywood is an Asian Headhunter who is presently working as the Vice President of Persona Canada Inc., a Japanese owned employment agency specializing in bilingual personnel placements. Her experiences include being an English Instructor in Japan with the Nohkai E.L.S. Institute and with international travel. She has spoken to University students as well as students who have returned from Japan. The scope of her talk at Asia Connects will primarily focus on opportunities, both travel, study and job related - in Japan, and will include information on other Asian countries form her broad travel experiences.

The following is a list of things Joy Haywood will be discussing:

• Work experience in Japan • Opportunities for working and traveling in Japan/Asia for young people (scholarships, summer trips, etc.) • Opportunities for working for Japan related companies here in Canda • How to prepare yourself for spending time in Japan/Asia in the future • What Japanese employers look for in prospective employees • Industries/careers that show potential for increased Japan/Canada business activity • How International knowledge and experience can open up opportunities for you and for Canada • How becoming a "global citizen" will forever change your attitudes and the way you see the world and its people. It will keep you young, open minded and inquisitive throughout your life!

Producer, director and writer for Scenes From A Corner Store, this is Sunny Yi's first television documentary film. It was nominated for the Donald Brittain Award for Best Documentary Program in the 1997 Gemini Awards. The film has also received awards from The New York Festivals, San Francisco's Golden Gate Awards, the U.S. International Film & Video Festival in Chicago, and the Yorkton Film Festival. Scenes From A Corner Store was broadcast on Roughcuts, CBC Newsworld on January 29. 1996, and on CBC's Witness on February 20, 1996. Yi has also worked in all fields of media, including The Globe and Mail, CBC Radio, and CBC-TV. Her articles about multiculturalism and immigration have been published in a number of Canadian anthologies and textbooks for high school and ESL classes. Currently, Sunny Yi is working on documentary projects for both the CBC and TVO. Her next documentary film about illegal immigrants in Toronto, Hide & Seek, will be broadcast on Witness in the fall of 1997. Yi's first book, Inside the Hermit Kingdom: A Journey through the Koreas, will be published this fall by Key Porter Books.

As Bureau Chief of Toronto's CBC Radio Canada International, Peiwei Ni is our "Behind the Headlines" speaker. During his address at Asia Connects - Toronto, he will share the reality behind the headlines of a journalist's story.

Radio Canada International is based in Montreal and broadcasts on shortwave, satellite and internet to the world! Responsible for the administration of the regional office where a dozen freelance reporters record their items in seven different languages, Peiwei Ni files reports in English and Chinese on business and arts. He has conducted interviews with experts, business executives and international figures including the Dalai Lama. He also promotes Radio Canada International (RCI) to the public and organizes live broadcasts from Toronto to the world.

From 1990-91, Peiwei Ni was Bureau Chief in Ottawa covering international affairs, and from 1989-90, he was program host of daily Chinese broadcasts to China. To add to his diverse background he was also a Policy Analyst at the B.C. Ministry of International Trade, writing research reports on doing business with China.

From east to west, north to south, Colin McIntyre is our Cross Cultural Communication expert. He brings with him a wealth of experiences and interesting stories that he will be sharing to participants @ Asia Connects - Toronto. With much involvement in the arts, Colin has worked in senior capacities with London's Festival Ballet & the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon and as Director General of Montreal's Les Grands Ballets Canadiens.

He has organised performances in more than 70 countries and written "Road Signs", a guide to international touring.

In 1994, Colin McIntyre was the Canadian producer of "Dance Canada '94" featuring eight dance companies performing Tokyo and seven other Asian countries. He also produced an important Canadian arts festival in Mexico City and organized the first Canadian cultural events to be held in Vietnam. McInyre was also the impresario for the first US & Canadian tour by Nacho Duato's Compania Nacional de Danza and organized an eight country Asian tour for the renowned Montreal chamber of orchestra, I Musici de Montreal.

In 1995, he was the executive coordinator of "Today's Japan", a festival of the contemporary Japanese arts which was held at Tornto's Harbourfront. Featuring music, dance, theatre, visual arts, architecture, design, film, video, literature and crafts, it was the largest Japanese cultural event ever held in North America.

Now an impresarop and consultant, Colin McIntyre is currently preparing a major cultural festival to be held in 1997 in celebration of Canada's Year of Asia Pacific.

As our Cross Cultural Communications expert, Seymore Applebaum will be speaking about Asian and Western Values to help students begin to discover the differences and the similarities in Canadian and Asian values and to challenge the assumptions that are commonly made about both.

Currently, Seymore Applebaum operates his own private consulting company called 'Cross Cultural Connections'. Through this company he has been working with community groups like the Environemental Centre for New Canadians to promote intercultural relations. A recent project he undertook had to do with promoting the contributions of visible minorities to science and technology. The Discovery Channel broadcast this program in February.

Similarly, Applebaum was recently involved in initiating and developing a television program on Multicultural Health for The Health Show that was broadcasted on the CBC and Life Channel during February 1997.

For well over a year, Seymore Applebaum has been lobbying the Department of Citizenship and Immigration to highlight the contributions of immigrants to Canadian society over the past 50 years.

His academic work at the graduate level particularly focused on race relations.