Cold Tea Collective

We’re back at VANCOUVER STARTUP WEEK 2026!!

Join us on April 30th as part of a week of events for as we hear from three Asian Canadian food innovators:

🍓 Han Yue
🥢 Chef Akiko Gulkison –
🗺️ Michelle Ng – & Granville Island Delivery Co.

ABOUT THE EVENT:
Vancouver is known for its cultural and culinary diversity. To maintain this reputation and to grow the market, innovation must be a priority. 

From cultivating creative culinary experiences, to product development in CPG, to redefining cultural expectations, this event will spotlight local Asian Canadian startups crafting the flavours of the future in Canada and beyond. 

The topics include how each founder navigates both success and challenges in their startups, how they’re innovating, and how their heritage plays a role in how they bring innovation to their craft. 

Presented by Cold Tea Collective and XLR Growth.

THANK YOU:
Thank you to our venue partner and generous sponsors Richards Buell Sutton Asia Pacific Group, and Davis Yung.

🎟️ GET VSW passes at vanstartupweek.ca for 20% off All-Access Passes using the code COLDTEA20 or DM us for individual tickets to this event.

Spring After Spring interweaves Vancouver’s Chinatown Spring Festival Parade with an intimate story of immigrant struggle and familial love.

Directed by Chinese-Peruvian Canadian filmmaker Jon Chiang, the film follows three sisters, Anabel, Val, and Lisa Ho, after the death of their mother, Ms. Maria Mimie Ho, a founder of the parade. The sisters reunite in Vancouver to continue the annual parade, faced with difficult choices about how to honour their mother and her legacy.

Interweaving archival footage of the sisters as kids, decades-old videos of the Chinatown Parade led by Mimie Ho, and scenes from the present day, the documentary elegantly narrativizes their nuanced multicultural upbringing dancing in the Chinatown parades.

📖 Read the full article at https://coldteacollective.com/spring-after-spring-film-chinese-cultural-dance/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=entertainment
🎬 Watch Spring After Spring at www.knowledge.ca/ starting February 17

Article written by: Isabel Li. Edited by: Pearl Zhou.

"Spring After Spring" honours the Ho family's legacy in Vancouver's Chinatown through Chinese cultural dance – Cold Tea Collective "Spring After Spring" follows three sisters as they juggle preparations for the parade dance and honouring their late mother's legacy at the Vancouver Chinatown Spring Festival Parade.