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Pender Guy Audio now available online!

Posted on December 3, 2020April 8, 2021 by Kristy Waller

With thanks to funding from the British Columbia History Digitization Program and the Friends of the Vancouver City Archives, we are pleased to announce that we have recently completed a project to digitize over 400 audio tapes from the Pender Guy Radio Collective fonds. The audio files and their accompanying descriptions have been uploaded to the Archives online database and are available to be viewed and listened to for fair dealing purposes.

Pender Guy volunteers outside 15 East Pender Street, 1977. Reference code: AM1523-S6-F13-: 2008-010.1038
Pender Guy volunteers outside 15 East Pender Street, 1977. Reference code: AM1523-S6-F13-: 2008-010.1037

Operating out of Vancouver’s Chinatown, the Pender Guy radio collective grew out of a wave of Chinese-Canadian youth activism in the early 1970s. Pender Guy began airing on Vancouver Co-operative Radio (Co-op Radio) in 1976, exploring issues related to Chinese-Canadian identity, history, politics, and art through interviews, reportage, humour, drama, and music. The program was produced entirely by volunteers, and offered a way for young Chinese-Canadians to gain community media skills and counter mainstream media representation of Chinatown and Chinese-Canadians. Pender Guy ran until 1981.

ender Guy, CFRO 102.7 fm poster, ca. 1980. Photo by Kristy Waller. Reference code: AM1523-S4-F189
Pender Guy, CFRO 102.7 fm poster, ca. 1980. Photo by Kristy Waller. Reference code: AM1523-S4-F189
Recording an episode of Pender Guy, ca. 1979. Reference code: AM1523-S6-F48-: 2008-010.2118
Recording an episode of Pender Guy, ca. 1979. Reference code: AM1523-S6-F48-: 2008-010.2118

The Pender Guy Radio Collective fonds contains the full run of Pender Guy program recordings, as well as background research material used in making the program. Background research tapes contain documentation of events featuring Chinese and Asian-Canadian poetry, literature, and music; and interviews with community members and visiting Asian-Canadian and Asian-American writers and artists. Also included in the fonds are tapes with documentation of community meetings and conferences such as CASHRA (Canadian Association of Statutory Human Rights Agencies) and PAAC (Pacific and Asian Affairs Council).

Jim Wong-Chu leading a silk-screening session for Pender Guy, 1977. Reference code: AM1523-S6-F13-: 2008-010.1052
Jim Wong-Chu leading a silk-screening session for Pender Guy, 1977. Reference code: AM1523-S6-F13-: 2008-010.1052

The show usually began with a very identifiable and fun theme song created by the Pender Guy Radio Collective. Have a listen!

These Pender Guy shows were created and recorded by a collective and broadcast through a co-op. This has resulted in many owners for each tape, some unknown. Therefore, reproduction and use of the Pender Guy audio recordings are allowed for fair dealing purposes. Further information may be available the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.

Pender Guy publicity, 1977. Photo by Kristy Waller. Reference code: AM1523-S3-F119
Pender Guy publicity, 1977. Photo by Kristy Waller. Reference code: AM1523-S3-F119
Script for Super Pender Guy : the banana flu, 1977/78. Photo by Kristy Waller. Reference code: AM1523-S3-F116
Script for Super Pender Guy : the banana flu, 1977/78. Photo by Kristy Waller. Reference code: AM1523-S3-F116

If you would like to know more about Pender Guy, you can find additional archival materials including scripts, posters, transcripts and publicity documents in the Paul Yee fonds. There are also Co-op Radio program guides that contain scheduling information and articles about Pender Guy in the Co-op Radio fonds.

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Images, assembled by Kristy Waller, in the above theme song video are:

Image 1 – Pender Guy, 102.7 fm by and for Chinese Canadians poster, ca. 1980. Photo by Kristy Waller. Reference code: AM1523-S4-F189

Image 2 – Kathy Wong and Donald Yee at Pender Guy Radio office, 15 East Pender Street, 1977. Reference code: AM1523-S6-F11-: 2008-010.0269

Image 3 – Pender Guy radio program activities, ca. 1979. Reference code: AM1523-S6-F48-: 2008-010.2126

Image 4 – Pender Guy information booth at Habitat Chinatown Festival, June 1976. Reference code: AM1523-S6-F02-: 2008-010.0042

Posted in Digitization, HoldingsTagged audio, Chinatown, Chinese, Co-op Radio, digitization, Paul Yee

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