Rainbow Chan Live at the Dream Factory

Rainbow Chan (Australia/Hong Kong/Weitou)

Image description: An Asian woman sits in profile in the centre of a surreal installation: layers of human-sized wavy rings, that get smaller as they receded into the distance, create a portal of hazy blues and greens. Dressed in a flesh-toned leotard and melon-orange high-heels, the woman sits in one of these wavy rings, fitting her spine against the curved bottomw, and stretching her bare leg upward along the curved edge. Her energy appears calm in the centre of this constructed vortex.
Chinese Canadian Museum
  • Wed Feb 4 7:30PM
Price $39/$59
Runtime 50min
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Cantopop // Migration // Identity

Rainbow Chan is a Hong Kong-Australian vocalist, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and interdisciplinary artist celebrated for her inventive blend of heartfelt melodies, textured electronic production, and culturally rich storytelling. Her sound—both tender and experimental—reflects on migration, identity, and the intimate politics of love and loss.

Presented for one night only inside the Chinese Canadian Museum’s Dream Factory: Cantopop Mandopop 1980s-2000 exhibition, this special live performance unfolds on Ming Wong’s Vast Ocean, Boundless Skies stage—an installation that reimagines the legacy of Cantopop through diasporic lenses.

Fusing Cantopop, electronic music, Chinese folk laments, and experimental sound, Chan uses live looping, electronics, saxophone, and voice to explore resilience, identity, and connection across generations.

Through this convergence of sound, space, and story, Chan creates a distinctive and contemporary musical experience—an evening where cultural memory, sonic experimentation, and performance meet. The performance will be followed by an open mic karaoke party hosted by Rainbow Chan.

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Artist Bio

Rainbow Chan 

Australia/Hong Kong/Weitou

Rainbow Chan is an award-winning vocalist, producer and multi-disciplinary artist. Her practice bridges popular music and contemporary visual arts, exploring themes of cultural representation, (mis)translation, matrilineal histories and diasporic heritage. Central to her work is the research and reimagining of women’s oral traditions, particularly the fading bridal laments of Weitou women, Hong Kong’s first settlers, to whom she has deep ancestral ties. Through pop music, performance and immersive installations, she translates these endangered songs into contemporary art forms, preserving their subversive feminist voices while reflecting on loss, resilience and solidarity. She is particularly interested in the power of ritual, song and performance as both a means of reclaiming agency and a living archive.

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Venue

Chinese Canadian Museum

51 E Pender St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1S9

Showtimes & Tickets

Standard: $39 // Generous: $59

Wed Feb 4 7:30PM
Post-show karaoke
Performance Notes Standard Generous
Wed Feb 4 7:30PM Post-show karaoke

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