Please send any inquiries to jazii.gui@gmail.com | You can also find me on Linkedin.
Collectives
Co-Founder – The Asian Canadian Living Archive (2019 – Present)
Founder – Project 40 Collective (2015 – Present)
Magazines
Managing Editor – LooseLeaf Magazine (2015 – Present)
Assistant Director, Educational Arm – Asymptote Journal (2018)
Managing Editor, Production – The Offing Magazine (2017 – 2018)
Poetry Reader – Transcendence Magazine (2015)
Work
Program Supervisor – Codes of Contact Initiative (Present)
Education & Industry Programmer – Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (Present)
Grant Writer – Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (Present)
Member Services – Artscape Daniels Launchpad (2019)
Reel Ideas Producer – Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (2018)
Festival Coordinator – Lights Dance Festival (2018-2020)
Consultant – Content Writing – AskforTask (2018)
Critical Essayist – Poetry.SG (2018)
Festival Coordinator – Regent Park Film Festival (2017)
Transcript Editor – Global Lingo (2017-2019)
Publicist – In Sundry Languages with Toronto Laboratory Theatre (June – July 2017)
Festival Director – VIBE Arts Fest (Jan – May 2017)
Creative Consultant – Sweet Esc Dessert Cafe (April 2016 – September 2017)
SSAT Instructor – Ivy Global (September 2016 – March 2017)
Marketing Coordinator – Attila Glatz Concert Productions (September – December 2016)
Programmer – Multi-Faith Centre at the University of Toronto (2015-2016)
Publicity Agent and Blogger – The Puritan (2015)
Copy Editor – The Culture Trip (2015)
Social Media Intern – SKETCH Working Arts (2015)
Communications – Emerging Young Artists (2015)
Translation
Two Trees Make a Forest: On Memory, Migration and Taiwan by Jessica J. Lee – primary source material (Letter correspondence)
Facilitation
2020
Blackout Poetry Facilitator – Tea Base, Year of the Mall Rat Festival (2020)
Narrative / Writing Facilitator – Unsung Voices, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival
Career Development Facilitator – Supporting Newcomer Access Project, Planned Parenthood (2020)
2019
Zine 101 Guest Instructor (2 classes) – Equity Course, OISE, University of Toronto
Program Manager / Facilitator – Diasporasian Futures, Space-Making Stream
“Stories in Motion” Stop-Motion Facilitator – Home Made Visible
2018
Blackout Poetry Facilitator – XYZ: Zines from Analogue to Digital, Cedarbrae Library (2018)
2017
Writing Facilitator – Medi(t)ations: A writing & zine program, Multi-Faith Centre at UofT
Zine Writing Facilitator – ZIPE x Toronto Art Book Fair
Workshop Facilitator – The Diasporasian Writer Talkeratives Series
2016
Workshop Facilitator – The Diasporasian Writer Talkeratives Series
Poetry Workshop Facilitator – Too Close To Home, Writing Group at George Brown College
Workshop Facilitator – the Re-Imagining Series – Multi-Faith Centre at UofT
Panels / Boards
Get Some Lit Mag Love at Growing Room Festival – Panelist (2020)
Ontario Arts Council – Juror (2018)
Riverdale Hub Gallery Advisory Committee (2017)
Poetry Judge – MIST Toronto Poetry Competition (2016)
Awards / Grants
Ontario Arts Council, Media Arts Projects with TACLA (2020-2021)
Canada Council for the Arts, DSF Literacy and Intelligence Grant with Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (2020)
Canada Council for the Arts, Professional Development Grant with jabs (2020)
Toronto Arts Council x ArtReach, Phase 2 Grant with Project 40 Collective (2020)
Ontario Arts Council, Literary Creation Grant (2020)
Toronto Arts Council, Visual and Media Arts Grant with Project 40 Collective (2019)
Toronto Arts Council x ArtReach, Phase 1 Grant with Project 40 Collective (2019)
Ontario Arts Council, Publishing Grant with Project 40 Collective (2017)
Art Starts Platform A Micro-Grant Recipient with Project 40 Collective (2017)
Art Starts Platform A Micro-Grant Recipient with Project 40 Collective (2016)
Press
Have Heart and Humility with Jasmine Gui of LooseLeaf Magazine, Lit Mag Love x Room Magazine, Vancouver (2019)
Support Your Local Collective Radio, Episode 78 Feature, Toronto (2018)
“Meet the Toronto artist creating a safe space for Pan-Asian creatives” with Emerge Magazine (2017)
“Lattes with Ladies: Jasmine Gui” with Hot Pepper Latte
Education
Ryerson University, Continuing Studies: Practical Grammar and Punctuation (2017), Visual Skills in Publishing (2019)
University of Toronto, Master of Art (English/Diaspora and Transnational Studies) (2016)
University of Toronto, honours Bachelor of Art (2014)
University of Toronto, Bachelor of Education (Primary/Junior) (2014)
