Good storytelling is an underappreciated art – hear from Bernice Hune, one of Toronto's best.

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Did you ever hear the story about the opera singer who fled war-torn China in 1938?

In a harrowing attempt to escape the conflict between China and Japan, she found her way out of the country and into Canada on an opera company tour. Her story does not end there, though. She landed in Canada only to learn that Chinese immigration was not allowed at the time because of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1923 legislation, which banned Chinese people from entering the country.
If you want to know how the tale ends, Toronto-based professional storyteller Bernice Hune can tell you. She knows the story intimately and can tell it a lot better than I can — because that opera singer was her mother.

For the past 35 years, Hune has been telling early migration tales to anyone lucky enough to hear them. As a multidisciplinary artist, even when she has reflected on her paintings, she has realized she would often include stories and language on her canvases.

Born in Chinatown, Hune has seen a wealth of change in Toronto. While facilitating arts education workshops in schools, she noticed cultural shifts in the demographics during the 1970s and beyond. Suddenly, more diverse groups were attending schools in the city, but the teaching staff remained predominantly white.

In this video, musician and regular CBC Arts correspondent April Aliermo catches up with Hune to listen and learn from some of her richest stories.

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