THURS, NOV 12–SAT, NOV 21
MON–FRI: 11AM–7PM | SAT–SUN: 10AM–7PM

The RARARA Internet Cafe is your chill and lounge space during the festival season! Hop into our computer booths to peruse the digital archive, spend some down time between screenings at our library, see the artist installations, or engage in our many activities, from the trading-card post to the communal stop-motion activity.

Visit the RARARA Internet Cafe on select days to peruse artist books, magazines, and zines from Asia on cinema and art, or order something delicious to drink!

SAT, NOV 14 FROM 11AM–7PM
SAT, NOV 21 FROM 11AM–7PM

Omikhlē Bookshop is a Toronto-based independent Asian art bookshop originally founded in Kunming, China. The name “Omikhlē,” meaning “mist” in Greek, was inspired by Theo Angelopoulos’s film Landscape in the Mist (1988), reflecting our belief that a bookshop can be a landscape that cuts through the mist of disorienting times. Focusing on photography, cinema, visual culture, and independent publishing, we work with artists and publishers across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Cambodia, Japan, and beyond. Alongside bookselling, we organize talks and artist and publisher events.

FRI, NOV 13 FROM 11AM–7PM
SUN, NOV 15 FROM 11AM–7PM

A place for calm or connection, Café An is a pop-up bakery and café that began as a way to meet neighbours and gather friends together. The menu at Café An reflects the nostalgia of growing up in Chinatown. Café An is hosted and organized by Doris Chu.

FRI, NOV 20 FROM 11AM–7PM

Flush & Brew is a tea-focused series of pop-up events run by Jasmine Gui. Drop by the Internet Cafe to chat, chill and have a warm cup of tea.

AVAILABLE AT THE RARARA INTERNET CAFE & ALL SCREENING VENUES AND GALA RECEPTIONS

In a sequel to last year’s wishing stump installation, we invite you to contribute to our collaborative stop-motion film project, animated by Akash Jones with music composed by Pantayo! Find a stop-motion station at our events (except for Opening Night) or visit the RARARA Internet Cafe to customize your own frame and be part of this community-made film in celebration of our 30th anniversary!

The Orbit Artist Residency was a three-month programme inviting artists and researchers to engage with the film festival archive. Residents were free to take any direction they wanted with the material, and produced short dispatches of works-in-process, reflections, and artwork. They further developed these in the early fall into fully formed artist installations. Come visit the RARARA Internet Cafe to see their completed works!

Karaoke from the Archive – Aaisha Salman
Thirty Years in Six Drawings – Em Cheng
Branches broken in the same direction – Yvette Sin

SUN, NOV 15 FROM 5:30–7PM

Learn more from our Orbit artists-in-residence, Aaisha Salman, Em Cheng, and Yvette Sin, about their time spent in the Reel Asian archives, approach to creative research, and journey toward the artist installations

Tricennium Reel Forever

BUY CARD PACKS AT ANY OF OUR MERCH TABLES OR AT THE RARARA INTERNET CAFE

For the festival’s 30th anniversary, RARARA commissioned Toronto artist Philip Leonard Ocampo to design a deck of 30 collectible trading cards inspired by the festival archive. The deck features 30 unique designs, one for each year of festival history. It also features a special rare-pull holographic card, designed by Jeffrey Kam.

SAT, NOV 21 from 3–4:30PM

Come listen to this special presentation by artist Philip Leonard Ocampo as he walks through the design process of his 30th-anniversary trading cards, from ideation to completion.