Consider how your family’s journey has shaped who you are today” is the request shared at the base of the large velvet red banner at the entrance to the small gallery coated in black paint. Framed photos in birch hang in neat disorder, like the way a family would hang a mass of images in their living room. Voices emit a combination of anger, hope and sadness in the background, while fragments of their lives flash across a projected screen.
As I came to know the students and teachers over the next few weeks, I felt amazed by their kindness and hospitality. One teacher even went to Costco and bought me peanut butter and popcorn to make me feel more at home. The vice principal makes a huge effort to speak English to me, and I often find little treats left on my desk.
by Howard Shimokura On June 15, the third, fourth & fifth roadside interpretative signs out of eight were unveiled to commemorate the three clusters...
With multi-year funding from Vancouver Foundation, Powell Street Festival (PSFS) and WePress Community Arts Space Society are sharing art-making skills and strengthening community connections...
by Masaru Edmund Nakawatase I first met Tamio Wakayama in the winter of 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia. We were both very recent volunteers for...
This is the eight consecutive year that we will be selling SPAM® Sushi or SPAM® Musubi at the Powell Street Festival. It is referred...
The Suitcase Project asks yonsei and gosei (4th and 5th generation Japanese Canadians and Americans) what would they pack if uprooted from their homes with only a moment’s notice. Participants will be photographed in their homes and then interviewed about the items that they chose to pack.
His blog is called Letters from Santa, he favours bow ties, plays the cello (well), and has an engaging smile and personality. He also...
How you identify culturally is almost an internal dialogue with yourself. But an eye-opener for me while making All Our Father’s Relations was how...
The Bulletin is proud to sponsor It’s Boring Here, Pick Me Up by director Hiroki Ryuichi, starring Hashimoto Ai (from Beautiful Star, our sponsored film in 2017) and adapted...
VIFF favourite Kore-eda is back with the top prize-winner from Cannes 2018. Shoplifters is a bittersweet story of love and crime, tear-jerking and provocative in equal...
The 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival’s (VIFF) Gateway stream will once again illustrate that Vancouver’s ties to the Pacific Rim are not only geographic...
The Vancouver Art Gallery announces a new exhibition bridging the experiences of artists with diverse ancestries in dialogue, Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin:...
Dear GVJCCA Members and Community, Hello and greetings from me, Judy Hanazawa as your new GVJCCA President. I again thank past President Lorene Oikawa...
Coming To Terms With Rev. G.G. Nakayama’s Sexual Abuse Of Community Members by Alan Itakura The following article was published in the English Montreal...
This New Year special edition concerns an encounter I had with super hard working cartoonist and artist, Katsuya Terada, and Hirokazu Yasuhara, the creator...
沖縄の鼓魂 Okinawan Kodama: A Celebration of the Heart, Soul and Spirit On Friday, August 4, Metro Vancouver audiences will be treated to a feast of Okinawan...
Undertow RM Greenaway A B.C. Blues Crime Novel (Dundern, 2017) review by Colleen Tsoukalas Undertow is Canadian, local to West Coasters and written by a...
Manzo Nagano is credited with being the first Japanese settler in Canada in 1877, though he was not the first to come to BC....
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.” – Theodore Dreiser, naturalist, 1917. If Dreiser is right, then there will be much honey stored...
Did you know that there was a very small settlement of Japanese Canadians at the McLean Mill in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in...
