Sugar Beet Fields: 77 Years After
Southern Alberta Sugar Beet Fields: 77 Years After by David B. Iwaasa photos by Noriko Nasu-Tidball Some 77 years after approximately 2,250 exhausted and...
The Bulletin
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Community Meeting – BC Redress
All community members at invited to an information meeting on November 17, 2019 to learn more about Japanese Canadian Redress from BC.
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60 Years on the Ground with the Vancouver Japanese Gardeners Association featuring David Suzuki
The Vancouver Japanese Gardeners Association was formed in 1959, in the aftermath of the wartime internment and dislocation of British Columbia’s Japanese Canadian community....
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Community Kitchen October
by Alice Bradley and Lea Ault October is here and Canadian Thanksgiving is upon us. Does everyone have their favourite Thanksgiving recipes ready to go?...
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Hikikomori come out of the shadows in Tetsuro Shigematsu’s Kuroko
I think hikikomori might be providing a glimpse of our collective future here in the West. Who isn’t guilty of spending too much time staring at a little screen and not enough time making eye contact with those around them? I know I fall into that trap every day.
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Hold These Truths shines a light on quiet hero Gordon Hirabayashi
In 2007, inspired by Hirabayashi’s story, Japanese American actress Jeanne Sakata wrote her first play, Dawn’s Light: The Journey of Gordon Hirabayashi, which premiered at East West Players in Los Angeles.
Community Kitchen, November
Every November 11, my husband Justin takes our daughters to the Remembrance Day ceremony at the Japanese Canadian War Memorial in Stanley Park. His...
Eisa 2019
On Friday, October 11, Metro Vancouver audiences will be treated to a feast of Okinawan drum-dancing featuring eisa, Ryukyu shishimai (lion dance) and wadaiko as Chijinshu Wakatiida and special guests Hidekatsu & Mion, take over the stage of the Michael J Fox Theatre in Burnaby.
For us, by us – ensoku 2019
ensoku 2019 brings young Japanese Canadians and Americans together in unprecedented Vancouver event photos by Kayla Isomura Over the May long weekend, 40 young-ish...
Changing of the guard at NNMCC
Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre selects new Executive Director The Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre was opened on September 22, 2000. Part of...
Global Soundscapes Festival
Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra presents Global Soundscapes Festival When the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra was formed in 2000 under founding artistic director Moshe Denburg its stated...
Steveston Nikkei Memorial
Sitting at the mouth of the Fraser River, the village of Steveston, although technically part of Richmond, BC, retains a unique small town flavour....
Ikue Mori Jim Black Duo
Ikue Mori Jim Black Duo TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival Ikue Mori is “one of the most singular musicians in modern music history” (Chicago...
Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double
Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double at TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival Tomas Fujiwara is a Brooklyn-based drummer and composer who has been described as “a...
編集後記 2019年4月
KAO (a.k.a. SleeplessKao) 諸事情により日本に一時帰国しています。元号が『平成』から『令和』に変わる瞬間を日本で体験。なんでも新しい元号は日本の古典から引用したそうでまだ賛否両論。
ensoku (field trip)
Kikiai Collaborative invites young folks of Japanese ancestry to a gathering in Vancouver this May with a focus on food, community dialogue and creative...
A Bonanza of Representation
Last year I caught, quite by accident, a truly unique episode of Bonanza. The second longest-running television western (Gunsmoke being the longest) was on-air from 1959 to 1973.
The Tashme Project: The Living Archives
When Julie Tamiko Manning and Matt Miwa first in 2009 as members of the English Theatre acting company at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, they...
