Mayumi Lashbrook: navigating enemy lines
“As I worked on Enemy Lines, it was always a surprise the moments that would bring tears to my eyes. Seeing the address of...
“As I worked on Enemy Lines, it was always a surprise the moments that would bring tears to my eyes. Seeing the address of...
Stories are powerful magic… in my opinion, they are the quickest way to respect. I love language and I am a big word nerd,...
Aki Takahashi is a taiko & shamisen player and folk singer based in Toronto. Born in a small fishing village on Shodoshima, a small island...
I’m listening to the My Sisters Knows Why podcast, where Ang and Claud are talking about mochi and its relationship to Japanese Canadian traditions and culture, before moving on to obon, and then the Japanese Canadian picnic at the Toronto Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre.
I was honoured to serve as guest host for On Memory, Mythmaking, and Community Resilience. The theme of the session emerged out of recent work I have been doing and conversations I have been having.
On March 11, 2011, Japan was rocked by a massive earthquake that caused extensive damage to the Great Eastern region. The ensuing tsunami swallowed...
The second session of the Paueru Gai Dialogues was held online on Saturday, February 27, 2021. On Food & Culture for Community Building was...
One day a number of years ago, while Grace Eiko Thomson was visiting her 84-year-old mother in the care home where she was living,...
On 22 April 1942, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) ship the SS Princess Mary was docked at the wharf in Ganges on Saltspring Island....
Sammy Takahashi, president of the Japan-Canada Chamber of Commerce, was shopping at the Save-On-Foods on Marine Drive near his home in North Vancouver when...
With the holiday season and gift giving just around the corner in this most unusual of times, we present a selection of new and...
It’s an experience that is hard to describe, there are so many layers to interacting with a story that is this personal, intergenerational, and marked in parts with silence. In some ways, retelling is reliving