Donated Dolls Revive Lost Japanese Culture
by Yusuke Tanaka Reiko’s Hina Dolls Directed by Komaki Matsui Original story by Yumiko Hoyano The average age of the nisei generation is easily...
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Remembering Roy Kiyooka: 1926 – 1994
It was twenty years ago this January that Roy Kiyooka died suddenly and unexpectedly, leaving behind an incredibly diverse body of work that speaks to the restless creativity and curiosity that drove him over the course of his lifetime and his career as an artist.
Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre – Twenty Years of Memories
by Tsuneko Kokubo (with ‘ghost writer’ Paul Gibbons) At just about the time that the Kyowakai Society of New Denver was being created, I...
Japanese songs, Thelonious Monk, & Satoko Fujii
The other day I started thinking about that deep feeling in Japanese folk and pop songs. Not that I’m an expert, because I don’t know a lot of Japanese songs, I don’t search for them, and I really didn’t learn any when growing up. Now, for the record, I do know some of the lyrics and melody of that old chestnut, Sukiyaki.
Meet Bill Kobayashi, the father of Canada’s iconic tabletop hockey game
Kobayashi’s path to becoming the father of Canada’s iconic tabletop hockey game was anything but direct. He first found work as a punch press operator, stamping parts for jewelry. To improve on his Grade 8 education, he enrolled at Sir George Williams College — now Concordia University — where he took chemistry, physics and math.
Are you Japanese Canadian? How do you know?
Identifying as Japanese Canadian is no longer the stigma it once was. Heck, some might even say we’re finally cool. After all, our roots go all the way back to the land of Hello Kitty, anime and sushi. What makes YOU Japanese Canadian? The Bulletin is compiling a list of the unique charactaristics that make us who we are.
New Denver: Memories Are Made Of These . . .
My first winter in New Denver …. COLD for sure but lots of snow and it stayed. I remember we made our own sleds and skis out of fresh lumber from trees cut in the mountains. Steel runners were attached to the sleds by a man who worked at a local machine shop in town.
An Interview with Louise Noguchi
When I compare the social status of a career in art today, being an artist (female or male) is considered a much more respectable profession than when I first started out as a visual artist. However, I’m not sure if you are questioning if the status of a female artist in relationship to a male artist has changed. If this is what you are asking, comparing artistic status is a difficult thing to measure ….
Holiday Gift Guide
Started as a knitwear company by their parents in 1978, Granted Clothing is now run by siblings Brian and Amy Hirano. Their beautifully designed, 100% wool chunky-knit sweaters are locally knitted by hand and sold internationally. Each sweater takes 10 to 15 hours to make and features branded wooden zipper pulls made of salvaged yew wood from Lasqueti Island.
Walk for Reconciliation, September 22, 2013
We finally made it to the end of the march where we were welcomed by the taiko drummers performing on stage and I was so happy that the Walk for Reconciliation organizers asked our community to join them in their celebration.
Osuwa Daiko
Kumidaiko grew out of both festival drumming and the more religiously-focused temple and shrine drumming but is inexorably infused with elements of jazz. As the story goes, Oguchi was sought out after a piece of written music was found in an old miso warehouse owned by one of his relatives.
From Sea to Shining Sea
Keith Fukushima’s Ride to Remember Like so many Lower Mainland residents, Keith Fukushima and his sister Tanis would look forward to visiting the Fair...
