Learning, Sharing and Fun: 4th Annual Translation and Interpreting Workshop
by Agnes Li The fourth instalment of the Translation and Interpreting Workshop was held on April 16, 2011. The Japanese Language Interest Group of...
by Agnes Li The fourth instalment of the Translation and Interpreting Workshop was held on April 16, 2011. The Japanese Language Interest Group of...
Structured as a tribute to the multimedia artist Roy Kiyooka (1926-1994), a man who fearlessly re-created his world through the honesty of his imagination, Identity pays homage to Kiyooka most obviously through its largesse, its richness of visuals, sounds and movements.
On Friday May 6th, a Charity Poker Tournament was held in support of Japanese 2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami Victims. Over 80 players attended...
May 11, 2011—two months after the earthquake/tsunami hit the Tohoku region of Japan. The Ganbare Japan! benefit concert, held Tuesday April 19th at Vancouver’s...
When Roy Kiyooka died suddenly and unexpectedly in February 1994, he left behind a legacy of creativity fuelled by a lifelong passion for making...
Identity — Ancestral Memory, a work by Yayoi Theatre Movement, celebrates the life and poetry of Roy Kiyooka. A fusion of two dance forms,...
On March 12, one day after the devastating earthquake, I had a dream-—a dream of thousands of different coloured origami cranes floating and gently...
Dear Friends, As you know, at 14:46 on March 11, 2011, a huge coastal area of northern and east Japan was attacked by a...
When the earthquake and tsunami hit the Tohoku region of Japan on March 11, Kozue Matsumoto sat in front of the TV in her...
The concert will kick off with internationally-acclaimed pianist and Vancouver native Jon Kimura Parker who returns to Vancouver for this special engagement. Together with over forty members of the Grammy award-winning Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, he will perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 27, K.595. Rounding out the first half of the show will be three member of Vancouver Opera–Erin Wall, David Pomeroy and Kinza Tyrrell–who are guaranteed to raise the hair on the back of our necks with a selection from La Traviata.
Amidst the pulsing rhythms of the drums at Taikotroniks, you might be surprised to also find a generous helping of blips, whirs, and other...
A woman ran up the stairs, I live on the second floor, screaming, “Please help me!” She was out-of-control, so I had to shake her to get her into some sense of reality. I brought her into my apartment in the doorway, wrapped my arms around her telling her, “Gambatte.” She was delivering the early morning paper and had left her children alone at home. Then when the shaking stopped, we went outside, it was pitch black.