A Future for Memory: Art and Life after the Great East Japan Earthquake
On March 11, 2011, Japan was rocked by a massive earthquake that caused extensive damage to the Great Eastern region. The ensuing tsunami swallowed...
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Paueru Gai Dialogues #2 – reflections
The second session of the Paueru Gai Dialogues was held online on Saturday, February 27, 2021. On Food & Culture for Community Building was...
art from here and away: Bryce Kanbara
I think mythologies are fundamental and vital to the story of a people. They’re like a river with countervailing currents of cohesion, division, hope,...
Paueru Gai Dialogues – reflections
The Paueru Gai Dialogues – take one On Saturday, January 30, 2021 the year-long Paueru Gai Dialogues kicked off with Catalyzing Social Equity through...
As if They Were the Enemy: The Dispossession of Japanese Canadians on Saltspring Island
On 22 April 1942, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) ship the SS Princess Mary was docked at the wharf in Ganges on Saltspring Island....
The Paueru Gai Dialogues
The Paueru Gai Dialogues Catalyzing Social Equity through Culture & Connection to Place To kick off the new year, the Powell Street Festival Society is launching an...
Excerpt: Mysterious Dreams of the Dead
Mysterious Dreams of the Dead Terry Watada Anvil Press Excerpt 1987 One of those rootless, forgotten nights. I leaned against the giving rail of...
A Totem Pole for Mio
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...
Remembrance Day 2020: 100 years of memories
by Linda Kawamoto Reid One hundred years of people gathering at the cenotaph conjures up so many images, stories, emotions, and memories of tribute....
Migration, Displacement, and Redress: A Japanese Canadian Perspective
Migration, Displacement, and Redress: A Japanese Canadian Perspective by Tatsuo Kage Electromagnetic Print (2020), electromagneticprint.com/tatsuo-kage $25.00 CAD Book Review by Angela May (née Kruger) Tatsuo...
Plowing My Parents’ Landscape of Conscience
From the 1990s, my parents’ home became a meeting place and a regular lodging for various members of the Líl’wat Nation and many other indigenous leaders and representatives. My mother, a retired social worker, befriended many of these activists.
On Being Yukiko – a graphic novel
When acclaimed artists Jeff Chiba Stearns and Lillian Michiko Blakey decided to pool their considerable talents to create a graphic novel for young readers,...
