Session with Teachers at Hastings Park
For the Interpretive Centre, JCHPICS will share stories, images, and artifacts or reproductions so that people have a better understanding of what happened to Japanese Canadians in Hastings Park in 1942.
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Past Wrongs, Future Choices
Past Wrongs, Future Choices (PWFC) is a new project based at the University of Victoria with Project Co-Directors Audrey Kobayashi and Jordan Stanger-Ross and...
Japanese Canadian Legacies – Education
Education is a key pillar of Japanese Canadian Legacies, with $500,000 allocated. A Teacher Education Committee has been created with a core advisory committee...
Big Print Steveston
On September 3 & 4, a team of artists gathered in Steveston at the Imperial Landing parking lot to create seven large-scale prints. The...
Jewpanese Cooking with Carmel Tanaka
Japanese Canadian Heritage Cooking Class Jewpanese Cooking with Carmel Tanaka by Amy Newman and John Endo Greenaway On August 24, we had the pleasure...
Katari Taiko: finding our voice
When San Jose Taiko (SJT) performed at the 1979 Powell Street Festival, it set off reverberations that would end up echoing across the Japanese...
Japanese Canadian Heritage Cooking Classes
The Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association (GVJCCA), Tonari Gumi (TG), and the Vancouver Japanese Language School-Japanese Hall (VJLS-JH) would like to warmly welcome...
Susanne Tabata: The Road to BC Redress
by John Endo Greenaway The seeds for BC Redress were planted 2012 with the Provincial apology led by former MLA Naomi Yamamoto. Beginning in...
Isshoni: Henry Shimizu’s Paintings
of New Denver Internment
A Curatorial Journey with
Samantha Kuniko Marsh
by John Endo Greenaway Henry Shimizu was fourteen when he and the rest of the Shimizu family were uprooted. Unable to return to BC,...
Toronto Japanese Film Festival 2021
The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre’s 10th annual Toronto Japanese Film Festival (TJFF) will be presented in a hybrid format from June 5 to 27,...
My Sister Know Why Podcast
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.
Paueru Gai Dialogues #3 – reflections
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.
