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...
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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,...
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.
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...
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...
