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,...
Chiru Sakura, a Mother and Daughter’s Journey by Grace Eiko Thomson
One day a number of years ago, while Grace Eiko Thomson was visiting her 84-year-old mother in the care home where she was living,...
Keirokai 2021 Part II
The cancellation of the 2021JCCA Keirokai, normally held at the beginning of the year, means we are unable to honour our seniors in person...
Keirokai 2021
Keirokai 2021: Honouring Our Elders The cancellation of the 2021 JCCA Keirokai, normally held at the beginning of the year, means we are unable...
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...
Terry Watada: On Dreams, Mystery, and Writing What You Know
Mysterious Dreams of the Dead, Terry Watada’s latest novel, features Mike Shintani, a sansei (third-generation Japanese Canadian) who sets off to uncover the mystery...
Kyowakai: Memory and Healing in New Denver, BC
Japanese Canadians began to arrive in New Denver on May 21, 1942, part of a wave of 22,000 internees forced out of a 100-mile...
