Japanese-Canadian Working Group Briefs JCCCM
Coming To Terms With Rev. G.G. Nakayama’s Sexual Abuse Of Community Members by Alan Itakura The following article was published in the English Montreal...
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Powell Street Festival and WePress: Art and Advocacy in Action
With multi-year funding from Vancouver Foundation, Powell Street Festival (PSFS) and WePress Community Arts Space Society are sharing art-making skills and strengthening community connections...
Tamio Wakayama: A Remembrance
by Masaru Edmund Nakawatase I first met Tamio Wakayama in the winter of 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia. We were both very recent volunteers for...
SPAM® Musubi at Powell Street Festival
This is the eight consecutive year that we will be selling SPAM® Sushi or SPAM® Musubi at the Powell Street Festival. It is referred...
Kayla Isomura: packing for unknown journeys
The Suitcase Project asks yonsei and gosei (4th and 5th generation Japanese Canadians and Americans) what would they pack if uprooted from their homes with only a moment’s notice. Participants will be photographed in their homes and then interviewed about the items that they chose to pack.
Okinawan Kodama, A Celebration of the Heart, Soul and Spirit
沖縄の鼓魂 Okinawan Kodama: A Celebration of the Heart, Soul and Spirit On Friday, August 4, Metro Vancouver audiences will be treated to a feast of Okinawan...
Japanese Canadian Artist Directory in the Works
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.” – Theodore Dreiser, naturalist, 1917. If Dreiser is right, then there will be much honey stored...
Santa Ono – creating new knowledge + making a difference at UBC
His blog is called Letters from Santa, he favours bow ties, plays the cello (well), and has an engaging smile and personality. He also...
Alejandro Yoshizawa: crossing oceans + cultures in All Our Father’s Relations
How you identify culturally is almost an internal dialogue with yourself. But an eye-opener for me while making All Our Father’s Relations was how...
Odd Society: celebrating collective oddities on Powell Street
Behind the bar at the Odd Society on Powell Street, Mia Glanz wields a pair of cocktail shakers like oversized maracas, the ice creating...
A Steveston Beginning: remembering my mother – new works by Judy Nakagawa
Visitors to the second floor of the Nikkei Centre in Burnaby will be familiar with a sculpture hanging over an opening in the floor....
