The Pain We Cannot Swallow
This article was originally published in Ricepaper Magazine. December 13th, 2018 marks eighty-one years since the Nanjing Massacre. “The Pain We Cannot Swallow” is...
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Durational Taiko at Hastings Park
On September 29, I joined two dozen other taiko players in the livestock building at Hastings Park for Durational Taiko – a marathon drumming...
VIFF 2018 | It’s Boring Here, Pick Me Up
The Bulletin is proud to sponsor It’s Boring Here, Pick Me Up by director Hiroki Ryuichi, starring Hashimoto Ai (from Beautiful Star, our sponsored film in 2017) and adapted...
The Suitcase Project : Dialogues + Reflections
Consider how your family’s journey has shaped who you are today” is the request shared at the base of the large velvet red banner at the entrance to the small gallery coated in black paint. Framed photos in birch hang in neat disorder, like the way a family would hang a mass of images in their living room. Voices emit a combination of anger, hope and sadness in the background, while fragments of their lives flash across a projected screen.
A Canadian Yonsei in Yamagata
As I came to know the students and teachers over the next few weeks, I felt amazed by their kindness and hospitality. One teacher even went to Costco and bought me peanut butter and popcorn to make me feel more at home. The vice principal makes a huge effort to speak English to me, and I often find little treats left on my desk.
VIFF Special Presentation: Shoplifters
VIFF favourite Kore-eda is back with the top prize-winner from Cannes 2018. Shoplifters is a bittersweet story of love and crime, tear-jerking and provocative in equal...
Vancouver International Film Festival 2018 – Gateway
The 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival’s (VIFF) Gateway stream will once again illustrate that Vancouver’s ties to the Pacific Rim are not only geographic...
Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin: how do you carry the land
The Vancouver Art Gallery announces a new exhibition bridging the experiences of artists with diverse ancestries in dialogue, Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin:...
Kootenay Sign Unveilings: Slocan Extension, New Denver, Kaslo | A Personal Perspective
by Howard Shimokura On June 15, the third, fourth & fifth roadside interpretative signs out of eight were unveiled to commemorate the three clusters...
President’s Message
Dear GVJCCA Members and Community, Hello and greetings from me, Judy Hanazawa as your new GVJCCA President. I again thank past President Lorene Oikawa...
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...
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...
