Year 2016

President’s Message

Time flies and I don’t just mean the one hour we moved forward. A year has passed since I was elected to be president of the Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association (GVJCCA), and I am honoured now, as I…

Phase Space Peggy Baker Dance Projects January 22, 2016, 8:30 pm Betty Oliphant Theatre 404 Jarvis Street, Toronto On January 22nd I visited the Betty Oliphant Theatre to experience Phase Space, the latest full-length dance work by the masterful choreographer…

In July 1942, Tashme, the largest of the Canadian internment camps, opened its doors to Japanese Canadians who had been ordered removed from the coast following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Formerly called the Fourteen Mile Ranch, the camp was…

My talent agent emailed me in mid-October. I had an audition for Kazoku*, a student short film at York University, and I should deal directly with the students. I emailed back my interest in auditioning for the role of the…

“The day the music died,” from the song American Pie by Don McLean, referred to February 3, 1959, the days Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper perished in the ill-fated plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa. Those who…

Having toiled in the printed trade for many years when I was younger it was fascinating to see these two technologies employed side-by-side – one a throwback to an earlier time and the other only a few years old and still-evolving. To my eyes, WePress reflects a new way of looking at the creative process, where new technologies and old are embraced and digital and analog coexist happily.

4月7日〜９日の３日間、ロイヤル・ウィニペグ・バレエによる「Going Home Star - Truth and Reconciliation」の公演がクイーンエリザベス劇場にて行われる。先住民の人々が家族から引き離され寄宿学校（Residential School）に入りそこで様々な辛い経験をしたという歴史をインスピレーションとして製作がされた。この作品には日本出身のバレエダンサー・三野洋祐さんがチャーリーという寄宿学校の生徒役として出演している。

Now where was I? Oh yes, I was about to reveal some surprising facts: surprising to me that is. First off, let me apologize to a long-ago friend of mine. I had promised to include the following subject back in…

Dion and the Belmonts made the doo wop song famous with Teenagers in Love. We could call this segment ‘Nisei-gers in Love’. Was this the clash of the old world Issei tradition versus the new world Canadian way? When the…

Attitudes toward male and female roles between married couples, as well as between those betrothed, have undergone changes with every new generation within the Japanese Canadian community, just as in society at large. Starting with the era of the Issei…