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  • Joined: January 22, 2008
  • Articles: 372

okage sama de mama

Fumiko had no interest in being her mother's idea of a good nisei daughter. Instead, she saved the money she made working as a bookkeeper/clerk at a Chinese grocery store and enrolled in art school, first in Regina and then in Philadelphia, where she received a scholarship to the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. When she returned to Canada she married Tod, a farm boy from the prairies who, like her, had aspirations of being an artist.

Shion Skye Carter + Miya Turnbull 

I’m actually just in the midst of completing new masks for the show that came directly out of ideas we had while working together. The masks are massive and ‘monstrous’ as they are multiples of our faces conjoined together. I can’t wait to try them out with Shion in the studio

Butternut Squash Soup

Fall has ceased to be totally charming, hasn’t it? By November the glowing leaves that turned the trees into incandescently lovely displays have now turned brown, crashed to earth and are sodden with the rain and trampled underfoot.

Suzanne Hartmann: The Nail That Sticks Out

In April 1942, Suzanne Hartmann’s mother, Kathy, was an eight-month-old baby when she and her family were torn from their home in Victoria, British Columbia and shipped across the Strait of Georgia to Hastings Park in Vancouver.

Jewpanese Cooking with Carmel Tanaka

Japanese Canadian Heritage Cooking Class Jewpanese Cooking with Carmel Tanaka by Amy Newman and John Endo Greenaway On August 24, we had the pleasure of attending one of JCCA’s Japanese Canadian Heritage Cooking Classes at Tonari Gumi. The class was…

Katari Taiko: finding our voice

When San Jose Taiko (SJT) performed at the 1979 Powell Street Festival, it set off reverberations that would end up echoing across the Japanese Canadian and broader Vancouver community for generations. The group of young people drumming on stage exuded…

Toronto Japanese Film Festival 2021

The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre’s 10th annual Toronto Japanese Film Festival (TJFF) will be presented in a hybrid format from June 5 to 27, 2021. During this period, TJFF screenings will be held online, with select onsite screenings at the…

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, despair … on which we all travel together. And they’re hard to come by. – Bryce…