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Japanese Canadian Heritage Cooking Classes

The Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association (GVJCCA), Tonari Gumi (TG), and the Vancouver Japanese Language School-Japanese Hall (VJLS-JH) would like to warmly welcome Michael Tora Speier to the Heritage Cooking Classes team. Michael brings to this project over a…

We are looking for knowledgeable and flavour-focused home cooks to teach people their Japanese-Canadian foodie heritage and kitchen magic! Classes will be maximum 15-20 participants, using a casual workshop and hands-on approach, to be held at Tonari Gumi, the…

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 “protected area” on the coast of British Columbia by Order-in-Council P.C. 365. Camps had been set…

I remember the first time following Obaachan into the root cellar. It was cooler and dark. I could see different containers and jars of preserved vegetables and fruit. Obaachan was a tiny woman, but very strong.

One of the greatest assets I gained here in Vancouver is to get to know how to work with people on the ground. I was serving in headquarters and capitals. In this environment, you know the people you engage with. You expect a certain knowledge level from your counterparts, whether they’re in government or are diplomats. So it was the first time to work with ‘Real People’, citizens who live and DO NOT think like diplomats.

Peter Morin with Ayumi Goto, this is what happens when we perform the memory of the land, 2013. Documentation of performance. Photo: Ashok Mathur. Courtesy of the artists.

The Vancouver Art Gallery announces a new exhibition bridging the experiences of artists with diverse ancestries in dialogue, Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin: how do you carry the land? on view July 14 to October 28, 2018.

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 in the Downtown Eastside (DTES). This exciting partnership between the well-established Japanese Canadian arts and culture…

by Masaru Edmund Nakawatase I first met Tamio Wakayama in the winter of 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia. We were both very recent volunteers for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) which was regarded accurately as the youngest and most militant…

廣川さんは今年のパウエル祭で木工製品を売っていましたよね？早い時間に物がほぼ完売していたのですごい若者が出て来たなぁと注目してたんですよ。

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 invested the Canadian government was in telling the Grant siblings what their identity was. In 1920,…