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Marginalia : re-visioning Roy Kiyooka

Join Vancouver New Music on Sunday, February 10, 2008, from 4 pm to 5:30 pm in the lobby of the Vancouver East Cultural Centre (1895 Venables Street) for an open conversation about Roy Kiyooka’s life and work with family and…

Christmas and O-Shogatsu in Multi-Cultural Canada

A Happy New Year—Akemashite omedet? gozaimasu—to you all. Like many readers, I was lucky enough to be able to share moments of joy with family and friends in a few get-togethers through Christmas into the New Year (o-sh?gatsu). As usual, the final week of the old year flew by in a flash. As soon as the hectic pre-Christmas shopping days and Christmas passed, or so it seemed, we were already ushering in the year 2008.

President’s Message

Hi everyone! It seems that we lose special people in our community each year. This past month, on December 8, our Nikkei community lost Mary Takayesu. She was a special lady who, along with husband Frank who passed away in…

Community Kitchen

HAPPY NEW YEAR! My best wishes go out to all of you at the beginning of this New Year. May you be all blessed with good health and happiness. To those of you who tried the brined turkey, I would…

Limelight

The North American Association of Asian Professionals (“NAAAP”) – Vancouver Venture (www.naaap.bc.ca) hosted its first annual Spotlight on Leadership Celebration on October 25, 2007. The purpose of the event was to inspire and cultivate future leaders in the Asian community…

New Book Brings Fishermen Together

In the new book, Nikkei Fishermen on the BC coast: Their Biographies and Photographs, a “date deceased” incorrectly appeared in Fujio Frank Egami’s biography. It belongs to his brother, Yukio, whose biography follows below. In visiting Mr. and Mrs. Egami…

Letter to the Editor

I read in the December ’07 Bulletin that the redevelopment of Oppenheimer Park will commemorate the Japanese Canadian history of that park. It seems appropriate that this will be done since the Nikkei community is strongly tied to this place…

In His Own Words: Giorgio Magnanensi

Kiyooka represented and still embodies an idea of art making in which the main focus and value stay with the making, the process of making beautiful things; the perspective being on the process itself and not so much on the final object. When creative energy manifests itself as such a force, beyond disciplines and aesthetic definitions, that energy needs and wants to be taken care, to continue to inspire people so that we can feed our hopes that self expression as a sellable item will be eventually substituted by creative energy as an agent of change. Kiyooka was also aware of the power of sound, sound making as a social-dialogical process, an improvised collaboration among creative minds and souls: the value of difference as a patrimony to share. Giorgio Magnanensi

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