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Community Meeting – BC Redress

All community members at invited to an information meeting on November 17, 2019 to learn more about Japanese Canadian Redress from BC.

The Vancouver Japanese Gardeners Association was formed in 1959, in the aftermath of the wartime internment and dislocation of British Columbia’s Japanese Canadian community. Today, the organization continues to serve as an umbrella association for its 50 or so members,…

by Alice Bradley and Lea Ault October is here and Canadian Thanksgiving is upon us. Does everyone have their favourite Thanksgiving recipes ready to go? I hope so, but we are offering a few recipes that make Thanksgiving a little more…

I think hikikomori might be providing a glimpse of our collective future here in the West. Who isn’t guilty of spending too much time staring at a little screen and not enough time making eye contact with those around them? I know I fall into that trap every day.

In 2007, inspired by Hirabayashi’s story, Japanese American actress Jeanne Sakata wrote her first play, Dawn’s Light: The Journey of Gordon Hirabayashi, which premiered at East West Players in Los Angeles.

On Friday, October 11, Metro Vancouver audiences will be treated to a feast of Okinawan drum-dancing featuring eisa, Ryukyu shishimai (lion dance) and wadaiko as Chijinshu Wakatiida and special guests Hidekatsu & Mion, take over the stage of the Michael J Fox Theatre in Burnaby.

ensoku 2019 brings young Japanese Canadians and Americans together in unprecedented Vancouver event photos by Kayla Isomura Over the May long weekend, 40 young-ish Japanese Canadians, Japanese Americans, and their friends came together to build community and explore our shared…

Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre selects new Executive Director The Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre was opened on September 22, 2000. Part of the Nikkei Place complex – which includes an assisted living residence, a seniors residence, a Japanese…

Unlike many Japanese Canadians, I have no ties to the prewar BC community, no extended family – no cousins, second cousins uncles, aunts – to situate me in the rich, sprawling, intertwined history of those who laid the foundation for…

Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra presents Global Soundscapes Festival When the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra was formed in 2000 under founding artistic director Moshe Denburg its stated mission was “to to act as a forum for the creation of a new musical art…