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Community members who read and viewed the signs seemed encouraged to talk about their own experiences

Drawing Night & Day: an exhibition of new works by Sleepless Kao & Lisa CinarMay 22 through May 24, 2014Visual Space (2075 Alberta Street) “Little creatures pop out of my brain around midnight and tell me, “play with me”. They…

Vancouver puppeteer Shizuka Kai collaborates with slam poet Floyd VB for Brief Encounters 21 When Shizuka Kai was a little girl, she’d pretend that her stuffed animals could talk to her — and oh, the conversations they had! Today, the…

I believe artists are on the cutting edge of defining who we are as Canadians.

The Reverend Canon Gordon Goichi Nakayama was ordained in the Diocese of New Westminster in 1932. Following ordination Canon Nakayama served as a priest at Church of the Ascension in Vancouver until 1942. When Japanese Canadians were internally displaced by…

Have you got your ticket yet to the event of the season?

I think when you first start a company you just want to make work.

Masa Shiroki, the Sakemaker who established Artisan SakeMaker in 2007 on Granville Island, has had a longtime dream of creating sake with 100% Canadian rice. The rice-growing experiments began in earnest in 2009, first in Kamloops, Ashcroft, Agassiz and Vancouver…

Friday, April 18, 2014 12pm – 2pm Oppenheimer Park (488 Powell Street) Please join us as we unveil the memorial windows to commemorate the history of Japanese Canadians and cherry blossom trees planted in 1977. Before 1942, Oppenheimer Park was…