Category National Feature

Robin Nishio: “Living the dream”

by David Fujino Robin Nishio represents a new breed of visual artist. He’s grown up with computers, cell phones, digital cameras, websites, video games, and the internet, but it’s his old-fashioned ability to draw, quickly, that got him a paying…

Japanese baseball players have certainly had an impact on Major League Baseball. From the idiosyncratic style of Hideo Nomo to the hitting prowess of Hideki Matsui (Godzilla), Japan has contributed a great deal to the old ball game. Ichiro Suzuki,…

Peggy Baker’s new show, he:she, opened Friday night with a stunning and varied series of four works. Carrying over, it seems, from last year’s Split Screen Stereophonic show, the whiff of mortality was especially palpable and it informed Baker’s solo…

Greater Toronto Chapter NAJC & Hastings Park Foundation Hide Shimizu Memorial Scholarship Hide Shimizu (née Hyodo) was born in Vancouver in 1908. She spent one year at the University of British Columbia before transferring to Teachers’ Training School. She received her teaching certificate in 1926…

he told me to remember. we are the children ... i have a photograph, his image comes back like a corona spill on the horizon

Doll-making is a special process. The materials have to be made by the artist. The process starts by mixing wood shavings, glue and cotton fibre, to create a simple elongated form which becomes the body of the doll.

When I was making a reservation over the phone, the young waiter asserted (he didn’t sound Okinawan) that, ‘wherever we seat you — at the bar, or facing the kitchen — you’re going to have a good time — no! in fact, you’re going to have an amazing time!

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) recently announced that its official opening will take place on September 20, 2014. More than 13 years ago CanWest founder Israel (Izzy) Asper had a vision to build a national human rights museum in Winnipeg.

Many of the words listed have not survived or will in time, but then that’s the nature of language. They are an indicator of the culture at that moment. Whatever happened to the “beat or boom box” for example? Who would’ve predicted the geek would last until today, especially with a positive connotation given its initial meaning?

Ochawan first started at the Toronto NAJC’s Friendship House at 382 Harbord St. People were invited to pick up a simple white rice bowl from the organizers, transform it at home (paint on it, draw on it, even break it and reassemble it), then return it for exhibit and a silent auction