The Bulletin

May 12, 2023

Mayumi Lashbrook: navigating enemy lines

I was surprised to discover the parallels between the climate of fear during WWII and the global pandemic. It gave me a reference point to see the polarizing nature of fear and its ability to pit groups against each other.

April 20, 2023

Bulletin Interview: Emi Sasagawa, author of Atomweight

Emi Sasagawa is an award-winning Brazilian-Japanese journalist living in Vancouver. Her work has been published by a range of publications . . .

April 20, 2023

Sansei: The Storyteller

The etymology of ‘re’ is to repeat (redo, rethink, reuse) and ‘spect’ is connected to ideas of sight (spectacles, spectate, spectacular); so to re-spect someone is to ‘see’ ‘again.’

February 14, 2023

Aki Takahashi – celebrating 20 years of connecting through music

I was most inspired by my grandmother, who taught me to sing.

November 18, 2022

Session with Teachers at Hastings Park

For the Interpretive Centre, JCHPICS will share stories, images, and artifacts or reproductions so that people have a better understanding of what happened to Japanese Canadians in Hastings Park in 1942.

November 18, 2022

Past Wrongs, Future Choices

The Past Wrongs, Future Choices Spring 2023 Residency Program is a project-based opportunity that will offer three academics and three artists a setting for focused, goal-oriented work . . .

November 18, 2022

Japanese Canadian Legacies – Education

The three-year project consists of two key components: development of a Japanese Canadian History Learning Portal, and the creation of a Digital Course for Teacher Training.

October 5, 2022

Big Print Steveston

Cocooned in a big black brush stroke, the Salmon Woman represents the legacy of the women of the Fraser River delta. Wrapped in deep burnt orange, she becomes a part of a long meandering black wave.