Lashbrook depicts the incarceration of Japanese Canadians through contemporary and modern dance, movement-based theatre, and performance art.
Former Powell Street Festival executive director Emiko Morita curated Return to Paueru Gai and edited a new book with the same title.
Veena Yamano plays a fourth-generation Japanese Canadian in her 20s who lands in Tokyo in “Tears Burn to Ash”.
Bud Sakamoto shows a net bag that Japanese Canadians used to collect nori (seaweed).
The multidisciplinary Powell Street Festival presents films, visual arts, dance performances, poetry, and a whole lot of taiko.
Eight different taiko troupes, each with their own style, will perform on two different stages.
Yamauchi Latimer, a fourth-generation Japanese Canadian, succeeds Emiko Morita, who spent 10 years at the helm.
The multimedia show was inspired by Christian Bök’s book-length poem called Eunoia, which won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002.
An upcoming show, “Our (Orihon) Nobuo”, will honour the artistic talents of Vancouver-born Nobuo Kubota at Shintani Gallery in Toronto.
Shigematsu and director Kaitlin Williams are re-imagining the hit show for the theatre company’s 40th-anniversary season.
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This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.
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