Momiji celebrates its volunteers for National volunteer week
Enemy Lines: Artist Mayumi Lashbrook explores how fear can divide humanity
Revealing layers within: Miya Turnbull and Shion Skye Carter on cross-disciplinary collaboration
The exceptional ones: Grappling with use of Emergencies Act
Japonica goes digital: Momiji Health Care Society's innovative approach to fundraising
Artist Emmie Tsumura's Powell Street Festival poster design wins international communication award
Treasures from the Nikkei National Museum: Roy Matsui at Angler
Shapes in Between: New retrospective of artist Norman Takeuchi at the Ottawa Art Gallery
Finding Forgiveness: Director Stafford Arima on bringing the award-winning memoir to the stage
27 May 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Hiro Kanagawa plays private eye Sam Shikaze in R. A. Shiomi's award-winning comic-mystery Yellow Fever. Presented by Firehall Arts Centre, Yellow Fever runs from May 28 to June 12. Photos courtesy: Firehall Arts Centre. Kanagawa will portray private eye Sam Shikaze in the award-winning play, Yellow...
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14 Apr 2022
Posted by Jonathan Eto 
Fans clung to every word as Japanese American singer-songwriter Mitski performed at the newly-renovated Massey Hall in Toronto on March 18. Photos by: Dr. Jonathan Eto. Mitski is known for her dramatic storytelling through movement and music, and fans cheered, cried, and hung on every note....
Read more → 13 Apr 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Dance artist Jennifer Aoki will be performing a work in progress of In The Woods created during Dance West Network's 2021/22 Re-Centering/Margins Creative Residency at Simon Fraser University Goldcorp Centre for the Arts on April 20. For Aoki, this theme of discovery also carried into the artistic...
Read more → 16 Mar 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Artist Kellen Hatanaka explores historical and contemporary issues of race, xenophobia, and bias in sport. Left: Home, 2020, by Kellen Hatanaka. Right: Artist Kellen Hatanaka. Photo credit: Kiersten Hatanaka. But of course, the Vancouver Asahi never won a 1993 championship. The club disbanded...
Read more → 15 Mar 2022
Posted by James Heron 
Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yusuke Kafuku and Toko Miura as Misaki Watari in the four-time Oscar-nominated film, Drive My Car. The film follows Yusuke Kafuku, a renowned stage actor and director set to direct a theatre production of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at a Hiroshima festival....
Read more → 16 Feb 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Yume. Digital Dreams pairs up 14 artists to create exciting and experimental digital artwork. Eight of the 14 artists participating in Yume. Digital Dreams. Clockwise (starting at the top left): Experimental dancer Shion Skye Carter (Vancouver), electronic musician and flutist Hitoshi Sugiyama (Edmonton),...
Read more → 11 Feb 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck
Hidetoshi Nishijima stars as Yusuke and Toko Miura as Misaki in Drive My Car, a story about love, loss, acceptance and piece. Photo credit: Films We Like. The moving car is where characters' stories unravel, and their truths unveil in director Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Oscar-nominated film, Drive My Car. “These...
Read more → 22 Dec 2021
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Royal Winnipeg ballet principal dancers, Alanna McAdie, Chenxin Liu and Yue Shi, in Kimiko's Pearl: Digital Short. Photo credit: Bravo Niagara! Performed by the principal dancers of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet with original music and choreography, Kimiko's Pearl shines a spotlight on the Japanese...
Read more → 21 Dec 2021
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Left: Pablo Picasso. Woman in Blue Shawl, 1902. Oil on canvas, 60.3 x 52.4 cm. Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art. © Picasso Estate / SOCAN (2021). Right: Pablo Picasso. Woman and Child by the Sea, 1902. Oil on canvas, 81.7 x 59.8 cm. Pola Museum of Art. © Picasso Estate / SOCAN (2020), Photo:...
Read more → 16 Nov 2021
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Ruth Ozeki's new novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness, explores loss, growing up, and our relationship to stuff. Left: Author Ruth Ozeki. Photo credit: Danielle Tait. Right: The Book of Form and Emptiness. Photo credit: Viking. For Ozeki, the question sparked questions of her own. Often for authors...
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