Miho Suzuki explores accent bias and identity in "The Improper Identity" at Toronto Fringe Festival
Kate Kamo McHugh retraces ancestors' journeys across Canadian landscapes
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A fork in the road: The life of Tetsuo "Sam" Sakaki, 1905-1982
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Suzu Hirose shines in two films coming to Canada this autumn
13 Mar 2024
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Left: Yonsei author Leanne Toshiko Simpson. Photo credit: Soko Negash. Right: The cover of Leanne Toshiko Simpson's debut novel, Never Been Better. Photo credit: HarperCollins Canada. The three friends have an unconventional origin story, meeting in a psychiatric ward to treat bipolar disorder....
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18 Jan 2024
Posted by Catherine Jo Ishino 
Karakoro perform the song Children Grow in Peace, part of the musical Naomi's Tree presented at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre on Aug. 17. Photo credit: Dave Ohashi. This refrain was sung by Karakoro, a performing art troupe from Osaka, during their musical Naomi’s Tree, based on the 2008...
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09 Nov 2023
Posted by Deanna Cheng 
"Lip Wrap / Air Hug / Energy Exchange" (2020) (Video, 2 min.) Text, Narration, Animation by Maiko Jinushi. Sound design by Youngchang Hwang. Photo credit: Deanna Cheng. Using poetry, drawing, and video installations, Jinushi created most of the artworks during the physical and emotional distancing...
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Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Written and directed by Meredith Hama-Brown, Seagrass is an exploration of racial identity, loss of culture, and intergenerational trauma. Photo courtesy: Pender PR. Through a family in crisis, Seagrass explores racial identity, the severance and loss of culture, and the intergenerational trauma...
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Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Starring (left to right)Brenda Kamino, Yoshié Bancroft, Hanako Brierley, Dawn Obokata, and Katelyn Morishita as Kiyoko, Mizushōbai (The Water Trade) runs at Segal Centre in Montreal from Oct. 10 to 22. Presented by Tableau D'Hôte Theatre, the play was written and created by Julie Tamiko Manning. Photo...
Read more → 27 Sep 2023
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Kenji Sawada as Tsutomu Mizukami and Takako Matsu as Machiko in director Yuji Nakae's The Zen Diary. Photo credit: Momo Films. The audience shares Machiko's delight as she savours each meal—mixed with a bit of jealousy—for foods they can only enjoy with their eyes. And that is what the film...
Read more → 13 Sep 2023
Posted by Suzanne Hartmann 
Kate Kamo McHugh performs 20 Grains of Rice in Toronto following a two-week technical residency supported by Dancemakers. Photo credit: Drew Berry. Yonsei Kamo McHugh is a Kitchener-based dance and theatre artist. Earlier this spring, she headed to Toronto to refine 20 Grains of Rice during a technical...
Read more → 22 Aug 2023
Posted by Catherine Jo Ishino 
Left: Author David Mura. Right: The cover of Mura's newest book, The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself. Photos courtesy: University of Minnesota Press. Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei (1991) I first encountered David Mura’s writing in his memoir, Turning Japanese, over 30 years ago. Likely...
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Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Left: Author Darcy Tamayose. Right: The cover of Tamayose's novel Ezra's Ghosts. While Tamayose explores and experiments with storytelling pace, density, and flow, each story is linked with the characters' comings and goings in the fictional town of Ezra. Ezra takes influences from the prairie...
Read more → 15 Aug 2023
Posted by Andrea Sakiyama Kennedy 
Author and artist PJ Murashige Patten uses art to process his experiences of the world. Left: Author and artist PJ Murashige Patten. Photo credit: Eden Patten. Right: The cover of Patten's graphic memoir Tower25. Photo courtesy: PJ Patten. Patten’s graphic novel memoir, Tower25: Strung out,...
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