Kevin Lau's Kimiko's Pearl Symphonic Suite world premiere with Toronto Symphony Opera
Gary Kawaguchi conferred Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays
Omote: A melding of artistic expressions and experiences
Suzanne Hartmann's hybrid memoir explores convergence of personal and community stories
YAMATO: The Drummers of Japan to visit 35 cities in the U.S. and Canada with new program
Past and present collide in dancer Takako Segawa's new performance
Artist Miya Turnbull reveals the layers beneath in new solo exhibition
JCAM's Aurora Dance Group hosts a weekend of friendship and fun through Japanese folk dance
The Hollow Man: JC artist looking for community feedback
Author Lynne Kutsukake explores the bustling art world of '70s Tokyo in The Art of Vanishing
09 May 2023
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Enemy Lines, performed and choreographed by dance artist Mayumi Lashbrook, runs at Theatre Centre in Toronto from May 12 to 14 and at McMaster University's L.R. Wilson Hall in Hamilton from May 26 to 28. Photo credit: Jess Bullock. The performance explores the actions taken against Japanese Canadians—like...
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04 May 2023
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Shion Skye Carter and Miya Turnbull perform Omote (面), a dance piece they created and choreographed together in Montreal and Toronto this May. Photo credit: Nanne Springer. Multi-disciplinary artist Miya Turnbull paired with dance artist and choreographer Shion Skye Carter, and an instant spark...
Read more → 16 Mar 2023
Posted by Sachiko Okuda 
Norman Takeuchi, Meeting Place, 2005, acrylic on canvas, 76.2 x 91.4 cm. Private Collection of Alana Kainz. Photo credit: Justin Wonnacott. Takeuchi was born in Vancouver in 1937. In 1942, he, his two brothers, and their parents were forcibly dispersed to the tiny settlement of Westwold in the B.C....
Read more → 15 Mar 2023
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Director Stafford Arima on bringing Mark Sakamoto's award-winning memoir, Forgiveness, to the stage. Yoshie Bancroft stars as Mitsue Sakamoto alongside Kevin Takahide Lee as Hideo Sakamoto in the stage adaptation of Forgiveness. Photo credit: Moonrider Productions. In Forgiveness, Sakamoto explores...
Read more → 09 Mar 2023
Posted by James Heron 
Chieko Baisho (right) stars in director Chie Hayakawa's eerie and dark Plan 75. Photo credit: Plan 75/TIFF. Director Chie Hayakawa's superb first feature film opens with an eerily similar pre-credits scene, but the setting is a seniors' home. Cut to post credits, and we are a few years into the future....
Read more → 25 Jan 2023
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Artists Annie Sumi and Brian Kobayakawa are the creators of Kintsugi, an anti-racist, interactive art installation at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre until March 17. TORONTO — In the heart of the Moriyama Nikkei Heritage Centre at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre sits a prewar treadle-powered...
Read more → 18 Jan 2023
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Self-portrait #5 by Miya Turnbull. Japanese Canadian artist Miya Turnbull's solo exhibition, Inward, Outwards, runs at Acadia University Art Gallery until Feb. 7, 2023. Photo credit: Miya Turnbull. The exhibit's focal point is a wall featuring 100 of Turnbull's masks. The space is filled with...
Read more → 02 Nov 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Residuals (住み・墨) by Japanese Canadian choreographer and dance artist Shion Skye Carter runs at the Scotiabank Dance Centre from Friday, Nov. 4 to Saturday, Nov. 5. For tickets and more information, visit the Dance Centre's website. Photo credit: Lula-Belle Jedynak Carter began developing Residuals as...
Read more → 20 Oct 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Ichigo-Ichie 一期一会: One Time - One Meeting offered three unique tearoom experiences for visitors at Nuit Blanche at the JCCC on Oct. 1. Photo credit: Dr. Jonathan Eto. For the first time, the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre joined in on the fun of Nuit Blanche, as hundreds of people dropped...
Read more → 18 Oct 2022
Posted by Kelly Fleck 
Ottawa-based dancer, choreographer and teacher Takako Segawa's new dance film, "Sho ga nai - It can't be helped," honours the Japanese Canadians sent to prisoner of war camps 80 years ago. Photo credit: Sarolta Gyoker. Called Sho ga nai – It can't be helped, Segawa was inspired by the use of the Japanese...
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