The Canada Council for the Arts has announced that Midi Onodera is among this year’s winners of the $25,000 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts.  The prestigious awards are funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, recognizing artistic achievement in visual and media arts and fine craft. Onodera, a JC Toronto media artist, […]

Spatial Poetics, the Powell Street Festival Society’s annual evening of experimental performance pieces, returns July 8, 2017 for its sixteenth year with “Spatial Poetics XVI: KIYO 生き残り (Honouring the living memory of invisible lives).”In Spatial Poetics, artists are invited to create new performances together and encouraged to work beyond their usual disciplines.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 2 SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 3, 2017 Nikkei Matsuri will be held on the Labour Day Weekend, from 11am-7pm at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre (Kingsway at Sperling in Burnaby)

Saturday, August 5 & Sunday, August 6, 2017. The Powell Street Festival is the largest Japanese Canadian festival in the country and the longest-running community arts celebration in Vancouver. Highlights from this year’s extravaganza include performances from the dynamic duo George & Noriko – a Japanese blues cowboy and Tsugaru shamisen player from Melbourne, Australia who will play an additional performance with local musicians Bernie Arai and Brian Minato; a screening of episodes from Almost Asian – a web series created and starring Katie Malia, who will be in attendance from LA and more . . .