Nikkei Place http://www.nikkeiplace.org Sat, 12 May 2012 23:35:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 New exhibition honors the 70th Anniversary of Japanese Canadian Internment http://www.nikkeiplace.org/japanese-canadian-national-museum/new-exhibition-honors-the-70th-anniversary-of-japanese-canadian-internment/ http://www.nikkeiplace.org/japanese-canadian-national-museum/new-exhibition-honors-the-70th-anniversary-of-japanese-canadian-internment/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 21:40:05 +0000 nikkei http://www.nikkeiplace.org/?p=4964 New exhibition YO-IN 余韻 Reverberation featuring artists – Nobuo Kubota, Cindy Mochizuki, Kazuo Nakamura, Emma Nishimura, Louise Noguchi, Jon Sasaki, Aiko Suzuki and Shizuye Takashima – at the Nikkei National Museum opens on Saturday, May 19 with a reception on Thursday, May 24, 7-9pm. Please RSVP to jcnm@nikkeiplace.org or 604.777.7000 ext.109 to attend the reception – everyone is welcome. Gallery hours are 11am-5pm, Tuesday to Saturday (closed Sunday & Monday). Admission by donation. Exhibit runs till August 25, 2012.

YO-IN 余韻 Reverberation questions the legacy of the Japanese Canadian internment and examines its continued reverberation in today’s world. YO-IN brings together two groups of contemporary artists of Japanese Canadian ancestry: senior artists who lived through internment juxtaposed with the current generation. Rather than a literal retelling, the selected artworks address themes of memory, place, and identity.

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Saturday, June 9, 10am-5pm
Fees (includes lunch): STIBC • JCCA Members – $50 / Non-members – $70
http://www.nikkeiplace.org/upcoming-events/translation-and-interpreting-workshop-june-9/

]]> http://www.nikkeiplace.org/upcoming-events/translation-and-interpreting-workshop/feed/ 0 Entry forms now available for the 7th Annual Nikkei Classic Golf Tournament, June 24! http://www.nikkeiplace.org/upcoming-events/entry-forms-now-available-for-the-7th-annual-nikkei-classic-golf-tournament-june-24/ http://www.nikkeiplace.org/upcoming-events/entry-forms-now-available-for-the-7th-annual-nikkei-classic-golf-tournament-june-24/#comments Sat, 05 May 2012 06:32:45 +0000 nikkei http://www.nikkeiplace.org/?p=4954 We hope that you will take part in what can only be described as the most congenial and friendly golf competition. New this year, we have a hole in one sponsor! Pan Pacific Nissan Richmond has generously donated a Nissan 370Z Coupe with 7spd AT (value $44,000)! Tickets will sell fast so call today! Please register by calling Nikkei Centre at 604-777-7000. More info here.

]]> http://www.nikkeiplace.org/upcoming-events/entry-forms-now-available-for-the-7th-annual-nikkei-classic-golf-tournament-june-24/feed/ 0 HANATARE BOZU BOOK LAUNCH http://www.nikkeiplace.org/upcoming-events/hanatare-bozu-book-launch/ http://www.nikkeiplace.org/upcoming-events/hanatare-bozu-book-launch/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 17:00:14 +0000 nikkei http://www.nikkeiplace.org/?p=4869 Saturday, June 2, 3:00pm
Hanatare Bozu: Runny-nosed Brats of Greenwood is a story of Nikkei children living in post-war era in an internment camp town of Greenwood, BC. These children of the ‘50s lived in much simpler times when they had to explore and utilize resources around town to create new games. The first edition sold out even before copies reached the Nikkei National Museum shop. Join us to celebrate the 2nd edition of Hanatare Bozu, which is considerably more detailed and complete with rare photos from the Greenwood Museum and the Fransiscan Sisters Archives, and includes many more humorous anecdotes. Author Chuck Tasaka will be in attendance. The book will be available for $25.

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Join author Susan Aihoshi as she reads from her book Torn Apart – The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi. Aihoshi draws from the experiences of her own family during “The Uprooting” of the Japanese in BC during WWII. Through young Mary’s eyes, readers experience this regrettable time in Canadian history firsthand. Aihoshi will present a slide-show of period photos as well as photos taken in the Slocan Valley during her research, plus other photos of interest. Although the book is recommended for ages 8 to 12, the presentation is designed for all ages. We encourage parents and grandparents to attend with their children or grandchildren. Books will be available for purchase, and Susan Aihoshi will sign copies.

Torn Apart website

An intimate conversation with “Torn Apart” author Susan Aihoshi on Discover Nikkei

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Water Children

Aliona van der Horst, The Netherlands, 2011, 75 mins
Sunday May 6 | 4:30 PM | Vancity Theatre

In a remote Japanese farming community, where few of the residents have ever set foot in a museum, multidisciplinary artist Tomoko Mukaiyama builds a massive installation on the theme of menstruation. Villagers are invited to roam freely in the cathedral-like space made of 12,000 white silk dresses. While some publicly mock the project, a surprising number seize the opportunity to penetrate a taboo topic. Occasionally whimsical but always heartfelt, women voice their innermost thoughts on sexuality, motherhood, fertility, and menopause. Knowing that some aspects of life are difficult to express in words, filmmaker Aliona van der Horst observes ancient rituals and sacred monuments in Japan that convey deeper cultural beliefs about miscarriages and infant mortality. Mukaiyama, who is also an accomplished pianist, underscores the film with an adaption of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations. The result is a majestic ode to the female body and spirit.
http://doxafestival.ca/festival/films/water

Just Beyond Hope

Pia Massie, Canada, 2012, 73 mins
Friday May 11 | 6:30 PM | Vancity Theatre

Pia Massie’s remarkable documentary essay brings home the immediacy of life in the Japanese internment camps set up by the Canadian and American governments during WWII. The quotidian details of everyday existence recounted in letters and postcards reveal the raw wound of this experience. Social worker Margaret Sage’s descriptions of Tashme, an internment camp located just outside of the town of Hope, provide another perspective. Dorothea Lange’s remarkable photos of Japanese-Americans being interned, only recently released by the US government, offer a startling glimpse across the border. The fragmented, shifting form of lived experience and real history is given cinematic language in Massie’s elegiac and emotional film. Many of the people who lived in the camps are now in their 80s, and their stories are a legacy of cultural and family history that is carefully captured and preserved in this beautiful film.
http://doxafestival.ca/festival/films/just_beyond

Water Children

Aliona van der Horst, The Netherlands, 2011, 75 mins

Sunday May 6 | 4:30 PM | Vancity Theatre

In a remote Japanese farming community, where few of the residents have ever set foot in a museum, multidisciplinary artist Tomoko Mukaiyama builds a massive installation on the theme of menstruation. Villagers are invited to roam freely in the cathedral-like space made of 12,000 white silk dresses. While some publicly mock the project, a surprising number seize the opportunity to penetrate a taboo topic. Occasionally whimsical but always heartfelt, women voice their innermost thoughts on sexuality, motherhood, fertility, and menopause. Knowing that some aspects of life are difficult to express in words, filmmaker Aliona van der Horst observes ancient rituals and sacred monuments in Japan that convey deeper cultural beliefs about miscarriages and infant mortality. Mukaiyama, who is also an accomplished pianist, underscores the film with an adaption of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations. The result is a majestic ode to the female body and spirit.

Just Beyond Hope

Pia Massie, Canada, 2012, 73 mins

Friday May 11 | 6:30 PM | Vancity Theatre

Pia Massie’s remarkable documentary essay brings home the immediacy of life in the Japanese internment camps set up by the Canadian and American governments during WWII. The quotidian details of everyday existence recounted in letters and postcards reveal the raw wound of this experience. Social worker Margaret Sage’s descriptions of Tashme, an internment camp located just outside of the town of Hope, provide another perspective. Dorothea Lange’s remarkable photos of Japanese-Americans being interned, only recently released by the US government, offer a startling glimpse across the border. The fragmented, shifting form of lived experience and real history is given cinematic language in Massie’s elegiac and emotional film. Many of the people who lived in the camps are now in their 80s, and their stories are a legacy of cultural and family history that is carefully captured and preserved in this beautiful film.

]]> http://www.nikkeiplace.org/news/win-tickets-to-two-doxa-films/feed/ 0 Japanese Small Harp Festival http://www.nikkeiplace.org/upcoming-events/japanese-small-harp-festival/ http://www.nikkeiplace.org/upcoming-events/japanese-small-harp-festival/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 17:00:21 +0000 nikkei http://www.nikkeiplace.org/?p=4850

KINSEIRYU KIKUYAEKAI
Saturday, May 26, 1pm
Admission: Free
The taisho-koto is a Japanese stringed musical instrument, called the Japanese Small Harp, and was invented about 90 years ago. From popular children’s song to classical and popular music, the musical sound of the taisho-koto is loved by more than a million people in Japan. Kinseiryu—one of the five major taisho-koto schools in Japan—has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City and in Europe, Australia and China.

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Admission: Free
Join author Tatsuo Kage and guest speakers to celebrate the English publication of UPROOTED AGAIN: Japanese Canadians Move to Japan after World War II. Copies of the book will be available at the event, and refreshments will be served.
http://www.nikkeiplace.org/upcoming-events/uprooted-again-book-launch-may-19/

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