Documenting the west coast Nikkei experience [and beyond] from the viewpoint of a hapa Nikkei graphic designer, editor, photographer, taiko player & teacher.
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Following a successful ’08 tour across Canada, the Yoshida Brothers return to Victoria and Vancouver, BC. Staying true to their ability to fuse different styles of music with the traditional, the brothers have added a percussionist to their already brilliant performance adding a whole new sound and vibe.
May 22, 2009- 8 PM
Victoria, BC
Alix Goolden Performance Hall
907 Pandora Ave.
Tel. 250-386-5311
Tickets: TBA
May 23, 2009- 8 PM
Vancouver, BC
Vogue Theatre
918 Granville St.
Tel. 604-612-2955
Tickets: TBA
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Rabbit Gravity
Prints and drawings by Mariko Ando
Exhibition opening
April 3, 2009, 6:00pm-9:00pm
Exhibition of original prints and drawings
April 3-9, 2009
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, noon-6:00pm
Eastwood Onley Gallery, 2075 Alberta Street (604.739.0429)
www.marikogallery.com
In Rabbit Gravity, award-winning illustrator Mariko Ando offers playful deliberations on the beloved long-earred icon of the Easter season. The bunny-centric exhibition of prints and pen-and-ink drawings runs April 3-9 at Vancouver’s Eastwood Onley Gallery.
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My friend Linda Ohama is offering up three of her screens for sale. They are beautiful pieces of work. See below for details. And support this wonderful artist!
I have decided to sell some of ‘west coast rain series’ that I have been saving for a ‘rainy day’. That ‘rainy day’ is here, as [...]
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts presents: Theatre Replacement’s TRAIN by Maiko Bae Yamamoto at the STUDIO THEATRE 6450 Deer Lake Avenue October 8-11, 8pm
Box office: 604 205 3000 or boxoffice@burnaby.ca www.shadboltcentre.com
In a crowded Tokyo train station, a sharply dressed man waits for the love of his life to arrive. At the [...]
Shinju is a classic love story set in Osaka Japan in 1703. Despite their class differences, Toku and Ohatsu fall hopelessly in love and promise to marry. Life, however, has a cruel way of forcing them to choose the only way to be together; to commit double suicide so they can be reunited [...]
When iconic Canadian artist Toni Onley died in a plane crash on February 29, 2004, he left behind a legacy of paintings that documented his love of the British Columbia coast. A new exhibition that opens October 24 called Love, Toni xox shows another side of the man, offering an intimate glimpse into the romantic musings and private pain of one of Canada’s most beloved artists. Love, Toni xox is comprised of illustrated love letters written to photographer Yukiko Onley during the breakdown of their marriage in the early 1990s.
The more than two-dozen letters offer up ruminations on love and loss written in fine italic handwriting and are accompanied by depictions of landscapes and figures created in sumi drawing style on Japanese rice paper.
The original illustrated letters will be on display at the Onley Eastwood Gallery from October 24 to November 6. An accompanying limited edition book of the same name contains reproductions that are virtually indistinguishable from the original letters. The books are offered for sale at $3500 per copy, hand-bound and slip-cased in Aubergine Japanese bookcloth. The lengthy reproduction process for Love, Toni xox was meticulously overseen by publisher Robert Reid.
Exhibition opening and book launch
October 24, 2008, 6:00pm-10:00pm
Exhibition of original artwork and limited edition book
October 24-November 6, 2008
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, noon-6:00pm
Onley Eastwood Gallery, 2075 Alberta Street
For more information, call 604.739.0429
Yukiko Onley Interview
I spoke to Yukiko Onley, a highly sought-after portrait photographer based in Vancouver, on the eve of the exhibition.
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Saturday, October 25, 2008, 2pm National Nikkei Museum & Heritage Centre 6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby, BC
Featuring Alcvin Takegawa Ramos on shakuhachi and biwa and Satomi Saeki on koto. With poems chanted in English and original Japanese by Jan Walls and Maiko Behr. Masters of traditional Japanese music, Ramos and Saeki offer moving [...]
Nagata Shochu
On Wednesday, November 12 2008, a once in a lifetime event will take place at Kobayashi Hall as former members of Toronto Suwa Daiko (Toronto’s first taiko group 1982-1992), Yakudo, and Nagata Shachu join forces in a tribute concert to taiko pioneer Daihachi Oguchi. Grandmaster Daihachi Oguchi was the founder of [...]
THE BEST OF ASIAN CULTURE ON DISPLAY AT ANNUAL TWO-DAY
ROAD TO ASIA FESTIVAL 2008
The Road to Asia Festival 2008 is a two-day festival, which promotes cross-cultural dialogue and understanding through artistic expression. The festival creates a thriving multicultural atmosphere by showcasing food, martial arts, dance, arts and crafts and music. On the Road to Asia, the Asian community celebrates the individuality of each culture within the context of the entire Asian region.
This year’s festival will feature a rich mix of cultures of several Asian counties including: the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Thailand, China, Taiwan, Sri Lanka and Japan.
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Special Reception for Hiromi Goto Friday, October 3, 2008 Harbour Centre, Simon Fraser University (1400 Segal Centre) 515 West Hastings Street at Seymour 7:30 – 9:30 pm
The reception features a reading by Hiromi Goto. It is open to all members of the Simon Fraser University community [...]
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