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CALGARY — Growing up, filmmaker Guillaume Carlier would visit a cabin on Trout Lake in British Columbia with his family. On the way, they would …
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Swathed in the unlikely comfort of warm grey tones, Toronto-based musician Hiroki Tanaka (田中博基) can be seen on the album cover for his debut solo record, …
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Read Part 1 >> If you were to design a mask for yourself for these times, what might it look like? My favourite recent mask …
“The artist is meant to put the objects of this world together in such a way that through them you will experience that light, that …
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Read Part 5 >> In the eighties and nineties, there were many reunions for the war years’ relocation centres and pre-war Japanese School classes. At …
Read Part 4 >> The usual everyday happenings were of reacquainting with old friends, making new ones, attending dances on Fridays which were held at …
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Read Part 1 >> Vancouver Speaks... Sansei Howard Shimokura of Vancouver, 82, says: “I use both terms but never interchangeably. They are not equivalent. In …
When I got a “No comment,” response from Karah Goshinmon Foster, Executive Director, Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre (NNMCC), speaking on behalf of the …
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Read Part 3 >> The life in Lemon Creek settled down to mundane everyday life. There was no running water in the individual homes. The …
Read Part 2 >> The only pleasure Frank used to have during these hard times was going fishing down Gore Avenue to make a few …
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