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Programmeguide Staff Greetings Julia Aoki, Interim General Manager and Programming Director I’m so proud to take on the role of Interim General Manager Powell Street Festival 2011 and Programming Director for the Powell Street Festival’s 35th year. It’s already been a wild ride: we celebrated the Festival’s 35th with an auction and square dance fundraiser in June and we celebrated the 10th anniversary of Spatial Poetics with some rockin’ live performances, fi lm screenings, and a book launch earlier this month. We’ve partnered with Pacifi c Cinémathèque to bring you the craziest fi lms we could fi nd for Kibatsu, and we partnered with RedShift music to present André Cormier and Yota Kobayashi’s lovely compositions. And with all the momentum we’ve built up along the way, we’re gearing up for a festival weekend P r o g r a m m e G u i d e brimming with festival favourites like Omikoshi, Matsuri President’s Message Odori, historical walking tours, taiko, martial arts demos, Nina Inaoka Lee activities for the kids, and lots of Japanese foods. It is my honour to welcome you to the 35th Anniversary of the Powell Street Festival as just one of the many volun- teer faces you will see during the weekend! What I enjoy most about the festival is how it draws on the strengths of the community and brings about unity to showcase the Japanese Canadian and Asian Canadian arts, culture, and heritage. This year is no different with taiko, martial arts, sumo, song, fi lms, traditional and con- temporary performances, cultural displays, ceremonial demonstrations and more. The program of events and participants in and around the park are so varied that We are also very pleased to present a range of original works I would encourage you to meet the com- and performances. Julie Tamiko Manning and Matt Miwa munity members and artists that are behind perform an original theatrical piece inspired by the oral Congratulations to the the various festival food, community and craft histories of internment and resettlement gathered through booths. Many participants use the Powell Street a series of conversations across dinner tables. Dance group 35th Annual Festival as one of their main modes of raising awareness 605 Collective presents a new work in which members move Powell Street Festival! in the community and fundraising to help support their between the roles of choreographer and performer as they respective programs throughout the year. collectively explore questions of generational movement. Vancouver Main Store Vancouver Downtown Be sure to take some time over the festival weekend to Chibi Taiko, a festival regular, teams up with Aboriginal Tel: 604-251-3711 Tel: 604-608-1050 visit the new installation of the Open Doors project with youth drumming group Spakwus Slulum for a special cross- 912 Clark Drive • Vancouver, BC 112 - 1050 W. Pender Street • Vancouver, BC permanent panels showcasing the histories of the store- cultural collaborative performance. And Jeremy Isao Speier Mon - Sat 9AM - 7PM / Sun 10AM - 7PM Mon - Fri 10AM - 6PM fronts around Oppenheimer Park in years past and present investigates transformations in the electronic devices that mediate our everyday experiences through his sculptural in- Richmond Victoria through the 300-400 blocks of Powell Street. This is sure to exhibit the thriving Japanese community that once called stallations on display at BLIM from July 29 to August 28 (join Tel: 604 -270-3715 Tel: 250-598-3711 this area Japan town. us for the opening reception at 6:30pm on Friday, July 29!) 113 - 3086 St. Edwards Drive • Vancouver, BC 3624 Shelbourne Street • Victoria, BC For our 35th anniversary, we will also be visited by artists Mon - Sun 10AM - 7PM Mon - Sat 10AM - 6PM / Sun 11AM - 6PM Our commitment to the festival in its historic location and keeping this community tradition going is as strong as from across Canada and beyond. –sei trio brings together Hi Genki Japanese Restaurant always. To support this free public festival please consider Yuki Isami (Japan), Keiko Devaux (Quebec) and Vivien Ni- shi (BC) for a musical presentation that mixes traditional Tel: 604-777-0533 Orders making a donation at the Information booth, purchasing Japanese sounds with contemporary arrangements. The 6680 Southoaks Crescent • Burnaby, BC Catering: 604-251-9093 a lottery ticket at the Lottery booth and/or festival mer- venerable emcee Nish Raawks joins us from Toronto Mon - Sun 11:30AM - 3PM / 6PM - 8:30PM Pick Up: 604-251-1988 chandise at the Festival Sales booth! for the second time. And we are very fortunate to have Please help me in thanking the amazing sponsors and commu- singer/songwriter Goh Nakamura from San Francisco and nity partners, dedicated and tireless volunteers, committee, NikaSaya from Hiroshima and Tokyo in town for a double www.fujiya.ca Board and staff members who share our passion for making bill performance at Chapel Arts at 6:30pm on Friday, July the festival what it is today. There is something for everyone 29, as well as weekend festival performances. at the festival and I hope you will enjoy the long weekend! Join us in a celebration of 35 wonderful years! 26 The Bulletin I 27 ABOUT US OPENING CEREMONIES LOTTERY We begin the festivities with a First Nations blessing by Sam George of the Squamish Nation and with greetings by guests MP Libby Davies, MLA Jenny PRIZES and Powell Street Festival Society 2010-2011 Powell Street Festival 2011 Kwan, Mayor Gregor Robertson, and Consul General of Japan Hideki Ito. Board of Directors FUNDERS DONORS Board of Directors The Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Nina Inaoka Lee, President Canadian Heritage, the Province of British Columbia through John Yamazaki, Vice-President Direct Access to Charitable Gaming, the BC Arts Council, the CHILDREN,S TENT HELP SUPPORT THE Miko Hoffman, Treasurer City of Vancouver through the Offi ce of Cultural Affairs, The (12:00pm-5:00pm only) POWELL STREET FESTIVAL! Reiko Shimizu, Secretary National Association of Japanese Canadians, Sunrise Soya Take part in a variety of free, supervised children’s activities in the tent, Lia Cosco, Director Lottery tickets are only $2 each and Foods, the Strathcona Business Improvement Association Saturday & Sunday, 12:00pm-5:00pm. Please sign up for Suika Wari, Tug of Steve Tajiri, Director draws are held all weekend long (fi nal War, and Kiai Contest ahead of time in the tent; space is limited. (Note: this MEDIA draw will be held at 6:45pm on Sunday, Programming Committee is not a child-care program, so please do not leave your children unattended) CTV, The Georgia Straight, Haiku Media, Vancouver Shinpo, July 31 ). Proceeds go to support the Miko Hoffman Catrina Longmuir Powell Street Festival Society. Kristen Lambertson Kaori Kasai the Bulletin Magazine, and Megaphone Magazine, Schema Magazine, Co-op Radio Watermelon Game (Suika Wari) Naomi Horii Susanne Tabata Saturday, 2:00-2:30pm GRAND PRIZES Yuriko Iga Nina Inaoka Lee Two Round Trip Tickets to Tokyo SPONSORS & DONORS Put on a blindfold, hit the watermelon, and win a prize! Boon Kondo Julia Aoki, Chair - Japan Airlines Japan Airlines, OK Gift Shop, Canadian Springs, Capers Advocacy Committee Whole Foods Market, Dan-D-Pak™, Ethical Bean Coffee, Kamashibai $1000 Gift Certifi cate - OK Gift Shop Julia Aoki, Chair Fujiya, Glico, NatureLand Products Ltd., Safeway, Trumps Fine Saturday/Sunday, 3:00-3:30pm, Story-time Tree Fun at the Festivals! Package: Miko Hoffman Food, Urban Fare Alberni Store, Urban Fare Coal Harbour Author Rebecca Kool and husband Takeshi Fuibe collaborated on Rebecca’s - two tickets to 2012 Vancouver International Greg Masuda Store, Tim Hortons, Vancouver International Writers Festival, fi rst children’s book,Fly Catcher Boy. Written in English with Japanese words Dance Festival performance of LINES Ballet Chisaki Muraki-Valdovinos Vancouver International Dance Festival, Bryan Uyesugi/ and expressions throughout the text, the book provides a window into Japa- in March 2012 Rika Uto FreshPoint Vancouver, Sunrise Soya Foods - two tickets to 2011 Vancouver International John Yamazaki nese language and culture. Kamashibai, Japan’s old-style of storytelling, was Writers Festival in October 2011 Kazuho Yamamoto created in the 1930s specifi cally for children. Join Rebecca and Takeshi under SPECIAL THANKS - two tickets to Vancouver New Music Andrew Yan the story-time tree to hear the exciting tale of the Fly Catcher Boy! Vancouver Japanese Language School and Hall, BSI production Site Committee Biodegradable Solutions, Vancouver International Children’s Tug-of-War Miko Hoffman Jon Nakane, Chair Festival, Vancouver New Music, Greek Day, Portland Hotel SUBSIDIARY PRIZES Saturday/Sunday, 4:00-4:30pm Naomi Horii Michael Ouchi Society and Lifeskills Centre, the City of Vancouver the Vancouver Opera: two tickets to Vancouver Work together as a team and win prizes! Please sign up in advance at the Nina Inaoka Lee Cat Renay Offi ce of Cultural Affairs and Engineering Department, Opera’s production of West Side Story at the Information Booth. Kristen Lambertson Kathy Shimizu Oppenheimer Park Staff, St. John Ambulance, John Endo Queen Elizabeth Theatre in October Peter Li Gweny Wong Greenaway and The Bulletin, Gossamer Threads Inc., BLIM, Panasonic Canada: (2) Panasonic Cordless Phone Naomi Akatsuka, Tonari Gumi, Diane Kadota, Bob Hake, Origami Festival Committee Vancouver Shinpo: (3) Vancouver Shinpo 1-year Kozue Matsumoto, John Hollander, VIVO Media Arts, ALL Sunday, 12:00-3:00pm subscription Children’s Tent Arianne Agustin, Junco Kumon of our dedicated
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