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ASIAN CANADIAN AUTHORS’ PANEL
“THE JAPANESE CANADIAN EXPERIENCE IN LITERATURE”
@ METRO HALL ART AND PHOTO EXHIBITIONS
FREE ADMISSION
Date and Time: Wednesday May 25, 7 pm
Venue: Room 309, Metro Hall, 55 John Street, Map at http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=991f957970422410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD&vgnextchannel=68f2590dd3412410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD
Details and poster at http://www.vmacch.ca/alpha/events/index.html
ADMISSION FREE Please RSVP on Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/asian-canadian-authors-panel-tickets-25239128914
An evening with famous Asian Canadian authors to explore the Japanese Canadian experience in Literature
Introduction: Jim Wong Chu
Moderator: Professor Ted Goossen (Humanities, York University)
Panelists:
Lynne Kutsukake
Terry Watada
Kerri Sakamoto
Leslie Shimotakahara
Description
ASIAN CANADIAN AUTHORS’ PANEL
“THE JAPANESE CANADIAN EXPERIENCE IN LITERATURE”
Introduction: Jim Wong Chu
Moderator: Professor Ted Goossen (Humanities, York University)
Panel: Lynne Kutsukake, Terry Watada, Kerri Sakamoto and Leslie Shimotakahara
Jim Wong Chu, a published poet, author, editor, and historian, is well- known as a co-founder of the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop, Ricepaper Magazine, Pender Guy Radio Program, Asia Canadian Performing Arts Resource (ACPAR), literASIAN: A Festival of Pacific Rim Asian Canadian Writing, and the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Festival. He has also co-edited several anthologies of Asian Canadian writers.
Lynne Kutsukake's debut novel, The Translation of Love, an emotionally gripping portrait of postwar Japan, where a newly repatriated girl must help a classmate find her missing sister is published by Penguin Random House
Canada.
Terry Watada has written in all genres including fiction (Daruma Days: A Collection of Fictionalised Biography, Kuroshio: The Blood of Foxes), poetry (A Thousand Homes, Ten Thousand Views of Rain, Obon: The Festival of the Dead and The Game of 100 Ghosts) and edited Collected Voices: An Anthology of Asian North American Periodical Writing anthology.
Kerri Sakamoto's debut novel, The Electrical Field (1998), won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. It also won the Canada-Japan Literary Award and was a finalist for a Governor General's Award. Her second novel, One Hundred Million Hearts was published in 2003. Both books have been published in translation internationally.
Leslie Shimotakahara is the author of The Reading List: Literature, Love and Back Again, a memoir (Variety Crossing Press) and the winner of the 2012 Canada-Japan Literary Award.
AUTHORS’ PANEL | Wednesday May 25, 7 pm | Room 309, Metro Hall
ASIAN CANADIAN ART AND PHOTO EXHIBITION | Friday, May 20, 2016 to Thursday, May 26, 2016 | Metro Hall Rotunda
Map at http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=991f957970422410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD&vgnextchannel=68f2590dd3412410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD
FEATURED EXHIBITION:
• An Eclectic Display of Photographic Images by Dr. Neville Poy
• Photographs by Mr. Stephen Siu, Chair of Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto
• Photographs by Award-Winning Photographer Mr. Tam Kam Chiu
• Works by renowned Asian Canadian Photographers and Visual Artists
• Artists and photographers will be on site doing demonstrations and workshops
Co-Organizers: Asian Heritage Month—Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) Inc.; Justin Poy Agency; Chinese Canadian Photography Society of Toronto; WE Artists’ Group; literASIAN; Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre; Toronto Public Library; York Centre for Asian Research, York University; Richard Charles Lee Canada Hong Kong Library; Social Services Network
Asian Heritage Month Festival is partially funded by the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
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