Matsuri Summer Festival Japanese Event Vancouver 2025 Powell Street Festival
Matsuri Summer Festival Japanese Event Vancouver 2025 Powell Street Festival

Saturday, August 2 & Sunday, August 3

in Oppenheimer Park and the surrounding area!

Powell Street Festival is one of the largest and longest-running community arts festivals in Canada, located in Vancouver’s historic Japanese Canadian neighbourhood, Paueru Gai – today known as the Downtown Eastside. The Powell Street Festival Society also offers year-round programs, and collaborates with local organizations, artists, and communities.

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Makoto Chi is a tattoo artist with over 20 years of experience, as well as a sculptor, illustrator, and painter. His artwork is informed by his mixed heritages, exploring diasporic mythologies with a sense of tenderness, curiousity and edge. He fondly remembers attending Paueru Gai as a child and it is a high honor to witness the development of the festival, and be a part of a long tradition of Nikkei community, joy, culture-sharing, and solidarity work. Makoto Chi grew up in Vancouver in the DTES and Chinatown neighbourhoods, and currently lives at Lupinewood Collective, an arts and organizing space in Western Massachusetts.

Makoto Chiは、20年以上の経験を持つタトゥーアーティストであり、彫刻家、イラストレーター、そして画家としても活動しています。彼の作品は、自身の多様なルーツに根ざし、ディアスポラとしての神話や物語を、やさしさと好奇心、そして独特の鋭さをもって表現しています。

幼い頃にパウエル街を訪れた思い出を大切にしており、祭りの発展を目の当たりにし、長い歴史ある日系コミュニティー、その喜びと文化交流、結束に関われることを大変光栄に感じています。

バンクーバーのダウンタウン・イーストサイドおよびチャイナタウン地区で育ち、現在はマサチューセッツ州西部にあるアートとコミュニティ・オーガナイジングのスペース「Lupinewood Collective」で暮らしています。

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