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Upcoming
Annual General Meeting
Tuesday, March 2, 8:00pm
(7:30pm AGM meeting for Katari Taiko)
at Tonari Gumi
511 East Broadway
The PSF Society’s AGM will be held at 8:00pm on Tuesday, March 2, at Tonari Gumi. Katari Taiko’s AGM will start before at 7:30pm and we encourage all of you to attend both! This is a great opportunity to reconnect with the fun PSF folk for an evening, and learn about our plans for the coming year. And of course, there will be refreshments!
Thanks to everyone who made the 33rd Annual Powell Street Festival a great success!
Ongoing Projects
Powell Street Festival Society is involved in these important community-building projects. Please check them out!
Lost and Found
www.vaarc.ca/lostandfound
The Lost and Found website is the second half of a collaborative project produced by the Powell Street Festival Society and Access Artist Run Centre in 2006. Lost and Found was originally a group exhibition featuring the work of Judy Chartrand, Wayde Compton and Haruko Okano. Through an artistic residency with the PSFS and VAARC the three artists were asked to consider lost and forgotten “histories” that both linger and disappear within the context of the Downtown Eastside (DTES) of Vancouver, BC. Each artist produced new works that examined three particular neighbourhoods in the DTES: Japantown, Hogan’s Alley, and the area of land once attributed to the Squamish Nation.
2007 Anniversaries of Change
www.anniversaries07.ca
2007 Anniversaries of Change is a broad-based consortium of institutions and organizations that have come together to mark 2007 as an anniversary year in the quest for justice and a multicultural Canada. The years 1907, 1947, 1967, and 1997 each mark a watershed moment in the history of Asian migrants in Canada and in their struggles to fight discrimination and create the society of today. In commemorating them together in the year 2007, we acknowledge the great changes they reflect in Canadian history over the last 100 years.
Join Now!
What can you get for 12 bucks?
A Lifetime Membership to the Powell Street Festival Society!
You get two exciting issues of the PSFS Newsletter (Including a sneak preview of each year’s Festival)! And it’s a great way to support the Festival and keep in touch.
To become a member, please go to our membership page to print or download an application form.
Please donate
For the Powell Street Festival Society to continue its work producing a free festival and supporting artists and other community groups, we need to raise a lot of funds. We hope you can help us. Please click on the logo below to donate now!
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Welcome!
The Powell Street Festival Society’s (PSFS) mission is to celebrate the arts and culture of Japanese Canadians and Asian Canadians, to encourage Asian Canadians to take a leadership role in the development of the arts in Canada, and to foster community development through cultural events. Our main activity is the presentation of the Powell Street Festival (PSF), an annual celebration of Japanese Canadian arts, culture and heritage. Find out more about us…
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2010 Festival Applications
The applications for performer and vendors (food, crafts, displays or community booths) for the 2010 Festival are now posted! Read more…
PSFS Winter 2010 Newsletter
Read all the latest news in the Powell Street Festival Society’s Winter Newsletter. Download a pdf of this newsletter by clicking on the following link: Volume 16, Number 1 – Feb 2010 (740 kb).
Participate
Volunteers Needed!
Would you like to be involved in the Festival and/or Society events? It’s a lot of fun and a great way to be part of something exciting. Read more…
Ongoing Call for Proposals
We are always looking for new artists and projects to present. Read more…
Merchandise
Matsuri: A Collection of Works by Japanese Canadian Musicians and Composers
Launched in 2003, Matsuri is a diverse and eclectic collection of works by Japanese Canadian musicians, plus an exclusive live track by Japanese artist Noriko Tujiko. Get your copy for only CDN $15! Read more…
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