2014 Powell Street Festival Applications are now online!

Photo of slippers being sold at a craft booth at the 2012 Powell Street Festival, taken by Noah Photography

The Powell Street Festival is currently accepting applications for participation in this year’s Festival. Please fill out the appropriate form online. Please note that we are no longer accepting faxed or hard copy applications. The final deadline for applications is Monday March 3rd, 2014. Please call the PSFS office at 604 739 9388 if you … Read more

Support the Ming Sun – Uchida Building at 439 Powell Street

Photo of Ming Sun Benevolent Society - Uchida Family Building at 439 Powell Street

The historic building at 439 Powell Street was almost demolished in December 2013 but the community has rallied to try to save it. Please read this article in The Bulletin for more information and at the Friends of 439 Powell website. Petition to the Vancouver City Council to Restore and Repair 439 Powell Street Please … Read more

February Newsletter available now!

Our latest newsletter has been published! Download the Winter 2014 Newsletter. Powell Street Festival 2013 in Review By Kristen Lambertson 2013 was by far one of our busiest years ever! 2013 included Orientique at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Gardens – an evening of dance, musical performance and fashion; Kibatsu Cinema at the Cinema- theque; … Read more

Letter to Mayor Gregor Robertson Addressing the Demolition of 411 Powell Street

Open Doors Panel of 441 Powell Street and its history

Letter to Mayor Gregor Robertson Addressing the Demolition of 411 Powell Street To read a letter from Powell Street Festival Society’s President Nina Inaoka Lee to Mayor Gregor Robertson addressing the demolition order for 437-441 Powell Street please click on the link below: MayorandCouncil_437-441PowellSt A building of historical importance to the Chinese Canadian and Japanese … Read more

Children of Redress

Bound for internment camps in 1942. Source: Nikkei National Museum item# 1994-69-4-29 An interesting documentary film about Japanese Canadians’ epic call for justice, Children of Redress by filmmaker Greg Masuda was shown at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre’s A Call for Justice exhibition in the Fall of 2013. Description In 1942 the Canadian … Read more

Guest Artist, Mariko Tamaki, at the Firehall Arts Centre on Aug. 3 & 4

Photo of Mariko Tamaki

Mariko Tamaki (ON; literary/youth) Saturday, 4:00-4:30pm, Firehall Studio Sunday, 1:00-1:30pm, Firehall Studio https://marikotamaki.blogspot.ca/ Writer and performer Mariko Tamaki has garnered much acclaim for both her written and performance-based work. The graphic novel, Skim (with Jillian Tamaki) was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and received numerous other accolades, including the Doug Wright Award for Best … Read more

37th Annual Powell Street Festival

37th Annual Powell Street Festival poster – by Janice Wu, 2013

Sat, Aug 3rd & Sun, Aug 4th, 2013, 11:30 am to 7pm at Oppenheimer Park (400 Powell Street), Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova), Vancouver Japanese Language School and Japanese Hall (475 Alexander), …

Festival Launch with Omodaka

August 2, 2013, 8:00pm at Instant Coffee Workplace (441 Powell Street). Soichi Terada, the electro producer of Omodaka combines traditional minyo (folk music) with contemporary electronic sounds performed in tandem to projected videos.

HENKO

WHAT IS HENKÅŒ? View the Site HENKÅŒ launched at Powell Street Festival 2012. HENKÅŒ takes the renga – a Japanese collaborative poem – and opens it to 21st century possibilities. HENKÅŒ participation is open to all website visitors. This means you. The renga is a collaborative form that has existed in Japan for many hundreds … Read more

Arts of Conscience: from Hiroshima to Vancouver

One Day Symposium. Saturday October 15, 10am-5pm (Door opens at 9:30 am) Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (2 West Hastings, Vancouver). Registration & Tickets $20|$10 includes the symposium.

Open Doors Project

Open Doors Project In collaboration with the Japanese Canadian National Museum (JCNM) and funded under the City of Vancouver’s Great Beginnings Project, the Powell Street Festival presents the Open Doors Project. Designed by interdisciplinary artist, Cindy Mochizuki, the series of 16 historical panels are designed to tell a non-linear graphic memoir of Powell Street. Each … Read more

Lost and Found

The Lost and Found website is the second half of a collaborative project produced by Powell Street Festival (PSFS) and Access Artist Run Centre (VAARC) 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 … Read more

Search