Powell Street Festival Society is excited to accept applications for the 2023 Japanese Canadian Youth Cohort!
My name is Rani Kobayashi, and I am a 22-year-old, half-Indian, half-Japanese Yonsei (fourth generation) born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. My inspiration for applying to the 2022 Japanese Canadian Youth Cohort stems from my family’s strong history of involvement in the Japanese Canadian community. I am the proud granddaughter of a previous Toronto NAJC President, Bill Kobayashi, and niece of the current President, Lynn Kobayashi. I graduated from McMaster University’s Life Sciences program in 2021 – and have since been fostering my passions for research and healthcare. I am currently working at the Kensington Vision and Research Centre and am involved in two formal research projects. My goal is to attend medical school and be a leader in the healthcare industry.
What’s your favourite food?
Udon Noodle Soup!
Hi there! My name is Tamiko Chase Kavanagh, and I am a mixed-race Yonsei born and raised in Winnipeg, MB; Treaty 1 Territory. I am a graphic designer currently working as an after-school visual art instructor with local not-for-profit Graffiti Art Programming.
As a queer Japanese-Canadian artist, the intersections of race, culture, and gender play a crucial role in my practice. Professionally, I have worked with local arts organizations and initiatives to create visual identities, logos, illustrations and large-scale murals. Personally, I enjoy working with printmaking, animation, and digital illustration!
I am passionate about engaging with my community and encouraging youth to foster their creativity. I also love to travel, watch movies and cartoons, and sing karaoke with my pals!
What’s your favourite food?
Fresh Melon Pan
anaïs peterson (no pronouns) is a climate justice organizer, mixed blessing, prose poet, and big fan of sunsets. anaïs has a ba in english writing and urban studies and now works as a petrochemicals campaigner at earthworks and the digital content coordinator at off menu press. anaïs lives on the occupied land of the Osage, Hopewell, Monongahela, Lenape, and Shawnee peoples, at the headwaters of the Ohio river (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). anaïs tweets from @anais_pgh.
What’s your favourite food?
any dessert 🙂
The JC Youth Cohort is a free summer program for young Japanese Canadians, 19-29 years old, raised outside of British Columbia. Do you have an interest in cultural heritage and community building through live events? This program will provide training and education in event production, culture, history, interpersonal communication skills development, networking with cultural event producers and artists, inter-generational relationship building and hands-on tasks to create an embodied experience of Japanese Canadian identity as vibrant and vital. Three applicants will be accepted each year.
Expect this to be a three-hour weekly commitment up until the in-person component, Sunday, July 30 to Wednesday, August 9, 2023.
Application Deadline: Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 11:59pm PST
Application Process: You can apply through our online form, or you are free to submit a video, audio, or written application answering our questions located in the PDF below.
Please email your application to the Program Coordinator ( miki [@] powellstreetfestival.com ) and include “JC Youth Cohort 2023” in the subject line. No phone calls, please. Powell Street Festival Society thanks all applicants in advance for their interest. All applicants will be contacted in early April. Questions or need support with your application? Email: miki [@] powellstreetfestival.com
Powell Street Festival Society is excited to announce the members of our second Japanese Canadian Youth Cohort! This expenses-paid program
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Powell Street Festival Society proudly announces the 2022 Japanese Canadian Youth Cohort. This new program offers an expenses-paid opportunity for
The Powell Street Festival Society’s (PSFS) mission is to celebrate Japanese Canadian art and culture to connect communities. The main activity is producing the Powell Street Festival (PSF), an annual celebration of Japanese Canadian arts, music and culture in Vancouver’s historic Japanese Canadian neighbourhood, Paueru Gai in the Downtown Eastside (DTES). With the support of over 250 volunteers, this two-day free event is the largest of its kind in Canada and the longest running festival in Metro Vancouver, entering its 46th year. PSFS is a non-profit professional arts presenter that is progressive, diverse, contemporary, and compelling.
