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7pm» nikkeiFLIX: Obachan's Garden
7pm» nikkeiFLIX: Obaachan's Garden

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7pm» Movie Night: Kuroi Ame

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Time:

11:00am - 5:00pm

Description:

As we say goodbye to summer and head into fall, anticipation for The Road to Asia Festival is building. Mark your calendars for the weekend of Saturday November 7 and Sunday November 8, 2009.
This weekend has the JCCC packed with the richness and exciting diversity of many Asian cultures. Kobayashi Hall will feature a variety of dance, theatrical and music performances on the main stage. As well, there will be a cultural marketplace featuring arts and crafts demonstrations and merchandise from all across the Asian region. If martial arts are what you want, the dojo’s will feature virtually non-stop demonstrations. Finally, a visit to The Road to Asia Festival is not complete unless you sample some of the delicacies featured in our food court.
The Road to Asia Festival takes the JCCC’s motto of “Friendship Through Culture” to a whole new level. With last year’s participants representing countries like Pakistan, Philippines, Indonesia, China, Myanmar, India, Taiwan, and, of course, Japan, and over 3,000 people in attendance, you don’t want to miss this huge two-day festival of Asian Canadian culture.
Gather your family and friends and join us for another exciting trip along The Road to Asia.

Date: Saturday November 7 & Sunday November 8, 2009
Time: 11:00am to 5:00pm daily
Admission: JCCC Members Free, $5 Adults, $3 Seniors/Students, Children 12 and under FREE

Time:

11:00am - 5:00pm

Description:

As we say goodbye to summer and head into fall, anticipation for The Road to Asia Festival is building. Mark your calendars for the weekend of Saturday November 7 and Sunday November 8, 2009.
This weekend has the JCCC packed with the richness and exciting diversity of many Asian cultures. Kobayashi Hall will feature a variety of dance, theatrical and music performances on the main stage. As well, there will be a cultural marketplace featuring arts and crafts demonstrations and merchandise from all across the Asian region. If martial arts are what you want, the dojo’s will feature virtually non-stop demonstrations. Finally, a visit to The Road to Asia Festival is not complete unless you sample some of the delicacies featured in our food court.
The Road to Asia Festival takes the JCCC’s motto of “Friendship Through Culture” to a whole new level. With last year’s participants representing countries like Pakistan, Philippines, Indonesia, China, Myanmar, India, Taiwan, and, of course, Japan, and over 3,000 people in attendance, you don’t want to miss this huge two-day festival of Asian Canadian culture.
Gather your family and friends and join us for another exciting trip along The Road to Asia.

Date: Saturday November 7 & Sunday November 8, 2009
Time: 11:00am to 5:00pm daily
Admission: JCCC Members Free, $5 Adults, $3 Seniors/Students, Children 12 and under FREE

Time:

7:00pm

Description:

Unique portrait by Sansei filmmaker Linda Ohama who interviews her 103-year old grandmother and discovers a picture bride's painful buried past.

Free admission.

Time:

7:00pm

Description:

The next presentation for the nikkeiFLIX film series on Thursday November 12, 2009 will be “Obaachan’s Garden,” a moving portrait of her grandmother by Sansei film-maker, Linda Ohama.
The film, scheduled for a 7:00pm start at the JCCC, should be a revealing experience for most Nikkei because Ohama succeeded in getting her grandmother to reveal memories, emotions and experiences of her past her family never knew.
Ohama discovers a painful, buried past, peeling back layers of her grandmother’s life, especially from the time she arrived in Canada as a picture bride in 1923.
This showing will conclude the nikkeiFLIX film series of Japanese Canadian and Japanese American films and documentaries for this year.
Last month, a special appearance by Nikkei film-maker, Ken Galloway, showcased a night of young, JC film-makers and their work. They included work by Jeff Chiba Stearns of Vancouver, Galloway, and Japanese American film-maker Tad Nakamura.
The nikkeiFLIX film series is co-sponsored by the JCCC Heritage Committee and the Nikkei Voice.

Time:

7:00pm

Description:

Kuroi Ame is one of two-time winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d'Or Shohei Imamura’s most celebrated works. It is a devastating cinematic masterpiece that received 25 awards, including two Cannes Film Festival awards and the Best Film Award at the Japanese Academy Awards.
The title refers to the radioactive fallout which descended upon the ruined city of Hiroshima after the dropping of the first atomic bomb. Young bride-to-be Yoshiko Tanaka has the misfortune to be visiting Hiroshima on the day of the explosion. Incredibly, she is unhurt; she returns to her own village, across the bay from Hiroshima. Unfortunately, her townsmen have been profoundly affected by the “black rain”; over the next five years, the poison in their systems slowly but surely erodes their souls. In a tragic state of denial, Yoshiko’s former friends insist that they can’t be sick-it must be the girl who is bringing sickness to them. Now a pariah, Yoshiko’s life is shattered as surely as if the bomb had disintegrated her upon impact. Director Shohei Imamura, a onetime assistant to the great Ozu and the director of such Japanese classics as The Insect Woman and The Ballad of Narayama, never sensationalizes his material; the story is effective told in a muted, subdued fashion, allowing the horror to arise from the inner torment of the characters rather than being artificially imposed by camera trickery or “shock” cutting. Based on a novel by Masuji Ibuse, this black-and-white film stars Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura and Etsuko Ishihara.

Date: Thursday November 26, 2009
Time: 7:00pm
Admission is free; donations gratefully accepted