war and peace
Went to Ghandi birthday celebrations last night at SFU, sponsored by the Institute of the Humanities, SFU; the Thakore Charitable Foundation; and India Club, Vancouver on the invite of Roy Miki, who is this year’s recipient of the Thakore Peace Award. Congratulations, Roy! Wow, the accolades are piling up. Your friends and colleauges are very…
lama spama
my friend susanda just sent a quite lovely mantra that is supposed to have originated with the dalai lama. it’s a sort of general guidelines for life that made sense to me in a gentle sort of way. so i passed it on to a few people i care about, not even kinda-sorta everyone, but…
the controversial roy miki
Wow, some great things are happening for my peeps these days! Roy Miki has just been awarded the Sterling Prize for Controversy. Congratulations, Roy! There’s a celebratory event on October 11, details below: The Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support ofCONTROVERSY In 1993 Nora and Ted Sterling established a prize at Simon Fraser University…
new sfu writer-in-residence
Fred Wah comes in this month as the new writer-in-residence at SFU. Congratulations, Fred! He’ll be available weekly for consultations. There’s a special reception for him on Wednesday: Special Reception for Fred Wah – September 27th The reception will feature a welcome by President Michael Stevenson, followed by a reading by Fred Wah. It is…
unboxing shadows
My friend, the extraordinarily talented artist Cindy Mochizuki, has just finished her MFA from the Fine Arts Department at SFU. Her graduation project is called Kanashibari Shadow Archive. It includes little snippets of interviews with family members who were interned by the Canadian Government during WWII, racist cartoons, evidence of the confiscation of property and…
travelling the interior
Just back from a working road trip through the interior with Roy Miki, Ashok Mathur and Ashok’s dad, Parshottam Mathur. Roy and I were the very first readers ever at CiCACs– Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada, which is Ashok’s major project for the Canada Research Chair he currently holds at…
butterfly dreaming
Went to see David Khang’s performance “Mediamorphosis” at The Western Front last night. Publicity materials talk about the transformation of experience through mediatization. (Hello Blogger!) The artist performs under a mosquito net, behind a screen with an array of monitors positioned in front of it. There is a camera in the mosquito net room so…
Tobogganing the Okanagan
Or speaking there at least. Wednesday September 20 at the Centre for Innovation in Cultural and the Arts at Thompson Rivers University, with Roy Miki, and on September 21 at UBC-O in Kelowna, with Ashok Mathur. Ashok hosts Roy and I at TRU and sends these details: Renovations at the Centre for Innovation in Culture…