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Powell is a Howl | Powell Street Festival | Vancouver | Aug 4-5
With no end in sight to Vancouver's civic outdoor workers/garbage collectors strike, pockets of the city are becoming enveloped with an acrid air suggestive of overripe strawberries and cholera. But no matter, shows must go on and so it will for the 31st annual Powell Street Festival, which takes place Saturday, August 4th and Sunday, August 5th. The festival celebrates Japanese Canadian arts, culture and heritage dance, music, film and video, visual arts, martial arts, amateur sumo, crafts...and what everyone goes for--the fabulous food (takoyaki fight!). Events will be held at Oppenheimer Park, the Firehall Arts Centre and the Vancouver Japanese Language School & Japanese Hall. Click HERE for event details.
And did you think the Powell Street Festival Society would stop at a street festival? Please. The Society has also partnered with the Pacific Cinematheque to present "Kibatsu Cinema," a celebration of the odd and the eccentric in Japanese pop culture and contemporary Japanese film. Films include the obscenely popular Linda Linda Linda and Roddy Bogawa's I Was Born, But... a personal and poetic documentary about the filmmaker's punk past. More on the films HERE.
From the Powell Street Festival website:
"Some highlights include: new work by festival favourites Kokoro Dance; Theatre performance of Skim, written and directed by Mariko Tamaki (Toronto) and performed by Julie Tamiko Manning (Montreal); Visual Arts group exhibit, Between what’s said and unsaid group exhibit, featuring artists from Canada, USA and Japan; public sculpture exhibition by 3rd generation Nikkei artist Michael Tora Speier entitled Broken Only at Sky: a Magnification of 20th Century Japanese Diaspora & Community Journey; music performances by Yuji Nakajima, Keiko Devaux, and special guest from Japan Koichi Makigami; the usual exciting array of taiko by Katari Taiko, Sawagi Taiko, Chibi Taiko, Yuaikai Ryukyu Taiko, and new to this year, Jodaiko, a superstar group led by taiko master from California Tiffany Tamaribuchi; and the annual YUGO Hip Hop Fusion event."
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Posted by AnuJuly 27, 2007 at 2:24 PM
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