Asahi Tribute Recap
Thank-you to all who made it out to this year’s 14th Annual Asahi Tribute Game in Oppenheimer Park! We had a great time playing baseball in honour of the Vancouver Asahi, the legendary Japanese Canadian team on their former home field. We also served 350 meals of hot dogs, corn on the cob, and oranges! 🌭 Thanks to our event partners Oppenheimer Park & Carnegie Community Centre and the Vancouver Japanese Language School & Japanese Hall and to Lepp Farm Market and Freybe for their food donations.
Read more about our ongoing community care programming
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Paueru Gaizette no. 1
Check out this wonderful new zine created by members of Powell Street Festival Society's Advocacy and Outreach Committee! This inaugural issue of the Paueru Gaizette features 16 pages of writings, illustrations, poetry, and reflections prompted by the thematic question How did we get here? While some print copies were available at the Festival, this special project is now available on our website - now's your chance to read it again or share with friends near and far.
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The Basics of Japanese Calligraphy
Let's practice writing some Japanese characters! Originally created for our AI Workshops for Families, inspired by Kūsou/空相 and offered at the 46th Annual Powell Street Festival in collaboration with New Media Gallery, this video introduces some simple Japanese writing.
Japanese Calligraphy artist Kisyuu will show you how to write some Kanji characters with a brush and pen. Learn how to write the characters for tree, woman, and fish, while learning a bit about the history of calligraphy.
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Powell Street Festival Recap Video
Want to relive the 46th Annual Powell Street Festival? Missed our full in-person festivities or want to share with those far-flung? Check out this quick recap of the art, culture, people, food, and more from the July 30 and 31 2022 Festival Weekend. Click above to watch now!
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Collectable Powell Street Festival Merch
Looking for the perfect addition to a back-to-school wardrobe? Keep summer in your heart and your outfit with exciting, collectable t-shirts from past Festivals! For those into the latest trends, grab the very last pieces of 2022 merchandise before they're gone, like our insulated daruma-red Festival 2022 Tumbler! This 15oz stainless-steel travel mug is perfect for keeping your morning beverage hot between classes, return-to-office, school drop-off, or while sipping during a long work-from-home morning.
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Donate to Powell Street Festival Society
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Leslie Komori performing at Hanami Picnic, 2022. Photo by Andrew Chan.
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Thanks for your support!
We hope you were able to celebrate with us during our festival weekend of exciting programming, musical and theatrical performances, a bustling marketplace, and festival foods. This year saw change and excitement as we emerged from the pandemic, including two new programs launched this Festival Season: the JC Youth Cohort and Festival Connect.
Through the pandemic and beyond, Powell Street Festival Society continues to produce year-round programming across a number of initiatives furthering our goals of celebrating Japanese Canadian art and culture to connect communities and to advance equity and well-being for all.
Our Downtown Eastside Community Care Programming includes three annual events for the Oppenheimer Park and Paueru Gai community: last month's Asahi Tribute Baseball Game, winter's Minori Harvest, and spring's Hanami Cherry Blossom Picnic. Hosted by our Advocacy and Outreach Committee, this series of year round events incorporates capacity building opportunities for peers, distribution of food and useful resources for DTES residents, and cultural activities and prompts which share Japanese Canadian history and culture. Read more about our community care initiatives.
Newly realized this year, the JC Youth Cohort invites three Japanese Canadian youth raised outside of British Columbia and creates an embodied experience of Japanese Canadian identity as vibrant and vital. Participants take part in online training and education in areas including event production, culture, history, interpersonal communication skills development, networking with cultural event producers and artists, inter-generational relationship building and more beginning in June, culminating in a Production Residency in Vancouver to join the Festival Production team and visit local sites of interest.
Powell Street Festival Society also produces year-round art and culture programming including through our stewardship of the 360 Riot Walk, Paueru Mashup Dance lessons, and off-season special events including panel and discussion series, concerts, and eclectic performances.
Your donations will support Festival season and year-round initiatives like these, as well as Powell Street Festival’s ongoing resilience.
You can make a donation online by clicking the button below or by mailing a cheque to:
Powell Street Festival Society
410-111 W. Hastings St.
Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4
Thank you for your support!
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 Four Fires Festival
September 10 & 11
Concord Community Park
Celebrate the return of official Indigenous canoe races in False Creek this weekend at the Four Fires Festival! Teams from up and down the North American West Coast will come to join for a weekend of celebration as the canoes return for the first official races in over 100 years.
Multiple age categories, from children to elite athletes will compete in the heart of downtown Vancouver as they strive to push the limits of human performance.
To be held at the Concord Community Park, the Four Fires Festival will also contribute to ongoing collaboration between multiple visual, performing and culinary artists and to demonstrate that in British Columbia, everything is connected.
 Moon Festival
September 10 & 17
Join free and public events of the 20th Annual #MoonFestival throughout September to witness extravagant performances, local music, and lanterns lighting up the forest in beautiful outdoor locations. Numerous free events and low cost workshops interweave diverse cultural traditions and focus on arts within the natural world.
Join the Harvest Fair & Lost Streams Parade on September 10 from 4:00 - 9:00 PM starting at Slocan Park. Expect to celebrate the last full moon of summer while enjoying diverse music by local artists, eco-arts workshops, games, competitions, wellness practices and community booths and savouring a bowl of Harvest Soup and Frybread. At twilight, a lantern parade led by Indigenous group, Coastal Wolfpack, will lead attendees, stilt performers, giant puppets, and community members along the routes of the lost water streams that are buried under the city.
Visit the Streamside Lantern Installation on Saturday, September 17 from Sunset (7:21 PM) to 9:30 PM at Renfrew Community Park. Expect to explore a beautifully transformed park, filled with giant lanterns and illuminated art, that is accompanied by enchanting live music and set against a magnificent backdrop of towering trees.
 Jin-me Yoon: About Time
October 15 2022 - March 5, 2023.
Opening Reception 8:00 PM Oct. 14 (for Gallery Members)
Vancouver Art Gallery
About Time presents Vancouver artist Jin-me Yoon’s significant artwork of the last decade. Frequently combining photography, video and installation, Yoon’s recent work is distinguished by a poetic, cinematic aesthetic—one that is deeply contemplative and undergirded by an examination of our position in the world as it is reflected in and shaped by ideas of history and memory, land and ocean.
Vancouver Art Gallery members can join for a special opening reception on October 14 from 8:00 - 10:00 PM. Hope to see you there!
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Thank-you to our Sponsors & Donors
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Powell Street Festival Society would also like to extend our gratitude to our festival and year-round partners, donors, and sponsors for their support of the 46th Annual Powell Street Festival:
Bodega On Main, Red Cat Records, Rocky Mountain Flatbread, Murata, Kidsbooks, JTB International, Old Spaghetti Factory, Pizza Coming Soon, Fatburger, Mi Casa Mexicana, Dilly Dally Toy Store, Oh Carolina, Pokey Okey, Banyen Books & Sound, Bombay Masala, Boteco Restaurant, Cold Tea Restaurant, Como Taperia, Ofra's Kitchen, Pho Hong on Fraser, Shameless Buns, The Hard Bean Brunch Co., Burdock & Co., hialyssacomics, Moja Coffee, Tien the Wizard, Beauty Secrets of Japan, Right to Remain, Sleepless Kao, Cutie x Cutie, Siamurai Apparel, Tonari Gumi, Dahaza, FORM, Queer Film Festival, Pure Float, Community Taps & Pizza, Antler to Shimarisu, Wire Jewellery, Kazuko Cha, Beads Ya, Thé Vert Jewellery, Amrita Designs, Mikari Decor, Minori Takagi, Alcvin Ryuzen Ramos, WaQ's Sushi, Milano Coffee, Aburi Restaurants Canada, Anvil Press, Anvil Theatre, Alkiss Water, Arsenal Pulp Press, BLIM, British Columbia Arts Council, Cadeaux Bakery, Canada Council for the Arts, Carnegie Community Centre, Catfe, City of Vancouver, Citytv, Coconama Chocolate, COFU, Community Foundations of Canada, Dosanko, Element IQ, Emergency Community Support Fund, Figure 1 Publishing, Fujiya, Haisai! Sweets & Treats, Hapa Collaborative, Hapa Izakaya, Kathy Shimizu, Kiku Wellness, Massy Books, Meditating Bunny Inc., Mint Records, Murata, NAMI Studio, New Century Ltd., New Media Gallery, Nikkei Seniors Health Care & Housing Society – Japanese Canadian Survivors Health & Wellness Fund, Nikoniko Home Care, Omni Television, Oomomo, Oppenheimer Park, Out and About, PFS Studio, Revery Foundation, Ricepaper Magazine, Second Harvest, SFU David Lam Centre, Strathcona Business Improvement Association, Sunrise Market, Sunrise Soya, Tama Organic Life, TAKENAKA, Tea Lani, The Bulletin, The Bunny Cafe, The Cinematheque, the frank theatre, The Listel Hotel, The Postcard Place, Tokyo Katsu-Sand, Vancouver Community Network, Vancouver Foundation, Vancouver Ikebana Association, Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver Japanese Language School and Japanese Hall, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, Vegan Pudding & Co., Yama Cafe
See our Festival 2022 sponsors
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Thanks for reading!
We hope you had a great time at the Festival, and we hope to see you at one of our off-season events. We hope you'll stay connected through our website and social media, both updated year-round!
よろしくお願いいたします
パウエル祭協会より。
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