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Photo by Tamio Wakayama, 1981
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Setsubun - Powell Street Festival New Year's Event
Sunday, February 5 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Oppenheimer Park - 488 Powell St. at Jackson Ave.
FREE community event!
Celebrate the new year, the new season, and new beginnings at Setsubun! Join us for ceremonial Taiko drumming and a Sacred Fire in collaboration with local Indigenous leaders, followed by a Paueru Mashup lesson and community dance, and a community meal of Japanese Curry Rice in this continuation of our annual New Year's event—now at Oppenheimer Park with a nod to Setsubun, celebrating the turning point towards Spring.
Stay tuned for more information to come!
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Finding her Beat
Save the Date - Saturday Feb. 18
Join us for a special film screening and day of Taiko events at the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema at SFU's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts on Saturday February 18 in collaboration with DOXA Documentary Film Festival. Stay tuned for a special announcement with all the details!
A master in Japanese drumming and a Korean adoptee from Minnesota boldly convene an all-female troupe to perform Taiko, the Japanese drumming art that has been off-limits to women for centuries. As the early menace of Covid rumbles in the background, the group faces down hurdles to prepare for a historic performance in snowy St. Paul. Buoyed by dynamic drum performances and do-or-die spirit, FINDING HER BEAT is an energizing and uplifting story of music, cultural expression and sisterhood.
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Festival Applications are now Open!
Apply now to participate in the 47th Annual Powell Street Festival
Applications to perform and participate in the 47th Annual Powell Street Festival are now live on our website for professional & community artists, martial arts groups, community & display booths, food vendors, and craft & food marketplace vendors! Filling out an application is the first step to joining the 47th Annual Powell Street Festival as a new or returning participant.
As always, Powell Street Festival is free to attend; applications are only required from those participating in the above categories. Watch for volunteer applications in late spring—we'll be sure to let you know here when they're ready!
Click the link below to read more and apply now! Applications are due by March 10, 2023.
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Update! Winter Care Package Fundraiser
Thank-you for exceeding our goal!
We are pleased to announce that we exceeded our Winter Care Package Fundraising goal! Thanks to your generous support, we were able to raise funds to compile and distribute 250 winter care packages for the unhoused and precariously housed in the Downtown Eastside (Paueru Gai/Powell Street Neighbourhood)! Full of snacks, cold weather essentials, and hygiene products, the contents of these care packages were selected following input from DTES residents at our fall Minori Harvest event.
The Winter Care Package project is an initiative of Powell Street Festival Society’s year-round Downtown Eastside Community Care Programs – our grassroots efforts to enhance the community’s well-being in the face of ongoing food insecurity, housing crisis, and other emergencies. This is our third Care Package project since 2020. To continue supporting our initiatives and programs, please consider making a donation to Powell Street Festival Society.
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Japanese Canadian Youth Cohort
Applications Now Open
Powell Street Festival Society is accepting applications for the 2023 Japanese Canadian Youth Cohort!
This program offers an expenses-paid opportunity for young Japanese Canadians, age 19 to 29, who were raised outside of British Columbia to attend the Powell Street Festival, participate the production of the 47th Annual Powell Street Festival, attend training sessions, and create an embodied experience of Japanese Canadian identity as vibrant and vital.
The Japanese Canadian Youth Cohort is an annual offering, created to facilitate a tangible connection to Japanese Canadian history and one’s furusato (hometown) for young Japanese Canadians raised outside of British Columbia.
This is a hybrid program spanning early May to mid-August, with weekly online remote training sessions, culminating in an in-person Production Residency in Vancouver, Sunday, July 30th to Wednesday, August 9th. Travel, accommodation, and per diem costs will be covered for intra-Canadian travel. International travellers must cover their expenses to Canada.
Powell Street Festival Society is accepting applications for this program from today through February 28, 2023. Click below for full details and instructions.
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Finding Forgiveness
Museum of Vancouver
1100 Chestnut St. Vancouver
January 6., 2023 7:30 PM
Details
An illuminating discussion panel on WWII Japanese Canadian Internment, inspired by the new play at the Arts Club Theatre Company.
This program will feature a special preview of the play followed by a moderated panel. The panel will feature: Forgiveness playwright Hiro Kanagawa; playwright and museum educator Carolyn Nakagawa; community elder and educator Vivian Rygnestad; and community elder, writer, curator, and activist Grace Eiko Thomson. A Q&A will follow where attendees may ask questions to the panelists and the actors.
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Thank-you to our Sponsors & Donors
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We wish you the best in the new year!
As always, thank-you for your support in 2022. We're so excited to see you at one of our upcoming 2023 events! We hope you'll stay in touch through our social media - check the links in the footer of this message!
本年もよろしくお願い致します
パウエル祭協会より。
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