At 83, Joy Kogawa decided it was time to tell her story to a new generation
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What Does Our Future Hold?
Community Conversation Open House When: Saturday, February 23, 2019. Drop in from 3:30–5:30PMWhere: 1450 West 64th Avenue, Vancouver BC The Historic Joy Kogawa House Society is hosting a community Open House to engage with friends and neighbours to: Gather ideas for...
Call for Applications for Residencies in 2020
We are now accepting applications for residencies at Historic Joy Kogawa House, the childhood home of Joy Kogawa. We are looking for writers to live and work at Historic Joy Kogawa House for residencies that take place next year, in 2020. Most residencies run for two...
Living in a Garden of Chapbooks by Kevin Spenst
Guest Post By Kevin Spenst Ever since I can recall, I’ve been a maker. Not of anything structurally sound, internally robust, or directly useful to the feeding, clothing, or sheltering of anything or anyone. No, I’ve been obsessed with making ephemera, tiny little...
Views to the Interior
I can’t believe my good fortune to be doing my first residency at the Joy Kogawa House. I will be living not only in Joy Kogawa’s childhood home, which has provided her and countless Canadians with so much inspiration, but I will also be living blocks away from where my mother lived in the late 1930s.