by Todd Wong | Feb 1, 2009 | Events |
The Annual Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dinner in Vancouver is a fundraiser for 3 extraordinary organizations: The Historic Joy Kogawa House, Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop, and the Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team. The 2009 dinner was held Sunday January 25th,...
by Todd Wong | Dec 15, 2008 | Life at the House |
Historic Joy Kogawa House welcomes Joy Kogawa to 1st Annual General Meeting It’s always a special feeling walking into the Joy Kogawa House. This is the house that a six-year-old future Order of Canada recipient was forced to leave when Japanese Canadians were...
by Todd Wong | Sep 26, 2008 | Press/Media, Save the House |
Georgia Straight: Joy Kogawa House is the “Best new place to get writing done” When I joined the “Save Kogawa House” campaign in September 2005, I just knew it was something that had to be done. Three years later we now have our first...
by Todd Wong | Sep 22, 2008 | Announcements |
Sixty-six years ago, in 1942, Japanese-Canadians were “evacuated” from Canada’s Pacific coast and sent to internment camps for the duration of WW2. in 1981, Joy Kogawa wrote her first novel Obasan, the first novel to address the issue of the...
by Todd Wong | Sep 12, 2008 | Announcements |
Where is Joy Kogawa in this picture? This is the interactive photo display in front of the Royal BC Museum, in Victoria BC, for the “Free Spirit” exhibition celebrating the 150th Anniversary of British Columbia. These pictures are from “The...
by Todd Wong | Jul 17, 2008 | Announcements |
To celebrate BC’s 150th Anniversary, the Royal BC Museum “gathers a glorious crowd of 150 British Columbians — famous and infamous, living and dead — so you can explore their fascinating stories.” It’s called “The Party”. And Joy...
