Joy and Naomi’s Road opera go to Lethbridge, Alberta
Report by Ann-Marie Metten Ann-Marie Metten is the Vancouver coordinator for the Save Kogawa House committee. She and Joy Kogawa have travelled to Lethbridge Alberta to attend the Alberta premiere of the Naomi’s Road opera, by the Vancouver Opera Touring Ensemble....
Joy Kogawa public reading in Toronto | March 9
NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 15, 2006 PUBLIC READING WITH AUTHOR JOY KOGAWA TORONTO – Award-winning author and poet, Joy Kogawa is launching her novel about the Japanese Canadian redress movement, Emily Kato, with a public reading at the Church of...
Canadian Writers Call on Government to Save the House
Canada’s leading writers’ organizations are appealing to the federal government for an emergency grant of $350,000 to save the historic Joy Kogawa House in Vancouver from demolition. The writers’ groups want to convert Kogawa’s childhood home into a writers-in-residence centre and historic house recalling the forced evacuations and internments of 22,000 Japanese Canadians during World War II.
News Release: Children Call for Citizen Action
NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 23, 2006 CHILDREN CALL FOR CITIZEN ACTION IN SAVING AUTHOR’S THREATENED HOME RICHMOND – Grades 3 and 4 children of Richmond’s Tomsett Elementary School will join principal Sabina Harpe and their teacher Joan Young in...
Joy Kogawa in 100 Greatest British Columbians Almanac
Joy Kogawa is listed among the top 10 literary figures in book The BC Almanac Book of Greatest British Columbians authored by CBC Radio’s BC Almanac host Mark Forsythe.