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...
$1000 Grant to save Historic Joy Kogawa House from YUFA
NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 15, 2006 YUFA Awards $1,000 Challenge Grant to Save Historic Joy Kogawa House The York University Faculty Association is issuing a challenge to other Faculty Associations across the country to match their $1,000 pledge to...
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.
Joy Kogawa “EMILY KATO” book launch at VPL | Feb 27, 2005
Joy Kogawa “Emily Kato” book launch at Vancouver Public Library – Feb 27, 2005 Report by Todd Wong I am still just winding down from a wonderful book launch for Emily Kato. Joy said at the launch, that she had never before had a book launch before....