by Residencies | Mar 3, 2011 | Announcements |
Love pours down on Joy Kogawa’s cherry tree Sometimes all you have to do is ask. Earlier this winter volunteers at Historic Joy Kogawa House asked knitters from across Vancouver to help them cheer up the dying cherry tree that stands just outside the back gate at 1450...
by Residencies | Feb 9, 2011 | Events, Life at the House |
Public art to happen at Historic Joy Kogawa House Blossoms will arrive early to the beloved cherry tree at Historic Joy Kogawa House in south Vancouver. For the past few weeks, blossoms have burst forth from the needles and crochet hooks of crafters participating in...
by Residencies | Feb 4, 2011 | Events |
Help writing blossom at Historic Joy Kogawa House! Join Leanne Prain and Mandy Moore, co-authors of the book Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti (Arsenal Pulp Press), as we cover the Joy Kogawa cherry tree in hundreds of knitted blossoms. You are...
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 | Apr 25, 2008 | Press/Media, Save the House |
Globe & Mail: “Instead of dying, it’s been given a second chance” This is truly a miracle story. I remember in the early 1980’s shelving “Obasan” on book shelves while I worked at the Vancouver Public Library. Just the existence...
by Todd Wong | May 9, 2007 | Life at the House, Save the House |
Post by Todd Wong The cherry blossoms have been out everywhere in Vancouver since late March. In mid-April, I was driving through Vancouver’s Marpole neighborhood, when I thought I should go visit Joy Kogawa’s childhood home at 1450 West 64th Ave. It had...
