Joy Kogawa @ Chapters on Robson | Feb 11
TLC The Land Conservancy of BC is hosting an up-close and personal reading and book signing with award-winning Canadian author and poet, Joy Kogawa at Chapters on Robson. Kogawa will read from her second novel now retitled Emily Kato. Other guest speakers will include Roy Miki, Governor General Award Winner for Poetry, and Daphne Marlatt, Canadian novelist and poet. This event is part of TLC’s awareness and fundraising campaign to save Joy Kogawa’s childhood home in Vancouver.
TLC / Save Kogawa House press conference | Dec 2
TLC/Save Kogawa House press conference was held on December 2, 2005, featuring speakers Joy Kogawa, Bill Turner (The Land Conservancy), Ann-Marie Metten (Save Kogawa House Committee, Diane Switzer (Vancouver Heritage Foundation), Susan Bissonette (Heritage Vancouver), and Suzanne Anton (Vancouver City Councillor).
TLC joins community efforts to save Joy Kogawa’s House
TLC joins community efforts to save Joy Kogawa’s House. TLC’s Executive Director Bill Turner said that the fundraising campaign is underway. “We are calling on everyone who has been moved by Joy Kogawa’s writing to contribute to saving the house. Your contribution will not only recognize and honour Joy’s accomplishments but will also provide the opportunity for a writers-in-residence program that will enable a new generation of writers to be inspired by her work. We are also calling on everyone who has been touched by Canada’s past treatment of communities such as the Japanese-Canadian community. This house will stand as a symbol of the wrongs that were committed in the past, but also as a symbol of what a community can achieve when it pulls together.”