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Some of you might be interested in this:
Inuit Prints: Japanese Inspiration

■ Friday, January 21 – Tuesday, March 15
　　Embassy of Canada Prince Takamado Gallery, Tokyo

Some fifty years ago, the small community of Cape Dorset in the Canadian Arctic was introduced to the ancient traditions of Japanese printmaking. James Houston, then a government employee, introduced printmaking to Cape Dorset in 1957. To learn more about printmaking himself, Houston travelled the next year to Japan to study for three months with Un'ichi Hiratsuka, one of the world's leading masters of the art. Houston went back to the Arctic in 1959 to share his knowledge and his collection of Japanese prints with the fledgling printmakers of Cape Dorset.

"Inuit Prints: Japanese Inspiration" will feature exquisite and historically significant works of art from Japan and the world-renowned Cape Dorset print studio. By juxtaposing the works, the exhibition reveals the many ways in which the Cape Dorset artists creatively "localized" Japanese influences.

A REMINDER AND AND UPDATE: This is first to remind you that I will be doing a blog check this Sunday. Make sure it is up to date.
Second is to let you know that for our P.M. class on this coming Tue. will will be going to a lecture by Linda Ohama an award-winning Japanese-Canadian filmmaker.
　　


講演会のお知らせ

Gregory Strong教授ご担当の英米文学科科目、「Integrated English Program」において、ゲストスピーカーをお招きし、講演会を開催します。多くの皆様のご参加をお待ちしております。

“Film and Intercultural Communication”
講演者：Linda Ohama 氏

日 時：　11月30日（木）　第3限　（13：10-14：40）
場 所：相模原キャンパス D号館 E階106教室
Linda Ohama, an award-winning Japanese-Canadian filmmaker will talk about identity and intercultural communication as depicted in her film, Obachan’s Garden. Ohama’s film told the story of her grandmother, Asayo, 103 years old, who emigrated to Canada as a picture bride in the 1930s and left behind a family secret that Ohama unravels through returning to Onomichi. The film is also a unique celebration of the Japanese-Canadian community, through the eyes of a woman who lived through W.W.II, the internment of the Japanese in Canada, and the loss of her home and property, including a wonderful garden which near the end of the film, is restored as a memorial park to Japanese-Canadians.
Further information about the film maker at:
http://www.lindaohama.com/home.html


Here is some more information about her:http://www.lindaohama.com/profile.html

Profile

Director - Producer - Writer - Editor - Narrator - Lecturer - Visual Artist

Since the early 1970's, Linda has worked as an exhibiting visual artist, educator, and independent filmmaker.

She was born and raised in the small community of Rainier, Alberta where her parents had a family potato farm. She is a third generation Canadian of Japanese ancestry (sansei) and active member of her cultural and arts communities, locally, nationally and internationally.

Initially studying political science and history at university, intending a career in law, Linda changed her course and followed her other passion: the arts. She graduated with degrees in arts (fine arts) and education, and attended the University of Calgary (Alberta), Banff School of Fine Arts, Bishop's University (Quebec), Emily Carr College of Art, and University of British Columbia.

After teaching in both public and private schools in Quebec and Ontario for several years, she moved to the West Coast and turned her attention to her visual art career, and subsequently her works on film, producing/directing several award-winning documentaries.

Linda's films and paintings have been exhibited and shown across Canada, USA, Europe and Japan.

Today, Linda resides in Vancouver, Canada and continues to produce films, write, paint, design gardens, enjoy her family and explore her deep connection to Japan.

She currently sits as a board member with Chibi Taiko Society, Vancouver and the Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund in Ottawa, after recently sitting on the British Columbia Arts Council Board.

Linda has also served on assessment committees and juries for the Canada Council for the Arts and British Columbia Arts Council.
One final item is bonus points. If you read this blog and send me an e-mail telling me that you have read it by Monday noon you will get 20 bonus points. Good Luck

Just a reminder that I will check your blogs and mark them on the 28th of this month Nov. This can have a very large affect on your grade so please make sure you have written lots of material.