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源氏物語千年紀イベント Celebrating 1000 Years of The Tale of Genji

in 2001-2010 / by AdminArts
January 31, 2014

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In the year 1008, Murasaki Shikibu, a lady-in-waiting serving at the Japanese imperial court, wrote in her diary of the feverish excitement surrounding the distribution of her story, now known as The Tale of Genji. Demand was so high that a group of women was assigned the task of producing multiple copies under Murasaki’s direction. Today, in 2008 as we celebrate the 1000-year anniversary of the writing of this, the world’s first novel, the story has been translated into over 30 languages, including several versions in modern Japanese, and has sold tens of millions of copies in modern print worldwide. On October 19th and 25th, the Canadian Society for Asian Arts and UBC Museum of Anthropology will recognize the contributions of The Tale of Genji not only to Japanese culture but to world culture through two special programs.

Sunday, October 19, 2:00 pm
Lecture: “The Tale of Genji and the Making of Modern Japanese Femininity” By Dr. Joshua Mostow, Department of Asian Studies, UBC

Saturday, October 25, 2:00 pm
Performance: Enchantment of Genji: Music Inspired by Poems from The Tale of Genji
Featuring Alcvin Takegawa Ramos on biwa and shakuhachi
and Satomi Saeki on koto

Both programs are open to the public. Admission is by donation.

Asian Illuminations Lecture: “The Tale of Genji and the Making of Modern Japanese Femininity”
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By Dr. Joshua Mostow, Department of Asian Studies, UBC
Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 2:00 pm
at the Royal Bank Cinema, Chan Centre for Performing Arts, UBC
Followed by a special reception with the speaker.

This talk will explore how women were exposed to the Tale of Genji in the early modern period, especially through manuals of feminine etiquette. It will trace how this continued into the 20th century, despite the radical changes that transformed Japan, and the place of Genji in such pop culture genres as manga and anime.

Dr. Mostow is an internationally acclaimed specialist of classical Japanese literature and visual culture, with a particular focus on the interplay of text and image in pre-modern Japan. His Research interests include the inter-relations between text and image, especially in Japanese culture; Japanese women’s writing in the court tradition; the ideological construction of the Heian period in the modern era; Japanese “national erotics” (that is, the use of sexuality in cultural self-definition) At UBC he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on premodern Japanese literature, in translation and in the original; premodern Japanese text and image inter-relations; classical Japanese language; Japanese women’s self-writing; post-colonial theory; Edo sexuality; Japanese film.

He is the sole author of Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image (University of Hawai’i Press, 1996) and At the House of Gathered Leaves: Shorter Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives from Japanese Court Literature (University of Hawai’i Press, 2004); co-author, with Henk Herwig, of The Hundred Poets Compared: A Print Series by Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, and Kunisada (Hotei, 2007); and, With Royall Tyler, of a new translation of Tales of Ise. He is co-editor, with Norman Bryson and Maribeth Graybill, of Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual Field (Hawai’I, 2003); and with Catherine Vance Yeh and Doris Croissant, of Performing “Nation”: Gender Politics in Literature, Theatre, and the Visual Arts of China and Japan, 1880-1940 (Brill, 2008). He was the General Editor of the prize-winning Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature (2003).

Enchantment of Genji: Music Inspired by Poems from The Tale of Genji
Featuring Alcvin Takegawa Ramos on biwa and shakuhachi
and Satomi Saeki on koto

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With poetry from the Tale of Genji in English translation and original Japanese
Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 2:00 pm
at the National Nikkei Heritage Centre, Ellipse Lobby, 6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby

Masters of traditional Japanese music, Alcvin Takegawa Ramos and Satomi Saeki offer moving new musical interpretations of the classic poetry of The Tale of Genji. Recitations of selected poems from the tale in both English and the original Japanese will provide inspirational links between their renderings of the themes of love, the seasons, solitude, and impermanence perfectly suited to the haunting sounds of shakuhachi, biwa, and koto.

Alcvin Takegawa Ramos was born in Kanagawa-ken, Japan, in 1969. His interest in eastern religions, martial arts and meditation inspired him to study the shakuhachi (bamboo flute) and its various musical styles including honkyoku (sacred Zen music), sankyoku (secular ensemble music) and gendai kyoku (contemporary pieces). Ramos received a shihan (master) license from Katsuya Yokoyama, a renowned master-teacher of the instrument and founder of the International Shakuhachi Training Centre in Japan.

Born in Miyazaki, Japan, Satomi Saeki was introduced to Japanese traditional music by her father, a shakuhachi-player and -maker. She studied koto (horizontal harp), sangen/shamisen (3-stringed Japanese lute) and juushichigen (17-stringed horizontal harp) with Shizu Watanabe, Namie Sano and Takeshi Nakai. Saeki graduated from the Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku (National Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music) and the 37th Japanese Traditional Music School of NHK (Japan Broadcasting Cooperation). Since moving to Victoria, British Columbia in 1994, Saeki has been teaching and performing koto music at various educational institutes and cultural events in North America.

2007-2008 Rice is Life – “Canada’s First Exhibit Dedicated to Rice”

in 2001-2010 / by AdminArts
January 31, 2014

Developed by the Vancouver Museum in partnership with the Canadian Society for Asian Arts.
May 4, 2007 to January 1, 2008, Vancouver Museum
September 19 – November 23, 2008, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Funded by:
The Department of Canadian Heritage
Canadian International Development Agency
Canadian Society for Asian Arts

The exhibition Rice is Life draws upon a rich variety of material culture and images, to explore rice’s significance in societies from all over the globe. The exhibit highlights the cultural foundation of the world’s most important food crop—the staple that sustains nearly one-half of all humankind.  Objects range from ancient ceramics, rare woodcarvings and textiles, to contemporary batik paintings and religious posters. Rice is Life also explores issues related to the future of rice, such as water and land management, the use of science to foster sustainable rice development, development issues as well as environmental protection.

Why Rice matters
Rice is deeply embedded in the culture and heritage of societies from Asia to Australia, from the Americas to Africa. In much of Asia, rice, ritual, and religion are inseparable due to the widespread belief that the rice plant was divinely given to humans, often by a goddess or “rice mother.”

Rice is eaten for good luck at the Lunar New Year, offered to ancestors and deities, made into spectacular displays for festivals and tossed over newly wedded couples. In the form of rice wine, it is served to guests and poured as a libation to mark sacred rituals.

Rice is the staple food of over half of the world’s population. In Asia alone, more than 2 billion people obtain most of their energy intake from rice-based foods. The UN reports that rice makes up 20% of the world’s dietary supply and over 1 billion households worldwide depend on rice production as a source of income.

A major scientific breakthrough was reported in 2001, when the rice genome became the first food crop to be successfully decoded. Knowledge of the genome is expected to provide the basic information required to engineer new types of rice. Yet the situation for many of the world’s rice producers is grim. The spectre of increased hunger, malnutrition, poverty and conflict in the coming decades resulted in the declaration by the United Nations General Assembly of the year 2004 as the International Year of Rice (IYR). Devoting a year to a staple food was an unprecedented step in the history of the United Nations.

The growing and eating of rice are so fundamental to daily life in many cultures that rice has become intimately entwined with individual identity, social organization, and artistic expression. For many, rice is not merely a commodity. Rice is Life.

Click here to download the official press release.
The brocure of this exhibition is available at CSAA’s office.

Developed by the Vancouver Museum in partnership with the Canadian Society for Asian Arts.
May 4, 2007 to January 1, 2008, Vancouver Museum
September 19 – November 23, 2008, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Funded by:
The Department of Canadian Heritage
Canadian International Development Agency
Canadian Society for Asian Arts

The exhibition Rice is Life draws upon a rich variety of material culture and images, to explore rice’s significance in societies from all over the globe. The exhibit highlights the cultural foundation of the world’s most important food crop—the staple that sustains nearly one-half of all humankind.  Objects range from ancient ceramics, rare woodcarvings and textiles, to contemporary batik paintings and religious posters. Rice is Life also explores issues related to the future of rice, such as water and land management, the use of science to foster sustainable rice development, development issues as well as environmental protection.

Why Rice matters
Rice is deeply embedded in the culture and heritage of societies from Asia to Australia, from the Americas to Africa. In much of Asia, rice, ritual, and religion are inseparable due to the widespread belief that the rice plant was divinely given to humans, often by a goddess or “rice mother.”

Rice is eaten for good luck at the Lunar New Year, offered to ancestors and deities, made into spectacular displays for festivals and tossed over newly wedded couples. In the form of rice wine, it is served to guests and poured as a libation to mark sacred rituals.

Rice is the staple food of over half of the world’s population. In Asia alone, more than 2 billion people obtain most of their energy intake from rice-based foods. The UN reports that rice makes up 20% of the world’s dietary supply and over 1 billion households worldwide depend on rice production as a source of income.

A major scientific breakthrough was reported in 2001, when the rice genome became the first food crop to be successfully decoded. Knowledge of the genome is expected to provide the basic information required to engineer new types of rice. Yet the situation for many of the world’s rice producers is grim. The spectre of increased hunger, malnutrition, poverty and conflict in the coming decades resulted in the declaration by the United Nations General Assembly of the year 2004 as the International Year of Rice (IYR). Devoting a year to a staple food was an unprecedented step in the history of the United Nations.

The growing and eating of rice are so fundamental to daily life in many cultures that rice has become intimately entwined with individual identity, social organization, and artistic expression. For many, rice is not merely a commodity. Rice is Life.

Click here to download the official press release.
The brocure of this exhibition is available at CSAA’s office.

February 2009 Spirit of Place: Beijing-China Young Artists Exhibition, 2009

in 2001-2010 / by AdminArts
January 31, 2014

Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver
February 16 – March 1, 2009, free and open to public
Curator: Sam Carter
http://spiritofplace.ecuad.ca/
http://www.citizenvoices.gg.ca/en/blogs/rideau_hall/235

The Spirit of Place: Beijing-China Young Artists Exhibition was curated during the summer of 2008 from thousands of paintings created by young artists from all parts of China through workshops organized by the Beijing Bright Fine Arts School, prior to the Beijing 2008 Olympics. 35 selected works of art reflect the young artist’s interpretations of Olympic pillars: Culture, Sport and Sustainability (Environment).

CSAA has partnered with Beijing Bright Fine Arts School, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Save the Children Canada, and Arts Umbrella.  Each Beijing-China young artist participating in the exhibition has received a Certificate of Participation.

The exhibition will travel after its opening scheduled from February to March 1st, 2009.  A special ceremony and formal opening of the exhibition took place on Wednesday February 18th  at 5:00 at the Emily Carr University Concourse Gallery-1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island.  Young musicians from the Cheun Ying Arts Centre welcomed visitor with their Chinese Guzheng music.

During the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, the Spirit of Place: Beijing Chinese Young Artist Exhibition will join the Spirit of Place: British Columbia Young Artists Exhibition as a bilateral exhibition presented by the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver, Canadian Society for Asian Arts and Emily Carr University of Art and Design. You will hear more about this special exhibition and happening staged at the Chinese Cultural Center in Chinatown.

Asian Zodiac Creatures Folk Art Exhibition

in 2001-2010 / by AdminArts
January 31, 2014

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Bamboo Welcome Gates and mobile art studios will greet visitors to Chinatown and Zodiac Square. Visitors to the exhibitions will participate in happenings and make “Olympic Wishes”. Since the 2010 Olympics coincide with Asian New Year, the story of the “race” among the Asian zodiac creatures will be featured in displays of Asian folk art figures. CSAA partners for this official Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad are VANOC, City of Vancouver-City Happenings, Chinese Cultural Centre, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Gardens, Arts Umbrella, Save the Children Canada, Beijing Bright Fine Arts School and Olympic Development Authority, London. An official opening event will be scheduled between Feb. 12th and early March.

 

It’s a ‘Happening’!

Happenings are City of Vancouver-funded activities, events and legacy projects taking place in city neighbourhoods in the months leading up to and during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in February and March 2010. Host a City Happening events reflect the Olympic and Paralympic values of friendship, solidarity, peace, fair play, optimism, inspiration and empowerment.

To find out more, visit vancouver.ca

Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad Event

in 2001-2010 / by AdminArts
January 31, 2014
"Olympic Wish Cards" for visitors to write down their Olympic wishes

“Olympic Wish Cards” for visitors to write down their Olympic wishes

The Spirit of Place Project is a programme that celebrates the art of young artists from past, present and future Olympic cities: Beijing, Vancouver and London. Art in the exhibition explores the pillar themes of the Olympics.

Feb 11 – 28, 2010
Spirit of Place: Beijing, Vancouver & London Young Artists Exhibition-Olympic Themes

Location: Chinese Cultural Center Museum, Zodiac Square, Vancouver, B.C. 50 East Pender Street
February 11th – 28th, 2010
10:00 – 5:00 daily closed Monday Opening Reception: 5:00pm February 17, 2010

CSAA Cultural Olympiad webpage
A Spirit of Place Projects

Bamboo Welcome Gates

Location: Chinatown Zodiac Square
Feb 11 – 28, 2010

Visitors tie their Olympic wishes on the bamboo/cedar gates in Chinatown.

Visitors tie their Olympic wishes on the bamboo/cedar gates in Chinatown.

“Kabuki in Print” Exhibition

in 2001-2010 / by AdminArts
January 31, 2014

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In celebration of the Asian Library’s 50th anniversary and in anticipation of the performance of Kabuki Dance featuring guest artists from Japan at the Frederic Wood Theatre on April 10 & 11, The Canadian Society for Asian Arts presents an exhibition that examines the intimate relationship between the woodblock printing medium and the kabuki theatre. Depicting theatre scenes based on dramatic contemporary current and historical events as well as canonical literary sources, these images document the wide thematic range of Edo-period popular entertainment.

The exhibition draws from private print collections supplemented by art historical publications from the UBC Library collection. Highlights include several original Japanese woodblock prints from the 18th to 20th centuries by actor print specialists Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).

“Kabuki in Print” is curated by Maiko Behr and presented by the Canadian Society for Asian Arts in conjunction with UBC Asian Library. Open during Asian Library open hours M-Th 9-8, F 9-5, Sat. 12-5, closed Sun. Free admission.

Colleen Lanki is a professional theatre artist who has studied nihon buyô (Japanese classical dance) for over a dozen years being granted the professional name Fujima Sayû, in 2001 by her first teacher Fujima Yûko.  She is the artistic director of TomoeArts, which is presenting Odori: The World of Kabuki Dance at the Frederic Wood Theatre, UBC April 10 & 11, 2010.  Colleen will give a short talk and demonstration focusing on  kabuki odori, the dance of the kabuki theatre.

March 25 – May 16, 2010
Asian Library upper floor (1871 West Mall, Vancouver)
Curator: Maiko Behr

Chinatown Past, Present and Future: Archive Project

in 2001-2010 / by AdminArts
January 31, 2014
Neil McMillan, Detail, paint on canvas

Neil McMillan, Detail, paint on canvas

The Canadian Society for Asian Arts, the City of Vancouver Archives, the BC Provincial Heritage Fair and Emily Carr University of Art and Design faculty and students are collaborating to host an exhibition celebrating Asian Heritage Month and British Columbia Heritage month, May 2010.

The City of Vancouver Archives gallery will host the exhibition of ECU students’ work titled Chinatown Past Present and Future: Archive Project opening on April 29th at 6 and running until May 31st.

The focus of the ECU initiative was for students to actively investigate and connect to local communities researching area history and creatively interpreting historic sites that are the underpinning of the city of Vancouver.

Twenty-four Emily Carr University Foundation Drawing and Creative Process students’ visited the archive and researched sixteen historically important buildings in Chinatown.  Each of the constructed artworks is informed by Vancouver Archive research and by location drawings and creations related to the past present and future of Vancouver’s Chinatown.

The day after the opening, May 1st, ECU artists will hold four workshops/exchanges in the Archive gallery for the youth of the BC Heritage Fairs Program. Youth Heritage Fair finalists from across the province will meet at the Museum of Vancouver located beside the Vancouver Archives, for the provincial finals on May 1st. The Heritage Fairs Program is a national educational initiative designed to increase awareness and interest in Canadian history. A ‘history fair’ actively involves Canadian youth, schools, businesses and community groups in a contemporary celebration of our shared traditions and heritage. Provincial students, grades 4 to 10, are encouraged to research aspects of Canadian history presenting the results of their efforts in public forums.

Justin Ng, Painting and Drawing. 51 W. Pender

Justin Ng, Painting and Drawing. 51 W. Pender

The collaboration between the various community partners support the ongoing importance of connecting youth from primary and secondary provincial schools to university students and faculty and community organizations in shared exchanges. Collectively this project is cross cultural, relates to the history and spirit of place, supporting cultural exchange and understanding.

The Vancouver Archive, the Canadian Society for Asian Arts, ECU and Provincial schools are facilitating this educational exchange as an example of community research collaboration. By collectively researching the past, we begin to understand the present and possibilities for the future of our cities and our place nationally in the global community.

 

Location: The City of Vancouver Archives, 1150 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9
Opening Reception: April 29, 2010 6:00pm
Runs till May 31, 2010
Exhibition website: http://chinatown.ecuad.ca/
http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archives/exhibits/index.htm

Exhibition: The Vanishing Courtyards in Beijing – Watercolour Paintings by Weizhi Zhang

in 2001-2010 / by AdminArts
January 31, 2014

 

Must Not Wither, Beijing Wu Dao Ying Hutong No. 57. 不該凋零 (北京東城五道營鬍同57號)

Must Not Wither, Beijing Wu Dao Ying Hutong No. 57.
不該凋零 (北京東城五道營鬍同57號)

Beijing based artist Weizhi Zhang captured various types of Beijing courtyard gates on his watercolour canvases. Beijing quadrangle courtyards are the most elaborate examples of Chinese vernacular dwelling. Their ethnological character and variations of style, along with their delicate but powerful decorative elements, are of significant historic value and cultural meaning. Since the late 1990’s, these courtyards have been demolished to make way for modern high rise buildings. The exhibition will also present illustrations and maps of the City of Beijing. Curator: Yue Zhang.

This exhibition is part of the Vancouver 2010 Asian Heritage Month.

May 1-30, 2010
Artist’s Talk: Sunday May 2, 3:00pm
Opening reception: May 2, 4-6pm
Hall of One Hundred Rivers, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

 

 

2003 Traditional Crafts of Korea

in 2001-2010 / by AdminArts
January 31, 2014

Korean Cultural Properties Exhibition – Celebrating 40 years of diplomatic relations between Korea and Canada
June 16-27, 2003, The Pendelum Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Please visit this link to go to the exhibition’s website.
Brochures of this exhibition are available at CSAA’s office.
Hosts:
– Korean Foundation for Preservation of Cultural Properties
– Canadian Society for Asian Arts
Sponsors:
– Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Republic of Korea
– The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation
Curators:
– FPCP: Shin, Jin La
– HSS: Park, Dae Woon (Daniel)
– CSAA: Sam Carter, Margo Palmer, Anne Marie Dekker
– Exhibition Committee: CSAA
– Exhibition Committee: FPCP

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