My journey with Laura Fukumoto from Nisei Mending Circle to Yonsei Mending Circle - spoiler alert: pandemic. Featured image: Kayla Isomura.

Poetry in the Park, and upcoming at Vines Festival

If you’ve had a conversation with me anytime in the last four years about my artistic work, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve heard me talk about The New Canadian, the grassroots community newspaper founded by idealistic young Japanese Canadians in 1938 Vancouver. Ever since I first learned their incredible story, I’ve felt that it’s better than anything I could try to make up. I started archival research on The New Canadian in 2017, with the intention to write a play about its staff; somewhere along the line, the play became a musical.