NAJC Redress 2008 registration form.pdfDates: Friday September 19, 2008
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Lynda Nakashima
Rick Shiomi
Lynda Nakashima, As Long As I Can Remember: The Powell Street Festival at 25, Documentary, 2001.
Lynda Nakashima is a visual artist whose work includes video, animation, drawing and printmaking. A graduate of the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, she is still based in Vancouver. Over the years, she has been actively involved with the Powell Street Festival in a variety of capacities including publicity design and taiko performance. Currently she is working on an animatic and series of drawings about her two very different grandmothers.
Rafael Tsuchida and Lyndsay Sung, The Way We Are, Documentary, 2007. The Way We Are is an experimental documentary about the Powell Street Festival.
Lyndsay Sung is a multidisciplinary artist working in video art, music, drawing, simple acts of performance and whatever interests her at any given time. She is a graduate of the University of Victoria with a degree in Women's Studies and Film Studies, and a recent graduate of the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, obtaining a degree in Integrated Media. Her current interests include experimental documentary, music-making, community art, ice cream recipes, cake decorating and indie fashion design. Lyndsay is also an independent curator and a member of the Powell Street Festival Society arts programming committee. She has exhibited work in Vancouver, Montreal, New York and the Netherlands.
Rafael was born in Monterrey, Mexico in June 12, 1974. He grew up in Guelph, Ontario and completed a BFA at NSCAD in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is mostly known for his video art practice but also participates in music performance projects. Rafael is interested in using everyday experiences as subject matter in a whimsical yet philosophically fecund fashion. He maintains diverse interests in technological gadgets, collectible toys, physical activities, and eating. He currently resides in Vancouver with his two cats.
Rick Shiomi, Images of the First 100 Years, Documentary, 1980.
As a playwright and director, Rick Shiomi has been one of the leading figures of the Asian American theater movement since the early 1980's. Relocating to Minnesota in the 1990's he was one of the founders of Theater Mu and is presently the Artistic Director of the company now named Mu Performing Arts. He received the Sally Ordway Irvine Award for Vision in 2007 and the award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts from the State Council for Asian Pacific Minnesotans in 2002. Mr. Shiomi's plays include the award winning Yellow Fever, Rosie's Cafe, Uncle Tadao, Play Ball, Mask Dance, The Raven In The Starfruit Tree, The Tale of the Dancing Crane and Song of the Pipa. Yellow Fever has been produced Off Broadway, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and in Japanese in Tokyo.
As a Taiko Performer, he began his career in the late 1970s with Katari Taiko in Vancouver, Canada. In the early 1980s he studied and performed with the San Francisco Taiko Dojo under Grandmaster Seiichi Tanaka. In the 1980s he also performed with Soh Daiko of New York and Wasabi Daiko of Toronto. He is the founder and leader of Mu Daiko, a taiko group within Mu Performing Arts.
The Powell Street Revue, Formed in the 70's, a sansei group, the Powell Street Revue, a sansei group, produced a slide presentation, "Images of the First 100 Years" (later converted to film by Rick Shiomi) for the first Powell Street Festival in 1977. It was a presentation featuring sansei view of their history and identity, and was later offered to schools. The group was involved in the inauguration of the first Powell Street Festival, the work of Tonari Gumi, and the formation of Katari Taiko in 1979. The members included Masayo Hora, Howard Inouye, Connie Kadota, Marilyn Kaga, Lucy Komori, Glen Nagano, Diane Nishii, Naomi Shikaze, Rick Shiomi, Mayu Takasaki, and others.
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Lynda Nakashima is a visual artist whose work includes video, animation, drawing and printmaking. A graduate of the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, she is still based in Vancouver. Over the years, she has been actively involved with the Powell Street Festival in a variety of capacities including publicity design and taiko performance. Currently she is working on an animatic and series of drawings about her two very different grandmothers.
Rafael Tsuchida and Lyndsay Sung, The Way We Are, Documentary, 2007. The Way We Are is an experimental documentary about the Powell Street Festival.
Lyndsay Sung is a multidisciplinary artist working in video art, music, drawing, simple acts of performance and whatever interests her at any given time. She is a graduate of the University of Victoria with a degree in Women's Studies and Film Studies, and a recent graduate of the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, obtaining a degree in Integrated Media. Her current interests include experimental documentary, music-making, community art, ice cream recipes, cake decorating and indie fashion design. Lyndsay is also an independent curator and a member of the Powell Street Festival Society arts programming committee. She has exhibited work in Vancouver, Montreal, New York and the Netherlands.
Rafael was born in Monterrey, Mexico in June 12, 1974. He grew up in Guelph, Ontario and completed a BFA at NSCAD in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is mostly known for his video art practice but also participates in music performance projects. Rafael is interested in using everyday experiences as subject matter in a whimsical yet philosophically fecund fashion. He maintains diverse interests in technological gadgets, collectible toys, physical activities, and eating. He currently resides in Vancouver with his two cats.
Rick Shiomi, Images of the First 100 Years, Documentary, 1980.
As a playwright and director, Rick Shiomi has been one of the leading figures of the Asian American theater movement since the early 1980's. Relocating to Minnesota in the 1990's he was one of the founders of Theater Mu and is presently the Artistic Director of the company now named Mu Performing Arts. He received the Sally Ordway Irvine Award for Vision in 2007 and the award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts from the State Council for Asian Pacific Minnesotans in 2002. Mr. Shiomi's plays include the award winning Yellow Fever, Rosie's Cafe, Uncle Tadao, Play Ball, Mask Dance, The Raven In The Starfruit Tree, The Tale of the Dancing Crane and Song of the Pipa. Yellow Fever has been produced Off Broadway, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and in Japanese in Tokyo.
As a Taiko Performer, he began his career in the late 1970s with Katari Taiko in Vancouver, Canada. In the early 1980s he studied and performed with the San Francisco Taiko Dojo under Grandmaster Seiichi Tanaka. In the 1980s he also performed with Soh Daiko of New York and Wasabi Daiko of Toronto. He is the founder and leader of Mu Daiko, a taiko group within Mu Performing Arts.
The Powell Street Revue, Formed in the 70's, a sansei group, the Powell Street Revue, a sansei group, produced a slide presentation, "Images of the First 100 Years" (later converted to film by Rick Shiomi) for the first Powell Street Festival in 1977. It was a presentation featuring sansei view of their history and identity, and was later offered to schools. The group was involved in the inauguration of the first Powell Street Festival, the work of Tonari Gumi, and the formation of Katari Taiko in 1979. The members included Masayo Hora, Howard Inouye, Connie Kadota, Marilyn Kaga, Lucy Komori, Glen Nagano, Diane Nishii, Naomi Shikaze, Rick Shiomi, Mayu Takasaki, and others.
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