The Powell Street Festival Society publishes 2 newsletters every year, one in February and one in July.

Powell Street Festival Society
Winter 2011 Newsletter

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Volume 17, Number 1 – February 2011(1.42 MB)

POWELL STREET FESTIVAL 2010 IN REVIEW
By Julia Aoki, General Manager and Programming Director

Photo by Aki Mimoto

Thank you everybody who attended and helped out at the 34th Annual Powell Street Festival!

In 2010, the Powell Street Festival Society (PSFS) had another whimsical and wonderful year of programming, including Kaori Kasai’s Blim residency and exhibition, Ura Monchan, for which Kasai created storyboards of short vignettes about kinship, alienation, and emotional boundaries. PSFS also presented its first event to take place at Gudrun in Steveston, Chez D, aka Chez Diaspora, an unconventional gastronomic art happening that invited artists of various disciplines to explore the culinary realm. Spatial Poetics IX, our pre-Festival evening of experiment art works, drew a large crowd who were witness the playful collaborations of artists working outside their suggested disciplines. PSFS also partnered with the Japanese Canadian National Museum (JCNM) for the first phase of the ongoing Open Doors Project: a series of panels organized around stories of past and present residents and businesses that occupied six buildings along the 300 and 400 blocks of Powell Street. What’s more, Dynamo Coléoptera (Quebec) brought their bold and theatrical musical style, and Tochka Factory (Japan) their whimsical animations made from unlikely light sources, to the Powell Street Festival crowd for our off-site event during the Festival-weekend.

PSFS sends out a big ‘Thank you!’ to all partners, sponsors, donors, performers and fabulous craft, community, martial arts and display participants who made the Festival possible in 2010. A special ‘Thank you’ also goes out to our 2010 staff members: Production Coordinator Kazuho Yamamoto, who continues to work with the Festival as an administrative assistant, Volunteer Coordinator Terence Yee, and Communications Manager Sabrina Furminger. Another big ‘Thanks!’ to our site committee who made possible a smooth return to our traditional and much loved home, Oppenheimer Park. And last, but certainly not least, a big ‘Thank You!!’ to GM Kristen Lambertson for all her hard work making 2010 a tremendously successful and memorable year!

We welcome everybody to help us celebrate our 35th Anniversary in 2011. We have a fantastic year of programming in store for you as well as a Festival gala that puts the ‘fun’ in fundraising!! Please check our website regularly for updates.

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Special thanks to our 2010 donors
(from January-December 2010, in alphabetical order)

Anonymous (2) • Hideko Arai • Yoshio Arai • Midge Ayukawa • Elizabeth R. Chu • Lia Cosco • Debbie Davis • Nobu Ellis • Randy Enomoto • Kiyoo Goto • Susan Gratton • Mickey Hayashi • Mitsuo & Emmie Hayashi • Linda Uyehara Hoffman • Nina Inaoka Lee • Tokuko Inouye • Diane Kadota • Rod Mickleburgh • Elmer & Sofi Morishita • David Motomocki • Les & Phyllis Murata • Tamami Nakashimada • Catherine Newstead • Jim & June Nishihara • July Ono • Kimiko Oseki • John Philip & Reiko Richardson • Lyndsay Sung • Kumi Sutcliffe • Grace Eiko Thomson • Arlene Tulloch • Bryan Uyesugi • Peter & Ethel Wakayama • Marlene Yuen

The Powell Street Festival gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of
Canadian Heritage, the BC Arts Council, the City of Vancouver through the Office of Cultural Affairs, and Bulletin Magazine.

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