Powell Street Festival Celebrates the Japanese Canadian Culture Confluence – BeatRoute Magazine

Powell Street Festival Celebrates the Japanese Canadian Culture Confluence – BeatRoute Magazine

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By Yasmine Shemesh

Mindful of Vancouver’s ongoing housing crisis, this annual celebration of Japanese Canadian arts and culture won’t be taking place in its usual site at Oppenheimer Park, where many displaced people are currently living in tents.



Instead, for its 43rd edition, festival organizers have reworked the programming to instead run nearby along Alexander Street, Jackson Street, and Dunlevy Avenue, so that the park occupants are not disturbed.



The historic neighbourhood once known as Paueru-gai — the area many Japanese Canadians called home before they were forcibly interned by the government in the early 40s — hosts a day filled with martial arts, craft vendors, food trucks, traditional folk dance, and live performances from musicians including Tokyo electronic artist Chihei Hatakeyama and Vancouver jazz pianist Sharon Minemoto.

August 3, 2019 / Alexander Street, Jackson Street, and Dunlevy Avenue

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