日本カナダ商工会議所会員の皆様
雨の多い毎日ですが、いかがお過ごしですか。弊会ではVancouver Community Kintsugi Association (VCKA)が中心になって動いている戦前パワエルストリートにあった旧ジャパンタウンの復活プロジェクトを支援しております。VCKAの代表理事、パトリシア・ベーダ・ジョンストン氏からの以下のメッセージをお送りします。１２月５日（金）に旧ジャパンタウン近くのBelgard Kitchen でファンドレージングのためのランチ会が開かれます。たくさんの人の参加をお待ちしております。参加ご希望の方は添付のポスターからお申込みください。
※11/30（SUN）締め切りになります。お早めにお申し込みください。
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Reminder: Please join us Dec. 5 for the First Annual Vancouver Community Kintsugi Association Gathering
Dear friends of Vancouver (and Pauru-gai),
This is a friendly reminder if you have not RSVPed for December 5, we would be honoured by your presence. Please feel free to bring interested others who have an interest in the future of Paurugai and the legacy of those who came before us! We will hear hopes and dreams from some young voices and discuss potential paths forward that will bring all of the members of this beautiful community together in reimagining the Powell Street area, in a way that honours the past and leads us into a brighter connected future …
As we watch the splendor of the fall season unfold in 2025, it is an exciting time to reflect on what makes Vancouver a truly unique place. Many diverse groups have played a role in defining the heritage of the area. It was for thousands of years a crossroads and connection point for coastal First Nations peoples. The area known as Powell Street District (Pauru-gai to the Japanese Canadian community) played a significant role in defining the early history of the area, catalysed by the displacement and forced assimilation of local First Nations communities. Many of the earliest foreign settlers introduced to the area in the 1880’s were Japanese, and they, despite many hardships, thrived and made Vancouver home. Today, the enduring strength of the friendship between Japan and Canada rests on the legacy of those early Japanese-Canadians.
On December 5th the Vancouver Community Kintsugi Association will gather together with a number of collaborating organizations which collectively represent the heritage of the Japanese-Canadian community in Vancouver. Together we will hold an inaugural fund-raising luncheon to reflect on the legacy of Pauru-gai, and reflect on how to best commemorate the legacy of the area formerly known by many non-Japanese as “Japan Town” which has suffered a decline in recent years. At the same time we will set a foot on a path toward re-thinking Pauru-gai in a way that might weave together the shared histories of the First Nations, the Japanese, Chinese and other Asian stakeholders, and the current stakeholders who populate the area today.
We are calling this process of collaborative revitalization, “Community Kintsugi”, which means: to mend broken artifacts with pure gold, to become something whole and new, and even more beautiful than before! We welcome your cooperation and ideas as we re-imagine the district in a way that celebrates the good, and memorializes even the tragic in a culturally sensitive and inclusive way.
Please join us in the inspired setting of the Belgard Kitchen as we bring all of the pieces and perspectives together to reimagine a culturally -sensitive and diversity-friendly gold-tinged future for the Powell Street District. Please see details below and attached.
On behalf of the VCKA Board of Directors and Volunteers,
Our warmest thanks for your support!
Patricia Bader-Johnston
VCKA ChairPatricia Bader-Johnston
Tel. 81-(0)80-5690-1363
