Manitoba

Sally Ito

Sally Ito is a writer and translator, born and raised in Taber, Alberta. She has written three books of poetry – Frogs in the Rain Barrel (Nightwood Editions, 1995), Season of Mercy (Nightwood Editions, 1999), and Alert to Glory (Turnstone Press, 2011), and a collection of short stories titled Floating Shore (Mercury Press, 1998). She […]

Fubuki Daiko

Fubuki Daiko (Blizzard Drums) is a professional Japanese taiko group founded in Winnipeg in 1995. Three of the group’s members (Hiroshi Koshiyama, Naomi Guilbert, and Bruce Robertson) received their formative training from Grandmaster Seiichi Tanaka, the founder of the San Francisco Taiko Dojo and the father of North American Taiko. With the SF Taiko Dojo, […]