Montreal

Jenn Kitagawa

Jenn Kitagawa is an award-winning multidisciplinary visual artist who grew up in the city of Edmonton as well as the southern farmlands surrounding Taber, Alberta. She is of Japanese descent and is 4th generation, or Yonsei and Scottish. Graduating from MacEwan University (Edmonton, Alberta) and the Alberta College of Art & Design (Calgary, Alberta), she […]

Kaylie Hatashita(Kaylie Kreatrix)

Pronoun: She/Her Multi-disciplinary performer, Kaylie is a circus artist, musician, and all round creative soul born in Ottawa, Ontario. Growing up she studied violin and dance, and as an adult she discovered circus arts. What started as a hobby quickly turned into a passion and obsession. She traveled the world teaching and performing ‘buugeng’ an […]

Erika Prevost

Erika Prevost is a mixed race Japanese-Canadian actor born and raised in Montreal, Canada. From a young age Erika loved the spotlight. Finding her first form of expression through movement, she had a career in dance before being exposed to the world of Acting. Beginning with a series regular role on the hit teen dance […]

Azusa Matsumoto

The Montreal Japanese Manga School « Manga Montreal » is the first school of drawing manga in Canada, founded by a professional Japanese mangaka. Manga Montreal is pleased and excited to offer manga courses, which focuses not just on the manga drawing techniques but also on the impact of Japanese anime and manga on everyday […]

Julie Tamiko Manning

Julie is an award-winning actor and theatre creator based in ​Tiohtiá:ke /Montréal. Selected acting credits include: Annie in Jean Dit (Théâtre D’Aujourd’hui), Sin in Paradise Lost (Centaur), Elena in Butcher (Centaur), Isabella Bird in Top Girls (Segal Centre), Emilia in Othello (Scapegoat Carnivale/Segal), Titania in A Midsummer Nights’ Dream (Repercussion), Clarence in Richard III (Metachroma), […]

Tashme Productions

“The Tashme Project” is a 75-minute verbatim theatre piece that traces the history and common experience of the Nisei through childhood, WWII internment and post-war resettlement east of the Rockies. The Nisei, now in their 70’s and 80’s, were children at the time of internment and their stories of adventure and play are presented in […]

Scott Kokichi Kusano

Kokichi began his performing career at the age of 5 as a member of the Toronto Suwa Daiko a cultural association located in Toronto. Subsequently, Kokichi was introduced again to Japanese music during high school after the death of his grandfather and introduction to the Buddhist Temple where he was re-united with Taiko in 1996 […]

Eiko Henmi

Eiko “Cindy” Henmi was a popular writer for The New Canadian in the 1940s. Originally from Victoria, Henmi graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1939. She usually wrote under the pen name “Cinderella”, and was best known for her regular column “Femme-Fare” (1940-1942), but also occasionally contributed short stories and essays under her […]

Aki Shimazaki

Aki Shimazaki is a French-language novelist and translator best known for Tsubaki (1999), a novel set in Nagasaki in which the dropping of the atomic bomb figures prominently. Tsubaki, her first book, has been translated into English, and her books have also been translated into Japanese, German, Hungarian, and Russian. Shimazaki was born in Gifu, […]

Minako Takahashi

Minako Takahashi is a visual and mixed media artist. She was born in Tokyo and moved to Takefu, Fukui-ken at the age of two. While a student at Takefu high school, her art work was chosen for inclusion in such exhibitions as the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper national student art exhibition and the modern art exhibition […]

Kathlyn Horibe

Kathlyn Horibe was a journalist and editor who published with magazines and newspapers in Canada, the United States, Europe, and New Zealand. She was also the author of Toronto Disasters: Devastation and Tragedies that Made the Headlines. She worked in management before changing her career to become a writer and editor of corporate communications and […]

Soyo Kagemori

Soyo Kagemori is a teacher and practitioner of the Urasenke school of sado (tea ceremony) based in Montreal. He studied Urasenke methods in Kyoto, Japan, and began teaching sado in 1982, and gave public demonstrations at various public buildings and events around Montreal, including for the Chinese Cultural Association and the Japanese Pavilion at the […]

Hiroko Okata

Hiroko Okata was a shodo artist and founder of the Montreal School of Japanese Calligraphy. Born in Yamaguchi prefecture in Japan, Okata studied calligraphy as a child, but became serious about the art only after she graduated from university with a psychology degree, and the death of her mother. She studied at the school run […]

Yukari Ochiai

Yukari Ochiai is a Montreal-based painter and graphic artist who exhibits extensively around the world. Born in Yokohama, Japan, she attended a School of Fine Arts, ‘Joshi Bijutsu’, in Tokyo, receiving her diploma in 1960. After exhibiting as an artist in Tokyo and teaching fine arts at a girls’ high school, Ochiai travelled to Russia […]

Kazuko Tanaka

Kazuko Tanaka is an ikebana teacher and practitioner in the Koryu Shoutoukai School, which keeps the authenticity of Japanese ikebana in spirit while at the same time cultivating a modern style. Born in Tokyo, Tanaka studied at Rikkyo University, and immigrated to Canada in 1983. She earned her first degree teacher’s license from the Koryu […]