Whitehorse
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28 Aug 2017
Lillian Nakamura Maguire
Lillian Nakamura Maguire is a second-generation Japanese Canadian, new playwright living and retired in the countryside near Whitehorse, Yukon. Her first play, Hidden Memories was accepted by Ruby Slippers Theatre “Advance Theatre: New Works by Diverse Women” for reading at the 2017 Vancouver Fringe Festival, in partnership with the Fringe Festival and Equity in Theatre. […]
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3 Aug 2017
Jack Kobayashi
John “Jack” Kobayashi was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1963. During the Second World War, Jack’s mother’s family was interned at Tashme and his dad’s family ended up in Blind Bay at a self-supporting site struggling through various hardships to make ends meet. Both families had hoped to move to Toronto. However, the Toronto Ban […]