Powell Street Festival 2007 Schedule
Saturday, August 4, 2007
MAIN STAGE
11:30

DEMO AREA

Opening Ceremonies/blessing
Ju Jutsu

12:00
12:30

World Class Arts & Entertainment

1:00

Nishikawa-ryu Dance
Iaido

1:30

CHILDREN’S TENT

11:30
12:00

4:00
5:00

The Play’s the Film
screening curated by Nobu Adillman

Suika Wari game [1:30pm]

Tug-of-War [3pm]

2:00

Skim: play by Mariko Tamaki,
performed by Julie Tamiko ManningMark McGregor solo flute

Assaulted Fish

Mariko Tamaki reading

Tanko Bushi/Matsuri Odori

6:30
8pm

DEMO AREA

Firehall Arts Centre 280 East CordovaCHILDREN’S TENT

COURT AREA

Otowa-Ryu

Ongoing [12noon-5pm]

Yuaikai Ryukyu Taiko

Ongoing 12noon-6pm
Broken Only at Sky
sculpture[Michael Tora Speier]&Kids Kiai Contest [1:30pm]
Lemon Creek Map Project[Leslie Komori]

Shorinji Kempo

2:00

Koichi Makigami

2:30

Coracao Boemio

3:00

LOUD

3:30

Nikkei Museum and Heritage
Centre table in the Buddhist
Church (participatory)

Illustrations by Lynda Nakashima

12:00

Aikido (Shoheijuku)

p sign up at the National

Vancouver Japanese Language School
487 Alexander Street
Chapel 304 Dunlevy Ave

11:30Sakura Singers

Koichi Makigami
K. Devaux

FIREHALL THEATREVJLS TATAMI
Urasenke Vancouver tea ceremony

Kyudo Demonstration

Powell Street
Walking Tour

12:00
12:30

Urasenke Vancouver tea ceremony

1:00
1:30

Skim

Tug-of-War [3pm]Urasenke Vancouver tea ceremony

2:00

Aikido (Yoshinkan) demo

3:00
Mariko Tamaki reading

4:00
The Play’s the Film screening
curated by Nobu Adillman

Powell Street
Walking Tour

3:30
4:00

5:00

OTHER

2:30
SUMO 3:30-4:45pm[4:45] Keiko Devaux

VJLS HALL
11:30

Za Daikon [12noon-1:15pm]

4:30

Harry Aoki & Tokyo Express(music & stories)

5:00

5:30

Jodaiko

5:30

6:00

Katari Taiko

6:00

6:30

Final Lottery Draw

6:30
p sign up at the National Nikkei Museum and Heritage

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Powell Street Festival is gearing up for yet another summer jam-packed with amazing
entertainment! We have several pre-festival events beginning July 7 and running up tofestival weekend on August 4-5. Below is a brief rundown of these events, but be sure tocheck out our new website at www.powellstreetfestival.com for full details!
For more information, contact Miko at miko@dkam.ca or Lyndsay atpowellstreetfestival2007@gmail.com, or call the Festival office at 604 739 9388.
SPATIAL POETICS
Saturday, July 7, 8pm, VIVO, 1965 Main Street, Admission $10/8 at the door
Sixth annual evening of collaborative and experimental performance and video by Asian
Canadian artists, featuring premieres of new work by Yuriko Iga and Noel Macul, Lydia
Kwa and Jason Sims, Lyndsay Sung and Rafael Tsuchida, and more! Plus, videos curated
by Lyndsay Sung.

4:00

6:00

Sunday, August 5, 2007

1:30

Powell Street
Walking Tour

5:30

Ongoing: Between What’s Said and Unsaid		drawing exhibit @ Helen Pitt Gallery, 102-148 Alexander Street[Artist Talk: 2pm-3pm, Saturday, Helen Pitt]

12:30

Between What’s Said andUnsaid
12:45 Powell Street
Artist Talk [Helen Pitt]
Walking Tour***

5:00

All weekend events are free, except Koichi Makigami on Saturday night

MAIN STAGE

Powell Street
Walking Tour

4:30

Kokoro Dance

6:30

2:30
3:00

Fukui Minyukai
Chibi Taiko

4:30

1:30

Karate

6:00

1:00

3:30

Sawagi Taiko

5:30

1:00

Lost and Found PanelOmikoshi

4:30

Update12:30

2:30
TG Seniors Minyo & Exercise

OTHER

CHAPEL

Ongoing [12noon-5pm]

YUGO: urban
hip hop event

3:30

FIREHALL THEATRE

PALM Origami [12noon-3pm]

2:00
3:00

COURT AREA

Centre table in the Buddhist Church (participatory)

Kibatsu Cinema: eccentricity, popular culture and contemporary Japanese film
July 26-29, Pacific Cinematheque, 1131 Howe Street
For full schedule and pricing: www.cinematheque.bc.ca(Must be a Cinematheque member or a Powell Street Festival Society member and 18
years of age or older)
PSF and Pacific Cinémathèque are pleased to present Kibatsu Cinema, a celebration ofthe odd and the eccentric in Japanese pop culture and contemporary Japanese film.
Kibatsu is a Japanese word denoting a person or thing that is, by ordinary standards,
unusual or unconventional; the array of quirky, smart, and stylish films on display here
reveal the influences of various of Japan’s prominent pop-cultural streams: manga andanime, pop and punk music, the famed flamboyance of the country’s street fashions andyouth cultures. There are also, from North America, two films in the same eccentric veinthat explore Japanese American identity. Beginning with our delectable festival opener
The Taste of Tea, a hilarious, touching, and often fantastical family dramedy, the line-up
includes “grrrl-power” anthems Kamikaze Girls and Linda Linda Linda; the heartbreaking
documentary hit The Cats of Mirikitani, a favourite on the international festival circuit;the eye-popping experimental narratives Body Drop Asphalt and I Was Born, But…;
and, as our closing film, the stunningly shot, über-stylish Kamome Diner, a tale of three
Japanese women afoot in Helsinki that pays tribute to Finnish maverick and master Aki
Kaurismäki. On opening night, the series also features the WORLD PREMIERE of The Way
We Are, an experimental documentary made by Lyndsay Sung and Rafael Tsuchida about
the 30th anniversary Powell Street Festival in 2006. There’s also an anime entry, the moving wartime drama The Glass Rabbit, intended for an all-ages audience.
JODAIKO concert (as part of Pride In Art)
August 1, 8:00pm, Roundhouse Community Centre
Tickets $20 at various outlets, www.tttaiko.com
See this all-female superstar taiko group, led by taiko master from California, Tiffany
Tamaribuchi! Their show last year sold out, so get your tickets early.
Between What’s Said and Unsaid exhibition
August 4-17, Helen Pitt Gallery, 102-148 Alexander Street
Artist talk, Saturday, August 4th, Helen Pitt Gallery.
An exhibition of drawings by a younger generation of Nikkei (Japanese descent) artists
from Canada, USA, and Japan, featuring Cindy Mochizuki, Madoka Hara, Jillian Tamaki,R. Kikuo Johnson and Kaori Kasai. Curated by Alia Nakashima.
**Opening night: August 3, 7pm**

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