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The Photo Club Project Exhibition

Moat Gallery, Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch

March 1 to 31, 2017

The Photo Club Project features work by a diverse group – predominantly Chinese and Japanese speaking seniors – who met at Tonari Gumi, the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum and Pandora Park Fieldhouse to explore storytelling through photography.  At weekly gatherings, their images were viewed and feedback was exchanged. Time and space was created for language interpretation and the safe exploration of cultural differences. 

Using sequences, extreme close-ups, and unusual angles, the project introduced the camera as a tool for self-expression and self-representation. What emerged from the process was an awareness of similarities and the discovery of new ways of seeing. An understanding of connection, between the images and also the participants, was built over the course of the two year project.

Facilitator Emiko Morita established The Photo Club Project in response to the discovery of the photographic archive of her late uncle Hiroshi Morita (1927-2012). Hiroshi Morita was born in Vancouver, raised in Japan, and lived a solitary life in Toronto. This exhibition includes Hiroshi Calling, an ethnography of Hiroshi Morita through his photographs and artifacts.

 Contributors: Emma Chen, Henry Chen, Michael De los Santos, Mari Fitzgerald, Ted Hara, Yoko Hop, Tomiko Ibuka, Lynn Katey, Junko Kataoka, Martin Kobayakawa, Jacquie Landry, Lee Arturo, Toshiko Narumi, Linda Ng, Yu Din Ng, Wayne Shum, Colleen Tsoukalas, Utako Ueki, Miloslav Vlcek, Keiko Watanabe, Grace Wong, and An Min Yao.

Facilitator: Emiko Morita

Japanese interpreter: Mari Fitzgerald and Izumi Kafetzis

Chinese interpreter: Carmut Me and Sophy Xie

Community partners: Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver, Maraya Cultural Projects Society, Tonari Gumi and Dance Troupe Practice, artists-in-residence at Pandora Park Fieldhouse.

Special thanks to Lorne Wolk, Ayaka Yoshimizu, Fred Herzog, Kerrisdale Cameras and The Lab.

Financial support from the City of Vancouver Community Arts Grants and the National Association of Japanese Canadians is gratefully acknowledged.

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The Photo Club Project exhibition took place at Pandora Park Fieldhouse on January 21, 2017 and will be at Vancouver Public Library Central Branch’s Moat Gallery throughout March 2017. 

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The Photo Club Project took part in Dance Troupe Practice’s final Big Draw exhibition at Pandora Park. The Site Factory school bus was parked in front of the field house and served as a fun, welcoming exhibition space.

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Colleen at Pandora Park (by Utako). 

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And other fun example of connecting ones possessions with nature. 

Tomiko nails the first exercise at TG Photo Club. “Photograph something that you brought with you today that connects to the garden or gardening. She found a flower brooch on her wallet and a hat to keep the sun out of her eyes while walking in a garden. But wait! She took these objects into the garden and found fantastic references to the real thing!

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Lynn was seeking cultural references in neighbourhood gardens. She found these Chinese monks (or did they find her!) and she knew Italian David was hidden in some trees not too far away. 

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Leaves against a fence in the garden. Oct. 3, 2016

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Colors from my iPhone photo of leaves changing color in Pandora Garden

#pandorapark

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Vic’s foot on the path to finding leaves in the Pandora garden

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Looking through the leaves. Surrounded by leaves. Green and multicolors.

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Pandora Parkの秋真っ盛り！

何と言っても、真っ赤な蔦に圧倒されました。

きっと、紅い実や青い実をめざして小鳥たちが来てくれるでしょう。

子供たちの描いた空色の足形が、また素敵です。

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An Min’s offering to the Photo Club leadership group! 

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おすすめのアプリ達♪

スティーブストンiPadクラスで今日はみんなでお互いに自分が使っていておすすめのアプリを紹介するということをやりましたね！

以下に話題に上ったアプリをまとめていきます。

YouTube

ドラマやバラエティーの名前で検索して動画を楽しむ

Siri

面白い掛け合いが楽しめる

Voice Translator

日本語で話した結果が英語に翻訳されて音声再生される

noiZ

記号をタップすると様々な音をバックグラウンドミュージックとして楽しめる

Googleフォト

写真が自動的に整理されて便利

Microsoft Translator

ウェブサイトを翻訳できるので便利

次回のiPad日本語クラスではゲームアプリの紹介の予定です。また時間があるときに投稿を更新して、もう少しそれぞれのアプリの良さやダウンロードリンクを追加しますね！本日も楽しかったですね！

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Oct.1st I went to Pandora Park. It was drop in for Photograph member. There are not anybody. イベントはまだ始まっていなくて準備段階だった。先生と親御さん数人だけだった。又月曜日、本番に来る事にした。若女が送迎してくれた。

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Thanks for taking part in #DanceTroupePractice’s Vancouver Big Draw activities on Saturday!

Pandra Park Big Draw.

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Join us starting on Oct 1 at Pandora Park, for Between A and B at the Vancouver Big Draw.

Between A and B Vancouver Big Draw Free Community Workshops Oct 1 - 22, Pandora Park Fieldhouse (2325 Franklin St)

How do you get from A to B? What happens along the way? Join Dance Troupe Practice and SiteFactory for free, all ages workshops exploring mapping, photography, sound, and drawing. Learn, share, and interact with Fieldhouse artists and with each other, and make art works to display at a final exhibition in the SiteFactory school bus. With Artists Mirae Rosner, Emiko Morita, prOphecy sun, and Leah Weinstein. For more info about the Big Draw Festival: http://www.drawvancouver.com/

Sound Mapping Tours & Collective Drawing, Vancouver Big Draw opening event Sat October 1, 10AM-4PM, Pandora Park Fieldhouse Mapping Connections through Photography, with Emiko Morita and the Photo Club Project Mon Oct 3, 2-3:30PM, Pandora Park Fieldhouse Sonic Playground, Sound Workshop with prOphecy sun Sat October 8, 12-3PM, Pandora Park Fieldhouse Creative Playground, Creative playgroup for kids (0-4) and parent or caregiver, with Mirae Rosner Weds Oct 5, 12, 19, 10:30-11:30AM, Templeton Pool Activity Room (700 Templeton Drive) Closing Exhibit aboard SiteFactory, Community art show inside a school bus gallery Sat Oct 22 , 11AM-1 PM, Pandora Park Fieldhouse

All events are free, drop-in and do not require prior experience. For workshop details, please visit http://dancetroupepractice-fieldhouse.tumblr.com/events 

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On Mapping

I am preparing for Photo Club's Community Mapping Project and thinking about Saturday's sound-mapping at Pandora Park. Here are Rebecca Solnit's words from Infinite City: "A static map cannot describe change, and every place is in constant change. I map your garden. A swarm of bees arrives, or a wind blows the petals off the flowers. You plant an apricot sapling or fell a shattered spruce; the season or even just the light changes. Now it is a different garden, and the map is out of date; another map is required; and another; yet another to show where the marriage proposal, the later marital battle, the formative skinning of a knee...."

...then Solnit moves on to Siddharta's map of enlightenment, which comes to him in a garden with no walls. "It takes yet another map to show how the garden fits into the continental weather patterns, or the racial patterns of the neighbourhood; another to indicate where the plants came from...and if a bomb strikes the garden in the course of a war, still another map to fit that bomb into the geopolitics of war, bringing us to another scale."