Events

upcoming

Event poster titled Deer Lake Poetry Reading, an afternoon with Erica H Isomura, April dela Noche Milke, Natalie Lim, Brandi Bird and Heather Saluti. Supported by Deer Lake Artist in Residence Program. Event takes place Sunday April 3, 2022 from 2-4pm at Burnaby Art Gallery, 6344 Deer Lake Avenue. E-mail air@burnaby.ca to register. Text set against a blue watercolour image of the lake.

Friday, April 22, 2022 at 6:00-7:30pm PT on Zoom

Join to celebrate author Steffi Tad-y's debut full-length poetry collection From The Shoreline, published by Gordon Hill Press in spring 2022.

Guest readers include Jane Shi, Zehra Naqvi, and Erica H Isomura with hosts Alyssa Sy de Jesus & Phebe M. Ferrer.

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past events

Headshots of authors Hiromi Goto, Sarah Leavitt, and Erica H Isomura for SFU Library's One Book One SFU event on March 9, 2022.

Image of a sun rising from an ocean mist under decorative text reading "From the prairies to the pacific rim" Listen at PowellStreetFestival.com

Coral pink background with white design imagery of two hands reaching for one another. Text reads: The Japanese Canadian Writer's Circle (Mata Ashita)

Image of a gallery space with a projection on the wall. Red text overlaid on top reads title of exhibit, HUMAN CAPITAL.

Picture of Erica holding a salmon with the text Guest Host, Erica Hiroko Isomura: On Food and Culture for Community Building. Blue background with decorative border.

Title text reads, Word Vancouver, September 19-27, 2020. Writer's Lineage Panel, LGBTQ2S Programming. Four people in black and white photos are pictured in a square.

Poster shows a flower in the desert with the text, "A memory is too powerful a weapon." Title text reads Displacement: in conversation with yonsei artists Kiku Hughes and Erica Isomura. youtube.com/VanCAF, supported by Vancouver Comic Arts Festival

Hiromi Goto and Erica Isomura are pictured with the titled text, Queer Arts Festival, A Conversation on Queer Mentorship. Hiromi has short grey hair and wears a black t-shirt. Erica has long dark hair and stands behind a branch of white plum blossoms.

Image of an illustration of sign that reads "I-Hotel" text reads "Lessons from I-Hotel with Japanese American author Karen Tei Yamashita and members of the Downtown Eastside SRO Collaborative and Right to Remain. Friday November 8, 2019, 8pm at 1. E Hastings

Word Vancouver poster with green and orange shapes. Two headshots of Joseph Onodi and Erica Isomura.

Title text reads Re-Pronunciation, New work by yonsei women writing. Date Saturday August 3, 2019 at 5pm at the Firehall Arts Centre, 280 E Cordova Street with Laura Fukumoto, Carolyn Nakagawa, and Erica Isomura

recorded events

One Book One SFU 2022

SFU Library | March 2022

An evening of comics and conversation to celebrate Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu, selected for SFU's university-wide book club. Presented by SFU Library, SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement, and SFU Public Square.

Publication Launch of 'HUMAN CAPITAL'

MacKenzie Art Gallery | January 2021

A reading of "FOR THE DREAMERS," published in Briarpatch Magazine and creative non-fiction winner in the 8th annual Writing in the Margins Contest as selected by author Alicia Elliott. Publication launch of HUMAN CAPITAL by Briarpatch and the Mackenzie Art Gallery.

From the Prairies to the Pacific Rim: A poetic exchange and artist conversation with Rita Wong, Emily Riddle & Sacha Ouellet

Powell Street Festival | August 2021

Tracing ancestries, activism, and creativity from amiskwaciwȃskahikan in the Prairies, across the Rockies, and into the Salish Sea, this audio segment blends poetry, conversation, and field recordings. Poetry readings include "night walk" and "holders" by Rita Wong, "Sokeciwan maka" by Emily Riddle, "fireweed shakes" by Sacha Ouellet, and "mourning song" by Erica H Isomura

erica h isomura · From the Prairies to the Pacific Rim (with Rita Wong, Emily Riddle & Sacha Ouellet)

New Yonsei Writing: Sad Poems 4 Hard Times at Vines Art Festival

New Brighton Park | August 2021

A poetry reading by yonsei writers Erica H Isomura, Laura Fukumoto, and Carolyn Nakagawa beside Hastings Park, which served as a detention centre during the 1942 Japanese Canadian incarceration. This poetry offers gratitude to the land that provided a home to ancestors a century ago.

In Conversation with cartoonist Kiku Hughes for VanCAF

Vancouver Comic Arts Festival, September 2020

Erica H Isomura interviews cartoonist Kiku Hughes, author of Displacement (First Second Books, 2020) to discuss family history, reclamation of queer stories, model minority myths in America, and the significance of these narratives to the racial justice movement.

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