Celebrate the history, diversity, and enduring promise of Vancouver’s Japantown in the first Japantown Multicultural Neighbourhood Celebration (10:00am-9:00pm, March 28). This full day of cultural events and public forums reflects upon the journeys of the past, the diversity of the present, and the promise of the future. The Japantown Multicultural Neighbourhood Celebration features concurrent activity at the Japanese Hall, Oppenheimer Park, Chapel Arts, Kalayaan Centre, and in the streets of Japantown. Japantown lies on the traditional territory of the Coast Salish First Nations and is the site of Vancouver’s earliest beginnings.

The award, which recognizes Vancouver Moving Theatre contribution to building cultural harmony in Vancouver and the Downtown Eastside, was presented by Mayor Sam Sullivan to Vancouver Moving Theatre’s co-founders- Executive Director Terry Hunter and Artistic Director Savannah Walling -in a ceremony at City Council Chambers on Tuesday October 28.

Terry Hunter and Savannah Walling were among forty-five outstanding British Columbians named the recipients of the fifth annual BC Community Achievement Awards by Premier Gordon Campbell and Keith Mitchell, chair of the British Columbia Achievement Foundation.
“As British Columbia celebrates its 150 anniversary this year, we recognize the strength of our province is founded in the [...]