Tokyo-based Taiko drummer Keita Kanazashi will be teaching the art of Taiko.
He also held a Taiko drum workshop in 2016 on Salt Spring Island.
Date: April 18th 2018 (Wednesday)
Location: Lions Hall (Hart Bradley Hall)
103 Bonnet Ave. Salt Spring Island V8K 2K8
Kiln on Galiano on Bluff Park
We are very pleased to announce the launch of an exciting project to conduct research on the Japanese Canadian charcoal kilns of the Gulf Islands. We have received a one-time $24,000 grant from the BC | Canada 150: Celebrating B.C. Communities and their Contributions to Canada Fund offered by the BC Museum Association, and a one-time $2,500 grant from the Endowment Fund of the National Association of Japanese Canadians.
In Memoriam:
First JGS President
b. 26 January 1927 d. 7 January 2017
Japanese charcoal pit kilns have been located in Mouat Park
The Japanese Garden Society is launching a new project in partnership with the Salt Spring Island Parks and Recreation Commission – the Restoration of the Japanese Charcoal Pit Kilns. As PARC has been such a great partner, we are feeling very hopeful about the project.
The society has started a fundraising campaign to raise funds to get the project moving. We recently received some good news that we’ve been chosen to receive grants from the Victoria Nikkei Cultural Society and the Salt Spring Foundation.
Go to Japanese Charcoal Kiln Restoration on our website for more details.
Graves of several members of the original Japanese-Canadian families have been restored, with hand-cut marker stones created by Salt Spring artist Warren Langley shown here with Rose and Richard Murakami.
To read the article originally published in the Driftwood newspaper July 11, 2013 issue, please click here”Driftwood“.
