Kizuna 2020: Bondade e solidariedade nikkeis durante a pandemia da COVID-19

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Reflecting on the art of Yvonne Wakabayashi, second-generation artist Miya Turnbull (daughter of Alberta potter, Marjene Matsunaga Turnbull), and Barb Miiko Gravlin, each of their works has a place in the unravelling narrative of the Japanese Canadian Covid-19 story.

It is humbling to think that here are three generations of Japanese Canadians artists who continue to work at this most difficult time.

Looking at the art that Miya, Barb, and Yvonne are creating with a CoVid-19 lense then, what can be a more powerful expression of these times than Miya’s startling face masks? As a public ...

El 6 de marzo se confirmó el primer caso de coronavirus en el Perú. 9 días después, el gobierno nacional estableció una cuarentena total que, entre otras medidas, cerraba las fronteras del país e impedía salir de casa salvo para actividades esenciales como comprar alimentos.

La medida entró en vigor el 16 de marzo y, en principio, regiría durante dos semanas. Entonces se creyó que el país estaba atravesando por un breve periodo excepcional, una obligada pausa, tras la cual se restauraría la normalidad.

Sin embargo, poco después se hizo patente que ...

Desde que se decretara la cuarentena en el Perú, el 16 de marzo de 2020, por el Covid-19, el país no ha vuelto a ser el mismo. A la alta cifra de fallecidos y contagiados se le suma la cantidad de personas que han perdido su trabajo, los negocios que han debido cerrar y los consecuentes problemas económicos que ello ocasiona. Los drásticos cambios han venido acompañados de dos palabras: crisis y reinvención.

Los restaurantes y otros negocios relacionados a la cocina peruana se vieron impedidos de atender de un día al otro en ...

How do worldwide issues of crisis like a World War or pandemic affect the way artists work?

While I am not aware of any Japanese Canadian artists who were active early in our settlement of Canada, one American Nisei sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) born in Los Angeles, California, is certainly one of the best known sculptors anywhere. His father was the well-known poet, Yone, and his mother the educator-writer Leonie Gilmour (1873-1933) who edited much of Isamu’s writing. Although little is made of the times he was born into, Isamu lived through the Spanish Pandemic of 1918, World War ...

If there’s anything that COVID-19 revealed, it is that xenophobia never went away; it was just hidden. With the rise of COVID-19 cases, hate crimes targeting Asians have increased after having decreased in the 21st century.

Xenophobia is the fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures or strangers.¹ It is the dislike or fear of the customs of people culturally different from oneself. It’s important to note that xenophobia is very similar to racism. However, it differs from racism because racism is rooted in the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits ...