Okinawan Community Members – Sydney

On February 16, Okinawan community members in Sydney (Okinawa Kenjinkai and Eisa Champuru) held a celebration of Lunar New Year (Soguwachi, ソーグヮチ) and a workshop for the When You Call My Name project. Mayu Kanamori reached out to Okinawan community members to take...

Zoom check-in hosted by Elysha Rei

As promised Nikkei Australia Chair Elysha Rei ran a zoom project check-in / catch up for for those interested in connecting and sharing artwork ideas, research finds or other information that may be valuable to the project and participants. This very informal zoom...

Sophie Constable in Aotearoa New Zealand

A week in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington researching civilian internees who died while being kept here as ‘Japanese enemy aliens’ in WW2 for the When You Call My Name Project Supported by CAPO All Insure Emerging Artist Award            ...