Asian Heritage Month

The Landscapes of Injustice Research Database received national coverage during the Asian Heritage Month. Interviewed: Laura Saimoto, Jordan Stanger-Ross and Michael Abe.

CTV News Video

To highlight Asian Heritage Month, Landscapes of Injustice has been doing a number of events with the Royal BC Museum.

Exploring the Broken Promises Museum Exhibit with Dr. Yasmin Amataranga Railton
Broken Promises focusses on the dispossession of property owned by Japanese Canadians and will travel to the Royal BC Museum in 2022. Dr. Yasmin Amaratunga Railton, co-curator of the Broken Promises exhibit talks about how the exhibit is told from the perspective of seven Japanese Canadian narrators and how the government policies of dispossession affected all generations of their families.
RBCM@Home recording from May 4, 2021 (34 min)
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The Hidden History of the Esquimalt Teahouse with Michael Abe
RBCM@ Outside host Liz Crocker and Michael Abe, project manager of the Landscapes of Injustice project take a walk and virtual talk about the history of the Japanese Teahouse in Esquimalt Gorge Park on Vancouver Island and the rediscovery and provenance of a small piano decades later.
RBCM@Outside recording from May 20, 2021 (34 min.)
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Into the Interior with Landscapes of Injustice
RBCM @ Home (Kids)  Jennifer Landrey and Natsuki Abe
Into the Interior is a choose-your-own-adventure, interactive narrative game, that follows two Japanese Canadian siblings as they experience internment during the 1940s.
Attendees will participate in a fun, collaborate play-through with University of Victoria students and game developers, Jennifer Landrey and Natsuki Abe
Hosted by Chris O'Connor. 
RBCM@Home(Kids) recording from May 26, 2021
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