The CJR is currently seeking to fill two WorkLearn positions for the Winter 2021 term. The Work Learn Program at UBC provides meaningful work experiences on campus, offering current UBC students the opportunity to develop their professional skills in a professional work environment. Please see the job postings on UBC CareersOnline for more details.

Please submit your application via the UBC CareerOnline portal by the application deadline.

A Future for Memory: Art and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake, curated by Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura, MOA’s Curator for Asia + Assistant Professor in Asian Studies is a moving exhibition that captures the spirit of humanity’s and nature’s resilience. The exhibition will be extended until September 19, 2021. Read full story

MOA is partnering with VocalEye, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to making public programming accessible for the blind and partially sighted, to offer an online tour of A Future for Memory: Art and Life after the Great East Japan Earthquake.

This slow-looking virtual tour will include highlights from A Future for Memory with visual descriptions for people with sight loss. This VocalEye Almost Live Zoom event is hosted by Amy Amantea, a member of the blind/low vision community, and VocalEye executive director, Steph Kirkland. The event will include a post-tour conversation and opportunity for Q + A with exhibition curator Fuyubi Nakamura.

Registration via VocalEye is required. Register online or contact VocalEye at [email protected] or 604-364-5949.

In this video (in Japanese, with English subtitles), Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura, MOA’s Curator for Asia + Assistant Professor in Asian Studies speaks with Hiroyasu Yamauchi, the director/curator of the Rias Ark Museum of Art in Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture. He shares what he experienced on March 11, 2011 when Kesennuma was devastated by the earthquake and ensuing tsunami. Immediately following the disaster, he and other Rias Ark Museum curators began recording the situation of the city. A Future for Memory: Art and Life after the Great East Japan Earthquake features selected photographs from the Rias Ark Museum of Art’s exhibition, Documentary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami and History of Tsunami Disaster. He talks about what motivated them to start this work, and how they put together the exhibition at their museum.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzDaqgwUq9Y

In this video (in Japanese, with English subtitles), Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura, MOA’s Curator for Asia + Assistant Professor in Asian Studies speaks with members of the Lost & Found Project and the Omoide Salvage Project about how these projects started and what they have been doing in the past ten years since 3.11. A Future for Memory: Art and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake features 5,000 tsunami-affected photographs from the Lost & Found Project, which are not identifiable even after being cleaned by the associated Omoide Salvage Project.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IenwC6Up9-k

Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) is currently accepting applications for Program to Strengthen Livelihood and Business Foundations for Japanese Nationals Overseas and People of Japanese Descent (Nikkei). The program provides assistance for organizations and groups that support Japanese nationals overseas and Nikkei (Japanese descents) whose livelihoods have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. For the program eligibility and application details, please visit the MOFA's website: https://www.mofa.go.jp/ca/cp/page22e_000949.html

Application Deadline: September 30, 2021