Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 Go for Broke: The Spirit of the 1970s : Inauguration Lecture for an Exhibition of the Terry Watada Special Collection

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Wednesday, April 3, 20132:30PM - 4:30PMExternal Event, Current Periodical Area, Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, 8th floor of Robarts Library, 130 St George Street

Description

Terry Watada is well-known in the Japanese Canadian community for his monthly column in the Nikkei Voice, a national Japanese Canadian community paper. He has written in all genres (fiction, poetry, drama, prose), edited two anthologies, and is also known as a musician and composer. His sound recordings include The Art of Protest, Birds on a Wing, Living in Paradise, and, Runaway Horses. Watada was born in 1951 and lives in Toronto where he teaches at Seneca College. Watada’s play, Tale of a Mask, was first produced in 1993 by the Workman Theatre Group. Recently, he has been working on a revised script that will be staged in 2008/2009 by fu-GEN, an Asian-Canadian Theatre Organization. Another play, “Vincent” toured Ontario and Manitoba in 1997.


Speakers

Terry Watada
Writer


Co-Sponsors

Asian Institute

Dr. David Chu Community Network in Asia Pacific Studies

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