Join us for our last event! A screening of Vancouver-based artist Cindy Mochizuki’s 2024 documentary film, Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama, followed by a discussion with Cindy and local photographer Tadafumi Tamura, and Mayumi Takasaki, local leader and partner of the late Tamio Wakayama; moderated by Dr. Tara Lee (UBC School of Journalism, Writing, & Media).
Synopsis: Through archival footage, interviews, animations, and Wakayama’s own unpublished memoir, follow the Japanese-Canadian photographer as he joins the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the American civil rights movement to his journey back home to Vancouver’s Paueru Gai/Powell Street neighborhoods.
This is an in-person event. Free entry & Japanese light snacks. Registration required:
Date & Time:
Thursday, April 17, 2025 | 5:30pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Doors open at 5:00pm.
Location:
Norm Theatre, UBC Life Building, 6138 Student Union Blvd, Vancouver
About Framing Asia: Framing Asia is a series of community film screenings and programming initiated by a group of graduate students in UBC’s Department of Asian Studies. For any queries about the series, please write to us at framingasia@gmail.com
Student organizers: Fahad Naveed (PhD student, Asian Studies), Ying Han (MA student, Asian Studies), Skyler Wolf (MA student, Asian Studies) and Farimah Mahmoodi (MA student, Asian Studies)
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies and the UBC Strategic Equity & Anti-Racism (StEAR) Enhancement Fund. It is supported by the Indigenous Asia Initiative Steering Committee and the Anti-Racism and Racial Justice Committee. This screening is co-presented by UBC Film Society.
