Guest speaker/Artist: Linda Ohama
Event planner/Collaborating artist: Yoriko Gillard
Date: Sunday\, Feb. 27th 2011
Time: 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Place: D r. Simon K. Y. Lee Global Lounge and Resource Centre\, UBC
Event type : Fundraising / Linda Ohama's film screening & Artist talk
Entrance f ee: $5
PROFILE: Since the early 1970's\, Linda has worked as an exhib iting visual artist\, educator\, and independent filmmaker. She was born an d raised in Rainier\, Alberta where her parents had a family potato farm. S he is a third generation Canadian of Japanese ancestry (sansei) and has alw ays been an active member of her cultural and arts communities\, both local ly and internationally. Presently\, she continues directing films\, lecturi ng\, and working to help build ties between Japan and Canada through specia l programs with young people\, including building sister high school relati onships and the 2009 Chibi Taiko Vancouver-Onomichi project.
Linda gr aduated with degrees in arts (fine arts) and education and attended Univers ity of Calgary (Alberta)\, Banff School of Art\, Bishop’s University (Que bec)\, and University of British Columbia. After teaching art in both publi c and private schools in Quebec and Ontario for several years\, she moved t o the West Coast and turned her attention to her professional visual and fi lm careers. Since then\, she has had numerous exhibitions in major gallerie s across Canada and has produced and directed eight independent award-winni ng films that have received international screenings and television broadca sts and recognized with several distinguished awards.
Her community w ork has also included sitting on various Boards and Committees including th e BC Arts Council (Victoria\, B.C.)\, Moving Images Distribution (Vancouver ) \, the Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund (Ottawa\, Ontario)\, Uzum e Taiko (Vancouver)\, National Nikkei Heritage Centre (Burnaby\, B.C.) and Chibi Taiko (Vancouver). Over the years\, Linda has also served on assessme nt juries for the Canada Council\, Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund \, DOXA\, BC Arts Council\, and Heritage Canada.
Today\, Linda divide s her time between Vancouver\, Canada and Onomichi\, Japan to continue her research\, films\, writing\, teaching and cultural works.
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