The Suitcase Project – Community Talk

Community Talk by Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Ph.D., Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University

Japanese Canadian Memory Projects: Rebuilding the Community and Recognizing our Responsibilities Today

McAllister will explore how the community’s wider pursuit of social justice requires us to go beyond our own experiences of persecution and examine our responsibilities to Indigenous Nations and our links to other groups facing persecution today.

Presented by the Japanese Garden Society of Salt Spring Island.
Sponsored by the Salt Spring Island Public Library.
The exhibition’s community talks and workshop are funded by the Salt Spring Foundation.
This mini traveling version of the Suitcase Project is a loan from the Nikkei National Museum.
Archival photographs are courtesy of the Salt Spring Island Archives.