JETAABC Yomikai invites award winning essayist, poet, and multi-disciplinary artist, Erica Hiroko Isomura for a special hour in honour of May Asian Heritage Month. Sign up here to get a Zoom link to join us on May 13 at 10 am PDT.
Come celebrate Asian Canadian Heritage Month with the JETAABC community! We will eat a sushi lunch and learn about Asian Canadian history, share stories and experiences, and enjoy some fun games and karaoke! $10 for JETAABC members $15 for non-alumni members. Sign up here.
JETAABC Yomi-kai: Come join us on Tuesday, June 20 at 7pm as we discuss Nao-Cola Yamazaki's "Cavities and Kindness". Click here to join only June's meeting.
Come join us on Tuesday, July 25th at 7pm over Zoom as we discuss Aoki Jungo’s short story “As Told by a Nocturnal Witness.” Click here to join only July's meeting.
https://www.jetaabc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Edomae-Summer-Banner.jpg Come join us! Mr. Hikita will give a presentation on Giant Kelp & Its Ecosystem. The event will also include some tips on how to thaw sashimi and a demo on how to prepare rice for a seafood rice bowl (kaisen don).
Come join us on Tuesday, August 29th at 7pm as we discuss selected excerpts from Polly Barton’s Fifty Sounds. Click here to join only August's meeting.
Come join us on Tuesday, September 26th at 7pm on Zoom as we discuss Yoko Tawada’s To Khabarovsk. Click here to join only September's meeting.
Our annual Imoni-Kai is a treasured tradition from Yamagata Prefecture. Enjoy hearty taro root stew in Central Park, Burnaby from 11am, Sunday, October 14th, with friends old and new! Please RSVP here by Wednesday, October 11th.
This month we will read Edogawa Ranpo's spooky “The Traveler with the Pasted Rag Picture.” The story is about a stranger with an uncannily live-looking rag-doll picture, telling a story to a fellow traveler of how his brother had sought out and fallen in love with a girl in the picture. Click here to join us on Tuesday, October 24th at 7pm over Zoom. Fun fact: Did you know that JETAABC Yomikai has been running monthly meetings for three years […]
This month we will take a step back to enjoy and read prose from Japan's Heian period (794-1192): excerpts from Sei Shonagon's The Pillow Book. Click here to join us on Tuesday, November 21st at 7pm PST over Zoom. If you wish to get monthly news and updates about our yomikai outside of our JETAABC newsletter, please sign up here to join.