Photography Workshop
Shoot like a Pro with your Digital SLR Camera
Beginner/Intermediate
Saturday, February 20, 2010, 2-5pm
$20
In this no-holds-barred workshop we take advantage of the professional capabilities inherent in all Digital SLR cameras to create beautiful photos. With understanding the manual controls and compositional techniques explore how to improve the aesthetic of images. We’ll spend some time taking photos around the grounds of the Nikkei Center and will share and critique our photos with the class. Required Equipment: Digital SLR camera & your camera’s manual.
This workshop will be lead by Greg Masuda, a community-involved professional photographer, filmmaker and photography tutor. He has contributed his photography and filmmaking skills to organizations such as Pivot Legal Society’s Hope in Shadows project, the University of British Columbia’s Center for Health Promotion Research, the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House’s Splendour In The Night project, the Powell Street Festival Society, the National Nikkei Heritage Center, and the Kids Cancer Care Foundation of Alberta. He has been photographing professionally for ten years.
6th annual Jan Ken Pon! Family Games Day
Saturday, February 6, 2010, 11am-2pm
Experience over twenty traditional Japanese heritage games and toys at the 6th annual Jan Ken Pon! Family Games Day. This year’s event is centered on Setsubun (the eve of the first day of spring); where kids scatter beans to chase away the ogre and bring in happiness. Events include: playing with colourful tops and Japanese style cup & ball, make your own sumo wrestlers and otedamas (beanbags), to learning how to make origami pieces. The highlight of the day will be a rock-paper-scissors tournament – with prizes to be won. The event is suitable for families with children aged 4 to 12 (children must be accompanied by an adult).
Tickets: child $5 (from 2 years old), adults free.
Omanju (Japanese bean cakes) and Japanese obento lunch boxes (chicken teriyaki, onigiri rice ball, veggie sticks, dessert, and beverage) will be available for purchase on the day.
Opening Reception
Two Views: Photographs by Ansel Adams and Leonard Frank
Saturday, January 16, 2010, 4-6pm
All are welcome to attend.
Speakers Series
Bill Jeffries
Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and the Sacrifices Made in 1942
Thursday, January 28, 2010, 7pm
The focus of the talk will be on the qualitative aspect of the photographic record in Canada and the United States. Nineteenth-century photographs from the U.S. are usually of much higher quality, especially when landscape is the subject. This dichotomy carried over into the documentation of the internment in 1942. Whether this image-quality split mirrors the differences in the treatment of internees in the U.S. and Canada in the 1942 to 1945 period is to be discussed.
Bill Jeffries is the Director/Curator at the Simon Fraser University Gallery. From 2001 to 2005 he held the same post at Presentation House Gallery in North Vancouver. At PHG he curated a 2003 exhibition that looked at the relations between quarantine and internment through the photographic history of Japanese Canadian internment in 1942 and Eileen Leier’s images of the immigration processing centre at Gross-Ile in Quebec, through which immigrants from Europe had to pass in the 19th & first part of the 20th centuries. The Ansel Adams photographs on view at JCNM were made for that exhibition.
Take Better Photos with your Point-and-Shoot Digital Camera
Beginner/Intermediate
Saturday, January 23, 2010, 2-5pm This workshop has been canceled.
$20
This workshop teaches what it takes to transform our photos from snapshots into professional photographs. We’ll learn to master the controls that really matter and combine these skills with fundamental compositional techniques. After taking some photos, we will review our shots as a group. Bring your point-and-shoot digital camera, and your camera’s manual.
