TSUNEKO KOKUBO - At Mouth of River: What Stone Remembers

Date: June 8, 2025

Time: 2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.

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TSUNEKO KOKUBO
At Mouth of River: What Stone Remembers
Artist in Conversation with Visual Artist Cindy Mochizuki
SUNDAY JUNE 8, 2025

Doors open: 2:00 pm
Public Talk: 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Room: Theatre
Langham Cultural Centre
447 A Avenue, Kaslo, BC V0G 1M0

Free public event, all welcome

Tsuneko Kokubo’s enigmatic artistic and creative practice spans over 70 years of painting, dance performance, costume design, and theatre. Born in 1937 in Steveston, B.C. and raised in Japan, Kokubo brings a dynamism of life’s complex beauty by being in-between states of time, memory, and place. She is revered as an artist with deep symbolic interconnectedness to her lived surroundings which often includes the trees, rivers, oceans to the plants in her garden. Her visionary art-making brings to the surface the life forms and energies caught in the folds of insightful observation and play.

In conversation with interdisciplinary artist, Cindy Mochizuki, Kokubo will discuss what has influenced and carried her as one of the early and pioneer Japanese Canadian artists of her time to ‘here’. Speaking through select artworks and processes, stories, and events, Kokubo’s talk will weave together estuaries and rivers of concepts, abstractions, symbols that have marked her multifaceted career. The event is hosted by the Langham Cultural Society and co-organized with the Asian Canadian Studies Society with funding from the Japanese Canadian Legacies Society. It will also be live-streamed.

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Tsuneko Kokubo’s talk is part of the Japanese Canadian Legacies Artist Talk Series II, a website project run by the Asian Canadian Studies Society (ACSS). The website will be launched in 2026 and will share the ACSS’s interviews with contemporary Japanese Canadian artists who have made major contributions to the community, and more widely, Canadian society and the art world. The website will also include material that highlights their innovative techniques, conceptual approaches and socio-political concerns, including artistic responses by members of the younger generation. We gratefully acknowledge the support and financial assistance from the Japanese Canadian Legacies Society and the Langham Cultural Society.

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• At Mouth of River: What Stone Remembers - Press Release

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