Participants are invited to gather in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) for an afternoon of listening, learning, and art-making. During this workshop, special guests will share personal stories of past and present connections to the DTES, some Japanese Canadian history, and human rights struggles in the neighbourhood.

This will be followed by time for personal conversations and a chance to create fabric artwork to express your hopes for upholding human rights in the DTES and the future of the neighbourhood. This is the last day of the exhibition but at the same time, the first public gathering for the Powell Street Festival Society’s Japanese Canadian (JC) Community Building Project.