Dedications (Fall 2025) Issue Launch

Join us for readings by Francesca Bennett, Shiv Kotecha, and Hannah Azar Strauss, alongside a screening of “The Body Electric: Gerry & Roy on the Powell Street Festival” featuring footage from Jesse Nishihata’s unfinished 1991 film featuring Gerry Shikatani and Roy Kiyooka, edited by Phil Hoffman and Emiko Morita in 2025. The screening will be presented by Emiko Morita and Henry Tsang, whose stills from the film are published in Issue 4.5 Dedications alongside Gerry Shikatani’s Journal from Roy’s.

We look forward to gathering with you to celebrate the launch of Issue 4.5 Dedications!

About Dedications

Signalling networks of inspiration and influence, mentorship and friendship, coterie and community ties, Issue 4.5 Dedications collects writing and art that explores the valences of the word dedication as it relates to both relations and creative practice.

The issue features Gerry Shikatani’s Journal from Roy’s, a poem dedicated to his friend Roy Kiyooka, interspersed with newly commissioned images by Henry Tsang; a conversation between Gerry Shikatani and Literary Editor Deanna Fong on poetry and performance; new drawings dedicated to the “non-optimized” by Vida Beyer; a conversation between Deanna Fong and Gail Scott on non-linear writing practices and the event of language; an extended art folio on land and lineage guest-curated by Nasrin Himada and featuring work by Rhayne Vermette, Malena Szlam, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme; and new writing by Francesca Bennett, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, A Jamali Rad, Douglas Kerr, Shiv Kotecha, Suvendrini Lena, Gail Scott, and Hannah Azar Strauss.

Accessibility

Centre A is located in Vancouver’s historic Chinatown, on the second floor of the Sun Wah Centre Mall. The gallery is located on the second floor of the building, in unit 205.

Sun Wah Centre Entrance

To enter into the Sun Wah Building, you have to enter through a locked door. You will be able to find a security guard in front to let you into the building from 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM. If there are no security guards or after hours, please call the phone number 778-232-3593 to be let in.

The first white door/gate is not automated and swings outward and is 38” wide. The second door is a sliding automatic door and it is 128” wide.

Gallery Accessibility (Second Floor)

To reach the second floor, visitors can take the elevator up or walk up the escalator with a 42” clearance. To access the elevator, guests will have to go up a ramp that is 32.75” wide and 230” long with a railing. The clearance for the front gate of the gallery is 87”, to access the other parts of the gallery, visitors will need to pass through two doorways of 59” and 60”. To access Centre A’s reading room, there is a doorway of 52”.

Washroom Access

To access the washroom on the second floor, guests will have to go through one locked doors, both 33” wide. The bathroom has two gendered washrooms. To access the washroom, visitors will have to get a set of keys from the Centre A office and will have to go through two locked doors that swing outwards that measure 33”. Both washrooms have an accessible stall that has a clearance of 10” on the left and 35” on the right with a support bar on the left.

Public Transportation

The Sun Wah Centre is located 5 blocks from the Main Street – Science World Skytrain station. We are also near the following bus routes: 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 14, 16, 19, 20, 22, 23, and R5. Detailed transit information is available by phone call. There is limited metered street parking.

Centre A is 850 metres from the Main Street – Science World Skytrain station; 210 metres from the 3, 8, and 19 bus stop on Main and Keefer; 350 metres from the 4, R5, 14, 16 and 20 bus stop on East Hastings and Main; 350 metres from the 7 and 210 bus stop on East Pender and Main.