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  • Coconama Chocolate Workshop

    Coconama Chocolate 264 1st St E, North Vancouver, BC, Canada

    JETAABC will be hosting the popular 2 hour Chocolate workshop at Coconama in North Vancouver again Sunday, January 26, 2020.

    $38 – $43
  • Nengajo Afternoon

    Online (Zoom)

    Let's not have COVID lock our social events down as well this Holiday season. Join us virtually with some white paper, colour pencils/markers, and your creativity on Saturday, December 12, 1:00pm for an afternoon of nengajo writing. What is a nengajo? A Nengajo is a Japanese New Year's postcard. The tradition of writing and sending postcards for New Year's is a common practice. What do I need to prepare? Really simple! Do you have some white paper? Pencil? Colour Pencils [...]

  • JETAABC Yomi-Kai

    Online (Zoom)

    JETAABC Yomi-Kai was created for JET Alumni, JETAA Friends and Community members to gather to discuss and discover books by Japanese Authors in translation or Japanese Canadian authors. We will always begin each session with quick icebreakers before we get into our book discussions. Our Yomi-Kai will be exploring each reading based on this one question: Does the book engage you? Why or why not?  From exploring characters, plots, point of views, to the general theme of the work; these [...]

    Free
  • JETAABC Virtual Karaoke Party

    Online (Zoom)

    Join a JETAABC Virtual Karaoke Party! Date: Wednesday, December 30th Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm on Zoom Register for free here Alumni and guests welcome!

  • JET Ski: At Home Edition Photo Contest

    2021 would have been our 3rd annual JET Ski trip with our friends at JETAABC, PNWJETAA, and JETAA Portland. Although we’re not able to meet in person, we’d love to keep the JET Ski event alive, so we are pleased to announce the 2021 JET Ski: At Home Edition Photo Contest!

  • JETAABC Yomi-Kai

    Online (Zoom)

    JETAABC Yomi-Kai Feb 2021: What are we reading this time? We will start the year with a classic short story by Tanizaki Junichiro's debut work, "The Tattooer." This is Tanizaki's very first published short story and really sets the tone of his future writing styles and themes. Tanizaki is one of Japan's famous modern writers. His writing often challenged aesthetics and sexuality in an era where Japan was being introduced to "western" ideas. We will meet on Tuesday, February 23, [...]

  • 2021 Metro Vancouver Japan Bowl

    Online (Zoom)

    JETAABC is excited to invite high school students learning Japanese to participate in the fourth Metro Vancouver Japan Bowl on Saturday March 13, 2021. The Japan Bowl® is a Japanese language and culture competition for high school students who are studying Japanese. The Japan-America Society of Washington DC organized and hosted the first Japan Bowl in 1992. The competition has since been expanding overseas and is now held in Poland, England, Italy, Mexico, Serbia, Bulgaria, France, etc. The inaugural Canadian [...]

  • JETAABC Yomi-Kai

    Online (Zoom)

    JETAABC Yomi-Kai Mar 2021: What are we reading this time? We are reading the Akutagawa Prize winning short story by Yoko Ogawa called "The Pregnancy Diary." Ogawa accumulates details to subtly yet expressively comment on the human psychology in her writing. What kind of meaning into the details of this short story can you gain? We will meet on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 from 7pm over Zoom. Registrants will receive a Zoom link through a Google calendar invite 3 days [...]

  • JETAABC Yomi-Kai

    Online (Zoom)

    JETAABC Yomi-Kai Apr 2021: What are we reading this time? Choose one or both of the following short stories from Yumiko Kurahashi’s Anthology “The woman with the flying head.” Yumiko wrote these stories based on the art pieces linked beside each short story: The Special Place (Art Piece) Flower Abstraction (Art Piece)

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