Vancouver: Powell Street Festival comes home, Podcast play shows personal view of historic park
You would think someone who’s a former writer for CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes, the corporation’s first person of colour to host a daily national radio program, a standup comedian and actor would be able to put together a 10-minute podcast in his sleep. But Tetsuro Shigematsu says he struggled for months with how to shape a short podcast play that will premiere at the 34th annual Powell Street Festival, which celebrates Japanese-Canadian arts and culture, July 31 and Aug. 1.
That’s because he didn’t know how to reconcile the romanticized history of Oppenheimer Park, the site of the “podplay” and festival, with a nightmarish experience he had there recently.
Shigematsu was working out timing for the audio play, walking along shooting his feet with a small digital camera, when a man swore at him, demanding to know what he was doing. Shigematsu says when he told the man he was shooting video footage, the man advanced, wielding an object in his hand.
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