March 21/97

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or 10 years, Capilano College had

been harboring a best-kept secret.
Then the Asia Pacific Management
Co-operative Program won the 1996
Association of Canadian Community
Colleges’ (ACCC) Program Excellence
Award.

Now the word is out and this month
the award-winning program celebrated
its 10th anniversary in Bali, Indonesia
with a four-day conference called New
Waves: Canada in APEC. New Waves
is a series of initiatives designed to
collect, distil and disseminate
Canadian experience in Asia.

Joining more than 100 of our Asian-
based associates and alumni at the
event were representatives of Asian

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Cartoon taken from Smokey Likes Cheese
shows Textile Arts instructor Lesley Richmond.

and Canadian enterprises, government,
education and media, all focused on the
links between Canada and Asia.

Part of the media team included Cam
Williams, operating technician for the
Capilano College Media Resources
Program. Cam supplied video footage of
the conference for CBC’s Pacific Rim

“Joanne Brathwaite, an alumna from
the APMCP, now works for News World
as a journalist,” Cam said. “She told
CBC about the conference and the fact
that it’s the program’s 10th anniversary.
They called me and asked me to attend
and cover some stories of Canadians
working in Asia.”

The trip also provided Cam with an

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opportunity to follow-up on an 18-
minute documentary, Bridging the
Pacific Century, which he produced last
year when he visited Hong Kong,
Bangkok and Bali. The production is
used by the APMCP for promotional
purposes.

“The second video is more focused on
students’ experiences in Asia and having
them tell their stories,” Cam said. This
ties in nicely with the theme of the
conference, which emphasized
connections between Asia and Canada
and between past experience and future
opportunities in Asia and the larger
APEC region.

Watch for details of the conference in
the next issue of the /nformer.

Japanese Textile Arts Alumna
Pens Her Memoirs of Canada

n alumna of the

Textile Arts program
has crossed cultural barriers
with the recent publication
of her comic book Smokey
Likes Cheese.

Atsuko Kinzuka came
to Capilano College in
1988 to study textile arts.
Her book, which is written
in Japanese and English,
details her time spent at the
College. It also describes
her life in Gibsons and
Vancouver, the two places
she lived while attending
the North Vancouver
campus. Smokey is the cat
she owned and grew to love
while living on the
Sunshine Coast.

The book is filled with
charming anecdotes about
Atsuko’s life and her

relationship with her husband,
Makoto, who came to Canada on a
business transfer. And, of course, it’s
‘filled with lots of tidbits about
Smokey.

At 44 years of age, Atsuko was a
mother of two sons and had been a
housewife for 26 years. “It had always
been my dream to exchange culture
with a foreign country,” she said. Her
husband’s temporary transfer was an
opportunity for her to finally fulfil that
dream.

The book, which was written on
Atsuko’s return to Japan, is apparently
selling well. It gives a positive look at
her two and a half years spent in
Canada and showcases the discoveries
she made while enrolled in the Textile
Arts program at Capilano College. It
also pays special homage to one of her
instructors, Lesley Richmond, who
played an important role during
Atsuko’s time at the College.