Wednesday, October 28, 2026 at 1 : 30pm
Wednesday, October 28, 2026 · 1:30 pm George-McLeish Community Centre (GMCC) Speaker: Julie Tamiko Manning Topic: The history of the Japanese internment camps in Canada. Julie Tamiko Manning Co-Artistic Producer, Tashme Productions Julie Tamiko Manning is an award-winning actor and theatre creator from Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She is co-Artistic Producer of Tashme Productions with Ottawa artist Matt Miwa. Their documentary play, The Tashme Project: The Living Archives, toured throughout Canada, was published in the anthology Scripting (Im)migration and was awarded Outstanding New Script by the Montreal English Theatre Awards (METAs).
Her most recent play, Mizushōbai — The Water Trade, about Kiyoko Tanaka Goto, featured an all-female Japanese Canadian cast for its world premiere in Montreal. The play was shortlisted for the 2024 Carol Bolt Award (Playwrights’ Guild of Canada) as well as the Quebec Writers’ Federation Playwriting Award, and was nominated for Outstanding New Text (META).
She is currently writing a new play about her grandfather’s life as a poet, called 孤村 Lonely Village. Julie is a proud sansei, mixed-race Japanese Canadian, and her desire to heal community through art is viscerally present in whatever project she is involved in. She is a member of the Quebec Chapter of the NAJC as well as Montreal’s newest taiko group, Shima no Taiko.