{"id":134312,"date":"2023-01-09T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=134312"},"modified":"2023-01-08T16:55:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T21:55:14","slug":"the-valley-roundup-cindy-mochizukis-newest-adaptation-of-autumn-strawberry-opens-in-surrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/the-valley-roundup-cindy-mochizukis-newest-adaptation-of-autumn-strawberry-opens-in-surrey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Valley Roundup: Cindy Mochizuki&#8217;s newest adaptation of Autumn Strawberry opens in Surrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The film Autumn<em> Strawberry<\/em><em>, <\/em>depicting the history of Japanese farmers in the Fraser Valley, is now screening in Surrey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Autumn Strawberry<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was first on display in 2019 at the Surrey Art Gallery: Artist Cindy Mochizuki did a two-month residency<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> researching local archives, along with conducting interviews with Japanese Canadians living in the Fraser Valley.\u00a0<em>Autumn Strawberry's<\/em> dance film was created the same year by Mochizuki and choreographer Lisa Mariko Gelly in collaboration with the descendants of the Japanese Canadian families who used to own farms in the Fraser Valley, from North Surrey's Strawberry hill down to Mission. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Autumn Strawberry, <\/em>the dance film, is now open at the Surrey Art Gallery until April 3, and admission is free. The film combines handmade animation and sculptures from Mochizuki's installations into a performance where the dancer's movements help illustrate the story. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mochizuki spoke with CIVL about her start in multimedia installations, the connection behind <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Autumn Strawberry <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and the Fraser Valley<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and the descendant's involvement in the performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To learn more about Cindy Mochizuki and her work, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/cindymochizuki.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cindymochizuki.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The film Autumn Strawberry, depicting the history of Japanese farmers in the Fraser Valley, is now screening in Surrey.\u00a0 Autumn Strawberry was first on display in 2019 at the Surrey Art Gallery: Artist Cindy Mochizuki did a two-month residency researching local archives, along with conducting interviews with Japanese Canadians living in the Fraser Valley.\u00a0Autumn Strawberry&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":134319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[12891,16132,4796,5825,3681,21289],"radio":[1377],"origine":[280,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134312"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134543,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134312\/revisions\/134543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134312"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=134312"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=134312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}