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Bitter Sweet Trail: Kenji Dyck

Monday, October 3, 2022 @ 11:32 AM

Is there a story behind the sugar you buy at the store? Kenji Dyck (CMU '19) talks with Jonas about filming and editing the documentary "Bitter Sweet Trail."

Watch Bitter Sweet Trail: https://youtu.be/xbRjYGqEMxQ

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Perseverance, pilgrimage, and the Bitter Sweet Trail

Thursday, December 17, 2020 @ 10:00 AM

On October 24, 2020, Kenji Dyck (BA '19, Communications and Media) premiered his documentary Bitter Sweet Trail: Japanese Canadians and the Alberta Sugar Beets, which followed a 2019 bus tour through southern Alberta. Produced by David Iwaasa, and in partnership with Nikkei National Museum, the film tells the story of many Japanese sugar beet farmers who experienced internment, dispossession, and detainment through the Second World War. Tour participants, made up of Japanese Canadians who farmed sugar beets in the mid-20th century, visited sites that played a significant role in Japanese Canadian history. For most Japanese Canadians, this was a time of racial persecution as well as a time of persistence. "The tour and the film," Dyck explains, "is to remember not only the injustice but also the perseverance of the Japanese Canadian people."

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With Gratitude 2019 (video)

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 @ 3:16 PM

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CMU and Kenji Dyck Present: Reflections on Student Life (video)

Wednesday, October 18, 2017 @ 12:24 PM

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