Friends of Aiko Suzuki and the Hiroshima Day Committee in partnership with The Toronto Dollar Supper Club and Izakaya, offer a series of reflections arising from the work of Aiko Suzuki. You and other friends are invited to share an evening of food and discussion on the 3rd Monday of each month, 6:00 p.m., at Izakaya, 69 Front St. East.

The meal including taxes and gratuities is $15.00 Toronto Dollars. Toronto Dollars will be available.

About Aiko

Aiko's latest work is now showing until June 11 at A Space Gallery, 401 Richmond St. West. The installation, entitled Bombard/Invade/Radiate, reminds us of the need for healing and the realities of war that lie deeply within and toward and among us, as individuals, communities, and nations.

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Guests: Kerri Sakamoto and Dr. Frank Cunningham

The speakers on June 20 will be author Kerri Sakamoto, and Dr. Frank Cunningham, Professor of Philosophy and Principal of Innis College offering their reflections on Aiko’s latest work. MC, Phyllis Creighton.

Above, Author Kerri Sakamoto, At Left is Dr. Frank Cunningham

More about Kerri Sakamoto

Kerri Sakamoto is a Toronto-born writer of fiction as well as film and visual arts criticism. The Electrical Field was published in the New Face of Fiction program in 1998.

Kerri Sakamoto was born in Toronto in 1959, the younger of two sisters. She has written scripts for independent films as well as writing extensively on visual art. In 1998 her first novel, The Electrical Field, was a finalist for a slew of awards — the Governor General’s Award, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award — and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book and the Canada-Japan Literary Award. The Toronto Star said “Kerri Sakamoto represents a major new force in the landscape of Canadian fiction.”