Stratford Festival Performs Memoir ‘Forgiveness: A Gift From My Grandparents’ - The Canadian Media

Stratford Festival performs memoir ‘Forgiveness: A Gift From My Grandparents’ - The Canadian Media

Media Release Forgiveness, the story of two families profoundly affected by the events of the Second World War, reportedly starts performances at the Stratford Festival today. This deeply moving stage adaptation written by Hiro Kanagawa and directed by Stafford Arima, is based on the Canada Reads-winning memoir Forgiveness: A Gift From My Grandparents by Mark Sakamoto. Led by Yoshie Bancroft and Jeff Lillico, the

Sometimes, Emotion Has No Voice: How my immigrant grandparents gave me everything without showing emotions – Migrant Women Press

See you next Wednesday, Nonna. I love you.We don’t say those things—we already know them. Take a tangerine in your bag. But I don’t feel like a tangerine… Written by Aurélia Gervasoni My maternal grandparents never talked about their feelings. They both arrived in Belgium in their twenties and did not speak French. They were the children of immigrant parents who had emigrated to Canada. I stayed with them until the age of 10 and used to visit the