Join writer and Royston descendant Megan Kiyoko Wray for an afternoon exploring community memory through poetry.
After sharing a reading of her own place-based work, Megan will lead a generative writing workshop inspired by the Japanese Canadian community’s legacy, as told through the museum’s Stolen Bases exhibition.
Megan Kiyoko Wray (she/her) is a queer, mixed-race Yonsei poet whose work explores the lasting impacts of the forced dispossession, displacement, and incarceration of Japanese Canadians. Her Kojima family lived and worked in Royston before being uprooted to Tashme Internment Camp and Moose Jaw, SK. They later settled in Winnipeg, MB, where Megan continues to live. She is a passionate family historian, community arts worker, and author of Little Temple on the Prairie: A History of the Manitoba Buddhist Temple (FriesenPress, 2025).
Photo Credit: Adam Kelly