The Local Bubble

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Welcome to the Local Bubble. Here you’ll discover featured projects of interest and writing from artist Maiko Yamamoto. Opportunities to connect are also welcome! Thanks for entering orbit.

About Artist Maiko Yamamoto

Maiko Yamamoto is a Vancouver-based artist who creates new, experimental and intercultural works of performance. Many of these works are built through a practice of collaboration and include theatre projects, public art works, and performance installations.

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Notebook

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A Letter for 20 YRS

This fall, I spent several weeks in Montreal, finishing up a creation project with students at the National Theatre School. Fall is a pretty nice time to be in Montreal — you see the colours changing, the cold and snow has not yet blanketed the city; people are out and about.

Projects + Writing

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Project/ End of Greatness

End of Greatness is a new performance by longtime friends and collaborators Veda Hille and Maiko Yamamoto.

Project/ Everything Gone, Everything Shone

Everything Gone, Everything Shone was a collaboration between Maiko Yamamoto, Conor Wylie and acting students from the National Theatre School of Canada.

Project/ Best Life

Best Life is a new, relational show performed by an audience for an audience, inspired by the machines that make our lives better.

Writing/ Imagine Imagination as Essential

Back in April, I was a panelist on a discussion hosted by the SFU Labour Studies Program as part of their webinar series: Just Recovery? Labour…

Project/ Mine

Inspired by the real-life relationship between Maiko Yamamoto and her 12-year-old son Hokuto, and his obsession with Minecraft, MINE is a new, intergenerational performance…

Project/ Town Choir

Town Choir is a performance that takes place in public space and illustrates a relationship between a number of writers (usually between 2-4), who are placed in…

Project/ We came from dust

We came from dust was a unique collaboration between Maiko Yamamoto and acting students from the National Theatre School of Canada. For over two years…

Project/ WILD STATE

A new work made by SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts theatre performance students in collaboration with Maiko Yamamoto, WILD STATE was an all weather site-specific project…

Writing/ On the Kindness of Strangers

A Reflection on Co-creation in International Contexts…

Project/ The Sensationalists

A collaboration between Maiko Yamamoto and Vancouver’s Company 605, The Sensationalists was an experimental dance performance that transformed…