I Am the Art: Nobuo Kubota Overview

Celebrate the remarkable life and legacy of Nobuo Kubota, the Vancouver-born sound poet and multimedia artist who co-founded the Canadian Creative Music Collective.

I Am the Art: Nobuo Kubota is a bold, intimate portrait of a Japanese-Canadian trailblazer whose creativity has never stopped evolving. From early sculpture to sound poetry, avant-garde jazz, and now live performance, Nobuo Kubota has spent a lifetime breaking rules and fusing East and West, silence and sound, memory and experiment.

But this is also a love story. While Kubota pushes his body and voice into uncharted territory, he is also caring for his 96-year-old wife, Lee, who lives with advanced Alzheimer’s. Rare archival footage of his work with CCMC and the Artists’ Jazz Band, along with haunting images from WWII internment camps, show how resilience and imagination shaped his life and art.

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