The Nest That Holds The Story

Keiko Honda arrived in Vancouver in her early forties—navigating a new city from a wheelchair, hosting cultural salons in her living room, telling herself she was an observer. Then four words in an email changed everything. In conversation with Gallery Executive Director Nancy Perin, Honda reflects on what it truly costs to move a story from the private desk to the collective container, whose voices live inside the stories we think are ours alone, and why the doubt you feel about telling it is not a warning. It is the clearest sign that it matters.