Hobbies take centre stage at Coquitlam Heritage exhibit – Tri-Cities Dispatch

Hobbies take centre stage at Coquitlam Heritage exhibit – Tri-Cities Dispatch

photos Jeremy Shepherd It started as a word for someone else’s home. Gradually, the Japanese term “otaku” came to mean someone who harbours a pop culture obsession. The rough equivalent of nerd, otaku were folks who, collected, cultivated and obsessed in their own enclosed worlds. Opening today, the new exhibit at Coquitlam Heritage is about opening those doors and exposing those worlds. “I wanted to show how multi-faceted our community is, from…