Dear Folks, Three exciting things happening with the Amache incarceration site near Granada, CO. We encourage families to assist their elders in participating in all 3 engagements. Join the Amache 2021 virtual Pilgrimage - all are welcome! (www.jampilgrimages.com/2021-amache-virtual-pilgrimage) Special Topic Discussion Groups (Saturday June 12, 5 PM MDT) and Intergenerational Conversations (Sunday June 13, 3PM MDT). Anyone…
We Are All Americans Select one workshop Wednesday June 23 Saturday June 26 - 09:00 to 12:30 Pacific Time Stipend of $150 Full Resource Packet Space Limited Apply by June 21, 2021 How did the experience of being forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated affect the choices made by people of Japanese ancestry as…
Grand Prize: Airfare for 2 to Hawaii - Sherie Ann Hashimoto Second Prize: Transcontinental Airfare for 2 - Juli Kodani Third Prize: 2-Night Hotel Voucher (U.S.) - Jani Iwamoto Fourth Prize: $1000 Cash - Mary Ishisaki Thank you all for participate in our 2021 spring raffle!
NJAHS Annual Members Program featuring - Search for Koseki- Family Registry in Japan Join us for our Annual Members Meeting & Program featuring Hiroshi Yanagisawa's on-line presentation on Koseki, Japanese Family Registry. Date & Time: June 26, 2021 @ 2PM Click here to watch
JOIN US THIS SATURDAY @ 5PM PT, 7PM CT, 8PM, ET for NJAHS' 40th Anniversary Kick-off! Thanks to our sponsors, the event is now FREE w/ REGISTRATION. (Of course, donations are always welcome and appreciated!) Treat yourself and your friends & family to a Sneak Peek BROADCAST of film excerpts from Claudia Katayanagi's latest work. EXILED:…
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San Francisco’s Japantown Art & Media (JAM) Workshop was a community art non-profit organization that operated from 1977 through 1999. Many of JAM’s screen-printed posters were devoted to announcing Japanese community events, which included the annual Oshogatsu Festival, where people gathered – and continue to gather - to participate in traditional Japanese New Year celebrations,…
Date & Time: February 3, 2020 @6pm Via ZOOM Join us for this virtual gathering as Alden M. Hayashi reads from Two Nails, One Love, his debut novel which humanizes the experiences thousands of ethnic Japanese from Hawaii faced during World War II and the way this trauma impacts future generations. Alden will be joined…
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"SANSEI LIFE - The Art of Rich Tokeshi" Through May 7, 2022 Free Gallery hours: Mondays to Fridays from 12 pm – 5 pm (April 2, 9, 10, 16 & 17- During Nor Cal Cherry Blossom Festival) at NJAHS Post Street Gallery 1684 Post Street SF, CA 94115 Click here to watch
Image is "A Glimmer" By Julia LaChica (2020) Julia LaChica is a queer Japanese-Filipino American Visual Artist. Born in San Francisco and raised at North Ping Yuen Public Housing. She attended public school during “Operation Integrate”—-desegregation busing— taking her from Chinatown to Potrero Hill where she would spend time with classmates at the Sunnydale Public…
War Relocation Authority Incarceree Farm Labor Teacher Education Project – Free Online Workshop for 4th Grade to 12th Grade Humanities, History, and Social Studies Teachers – During World War II, the federal government forcibly removed people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast and imprisoned them in American concentration camps. A little-known part of…
Date & Time: Sat, June 25, 2020 from 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Pacific time Location: Online through ZOOM 1:00PM Call to Order Approve Annual Members Meeting Minutes of June 26, 2021) III. New/Old Business and Program Updates Elections: Board of Directors 1:30PM Highlights of Enemy Alien Files Exhibition Grace Shimizu -the Japanese Latin American…
Congratulations 2022 Spring Winners! Grand Prize - Hawaii: Stuart Hirasuna 2nd Prize -Transcontinental: Kay Shishima 3rd Prize - Hotel Stay: Fred Furuta 4th Prize - $1K Cash: Victor Ohashi
Tuesday July 26 from 1 - 2:30pm ET/10:00am PT - 11:30am PT Via Zoom hosted by the NWP Write Now Teacher Studio Join us for an online teacher workshop led by teachers, grades 3 to 12, who have been involved in a set of regional workshops and an online study group titled “We Are All…
The National Japanese Historical Society is happy to welcome our latest community curated exhibition by the San Francisco Nisei Fishing Club looking back at 104 years of family fun and community. On display now until September 15, 2022. Come by and explore over one hundred and four years of fishing culture. During San Francisco Nihonmachi…
When: September 25, 2022 from 2:00pm - 4:00pm Where: Military Intelligence Service Historic Learning Center- 640 Mason St San Francisco CA 94129 (By Crissy Field) Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-multiculturalmultimedia-book-presentation-featuring-asian-american-women-tickets-394739385127
Manzanar Fishing Club screening.- FREE - Limited seating Saturday, August 6, 2022, 6PM -8:00PM Location: NJAHS Peace Gallery (1684 Post ST San Francisco CA 94115) co-sponsored with the SF Nisei Fishing Club THE MANZANAR FISHING CLUB is a feature length documentary that chronicles the WWII internment of Japanese-American from a unique perspective: through the eyes…
