• CALENDAR • MAY 13 - 26, 2021 13 include Jesus Barraza, co-founder of Historical Society will host a free virtual meetings will provide additional Website. The contest is presented by Little heritage. Võ partners with longtime Dignidad Rebelde, Shizu Saldamondo, virtual event on “Finding Your Roots: opportunities for public involvement, Tokyo Historical Society in partnership with collaborator Jimi Nakagawa to visual artist, and Kazumu Naganuma, An Introduction to NJAHS Digital to complement three virtual meetings JANM’s Discover Nikkei project.” RSVP present a daring work of transnational Japanese Peruvian survivor of Crystal City. Archives and Genealogy Research At that were hosted in July and August of (required): http://ow.ly/R77Q50EuAvW. musical communication, with Võ on Info/register: http://www.discovernikkei. Home with Director Rosalyn Tonai and 2020.” Info: https://parkplanning.nps. Viewers will receive the Zoom links and the dan tranh (zither) and Nakagawa org/en/events/2021/05/20/6401/. Collections Manager Max Nihei” from gov/Amache. Anyone with an interest instructions on how to view the event. Info: on taiko drum. Cambodian royal dance 11 a.m. to noon PDT. Info/register: www. in Amache or in this NPS study process [email protected]. master and vocalist Charya Burt also joins Võ to preview their work-in-progress THURSDAY, MAY 20 THROUGH njahs.org. may share their thoughts and ideas. on the cultural connections along the SATURDAY, MAY 29 Those unable to participate in the virtual MONDAY, MAY 24 The “25th JAA Art Exhibition of The Asian Art Museum will host “Art meetings may submit comments on the The Japanese Cultural and Community Mekong River. Following the performance, Japanese and Japanese Americans Escapes: Virtual Tours Through Asia study by visiting https://parkplanning. Center of Northern California will the artists discuss the richness of Asian Artists in New York:美術家展” will be - Japanese Bamboo Art with Yuki nps.gov/amache and clicking on the host the “Asian American Writing” musical traditions and the power of new on view daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Morishima” at 4 p.m. PDT online. “In the “Open for Comment” tab to access the workshop, which Genevieve Lim will composition.” Cost: $5; free for Asian Japanese American Association of New 21st century, the practice of bamboo art online comment portal; By mail: Amache lead, from 10 a.m. to noon at 1840 Sutter Art Museum members. Info: http://ow.ly/ York Inc. hall at 49 W 45th Street, 11th remains diverse, with a new generation of Special Resource Study; National Park St. in S.F.’s Japantown. Cost: JCCCNC VSse50EEQFR. Floor, New York and online. The opening women and men exploring the technical Service; 12795 West Alameda Parkway; members: $44, non-members: $50. reception will take place Thursday, and aesthetic qualities of bamboo.” Cost: PO Box 25287; Denver, CO 80225-0287; “Spend the morning creating personal THURSDAY, MAY 27 May 20 from 4 to 6 p.m. (maximum of $5; free for museum members. Info: http:// or e-mail: [email protected]. memoirs, journaling or writing poems, J-Sei hold its monthly Japanese 35 guests) and online. Info: http://ow.ly/ ow.ly/ip6s50EEQpZ. essays, letters, and sharing them among Community Talk via Zoom from 2 to D1SG50EESCu. SUNDAY, MAY 23 friends.” Info: (415) 567-5505 or http:// 3:30 p.m. The meeting brings together Watsonville Buddhist Temple will In order to support efforts to address ow.ly/Tcqd50EFv4P. a divers e group of Japanese speaking violence against Asian American and people together to talk online. Participants FRIDAY, MAY 21 present a virtual presentation of “The The Japanese Cultural and Community Betrayed,” a two-act play from 1 to 3 Pacific Islanders, the San Francisco MONDAY, MAY 24 THROUGH may join via electronic device or land line. Center of Northern California will p.m. PDT by the late Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Nihonmachi Community Coalition is MONDAY, MAY 31 The Zoom meeting room will open at 1:45 host “J-Chat Virtual Japanese: followed by a discussion with Dr. Satsuki presenting “Bentos for Justice,” a The 10th Legacy Film Festival on p.m. to help prepare participants set up for Conversational Language Exchange Ina, Soji Kashiwagi and cast members BBQ chicken bento fundraiser, from Aging will screen more than 30 feature- the talk. Conversations last from an hour – May 2021” from 6 to 8 p.m. PDT on Helen Ota and Michael Palma. “The two- noon to 4 p.m. The presale-only bento length and short films online, including: to two hours depending on the number of Zoom. The JET Alumni Association of act play is a love story about a young, Nisei are $17 each, and the pickup location is “Elder Voices.” “Residing together in participants and topics of discussion. Info: Northern California will sponsor the event couple who meet at Tule Lake, fall in love, the Japanese Cultural and Community a Quaker retirement community, the [email protected]. the third Friday of each month. Japanese but are torn apart by two controversial, Center of Northern California, 1840 Sutter stories of Japanese-Americans, European language professor Dr. Lisa Hofmann- government-issued “loyalty” questions. St. in SF’s Japantown. Each order will be Jews, Muslims, and conscientious The Los Angeles Conservancy will Kuroda will begin each session with a brief Forty years later, they meet again and assigned a pickup time window. Presales objectors, who came of age during the host “A New Future Blooms for Historic Japanese language lesson for beginners discover their answers to these questions are due May 16. Checks can be made Great Depression and World War II, Tokio Florist,” as part of their virtual and intermediate speakers. Small group had consequences that affected them out to “API Legal Outreach,” 1121 Mission experiencing anti-Semitism, internment series, from noon to 1 p.m. PDT. “In 1960, conversations assigned by skill level for the rest of their lives.” The screenings St., San Francisco, CA 94103. An online camps and bigotry. Today they are the Sakai-Kozawa family purchased the (beginning, intermediate and advanced), benefit the Watsonville Buddhist Temple. order form with payment instructions can living the principles of tolerance and home at 2718 Hyperion Avenue in the assisted by Japanese-speaking Donation: $25 per person or $50 per be found at: https://bit.ly/3feOMEv. mutual respect that were forged in their Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. volunteer facilitators will follow. Hofmann- household (includes play screening youth.” David Goodman’s 2019 film is From this location, they raised their family Kuroda was born in Tokyo and raised in and discussion) Tickets: http://ow.ly/ The Japanese Cultural and Community 48 minutes long. Sky Bergman’s short and continued the operation of their flower Texas, and holds a bachelor’s degree in YTAu50EB7gs or e-mail buddhist@ Center of Northern California will host film, “Mochitsuki,” depicts a community shop, Tokio Florist … Sumi and Frank English from Wesleyan University and wbtemple.org. Ticket holders will receive “Kenji’s Kitchen – Omurice Online celebration of Japanese New Year. Kozawa … landscaped the grounds, a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from UC an e-mail with the link to the virtual play 48 Cooking Class” from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tickets: $8 per film; $50 for festival pass; including a Japanese garden and koi pond. Berkeley. “She writes, translates, and hours prior to the showing. PDT on Zoom. Cost: JCCCNC members: www.legacyfilmfestivalonaging.org. The family planted fruit trees, poppies, teaches for a living and is particularly $7; $10 general. Watch and/or follow along and other greenery on site for personal interested in teaching Japanese to SATURDAY, MAY 22, WEDNESDAY, to earn how to make the omelette. Yokoo is TUESDAY, MAY 25 THROUGH and business use. In 2006, 90-year-old Japanese Americans and/or Japanese MAY 26 AND THURSDAY, MAY 27 the founder of the Bay Area-based “Kenji’s MONDAY, MAY 31 Sumi Kozawa closed the flower shop. In heritage speakers.” Cost: $3 JCCCNC The National Park Service is extending Kitchen.” Contact: (415) 567-5505. Info/ The Chicago Japan Film Collective 2018, the Kozawa family listed the family members, $5 general public. Free for the comment period for the Amache ingredients/register: https://www.jcccnc. 2021 will hold virtual screenings at https:// home for sale and the future of the site JETAANC members with promo code. Special Resource Study to June 30, org/event/kenjis-kitchen-omurice-online- www.cjfc.us. Early Bird: $13 for all access, was left uncertain. Join us as we learn Participants will receive the meeting login and invites the public to participate cooking-class/. $9 for one film, May 5-15. Regular: $15 for more about the site’s historic significance, and lesson materials upon registering: in three additional virtual meetings all access, $10 for one film, May 16-31. the community effort to designate and http://bit.ly/j-chat. If registration is full, on Zoom Saturday, May 22 from 11 a.m. Shoko Hikage will perform koto memorialize the site, and the vision for e-mail [email protected] to be to 1 p.m. MDT (10 a.m. to noon PDT) at (Japanese stringed-instrument) music THURSDAY, MAY 27 the site’s continued use.” The Los Angeles placed on the session waitlist. Info: (415) https://brown.zoom.us/j/92961369737 or for a San Francisco Public Library virtual The Asian Art Museum and the Conservancy’s Neighborhood Outreach 567-5505. by phone: (877) 369 0926, Meeting ID: event, from 2 to 3 p.m. PDT on YouTube: Vietnamese American Non- Manager M. Rosalind Sagara will moderate 929 6136 9737; Wednesday, May 26 http://ow.ly/VOYV50EEQ58.
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