Thursday, October 10, 2024. Virtual event. In their anthology, The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration, co-editors Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung, along with translator Andrew Way Leong, recover and reframe the writings of people targeted by exclusion and forced removal during WWII. “Our volume recovers pieces that have been long overlooked on the shelf, buried in […]
Sunday, October 13, 2024. Your Nikkei communities are hosting a Karaoke contest event where food & drinks will be served. The singing contestants will be divided into three groups-- Red, White and Blue. Those who choose not to sing in the event will serve as the judges, and will select the winners. Once decided, the […]
Sunday, October 20, Sunday, November 10. Four events, two amazing days of mushroom exploration! Toadstools, puffballs, chicken of the woods, witches’ butter, stinkhorns, turkey-tail, earthstar, shaggy manes…fungi have such fabulous common names! Join us for a wild mushroom identification walk and see what’s growing in IslandWood’s 250-acre forest on Bainbridge Island. You’ll learn where to […]
Sunday, October 20, 2024. Come join the fun and learn how to decorate cookies with an artistic flair. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the Seattle Betsuin Arson Restoration and Building Fund. All supplies and ingredients are donated by Tina Wong and Lynn Miyauchi.
Sunday, October 20, 2024. White River Buddhist Temple's Fall Bazaar is back! If you'd like to order our delicious food, order by October 6 as items are limited. Pick-Up on Sunday, October 20th from: 11 AM - 2 PM
Wednesday, Oct. 23 and Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024. This month, Seattle publisher Chin Music Press will publish “Seattle Samurai: A Cartoonist’s Perspective of the Japanese American Experience,” a collection of Goto’s “Seattle Tomodachi” cartoons with extensive commentary provided by his daughter, Kelly Goto, who assembled the book. Throughout “Seattle Samurai,” Kelly Goto illuminates the strips […]
Barbara Yoshida Berthiaume has been educating communities in the US and in Europe about the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during WWII for decades. This documentary explores how the discovery of her family’s incarceration and military service in the 442nd combat regiment sparked her lifelong research and draws parallels to the ongoing stigmatization of immigrants in today’s […]
Fishing is Hilary Hutcheson’s life, and before she knew it, her career. But, by her own admission, she overlooked opportunities to learn about her heritage as a Japanese American to focus on being on the water. So when motherhood sparked a curiosity to learn more about herself and her family, she sought out a distant relative […]
Monday, November 4, 2024. Airs at 5PM PST on your local PBS station. Scha'nexw Elhtal'nexw Salmon People: Preserving a Way of Life premiers on PBS. Despite wildfire smoke and a depleting fishery, Lummi families fish for sockeye salmon. The film, which explores the deep spiritual and cultural connection between the Lummi and salmon, lifts values […]
Saturday, November 9, 2024. You are invited to an exciting evening at Sound Singers' 10th annual concert! Sound Singers was established in 2009 as the first nonprofit Japanese mixed choir in the Seattle area. Since then, we have strived to pursue a joyful and fulfilling musical experience. In 2023, we welcomed Ms. Fumi Tagata as […]
