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Purchase your tickets online here! If you prefer, please call Jenn Trautvetter at the JASC office 773-275-0097 ext. 228 to reserve tickets over the phone.
Join the in-person celebration on May 19, 6 – 8 pm at Artifact Events, 4325 N. Ravenswood Avenue, Chicago, IL. We look forward to gathering in-person to share stories with each other of past accomplishments and future dreams for the JASC community. Enjoy an evening of fellowship with sushi, heavy appetizers, and a custom cocktail and spiritfree (nonalcoholic mixed drink) created especially for the 75th Anniversary by Julia Momose of Bar Kumiko!
Can't attend but want to give a donation in support of the 75th Anniversary milestone? Donate here and select the designation 75th Anniversary - $75,000 Challenge.
A big thank you to sponsors and donors who have already purchased your tickets!
Thank You to our Generous Sponsors and Donors!
Diamond Level
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Toshio & Kyoko Ogino
John T. Sasaki, Richard Atack & Families
Jane Uehara & Dennis Uehara, M.D.
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Joyce & Bertrand Phillips
John & Elaine Sasaki
Lisa Sloan
Glenn and Patricia Sugiyama & Family
Mike Takada & Christine Allender
Michael & Laurie Tanimura
Interested in becoming a sponsor? Download the sponsor benefits and commitment form here. Please contact Jenn Trautvetter for more information about sponsorship opportunities.
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Contact Kay Kawaguchi for more information at the JASC office, (773) 275-0097, ext. 226. | | | |
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May Japanese Conversation Table – Thursday, May 12, 2022
5月の 日本語お話会は 5月12日（木）です
開催日：毎月第２木曜日
開催時間：午後1:30から3:00まで
参加費：１人/１回5ドル
日本語で交流したい方へのお知らせです。（日本語の会話クラスではありません。）
コロナ・パンデミックで過去1年以上ズームで続けてきた日本語のお話会ですが、州や市の拘束解除に伴って、今までどおりJASCで 開催できることになりました。
普段あまりほかの方との交流のない方、一人でお住まいの方、思いっきり日本語でおしゃべりしてみませんか？楽しい話題や暮らしのアイデアを分け合い、ちょっとした悩みや不安など、皆で話し合えば解決法がでてくるかも知れません。いろいろなことを日本語で話し合い、英語社会で溜まったストレスを解消しましょう。
このプログラムに興味のある方、参加したいと思われる方は、Eメールで川口ケイclasses@jasc-chicago.org または電話：773-275-0097内線226, までご連絡ください。
Do you know a native Japanese speaker who would like to connect and socialize with other native (or native-level) Japanese speakers? Please note this is not a Japanese language class but rather a time for fellowship while speaking in fluent Japanese.
Date: Monthly, second Thursday, 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Cost: $5 per person, per session
Following the Covid-19 guidelines for the city and state, we are now resuming in-person gatherings at JASC for our Conversation Table.
JASC's Conversation Table welcomes everyone to share their experiences, ideas, and stories through social interaction, and offers an opportunity to expand their social networks with others in the local community.
If you know someone who would like to participate, please contact Kay Kawaguchi by email at classes@jasc-chicago.org or please call her at 773-275-0097 x 226 and leave a message to RSVP. Kay can answer any questions about the program in Japanese or in English.
JASC is located at 4427 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL
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Then They Came for Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans During WWII and the Demise of Civil Liberties
February 18 – May 29, 2022
Jewish Museum Milwaukee
1360 N Prospect Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53202
A modified version of the groundbreaking Then They Came for Me exhibit that originated at Chicago’s Alphawood Gallery is currently on view at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee. Featuring many items from the JASC Legacy Center’s collections, this is a wonderful opportunity reach a new audience and build new connections in the Midwest.
If you have any friends or family in Milwaukee, tell them to check it out! Admission is free through May 29th thanks to the generous support of the Yabuki Family Foundation. Click here for full details.
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Chicago Northside Origami Group
There is a $5 fee per folder to be paid each time, and children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult (no charge for non-folding adults). Please bring paper for folding, and any models or books you would like to share.
All skill levels welcome!
For more information and future dates, please contact:
June Yamasaki, june.yamasaki@gmail.com
Please note, masks are required in all public areas of JASC.
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53rd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage Coming Up Soon
80 Years from Executive Order 9066: Lessons Learned
The Manzanar Committee has announced that the 53rd annual Manzanar Pilgrimage will be taking place virtually on Saturday, April 30th. The program will premiere on the Manzanar Committee’s Youtube channel beginning at 2:00 PM CDT. United States Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawai’i) and Kathy Jefferson Bancroft, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Reservation, will offer welcoming remarks. Also featured are Dale Minami, Fred Korematsu’s lead counsel in his 1983 coram nobis case; Alan Nishio, former Southern California Co-Chair of what was then the National Coalition for Redress and Reparations; Karen Umemoto, Director, UCLA Asian American Studies Center; UCLA Kyodo Taiko; and Bonbu Stories. An interfaith service will also be part of the program.
“The 53rd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage will highlight lessons learned from our decades-long struggle to win redress,” said Manzanar Committee Co-Chair Bruce Embrey. “We will have a number of speakers, all fierce defenders of democracy and civil rights. Several also played leading roles in the Japanese American Redress and Reparations Movement.”
“It is hard to imagine that our community would be remembering the 80th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 while our country is on the verge of another constitutional crisis, as our democracy is threatened by a rise in racist authoritarianism,” added Embrey. “Conditions today, sadly, make our story of forced removal, and wholesale violations of civil, constitutional and human rights, all too relevant.”
“It is our hope that reflecting on the lessons we’ve learned over the past eighty years will make our community stronger, more resilient, and more effective in defending our democracy.”
The 2022 Manzanar at Dusk program will follow the Manzanar Pilgrimage, and will be held via Zoom beginning at 7:00 PM CDT on April 30th. Manzanar at Dusk is co-sponsored by the Manzanar Committee and the Nikkei Student Unions (NSU) at California Polytechnic University, Pomona; California State University, Fullerton (CSUF); California State University, Long Beach; the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); the University of California, Riverside); and the University of California, San Diego.
The 2022 Manzanar At Dusk program will highlight several artistic forms of resistance during and after the unjust incarceration of Japanese/Japanese American in American concentration camps during World War II.
“Our student partners will highlight the works of artists from different periods in history, how they used their work to resist oppression and racism, and look at that as possible inspiration for what’s going on today,” said Jason Fujii, Coordinator, Manzanar At Dusk.
To watch the Manzanar Pilgrimage, go to the Manzanar Committee’s Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/manzanarcommittee
To participate in Manzanar at Dusk, register for the Zoom event at https://forms.gle/kM9Jjh6cBiVmdEE18
Both events are free and open to the public. For more information, call (323) 662-5102 or e-mail info@manzanarcommittee.org.
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About the Event
One man’s courage offers timeless lessons for us all. In this presentation, Adam Schrager tells the story of Ralph Carr, who was drafted to run for governor of Colorado in 1938, turned down the chance to run as a vice presidential candidate in 1940, and was being discussed as a “future presidential candidate” by newspapers in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Carr became a national figure when, after Pearl
Harbor, he defended the constitutional rights of Japanese-Americans and stood against internment. His outspoken and unpopular stance would cost him greatly, both personally and professionally
About the Speaker
Adam Schrager is the Social Impact Storyteller at the American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact. He also teaches journalism at UW-Madison. He worked as a broadcast journalist for nearly 30 years winning more than two dozen Emmy Awards in the process.
He’s the author of four books, including “The Principled Politician,” which led to Colorado lawmakers naming the state’s new justice center and a state highway after its subject, former Gov. Ralph Carr, who defended the rights of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor and lost his career as a result.
Schrager has an undergraduate degree in American History from the University of Michigan and a graduate degree in Broadcast Journalism from Northwestern University.
Schrager has an undergraduate degree in American History from the University of Michigan and a graduate degree in Broadcast Journalism from Northwestern University.
Register HERE
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Work for JACL Chicago!
We're seeking a dynamic Program Director to lead the many and varied programs of JACL Chicago. You can find the full job description HERE. Please submit CV and cover letter by 03/31/22 to president@jaclchicago.org with "Program Director" in the subject line.
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The prince finds enlightenment under the bodhi tree and becomes the Buddha (from painting by Nosu, Japan). Wood carving by Harry Koizumi.
Photo by Paride Stortini, used with permission of the Buddhist Temple of Chicago
The scene represents the moment when Siddhartha achieves enlightenment while meditating under the bodhi tree, becoming the Buddha, and calls the earth to witness his enlightenment by touching it.
Exhibition dates: March 19, 2022 – June 4, 2022
Location: The Joseph Regenstein Library, Fifth Floor Reading Rooms, 1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
After learning woodcarving in an internment camp for Japanese Americans during WWII, Harry Koizumi moved to South Side Chicago and made Stations of the Cross and scenes of the life of the Buddha for the local Episcopal Church and Buddhist temple. This exhibit explores Koizumi's art, opening a window on the complex entanglement of religious and national identities of the Japanese American community during and after World War II.
Curator
Paride Stortini, PhD Candidate, History of Religions, the University of Chicago
This exhibit was curated by Paride Stortini, PhD candidate in History of Religions at the Divinity School. He became interested in Harry Koizumi after learning that he modelled his Buddhist scenes on Indian aesthetics, which are part of a broader interest in the Indian origins of Buddhism in modern Japan, the subject of Stortini's dissertation. Connecting transnational intellectual movements with the experience of Japanese migration to North America, Koizumi's art offers a unique example of the complex entanglements of modernity and religion across continents.
Thanks to Rev. Patti Nakai, Rev. Barnabas Pusnur, Jerry Morishige, Roy Koizumi, and Mary Naftzger for their collaboration.
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For any inquiries, contact us at tsukasataiko@gmail.com
Tsukasa Taiko and Shubukai are programs of Asian Improv aRts Midwest and is supported in part by The Illinois Arts Council Agency, The MacArthur Funds for Culture, Equity, and the Arts at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the Alphawood Foundation, JCCC Foundation, Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, The City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) and The Joyce Foundation.
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JASC WISHLIST
- NEW or used Apple iPad
- Letter Size (8 1/2 x 11) Copy Paper
- "Dollar" gift items for Adult Day Service games & activities
- Staples, Amazon, or Target gift cards
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Amazon Wishlist (be sure to use smile.amazon.com!)
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