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Weekly Digest
January 2, 2024 |
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Happy New Year from JACL! |
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Seattle JACL Annual Meeting and Shinnenkai Celebration! |
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When: Saturday January 27, 2024 - 12:30PM to 2:30PM
Where: Joyale Seafood Restaurant, 900 S Jackson St, Seattle WA 98104
Parking: Available at the restaurant - enter parking garage via S Jackson St & 10th Ave (Free for two hours)
All of us in the Seattle Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League wish you and your loved ones a very happy new year!
We are pleased to share our invitation for Seattle Chapter Members to join us at our annual membership meeting and Shinnenkai (Japanese New Years celebration).
Come meet our Board and Seattle JACL friends! |
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JACL Arizona Chapter Annual Essay Contest! |
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New Essay Prompt Encourages Intergenerational Interviews & Personal Storytelling The JACL AZ Essay Challenge 2024 invites Arizona students to explore their heritage and the impact of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). The Essay Challenge is open until February 28, 2024, and encourages students residing in Arizona to participate. Students from grades 4-12 can enter, with separate categories for high school (grades 9-12) and elementary/middle school (grades 4-8). To qualify, participants should have membership ties to the JACL-AZ Chapter, Arizona Buddhist Temple, or Phoenix Life Church (http://www.phoenixlife.church). The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2024, 11:59 PM. |
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Volunteer with JACL Arizona Chapter at the 2024 Arizona Matsuri! |
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The Arizona Matsuri Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2024. The two-day celebration of Japanese culture is scheduled for the weekend of February 24-25, 2024. JACL Arizona is looking for adult and teen volunteers at the Information Booth and the Soda/Water Booth. There are two shifts available, the first is 10 AM to 1:30 PM and the second is 1:30 to 5 PM. Please contact Cathy Corella to be placed on the schedule. Cathy can be reached at 623-341-0134 or cycorella@gmail.com. Thank you in advance for your volunteerism! |
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White House Fellows Program Applications Due this Week! |
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The Class of 2024-2025 application is now open through 3:00 p.m. ET on Friday, January 5, 2024. Apply now. | Founded in 1964 by Lyndon B. Johnson, the White House Fellows program is one of America’s most prestigious programs for leadership and public service. White House Fellowships offer exceptional emerging leaders first-hand experience working at the highest levels of the Federal government. Selected individuals typically spend a year working as a full-time, paid Fellow to senior White House Staff, Cabinet Secretaries, and other top-ranking government officials. Fellows also participate in an education program consisting of roundtable discussions with leaders from the private and public sectors, and potential trips to study U.S. policy in action both domestically and internationally. Fellowships are awarded on a strictly non-partisan basis. | |
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Call for Day Of Remembrance Events! |
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As we're coming up on Day of Remembrance, JACL is once again asking all of our chapters and supporters to send us information on any events that you know of so that we can share it with the wider membership and Japanese American community! Please send any information you have on your DOR events, including date(s), times, any website/social links, and images/flyers you might have! We'll continually update the listing so if you currently only have some information and are still waiting on more, send us what you have and we can update the event page. The event page and calendar will be made available later. Send any program information you have to Education Programs Manager, Matthew Weisbly at mweisbly@jacl.org |
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2024 JACL National Scholarship Program Applications Available Now! |
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2024 JACL Chicago Chapter Scholarships Available Now! |
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UC Berkeley Announces New Japanese American Oral History Project |
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The Oral History Center is proud to announce the launch of the Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives Oral History Project, featuring 100 hours of oral history interviews with 23 Japanese American narrators who are survivors and descendants of two World War II-era sites of incarceration: Manzanar in California and Topaz in Utah. Using healing as a throughline, these life history interviews explore identity, community, creative expression, and the stories family members passed down about how incarceration shaped their lives. |
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Fundraiser to Build a Museum for Nisei Veterans in Bruyeres, France |
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From Heroes of the Vosges Museum, We are less than a year away from the eightieth anniversary (October 2024) of the liberation of the Vosges communities of Bruyères, Bellmont, Biffontaine and the near miraculous rescue of the Lost Texas Battalion. We are again reminded of the sacrifice made by the young Nisei men of the 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team in October 1944. With each passing day, fewer of these heroic soldiers are left to tell their story and it is essential that we create a lasting exhibit that will carry their story to future generations. Where better to have such an exhibit than on the very ground made sacred by the Nisei sacrifice? With the agreement and support of the Mayor and City Council, the town of Bruyères is working to create a start-up museum to commemorate the Nisei and the members of the French Resistance who helped liberate these communities. To that end, we are seeking artifacts associated with the Nisei soldiers and donations to create a small museum that will preserve these artifacts and stories for future generations. We have created a website at vosgesheroes.org and have obtained non-profit (501 (c) (3) status (93-3459043) for the museum fund. The website also offers a children’s book called Marie of Bruyères that tells the story, in both English and French, of a little girl who meets one of the Nisei liberators. All donations and proceeds for the sale of the book are deposited in the Museum Fund. Please go to vosgesheroes.org and make a generous donation and buy the book. Please also see hill555.org that describes our earlier effort to create the Torch Monument dedicated in 2017. For additional information, please call Carl Williams, the U.S. Volunteer, at 916-233-8069 |
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Looking for a Match for Kaiya! |
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See Omoiyari a Song Film by Kishi Bashi! |
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