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Weekly Digest
October 17, 2023 |
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2024 Kakehashi Project Applications Available Now! |
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Participant Applications as well as Supervisor Applications are available for the 2024 trip! Apply now before the October 25, 2023 deadline! |
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You're Invited to Our New Member Orientation this Thursday! |
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How can you make the most of your JACL membership? Join us with special guest Garrett James of Ryoko Rain (a fashion all-star and community advocate!), hear from JACL leadership, meet other new members, and find out all JACL has to offer. Spots are limited, so we encourage you to RSVP today! See the link below to RSVP or go to bit.ly/JACLnmo |
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Calling all members: we need your help! To celebrate Membership Month, we invite you to share what your JACL membership means to you. If you participate, you will be entered in our giveaway for 1 of 5 $20 Amazon gift cards. See the link below! |
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Help Mobilize and Support AAPI Voters this Fall with our Friends at APIAVote! |
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We're Hiring! Join JACL as Our New Communications Manager! |
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Washington, D.C. Premiere of Defining Courage for Veterans Day |
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From our friends at JA Memorial Pilgrimages - We are excited to announce the return of Tadaima: A Community Virtual Pilgrimage, a transformative online event that will run from October 1st to the 28th. This innovative initiative aims to foster connection, awareness, and understanding within our diverse community by offering a rich tapestry of live streams, Zoom group discussions, workshops, and thought-provoking pre-recorded videos. Tadaima will serve as a platform for enlightening conversations on various topics, such as the WWII history of Japanese American incarceration, the challenges and experiences of caring for elderly parents with dementia and Alzheimer's, the profound significance of monuments and memorials in our lives, and the therapeutic power of writing in documenting family histories, self-expression, and processing painful memories and histories.
This month-long virtual pilgrimage promises to be an enlightening and immersive experience, providing a space for shared learning, storytelling, and personal growth. We invite everyone to join us in this remarkable journey of discovery, reflection, and unity. |
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See Omoiyari a Song Film by Kishi Bashi! |
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Premiere Screening of the New JA Incarceration Short Film – The Blue Jay on October 29th! |
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Writer/Director/Executive Producer of The Blue Jay, Marlene Shigekawa, remembers her
mother, Misako Ishii Shigekawa telling her how her Grandpa Ishii created wooden bird carvings in “camp.” The camp was the Poston Incarceration Camp located in Arizona which imprisoned Japanese Americans during WWII on the Colorado River Indian Tribes reservation. The blue jay carving, among several other wood carvings that her grandpa made while at Poston, captured Marlene’s attention as a child. Today this blue jay carving, now a family heirloom, serves as a visual metaphor in her film, The Blue Jay. Actors Lee Shoren, the lead Japanese American character, and Ajuawak Kapashesit, an Indigenous character, both with several film and TV credits, form an unlikely friendship in this captivating film. A free premiere screening will be on October 29, 2023, at 3pm at the Tateuchi Democracy
Theater of the Japanese American National Museum. The director and actors will be present. Following the screening, a discussion and Q & A. Reception to follow. For more information about the event and to register go to:
https://tinyurl.com/2ybrw9mt |
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Okaeri 2023 Conference Registration Available Now! |
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Watch the Premiere of the New Short Film Baseball Behind Barbed Wire |
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From the team at Diamond Diplomacy and Baseball Behind Barbed Wire - Baseball Behind Barbed Wire tells the story of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans, through the uncommon yet popular lens of baseball, America’s national pastime. The All-American pastime became a favorite for many incarcerees at all ten camps stretching from California to Wyoming to Arkansas – where we're having the film's WORLD PREMIERE.
Some of the camps had two or three fields and some had as many as thirty teams! If there was one thread that ran through this unforgiving history, it was baseball, still popular and still shared by the U.S. and Japan.
Next month, we're going to five major film festivals — Hot Springs, AR; Honolulu, HI; Newport Beach, CA; Washington, DC; and Palo Alto, CA.
And that's just October! So make sure to check out our upcoming screenings page for more schedules, tickets, and updates! |
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FY2024 JACS Grant Applications Now Available! |
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The National Park Service is now accepting applications for the 2024 Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) Grant Program. These grants provide financial assistance to organizations and entities working to preserve historic Japanese American confinement sites and their history. For more information on eligibility requirements and the application process, please visit the JACS Grant Program Website. Information is also available on http://grants.gov (search for Funding P24AS00023)] or http://grants.gov (Funding # P24AS00023). |
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