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Weekly Digest
October 4, 2022 |
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Send Us Your Events! As JACL chapters and our partner organizations return to in-person programming, please be sure to send us chapter events or other community events to share with JACL members here in the Weekly Digest or on our social media channels! We want to showcase the variety of programs, events, and partnerships that our members take part in and offer opportunities for new members or supporters to get involved. You can send us information using the contact form on the JACL.org homepage. Thank you! - JACL Staff |
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AAPI Authors Humanizing Our History: A Conversation with Julie Otsuka and Tom Ikeda |
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From the AAPI Coalition of Wisconsin - The AAPI Coalition of Wisconsin invites you and your friends to a special virtual event with Julie Otsuka in conversation with Tom Ikeda. Please join us on Sunday, October 16, from 4:00-5:00 p.m. (Central time). Otsuka is the author of the award-winning novel “When the Emperor Was Divine” which tells the story of the incarceration of a Japanese American family during World War II. In this webinar, Otsuka will be interviewed by Tom Ikeda, the founding executive director of Densho, an online archive and public history organization that has documented stories, since its founding in 1996, about Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII. They will discuss the art of writing the novel itself as well as Otsuka and Ikeda’s family’s experiences in the WWII camps. Sign up to join us on Sunday, October 16, at 4:00-5:00 p.m. (Central time), and invite your friends! To learn more about the webinar and to Register: https://bit.ly/Register4OtsukaTalk |
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Virtual Screening of “Lil Tokyo Reporter” and discussion hosted by GLA JACL |
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The short film Lil Tokyo Reporter, celebrating its 10th anniversary, will be shown virtually on Sunday, October 9 at 1:00 p.m. by Greater L.A. JACL. Academy Award winner Chris Tashima stars as activist Issei Sei Fujii set in 1935 in Los Angeles. Sei Fujii, founder of Kashu Mainichi, was a proactive advocate who accomplished much for the Japanese American community, including overturning the Alien Land Law in 1952. After the film, Director of Lil Tokyo Reporter, Jeffery Gee Chin, and special guests will talk about the recently released and award-winning A Rebel’s Outcry, an illustrated biography of Sei Fujii published by Little Tokyo Historical Society. For Zoom link to the film and program, email Louise at greaterlajacl@gmail.com |
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Date Change- San Diego JACL Monthly Virtual Dialogues: Gary Sosa |
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Irei - A National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration Launches at JANM |
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Led by USC Ito Center Director Duncan Ryuken Williams and Project Creative Director Sunyoung Lee, the Irei Monument Project expands and re-envisions what a monument is through three distinct, interlinking elements: a sacred book of names as monument (慰霊帳 Ireichō), an online archive as monument (慰霊蔵 Ireizō), and light sculptures as monument (慰霊碑 Ireihi). Drawing on traditions of monuments built in America’s internment and concentrations camps—such as the Manzanar Ireito, the Amache Ireito, and Rohwer’s Ireihi (Soul Consolation Towers or Monuments)—the project aims to memorialize the past and repair the fractures caused by America’s racial karma. The Ireichō (a large-sized book of names) contains the first comprehensive listing of over 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who were incarcerated in US Army, Department of Justice, Wartime Civil Control Administration, and War Relocation Authority camps. Embedded into the very materiality of the Ireicho are special ceramic pieces made from soil collected by the project from seventy-five former incarceration sites from Alaska to Hawaii, Arkansas to California, and from almost every other region of the United States. |
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2023 JACS Program Grant Applications Available Now! |
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Applications for the 2023 JACS Program Grants have opened and are available now through the November 9th deadline. You can apply and learn more about the JACS Program below. |
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San Diego JACL and San Diego JA Historical Society Virtual Program |
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Get Ready for Vote Early Day with our Friends from APIA Vote! |
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From our friends at APIAVote! This is an amazing opportunity to help your community get out and vote, and we’d love to have your organization join us on October 28! You can learn more about Vote Early Day here and sign up to be a partner here. |
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JACL is hiring for a new position in the San Francisco National Headquarters Office! Director of Finance/CFO - Regular - 32 hours/week
- Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid/work from home schedule available)
- The Director of Finance/CFO is responsible for the financial health of the organization with an annual budget of $2 million and growing. JACL has a diverse source of revenues from membership dues, charitable contributions, corporate sponsorships and partners, annual convention, grants, and a newspaper with advertising revenue.
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