 | | Weekly Digest
September 5, 2023 |
| | This Saturday! Special Performance of Defining Courage to Support #MauiStrongFund! |
|  | | | FY2024 JACS Grant Applications Now Available! |
|  | 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)]Grants.gov (Funding # P24AS00023). |
| | JACL DC Chapter Keiro Kai this Sunday! |
|  | | | Reparations Panel and Film Screening Tonight! |
|  | Tuesday, Sep 5, at 6:30pm CDT, Trinity United Church is hosting a Virtual Film Screening of “Reparations,” a powerful film that provides a unique perspective on the idea of reparations. It explores the four-century struggle to seek repair and atonement for slavery in the United States. Immediately following the film, we will hold a Panel Conversation: "Reparations | A Path to Restoring the Soul of Colonizer Nations." This conversation will include the filmmaker, Jon Osaki, Evanston Councilmember and Reparations Committee Chair, Krissie Harris, and Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary President, Paul Roberts. Use this link - tinyurl.com/TUCCReparations - to access the film and conversation. |
| | Friends of Topaz Museum Announce 2024 Topaz Pilgrimage |
|  | Friends of Topaz Museum are proud to announce the 2024 Topaz Pilgrimage, May 2-3, 2024! The pilgrimage will be held in conjunction with the groundbreaking exhibition, Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo, curated by ShiPu Wang and presented by the Japanese American National Museum, that premiers at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA). The exhibit will tour nationally from 2024-2027, opening on February 24, 2024 at UMFA in Salt Lake City, UT. The pilgrimage will also include traveling to Delta, UT to visit the Topaz Museum and out to the historic Topaz site. Registration opens in February 2024. For more information, visit https://friendsoftopaz.org/.../save-the-date-topaz-art... For more information about the Pictures of Belonging exhibit, visit https://umfa.utah.edu/index.php/pictures-of-belonging Art/photo credit: "Floating Clouds, 1944, Hisako Hibi. Courtesy of the Hibi Family. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the American Women’s History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative" |
| | Poston Preservation Society Announces 2023 Poston Pilgrimage |
|  | The Poston Community Alliance Pilgrimage will take place October 13-14. 2023 at the Blue
Water Casino and other nearby sites in Parker, Arizona. Pilgrimage capacity is limited to 250 attendees due to facility space. The registration fee is now $245 for adults and $145 for children. For registration information and updates, please visit the Poston Community Alliance Website at: https://www.postonpreservation.org. Registration will be on the Eventbrite website which will be at the Poston Preservation Website. |
| | | | Reparations advocates urge President Joe Biden to act on HR-40 |
| | On August 25th, the eve of the Rally and March commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the historic March on Washington, the HR-40 Strategy Group convened a powerful assembly of reparations advocates at the gates to the White House to urge President Biden to create the HR-40 Commission by Executive Order immediately. The diverse contingent of reparations leaders welcomed Rev. Dr. Robert Turner, Senior Pastor of Empowerment Temple AME Church in Baltimore, at the conclusion of his monthly 40-mile walk from the church to the White in support of HR-40. For videos of speakers including Rev. Robert Turner and JACL Executive Director, David Inoue, click the button below. |
| | | Upcoming NPS Listening Sessions on New Norman Y. Mineta JACE Grants |
| | From our friends at the National Park Service: The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 established a new competitive grant category, the Norman Y. Mineta Japanese American Confinement Education Grants, to be administered through the current Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant program. These new grants, referred to as Japanese American Confinement Education or JACE Grants, will be awarded to Japanese American Organizations that promote the understanding and appreciation of the ethnic and cultural diversity of the United States by illustrating the Japanese American experience throughout the history of the United States. The legislation establishing these new grants provides some general parameters for this new category, and we are seeking public comments to help us better understand the perspectives of the larger community in the development of grant guidelines. A newsletter and press release were distributed last month, and a website has been created to help gather this input. In order to answer questions you might have about this new category of grants we will be hosting two general information sessions to give a brief overview of the enabling legislation and provide a forum for you to ask questions about the development of the guidelines. These meetings are scheduled at following dates and times: - Thursday, August 31 2:30 PM CST / 1:30 PM MTN / 12:30 PM PST
Link to Teams meeting Call in number if you don't have the ability to use teams: 202-640-1187 Conf ID:198414647# - Thursday, September 7 12:30 PM CST / 11:30 PM MTN / 10:30 PM PST
Link to Teams meeting Call in number if you don't have the ability to use teams: 202-640-1187 Conf ID:73003165# If you have not attended a meeting and you have questions about the program, please join by selecting a link or phoning into the meeting with the information provided above. At these meetings we will have an open conversation about the new grant category, but will not be capturing your comments. All comments that you wish to have considered in the development of the guidelines should be submitted through the official comment website linked here, prior to September 15. |
| | San Diego JACL Monthly Community Dialogues - Kristen Taketa |
|  | | | 2023 Crystal City Pilgrimage Save the Date |
|  | | | 2023 Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium Education Conference at JANM |
|  | The Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium (JACSC) and USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture (USC Ito Center) will host the conference at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) in Los Angeles, California. We will convene around the theme of Memory and Monument-making: Repairing our Racial Karma from September 22nd - 24th. Detailed information on the speakers, session topics, and evening activities will be announced in the coming weeks. The conference is free and open to the public. We hope that you will join us! We have arranged for a limited block of rooms that can be booked at a reduced rate at the Miyako Hotel across the street from JANM. These rooms are available on first come, first served until August 25th. Please feel free to begin making those travel arrangements around the following schedule:
Schedule Friday, September 22, 2023
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Welcome Reception
Saturday, September 23, 2023
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Business Meeting for JACSC Members
10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Conference Sessions
4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Optional Evening Activities
Sunday, September 24, 2023
9 a.m. - 10 a.m. NPS Information Session: JACE and JACS Grants
10:30 a.m. - 5:15 p.m. Conference Sessions
4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Optional Evening Activities
Please register via the following link: https://9644p.blackbaudhosting.com/9644p/packagetickets?tab=3&txobjid=30FB55F6-E90A-4BE6-8637-C6D809C5C415 Please read the registration page carefully, as it provides the option to register for the full 3 days OR to register for events individually. We appreciate your care in this step, as we will base our food and beverage orders based on the registration numbers for the appropriate events. Please also register separately for the business meeting for members. Please direct any questions regarding registration to Emily Anderson at eanderson@janm.org. |
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