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Save the date! Join us, @portlandtaiko and @oregon

Save the date! Join us, @portlandtaiko and @oregon_psr in remembering the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This year's theme is Ending Nuclear Madness.

Date: Tuesday, August 6th, 2024
Time: 6:00 to 7:30 PM
Location: Japanese American Historical Plaza, Portland Waterfront, NW Naito Parkway and Couch Street

For more information, please contact: samanthapaladini@oregonpsr.org
The link can be found in our bio.

If you were wondering why we use sunflower imagery: Sunflowers can take up high concentrations of radioactive isotopes and sequester them in stems and leaves, so they have been employed to clean up contaminated sites following nuclear disasters.

Join @okaeri.community this upcoming Sunday, July

A last-minute call to join @nikkeiprogressives upc

Its almost Obon season again! @oregonbuddhisttempl

Its almost Obon season again! @oregonbuddhisttemple will be celebrating on the first Saturday of August. Attendance is free and all are welcome!

Date: August 3rd
Time: 2 to 9 PM
Location: Oregon Buddhist Temple, 3720 SE 34th Ave, Portland, OR 97202, USA

There will be performances by Portland Taiko, a Judo demonstration, Japanese crafts for sale, youth activities and refreshments. See the link in our bio and follow @oregonbuddhisttemple for more info.

@friendsofminidoka and community partners have bee

@friendsofminidoka and community partners have been fighting for nearly three years to preserve the solemn and reflective cultural landscape of Minidoka National Historic Site from, Lava Ridge, a massive commercial wind development.

Please see the link in our bio to sign their letter to President Biden to protect Minidoka. The deadline to sign on is July 10, 2024.

The proposed Lava Ridge wind project will forever alter Minidoka’s somber landscape and fails to honor the significance of the events that occurred at Minidoka as a place of reflection, healing, and education for the survivors, descendants, and public. The proposed project places 340 towers in the Minidoka NHS viewshed with 12 of those towers on the historic Minidoka footprint. The Minidoka community of survivors and descendants deserve the respect and acknowledgment of this gross violation of civil liberties by our nation’s government through the preservation of the site.

Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi, just 22 years old at the ti

Some pics from last week at the Portland Japanese

Some pics from last week at the Portland Japanese Garden featuring the SPREAD PEACE: Wish Tree by @yokoono.

Yoko Ono’s interactive artwork Wish Tree invites guests to reflect and write their wishes for peace, which then get tied to the tree’s branches. Over time, the Wish Trees become adorned with these hopeful missives, evolving into a visual representation of the community’s collective aspirations for peace in our time. This interactive art, created by Ono in 1996, has collected more than two million wishes from visitors worldwide.

The last picture features dignitaries from Portland and Saporro with their wishes for peace.

Date: Saturday, June 22 Time: 12:30 to 3:00 PM Loc

Date: Saturday, June 22
Time: 12:30 to 3:00 PM
Location: Historic Alberta House
Address: 5131 NE 23rd Ave., Portland OR 97211
This is a free, all-ages workshop. Advanced registration is required.
Please see the link in our bio to register.

Participants are encouraged to join us for a half hour before and after the event for optional conversation and social time.

Fear is central to our human experience, a powerful force that extends beyond our individual lives into political and cultural realms. In an uncertain world, the opportunities for fear to take root and spread are infinite. In this workshop, we take a non-judgmental approach to fear, viewing it not as our enemy—but as a catalyst for self-discovery and transformation.

Join theater artist and director Bobby Bermea for an interactive workshop that brings our fear into focus. In this session, he will utilize story-sharing and community engagement techniques to generate insights and examination of this most basic feeling: What role does fear play in our private and public lives? What barriers does it create? What dangers are posed when fear becomes codified into laws and other policies? And perhaps most importantly, how do we move beyond fear to co-create new possibilities in our lives and communities?

Drawing from liberatory frameworks including restorative justice, Michael Rohd and Sojourn Theatre, and Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, Bobby will help us experiment with movement-based techniques to navigate the fears that hinder us. Participants will leave feeling more empowered to use fear as a stepping stone for making greater changes in their own lives and beyond.

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Portland JACL with No-No Girl cast and crew on DOR 2023

Portland JACL with No-No Girl cast and crew on DOR 2023