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End Nuclear Madness: Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
August 6, 2024

Aug 6
End Nuclear Madness: Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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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.

The Chinese, Japanese, and Korean communities in t

The Chinese, Japanese, and Korean communities in the Portland Metro Area would like to invite you to attend our “Stringed Instruments and Flutes of Three Nations”

Date: Saturday, June 22nd
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: First Congregational UCC at 1126 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205.

Admission is free! Please see the link in our bio to reserve your free tickets.

This year's event will feature:

(Chinese) Ms. Kunlu Wen, who studied the Chinese “Guzheng” in both China and the U.S. and is the founder of Lulu Guzheng Studio. She will team with Ms. Jenny Hung on the piano. The Chinese team will also include Mr. Qingquan Kong, who began playing the Chinese flute at the age of nine and has been active in the Chinese music community in Portland for 40+ years and Huishao Zhen on the Chinese yangqin.

(Japanese) Ms. Yumi Torimaru, the founder and artistic director of the Japanese instrumental group Takohachi, will perform on the Japanese "Shamisen" and ”Shinobue" accompanied by Jin Nakajima on the shinobue bamboo flute and Shoko Oba on percussion and Truman Wilson on the Tsugaru Shamisen.

(Korean) Ms. Doyeon Lim, a skilled musician and founder of Korean Music Institute of Oregon, will showcase both the traditional and modified (more modern) versions of the Korean “Gayageum.” She will perform three songs: Sung Geumyeon Kayageum Sanjo, Legend of the Moon, and Snow Flower.

This event is the ninth in a series that began in 2015. The idea for this series of performances originated with officials from the Oregon China Council, the Consular Office of Japan in Portland, and the Honorary Consulate for the Republic of Korea in Portland. In a joint statement at that initial meeting, the group stated, “We want to show that, despite the political tensions in many parts of the world today, our respective communities in Portland serve as a model of cooperation and friendship. In this spirit, we are delighted to share an afternoon of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cultures with the citizens of Oregon.”

Join Tsuru for Solidarity for their annual virtual

Join Tsuru for Solidarity for their annual virtual fundraiser and community celebration.

Date: Saturday, June 15th
Time: 5 PM PST
Please see the link in our bio to learn more and donate.

This year, our theme is "Voices in Solidarity!" It will be an evening of powerful cross-cultural community performances celebrating the resistance and liberation work of our campaigns and national partners.

Featured artists include Kishi Bashi, Grateful Crane, Noelani Ahia, Francis Wong, Taiyo Na, Öneza Lafontant, Brandon Shimoda, and more!

We're thrilled to announce that this year, we'll be presenting the inaugural Tsuru Award to two community leaders for their outstanding leadership and visionary activism in support of communities targeted by state violence.

Come celebrate the impact Tsuru has made in the past year and be a part of contributing to our upcoming actions.

Donations of $100 and up will receive a Tenugui as a token of our appreciation (until supplies last)

Donations of $250 and up will receive a T-Shirt as a token of our appreciation (until supplies last)

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