Twin Cities JACL

TC JACL- A History of Mixed Race Nikkei
2022-06-12 | Webinar
Join us for a virtual event in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library as we hear from local scholar Selena Moon and invited panelists on the history of mixed race Japanese Americans. Time TBD, stay tuned!

TC JACL- Manzanar Diverted Film Screening
2022-06-04 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Minnesota History Center, 345 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Join us at the Minnesota History Center from 2-4PM for a screening and discussion of “Manzanar Diverted,” a documentary in which intergenerational women from Native American, Japanese American and rancher communities form an unexpected alliance to defend their land and water.

San Diego JACL- The ART of Inclusive Communication (Part B)
2022-06-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Webinar
The San Diego Chapter of JACL is hosting a free, virtual dialogue–focused workshop on inclusive communication provided by the National Conflict Resolution Center.
Part A is May 25 from 6–8 p.m. Part Bis on June 1 from 6–8 p.m. Both are on Zoom Online Workshop.
The interactive workshop involves small group discussion, facilitated dialogue, and self–reflective activities. Participants will look at their own personal and cultural identities and then how their identities are related todifferent styles of communication, especially through intercultural awareness.
Contact JACL at sandiegojacl@gmail.com or Dania Brett at dbrett@ncrconline.com for more information.

AMAJ- Concert: NO-NO BOY with Alicia Thao
2022-05-25 19:30 | The Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55454
ABOUT THIS SHOW
No-No Boy is the musical project of Vietnamese American singer and scholar Julian Saporiti. On his Smithsonian Folkways debut 1975, named after the year Saigon fell, Saporiti investigates his own family heritage as well as life in WWII Japanese internment camps, immigrant detention centers and refugee camps in 2020, and other stories of immigration that illustrate the complexities of becoming American. His songs are the epitome of folk storytelling in the modern era, as he interweaves histories with field recordings from the sites of collective trauma and fragments of Asian American musical tradition, from jazz to rock, to choral music). With his plaintive, direct voice, No-No Boy will take us on a deeply human journey through the Asian American experience in the US.
Alicia Thao, one of the Cedar Commissions Artists featured here in February 2022, opens this special night.

San Diego JACL- The ART of Inclusive Communication (Part A)
2022-05-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Webinar

Minnesota History Center & TC JACL - Echoes of History: The Japanese American Imprisonment Resounds Today
2022-05-21 11:00 - 12:00 | Minnesota History Center, 345 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Join Dale Minami for a recounting of how a fraud on the United States Supreme Court resulted in the upholding of the conviction of Fred Korematsu and the incarceration program of Japanese Americans during World War II. Forty years later, a group of young attorneys were able to overturn the conviction but history is repeating itself today.
Dale Minami is an attorney at Minami and Tamaki in San Francisco. He graduated from law school at UC Berkeley (1971). He has been recognized as a Super Lawyer in Northern California for 18 straight years. Minami has litigated significant civil rights cases for Asian Pacific Americans including overturning Fred Korematsu’s landmark 40 year-old conviction. He co-founded the country’s first APA public interest law firm (Asian Law Caucus) and the first Asian American Bar Association in the country. Minami received the American Bar Association’s highest award, the ABA Medal, and the ABA’s Thurgood Marshall and Spirit of Excellence Awards.
This program is presented in partnership with the Twin Cities Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League.

Saint Paul Civic Symphony- May 8 2022: Music of Home & Hope (Annual Mother’s Day Concert)
2022-05-08 13:00 - 14:30 | Landmark Center, 75 W 5th St, St. Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Heitzeg: Green Hope after Black Rain
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”)

Featuring the world premiere of Saint Paul composer Steve Heitzeg’s Green Hope after Black Rain (SPCS’s 75th anniversary commission), with Grieg’s Piano Concerto, performed by Jacob Taggart, and Dvorak’s New World Symphony.
Pianist Jacob Taggart will be the featured soloist at the Saint Paul Civic Symphony’s Annual Mother’s Day Concert at 1 p.m. Sunday, May 8, at the Landmark Center.
Just 15 years old, the 11th-grader at Saint Agnes School in Saint Paul has already gained acclaim in the world of classical music, having traveled internationally, including to Spain, Italy and Russia, for competitions.
He has twice been featured on National Public Radio’s “From the Top,” America’s largest national platform celebrating young, classically trained musicians, and remains one of the youngest grand-prize winners of the preteen and teen divisions of the Minnesota State Fair Amateur Talent Competition.
He has also opened for the rock band Goo Goo Dolls and was featured at Paisley Park and at Orchestra Hall with Grammy-nominated singer Sheila E., Prince’s former drummer.
Jacob also performs with sister Emma as the Taggart Squared duo, including six concerts performing Saint-Saens’ “Carnival of the Animals” with the Minnesota Orchestra.
Jacob studied with Reid Smith from age 4 until Smith’s passing in 2021. He now studies with Paul Wirth at the Wirth Center for the Performing Arts.
Jacob will be performing Edvard Grieg’s only piano concerto with the Saint Paul Civic Symphony.

King County Law Library- Remembering Japanese Incarceration and the Lies of Executive Order 9066
2022-04-29 16:00 - 18:30 | Webinar
Filmmaker Jon Osaki’s documentary, “Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066” takes an in-depth look at the legal rationale and evidence that undergirded the issuance of Executive Order 9066, which led to the wartime incarceration of almost 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, and Korematsu v. United States (1944), the subsequent U.S. Supreme Court Case which upheld its constitutionality. Using historical footage, documents, and interviews, Alternative Facts covers the forces and players that brought E.O. 9066 into being, the work of researchers who uncovered evidence unmasking the manipulated record submitted to the Supreme Court in Korematsu, and the work of the attorneys pursuing coram nobis cases to vacate the convictions of Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi, and Minoru Yasui.
After a screening of Alternative Facts, Serin Ngai, of Sound Family Solutions, PLLC, will lead a panel discussion with filmmaker Jon Osaki, King County Superior Court Presiding Judge Patrick Oishi, and Lori Bannai, Professor Emeritus, Seattle University School of Law, and Director Emeritus of the law school’s Korematsu Center. Professor Bannai was also an attorney on the legal team that won vacation of Mr. Korematsu’s wartime conviction. The panel will discuss the role of attorneys and the judiciary in Korematsu case, how these issues continue to impact the current legal and political climate, and how lawyers and judges can respond.
Cost: FREE!

JASM- ”Tattoo History" with Emi Nijiya (Online)
2022-04-28 18:00 - 19:00 | Webinar
JASM is very excited to announce a webinar:
“Tattoo History” by Tattoo artist, Emi Nijiya on Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 6 p.m.
Tattoo History: A talk about the connections between Japanese and Western tattooing and the growth to today’s tattoo industry
How did tattooing originate in Japan and how did it become popular in the United States? We will look at the history behind Japanese tattoos and tools, compared to what the industry uses today. Tattoos are still considered taboo by many but have become more mainstream over the years. This talk will give you a brief look at how Japanese and Western tattooing are intertwined and have influenced each other and have grown to the flourishing industry of today.
Emi (they/them) is a half-Japanese and transgender tattoo artist who owns Jackalope Tattoo in Minneapolis, MN. Their shop, founded in 2013, employs 11 female, trans, or queer-identifying tattoo artists with various specialties. Emi has been tattooing for 11 years and specializes in black and grey portraiture, realism, gender affirming tattoos, 3D nipple tattooing (sometimes requested following breast reconstruction) and scar coverup tattoos. Over the years they have worked hard to create a tattoo shop that is a safe space for BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ people, women, and folks from all walks of life.
$8: Non-Member
$0: JASM Members
Fee is not refundable but is transferable. Please become a member to support JASM.

Minnesota History Center & TC JACL -Righting A Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II Exhibit Opening
2022-04-23 11:00 - 15:00 | Minnesota History Center, 345 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Minnesota History Center Presents “Righting A Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II”
April 23 – July 3, 2022
EXHIBIT OPENING PROGRAM
FILM SCREENING AND CULTURAL PROGRAMS
Saturday, April 23, 2022, 11 am – 3pm
Minnesota History Center, 3M Auditorium
Exhibit viewing for Minnesota Historical Society Members is free. Non-members will need to purchase museum admission to view exhibit.
Eighty years ago, Executive Order 9066 paved the way to the violation of constitutional rights that resulted in the forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. The film And Then They Came for Us  features Japanese American activists such as actor George Takei and other incarcerees who bring history into the present to ensure that mistakes of the past are not repeated.
A limited number of complimentary parking passes will be provided by TCJACL to our membership as supply lasts. To request parking, email Carolyn Nayematsu at nayem001@umn.edu
“Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II”
This new traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History includes engaging personal stories, documents, photographs, and interactives. Embracing themes that are as relevant today as they were years ago, the exhibition takes a deep look at immigration, prejudice, civil rights, heroism, and what it means to be an American.

Funny Asian Women Kollective- The FAWK Super Show…AGAIN!
2022-04-16 19:30 - 21:00 | The Ordway Center for Performing Arts, 345 Washington Street, St. Paul, MN, 55102, United States
The Funny Asian Women Kollective (FAWK), is a comedy group that uses comedy to combat the invisibility and dehumanization of Asian women. For the first time since 2019, FAWK will be performing a live comedy show indoors FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY. The lineup includes Naomi Ko, May Lee-Yang, Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay, Tsuab Yang, Patti Kameya, Houa Moua, and Jamie Schumacher with special guest star Robin Tran. The show will include stand-up, sketches, and videos that center Asian women’s stories.
What: The FAWK Super Show…AGAIN!
When: Saturday, April 16 at 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Where: The Ordway Center for Performing Arts, 345 Washington Street, St. Paul, MN 55102

Haddassah Minneapolis St. Paul presents "Sachiko: The True Story of a Child Survivor of the Bombing of Nagasaki"
2022-04-03 10:30 - 12:00 | MN
Haddassah Minneapolis St. Paul presents “Sachiko: The True Story of a Child Survivor of the Bombing of Nagasaki”.
How many Americans know what happened to innocent civilian survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II? Stories of the hibakusha, the Japanese word for atomic bomb survivors, are important for us to know, just as we must know and never forget the stories of Holocaust survivors. The Anne Frank rose bush that grows in the shadow of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum symbolizes journeys of horror and survival to resilience and peace.

Minneapolis author Caren Stelson will share her relationship with Sachiko Yasui, who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki as a six-year-old child, and her journey from cataclysmic trauma to a pathway to peace. What happened to Sachiko and the history that wraps around her story have universal implications for us today and can inspire our own actions for peace for the future.

JACL National Youth Student Council- MDC Youth Summit
2022-04-02 13:30 - 16:00 | America’s Black Holocaust Museum, Milwaukee, WI, United States
Learn about the mission and work of the American Black Holocaust Museum sponsored by the JACL National Youth Student Council.
