News 07.16.08 Senate Bill S. 3213 to Help Preserve Tule Lake Concentration Camp The Tule Lake Preservation Committee is calling for citizens to contact their senators and representatives urging support for an important bill that would bring Tule Lake under the authority of the National Park System and enable the development of a visitor center at the site. For more information and a form letter that you can send, visit their website www.tulelake.org. For the full letter sent to the New England JACL, click here. 07.12.08 Tickets Are Still Available for Bento and Baseball. Tickets are going fast for the New England JACL Bento and Baseball event. Please see below for information on how to reserve tickets. 07.11.08 Mari Oye Receives National JACL Scholarship Congratulations to Mari Oye, a freshman at Yale University and one of the 2008 National JACL Undergraduate Scholarship winners. Mari was awarded the $5000 Kenji Kajiwara Memorial Scholarship. She is the daughter of long-time NE JACLers Willa Michener and Ken Oye, chapter co-chair. Last year Mari was awarded a National JACL Freshman Scholarship. Two additional scholarship winners are attending schools in the New England area. Aya Michaels, of Connecticut, is a graduate student at Harvard, and Elizabeth Leake, of Colorado, is an undergraduate at Yale. Archived News: Click here for past news. Upcoming Events 05.03.08-07.20.08 Art Exhibit at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA Folded Light, Folded Shadow Paper Relief by Nishimura Yuko. A showcase of a young contemporary artist’s complex art of folding paper. For information call 508.588.6000 or www.fullercraft.org. 07.17.08-07.20.08 Black Ships Festival in Newport, RI Festivities will include sumo wrestling, Japanese films, tea tastings, a Japanese Anime Festival, sushi demonstrations, and a taiko drum concert. Featured on Saturday will be an Arts & Crafts Fair with scheduled demonstrations and workshops on aikido, calligraphy, origami, kite & pinwheel making, koto & shamisen player, kimono demonstration and many other Japanese arts, crafts and healing practices. A Japanese Market will be featured on Sunday. For tickets and information on locations, times and dates of all events call 401.846.2720 or www.BlackShipsFestival.com. 07.26.08 Obon Festival at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA Taiko Drumming & Obon in Amory Park, across from Museum’s main entrance from 2-3:45 pm. Featuring Odaiko New England and obon dancing with middle school students from Ota, Salem’s sister city in Tokyo Japan. This coincides with PEM exhibits include Stage Idols, Japanese Kabuki Theater (through 01.25.09) as well as Chinese, Korean, Indian, and Native American art. For more information www.pem.org/events or call toll free 866.745.1876 or 978.745.9500. 08.01.08-08.03.08 Ukulele Virtuoso Comes to New England Jake Shimabukuro of Honolulu, fast becoming one of the world’s top ukulele musicians, will be performing in the New England area. Check him out in person at: August 1st at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, August 2nd at the Regattabar at the Charles Hotel, and August 3rd at the Newport Folk Festival. 08.08.08-08.16.08 New Japanese Cinema Series at the Museum of Fine Arts A five-film series of recent Japanese cinema will be featured at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts from August 8th to the 16th. It will include showings of Sakuran directed by Mika Ninagawa (2006), The Mourning Forest directed by Naomi Kawase (2007), Filmful Life: Kon Ichikawa directed by Shinji Aoyama (2006), Near Equal, Yayoi Kasama, I Adore Myself directed by Takako Natsumoto (2008), Gumi Chocolate Pine (2006) Keralino Sandorovich directs Ken Otsuki’s film, and Murder of the Inugami Clan directed by Kon Ichikawa (2006). For tickets call 617.369.3306 or send an email to webticketing@mfa.org. For showing times and more information go to: www.mfa.org. 08.10.08 [Event Flyer] Bento and Baseball The New England JACL will be hosting an event involving the showing of the film American Pastime, about the role of baseball in the Topaz Internment Camp, followed by a Lowell Spinners minor league baseball game. The film will be shown at Middlesex Community College in Lowell at 10 a.m. followed by a pot-luck lunch, (please bring one dish per person) and then a Lowell Spinners game at 1:30 p.m. Please see the Event Flyer for details and reply form. Please e-mail Steve Nishino at nishino@nejacl.org for questions or more information. 10.12.08-10.18.08 Volunteers Needed for Boston Asian American Film Fest The Asian American Resource Workshop (AARW) is seeking volunteers to assist with programming, marketing and sponsorship for the 2008 Boston Asian American Film Festival. If interested send an email to: BostonAPAFilm@gmail.com. Archived Events: Click here for past events.