Community Focus – Bamboo Ridge at Home
Around since 1978, the premiere journal of the literatures of Hawaiʻi, Bamboo Ridge, has upgraded itself for the audiovisual-media-friendly era with “Bamboo Ridge at Home” (youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM9u0tLyADkCCmC92KnUZVz475_yvQe9X). The series of online videos show Hawaiʻi creative writers filmed in their living rooms while they explain the context for, then read excerpts from, their fictional stories, creative non-fiction,....
Bulletin Board – NVMC: Chinese Wellness Lifestyle Workshop
WHO/WHAT: The Nisei Veterans Memorial Center presents Dr. Jeffrey Tice, an integrative healthcare provider, who will introduce the history and philosophy behind Chinese medicine. He will also share self-help tools — including food, massage, exercise...
Bulletin Board – JANM Digital Film Festival: “Madame Fujima Kansuma” Film Q&A
WHO/WHAT: The Japanese American National Museum presents a Q&A session for the film “Madame Fujima Kansuma,” featuring the life of a Japanese American kabuki dancer and teacher who began a decades-long career in the...
Bulletin Board – HISAM from Home, Free Kids Art Class
WHO/WHAT: The Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts is hosting the HiSAM (Hawaiʻi State Art Museum) From Home Free Art Class for Kids in an online Zoom class led by highly trained...
Spotlight – UJSH: “Renkyo No Ayumi” Commemorative Book
United Japanese Society of Hawaii Holds Online General Membership Meeting Jodie Chiemi Ching The United Japanese Society of Hawaii’s annual general membership meeting was called to order by Rev. Akihiro Okada, president of UJSH, on the evening of May 14. Due to the current stay-at-home order from Gov. David Ige, board members, directors and advisors....
Community Focus – Free Ukulele Practice Videos for the (Quarantined) Family
From April 5, Roy Sakuma Studios has offered lighthearted, weekly “Ukulele Practice Videos” on its website and YouTube channel at no cost to the public. Families who want to teach their children (or themselves!) this instrument, as well as distance-learning teachers, can regularly provide music lessons, whenever Roy Sakuma releases two to five new “uke”....
Community Focus – Buy Local Via Food-A-Go-Go Farms
“Support local farmers!” is the current digital war cry of Hawai‘i Agricultural Foundation executive director Denise Yamaguchi, the longtime non-profit leader, spouse of notable restauranteur Roy and one-time Daniel K. Inouye mentee. Yamaguchi’s HAF-sponsored Food-A-Go-Go website now sports a database of farms and fishing firms; beef, pork, dairy and egg producers; and healthy-food growers or....
Community Focus – JASH Virtual Programs and Resources
During the coronavirus lockdown, the Japan- America Society of Hawai‘i staff — in lieu of hosting JASH’s many “face-to-face” events — curated a webpage of high-quality online resources for community members in quarantine who wish to home-school their tweens or teens about Japanese customs, or who simply seek spiritual relief from the stressful pandemic era....
Community Focus – Takitanis Give $218,000 to College-Bound, High-School Students
The Mamoru and Aiko Takitani Foundation, named after the issei businessman from Yamaguchi and his wife – who met and wed on Maui then together co-founded Hawaiian Host chocolates in Kaimukī – donated funds to 59 college-bound students across Hawai‘i, for a total of $218,000 in scholarships. The latest wave of Takitani Foundation moneys, allocated....
Bulletin Board – Tsuru Rising! Virtual Protest to Close the Camps
WHO/WHAT: Tsuru for Solidarity will host a virtual protest for its one-year anniversary. The online, two-day educational event renews the demand to stop cruelly imprisoning families in detention and concentration centers.
Register here: tsuruforsolidarity.org/tsururising
WHEN/WHERE: Saturday, June 6,...
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