Spice’n It Up: A Night @ the Asian Art Museum of SF
On September 4th, some of the Nakayoshi members found themselves at the Asian Art Museum for their MATCHA event series. The night’s theme: Tea & Spice. If you haven’t visited the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, definitely add it to your list of “to do’s”. It’s one amazingly beautiful venue, with cascading stairways, stone […]
Meeting Reminder
Don’t forget, our August planning meeting is tomorrow! Sunday, August 31, 20081:00 – 4:00 p.m.JACL National HQ in J-town I will be there with loads of fabulous things talk about, along with some fabulous cookies (that I am baking right now). You know you want some. If you’d like a copy of the agenda or […]
Spotlight #3 – Alec Yoshio MacDonald
Full Name: Alec Yoshio MacDonald Age: 31 years old Profession: Writer/EditorFavorite Pro Sports Team: Chicago White Sox I’ve written lots of profiles of Japanese Americans, but never of myself, and it feels a little weird. So let’s keep this brief. I joined Chicago JACL five or six years ago, editing the chapter newsletter, serving on […]
Liberty Live Tour 2008
At this summer’s JACL National Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, the National Youth/Student Council (NYSC – where both Jenn and I sit as reps.) passed a resolution for the JACL to support North Korean Human Rights. Check out Jenn’s post to learn more about the resolution here. After reading Angry Asian Man this morning, […]
August Meeting
What: Monthly MeetingWhen: Sunday, August 31, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.Where: JACL Headquarters – 1765 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94115Who: You! Join us next Sunday for our monthly meeting. We’ll be talking about this month’s events, giving feedback to help us make future events ever more fabulous. We’ll also be discussing upcoming events and the […]
spotlight #2: Megumi J. Kaminaga
Full Name: Megumi Jennifer Kaminaga Age: 24 years old Sign: Aries Profession: Marketing Coordinator @ TechInsights Before I became involved with Nakayoshi, I was active in various student orgs at UC Santa Cruz. My love and commitment to community organizations and desire for social change began during my undergrad years and through meeting so many […]
Growth
We’ve been hearing a lot about J-towns dying, being sold off, disappearing. This is a little old, but I just came across it today. There’s a chunk of land up for sale in Los Angeles, and “the competition for the land at 1st and Alameda streets is seen as a critical test of the Japanese […]
the day after
And finally I’m home. Convention was interesting. I’ll give it that. Something new. As always, I have criticisms, perhaps because I am always in search of something more. But. Let’s not focus on these things, but instead focus on what we accomplished. For several years, we’ve been saying that the JACL needs a facelift, something […]
day 5
Aaaaand I skipped over day 4. Â Apprently I’m really bad at remembering to blog. The past couple days have been full of interesting discussion and neverending meetings (jk). Â Yesterday was the first day of business session, where, as you can guess, we conduct our seriouz bizness. Â Between sessions, we had a youth luncheon, and […]
day three: lessons
I kind of skipped over day two. Sorry about that. Today was the first official day of convention. Though…being 2 in the morning, I suppose I should say that yesterday was the first day of convention. A lot of convention seems to be about listening to other people, a skill which I, admittedly, do not […]