Events in February 2023
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- InterACT!: The Art of Creating Together
InterACT!: The Art of Creating Together
InterACT!: The Art of Creating Together
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February 2, 2023January 13–February 5, 2023
InterACT!: The Art of Creating Together is a month-long collection of collaborative experiences, gatherings and art making. Through intentional interactions, we are coming together after years of social distancing, quarantining and isolation caused by the pandemic.
InterACT!: The Art of Creating Together is a series of workshops and conversations that encourage us to not just observe, but interact. Not just be a bystander, but an active participant.
InterACT: The Art of Creating Together features a performance and book talk by national performing artists Nobuko Miyamoto and traci-kato-kiriyama, who bring their talents, passions for social justice, and storytelling to us in an evening performance on January 21.
More details at jamo.org/exhibits/interact
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- Yonsei Memory Project's online artist showcase, Unite People's Monthly Meet-Up
Yonsei Memory Project's online artist showcase
Yonsei Memory Project's online artist showcase
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February 17, 20232023 Day of Remembrance Artist Showcase: Fri, Feb 17th 5pm PT
Presentations by featured artists:
TRACI KATO-KIRIYAMA, award-winning multidisciplinary artist, organizer, cultural producer, and author of Navigating With(out) Instruments whose work is grounded in collaborative process, collective self-determination, and art+community.
TT TAKEMOTO, artist, scholar and experimental filmmaker whose work honors queer Asian Americans who lived, loved, and labored together during the prewar era and beyond.
KELLEE MATSUSHITA-TSENG, co-founder of Bitter Cotyledons, a group dedicated to bringing the queer AAPI community together through land stewardship, growing Asian vegetables, and sharing ancestral culinary and cultural traditions.
Register for the virtual event here
Unite People's Monthly Meet-UpUnite People's Monthly Meet-Up
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February 17, 2023Unite People, Portland JACL's youth group, regularly meets the 3rd Friday of every month at Epworth. Contact connie@pdxjacl.org with questions.
Epworth United Methodist Church1333 SE 28th AvePortland, OR 97214 -
- Day of Remembrance 2023: No-No Girl Film Screening
Day of Remembrance 2023: No-No Girl Film Screening
Day of Remembrance 2023: No-No Girl Film Screening
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February 19, 2023Portland will host a screening of No-No Girl followed by an interview with the director and artists.
February 19, 2023 at 1:30 pm
Lincoln Recital Hall at PSUThe event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to Marleen at marleen@pdxjacl.org.
About the Film
Before being uprooted and forcibly removed, many Japanese American families resorted to burying belongings in their backyards thinking- one day they'd be back.
No No Girl is a generational, Japanese American story that intersects ideas of identity, family, duty and the traumas of war and relocation. Almost a century removed from WWII and the incarceration of her ancestors, one young daughter will take it upon herself to shine a light on their past and uncover the mysteries that have been haunting their family.
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- Midori Hirose's Furin bell-making workshops, exhibition & symposium
Midori Hirose's Furin bell-making workshops, exhibition & symposium
Midori Hirose's Furin bell-making workshops, exhibition & symposium
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February 28, 2023Midori Hirose's bell-making workshop centers on the history of SE Portland's Japanese American farming community and its natural habitat.
Japanese American farmers were once active in the early 1900s. During WWII, families were sent to internment camps, and many did not return. A few of the orchard trees that were planted are still fruiting to this day.
The ceramic bell-making workshop invites the public to make their own interpretations of furin, Japanese “wind bells,” with the goal of building community connections and engaging in discussions about the past, present, and future of the SE Portland area.
Learn more
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Ikoi No Kai invites you to participate in Midori Hirose's year-long community & place-making art project.
Bell Assembly Event
Tuesday, February 28th
1-3 pm
2305 SE 82nd Ave, Portland, Oregon 97214PCC SE Gallery invites you to participate in Midori Hirose's year-long community & place-making art project.
Bell Assembly Event
Thursday, March 2nd
11am - 2pm
PCC SE Campus, Student Commons Building, 2305 SE 82nd Ave, Portland, OR 97216APANO invites you to participate in Midori Hirose's year-long community & place-making art project.
Bell Assembly Event
Saturday, March 4th
4:30pm - 6:30pm
APANO, 8188 SE Division Street, Portland, OR 97206
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