August 10, 2011
Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial Dedication
Photo by: Ryan Kozu
Fumiko Hayashida with her daughter Natalie Hayashida Ong
On Saturday, August 6, 2011 the names on the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial wall were officially dedicated. The 276 foot stone and cedar wall, one foot for every Japanese American living on Bainbridge Island at the start of World War II, will commemorate and honor the strength and perseverance of the people involved — both those exiled and their island neighbors — and brings awareness of the powerful capacity of human beings and a nation to heal, forgive and care for one another.
For more news about the Memorial and/or the dedication, please check out the following links:
Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community: http://www.bijac.org/index.php?p=MEMORIALIntroduction
New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/us/06internment.html
Seattle Times: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015841172_bainbridge07m.html
Seattle PI: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Monument-dedicated-to-Bainbridge-Island-s-1751457.php
Kitsap Sun: http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2011/aug/06/bainbridge-celebrates-completion-of-internment/
Komo News: http://www.komonews.com/news/local/127072643.html
King 5 News: http://www.king5.com/news/Bainbridge-Island-Internment-Memorial–127074378.html
Photo by: Ryan Kozu
January 19, 2011
2011 Day of Remembrance Taiko Concert, Feb 20, 2011
For Immediate Release
Day of Remembrance 2011 Taiko Festival
Seattle, WA – January 14, 2011- The “Day of Remembrance” is an annual observance of the signing of Executive Order 9066, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt that ordered 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry to be imprisoned in concentration camps during World War II.
Decades later, the order was deemed unconstitutional and was belatedly but dramatically reversed by the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. Despite the reparations that were issued because of this act, Japanese Americans still feel a need for an official time for remembrance.
In honor of this historical event, the 2nd annual Day of Remembrance Taiko Festival will be held Sunday, February 20, 2011 at 2:00 p.m., Pigott Auditorium, Seattle University, 1016 E. Madison St.
Tickets are $20 each. They are available at JCCCW (Japanese Community Cultural Center of Washington) or at www.MinidokaPilgrimage.org . JCCCW main office is located at 511 16th Ave. South, Seattle, WA 98144, 206-568-7114.
The groups performing will be: Inochi Taiko, Kaze Daiko, One World Taiko, Ringtaro and Asako Tateishi/The School of Taiko, Seattle Kokon Taiko, Seattle Matsuri Taiko. The program will also include a reading by Larry Matsuda from his book “A Cold Wind From Idaho.”
Matsuda was born in the Minidoka, Idaho War Relocation Center during World War II. His poems appear in Poets Against the War website, The Raven Chronicles, New Orleans Review, Floating Bridge Press, Cerise Press and the International Examiner Newspaper. He was a junior high language arts teacher and Seattle School District administrator and principal for twenty-seven years.
Raffle tickets will also be sold for a chance to win a 42-inch LCD television. Cost is $10 per ticket, and will be available from Minidoka Pilgrimage Committee members at the concert, and through the JCCCW (participants need not be present at the concert to be eligible to win the grand prize). Funds from this raffle will go to help support the Minidoka Pilgrimage and Friends of Minidoka Honor Roll Project.
Contact:
Ann Fujii Lindwall
fujiilindwall@comcast.net
Ph: (206) 251-6713
May 10, 2010
Evening Magazine: Tribute band remembers those in internment camps
For those who may have missed the viewing on Thursday evening, the Evening Magazine piece on the Minidoka Swing Band was also posted online. Here’s a link to the source article and video: http://www.king5.com/on-tv/evening-magazine/Tribute-band-remembers-those-in-internment-camps-93028904.html.
May 6, 2010
Minidoka Swing Band on Evening Magazine
For those in the Seattle area and have the ability to watch Evening Magazine on King-5 TV. Evening Magazine will be doing a feature on the Minidoka Swing Band at 7pm tonight, Thursday May 6, 2010 on Channel 5. Check it out if you have time!
March 9, 2010
Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol
Here’s a link to the video that was produced by Lucy Ostrander and Stourwater Pictures that tells the story of Fumiko Hayashida. Some of the footage was shot during the 2008 Pilgrimage. Check it out!
http://www.bijac.org/index.php?p=EducationFilm_FumikoHayashida
March 4, 2010
Bainbridge Island woman is the face of internment
Check out this story of Fumiko Hayashida on King 5′s Evening Magazine
http://www.king5.com/on-tv/Bainbridge-Island-woman-is-the-face-of-internment–86287552.html
