Cherry Blossom Festival SoCal: Camp Stories Awards Show & Auction

When
Saturday, June 02, 2012
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location
Santa Anita Park (Arcadia, CA)

Saturday, June 2, 2012 8:30am - 11:30am

Santa Anita Park - Chandelier Room

285 W. Huntington Drive, Arcadia, CA 91007

The Cherry Blossom Festival celebrated its 10-year anniversary in 2011. Produced by a 100% volunteer team and free to the public with 60,000 attendees, the organization celebrates the history and culture of Americans of Japanese descent and the culture of Japan through the beauty of the Cherry Blossoms.

Individual Reserved Seating Tickets $60

HONOREES

Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Nisei Poet, Playwright & Actor – Detained at Tule Lake Segregation Center during WWII for refusing to answer registration questions he determined a violation of his civil rights as an American citizen.

Esther Takei Nishio -Test case in 1944 when she was taken out of camp to attend Pasadena City College where she faced extreme prejudice and hatred while her family was still incarcerated.

Patty & Emily (7 yr old) Kinaga – Thousand Hearts Benefit Concert for Japan. Emily seeing the images of Japan with the Tsunami/Earthquake wanted to help the children and asked her mother “what can they do?” What happened - a celebrity studded Thousand Hearts Benefit Concert sending funds and paper hearts to the children of Japan.

US-Japan Council, TOMODACHI INITIATIVE forged after the Japan Tsunami/Earthquake to invest in Japan’s next generation and deepen U.S.-Japan ties.

Manzanar Fishing Club – Documentary about internees at Manzanar who slipped away under the cover of night to find freedom and adventure, matching wits with the prized trout of the Sierra Nevada to bring fresh fish to internees.

Toyo Miyatake Studio – Founded in 1923 by famed photographer Toyo Miyatake best known for his collection of Manzanar Relocation Center image. Eventually his son Archie took over and today his grandson, photographer Alan Miyatake, runs the Studio.

American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization opened an office in Pasadena during WWII to aid Japanese Americans internees– reached out to colleges and hostels willing to receive evacuees and other essentials to aid the devastated Japanese American community. In 1947, AFSC was co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Special Guest Presenter

Los Angeles City Councilmember Jan Perry

Presenters include:

Rose Ochi JD – Lane Hirabayashi Ph.D. – Rodney Kageyama – Mas Okui – Terry Hara – Lisa Sugimoto Ed.D.

For more information, visit the website

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