Upcoming Activities:

Seattle Mariners Baseball Game and BBQ
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Gametime in Seattle is 1:00 p.m.
BBQ starts at 11:00 a.m.
Bus leaves Portland by 7:45 a.m.

Support Oregon Nikkei Endowment and enjoy a day at Seattle's Safeco Field for a pre-game barbeque and afternoon baseball against the Tampa Bay Rays.

The Seattle Mariners are extending a special ticket offer for supporters of Oregon Nikkei Endowment. Seats are discounted, and a portion of your ticket purchase benefits Oregon Nikkei Endowment. A block of seats have been reserved for friends and supporters of O.N.E.

Traveling with our group from Portland by bus is an option. The bus from Portland leaves no later than 7:45am on game day, and returns around 8:00pm that evening. Note: if you sign up to take our bus from Portland, you must also attend the pre-game barbeque.

Deadline to travel with the group by bus from Portland is July 24, 2009. Orders are filled on a first-come, first-serve basis and are based on availability. Sign up for bus and BBQ options through our online gift shop (available options: BBQ+game or bus+BBQ+game).

The total cost to take the bus from Portland, attend the BBQ and attend the game is $90, and the cost to attend just the BBQ and game is $57.

To attend the baseball game only ($20), please go to mariners.com/ONE and follow instructions on their page.

For more details, please call Oregon Nikkei Endowment at 503-224-1458.
 

Dragon Moon Festival
First weekend in August and September
Old Town Chinatown Festival Streets
Note: July's Dragon Moon Festival has been cancelled

The Dragon Moon Festival will include 4 stages of entertainment: Main Stage featuring cultural acts and bands, Culinary Stage including cooking demonstration showcasing Asian cuisine, Family Stage with acts perfect for small children which will transform into a Karaoke Stage in the afternoons where audience members can become “the star” attraction (Saturdays only) and InnovAsian & Technology Plaza where anime, car audio, break dancing, technology, Olympic-level table tennis and more will be featured (Sundays only).

The event is FREE to the public. Festival Streets are located on Third and Davis. Saturday hours are Noon to 10 pm. Sunday hours are Noon to 6 pm.

Come experience Asian culture in Portland’s historic Old Town Chinatown at the Dragon Moon Festival. June Dragon Moon Entertainment included Dragon Art Puppet Studio, Hitoshi Onizuka, Lee’s Association Lion Dance Team, Lions of Batucada, Lo Nuestro, Monmouth Taiko, The Portland Ballet, The Slants, Portland Table Tennis Association Demonstrations, Kumoricon including Live Cos-Play and Tai Chi for 1000.  Entertainment and special guests change each month, so visit www.dragonmoonfestival.com for details.
 

Resources & Services
The Legacy Center and its programs provide tangible reminders of the richness and vitality that ethnic minorities can bring to societies that hold sacred the rights of its citizens and regard as a blessing the diversity of its people.
 

Around the Region
Please visit Discover Nikkei for more information about upcoming events in the Pacific Northwest.
 

Past events:

Immerse Yourself in the Food Culture of Portland's Japantown
Thursday, June 18, at 7:00 p.m.
at the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center
Free admission

Join us as we host Dave Conklin to speak about the food culture of Portland and Japantown in the early twentieth century. Dave was recently awarded a Master’s degree from Portland State University focusing on how the food cultures of the Issei and the majority population of Portland and Oregon interacted and influenced each other, or, in a word, "globalized." His research will be presented Thursday, June 18th at 7pm at the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center.

Tokio Sukiyaki House, ONLC 535

Dave Conklin’s area of research has concentrated on food cultures of the Issei or "first generation." Issei refers to the group of Japanese who emigrated to the United States between the 1880s and 1924. Portland’s Japanese food scene in the years before World War II featured restaurants, food manufacturers, and grocery stores. Culinary cross-cultural interaction and influence between the Japanese community and the larger Portland population was pervasive, and interest in the food and drink of Japan increased dramatically after the Lewis and Clark Exposition of 1905. "The 1910s and 1920s was really a boom time for Portland’s Japanese community, at least for food," said Dave Conklin.

Katazome Trunk Show
Saturday-Sunday, May 23-24, 2009

Karen Miller will be on hand throughout the weekend and will be bringing special pieces available only during the trunk show, in addition to the pieces currently on exhibit. Small indigo pieces can be used for quilting and textile projects of all kinds and sell for just $12. Karen will bring additional indigos, noren, table runners, pillows and other pieces--some made from her own textiles, and some made with antique fabrics she has collected.

A portion of the proceeds of all sales will benefit Oregon Nikkei Endowment.

Plaza Clean-up
Sunday, May 17, 2009, at 10:00 a.m.

Volunteers are needed for a cleanup at the Japanese American Historical Plaza on Sunday, May 17, at 10:00am.

Clean-up activities include pulling weeds, picking up litter and cigarette butts, and power washing the stones and ground as needed.

If able, volunteers are encouraged to bring a broom, dust pan, rake, work gloves, water, flag markers, and weed killer.