2024 Calendar of Events

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• Feb 8 -  SDJACL Community Dialogue | Filmmaker Antonia Glenn

• Feb 20 - UCSD Day of Remembrance Event (6 PM, Dolores Huerta Room)

• Feb 25 - UCSD Coffee & Cranes Panel (12 - 1 PM)

• Mar 7 - Anju Madoka Shamisen Performance at Village Gate Academy Encinitas (10 AM - 12 PM)

• Mar 8-10 - Anju Madoka Shamisen Performances at Japanese Friendship Garden (1 - 2 PM)

• Mar 9 - Anju Madoka Shamisen Performance at Minato Gakuen (2 - 3 PM)

• Mar 10 - Anju Madoka Shamisen Performance at Serra Mesa-Kearney Mesa Library and reception (2:30 - 3:30 PM)

• Mar 11 - Anju Madoka Shamisen Performance at La Jolla Library and reception (5:30 - 6:30 PM)

• Mar 14 - SDJACL Community Dialogue - YELLOWFACE:  Insidious and Still Pervasive in Professional Theater

• Mar 24 - Annual Membership Meeting - 12-2p - at Rancho Guejito - ***CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER***

• May 9 -- SDJACL Community Dialogue - IN DEFIANCE OF RACISM: How a Black and a Chinese American Family Defied Racism Together in Early San Diego (6:30 - 8 PM)

• Jun 30 - SDJACL Annual Community Picnic 

• Sept 15 - Otsukimi with SD-Yokohama Sister City Society (6 - 7 PM)

• TBD -  2023 "Never Forget" Gala

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PAST EVENTS ARCHIVE

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2023

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• Jan 29 - Annual Membership Meeting & Flag Signing Event with Judge Johnny Gogo

• Feb 4 -  Rally Against Hate - Lantern Parade For Inclusion

• Feb 9 -  SDJACL Community Dialogue | Godwin Higa on Restorative Justice

• Feb 25 - JAHSSD Day of Remembrance Event at 1:00 PM (Pacific) - Register HERE

• Mar 16 - SDJACL Community Dialogue | Kay Ochi and Stand Up For Justice: The Ralph Lazo Story film showing

• Apr 12 -  SDJACL Community Dialogue | Matthew Weisbly and Jewish-Japanese Identity

• Apr 23 -  Spring Obento Cooking Demonstration

• May 6 - Una Storia Segreta Panel and Film Screening 

• May 11 -  SDJACL Community Dialogue | Captain Shawn Takeuchi, San Diego Police Department

• Jun 4:  Japanese Cultural Bazaar at the Buddhist Temple of San Diego, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

• Jun 8 -  SDJACL Community Dialogue | Mariko Nakawatase, Assistant Dist. Dir. for County District 2

• Jun 25 - SDJACL Annual Community Picnic 

• Jul 13 -  SDJACL Community Dialogue | Shirley Nakawatase on Running for Local Public Office

• Jul 30 - SDJACL Discussion Panel on 終活 [shuukatsu]

• Aug 10 -  SDJACL Community Dialogue | Michele Tsutagawa Ward, Carlsbad USD Board of Trustees, Member, Trustee Area 1

• Sept 14 -  SDJACL Community Dialogue | Kristen Takeda, SDUT Education Reporter​

• Oct 7 -  2023 "Never Forget" Gala

• Oct 12 -  SDJACL Community Dialogue | BJ Watanabe, Community Activist​

• Oct 22 - Osechi Cooking Demonstration with Keiko Jinno

• Nov 9 -  SDJACL Community Dialogue | Veterans Day Discussion with veterans Taiga Takahashi (Navy) and Leo Tanaka (Air Force)​

• Nov. 11:  SDAFF 2023 - The Oath of the Sword - Sponsored by SDJACL

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2022 
 

Quarter 1

• Jan 13 - SDJACL Community Dialogue: Impacts of Dementia

• Jan 30 - Korematsu Day

• Feb 10 - SDJACL Community Dialogue: Dealing with Dementia

• Feb 16 & 23 - SDJACL-Hosted Bystander Intervention Training with NCRC 

• Feb 19 - Day of Remembrance

• Mar 10 - SDJACL Community Dialogue: Prof. Christen Sasaki

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Quarter 2

• Apr 14 - SDJACL Community Dialogue: Dr. Virginia Loh-Hagan

• May 12 - SDJACL Community Dialogue: Prof. Susan Hasegawa

• May 25 & June 1 - The Art of Inclusive Communication Workshops - Register HERE

• Jun 2 - SDJACL Community Dialogue: UC San Diego Project GROW

• Jun 26 - SDJACL Annual Community Picnic
   

Quarter 3

• Aug 11 - SDJACL Community Dialogue: Lane Nishikawa on 親孝行 (oyakoukou)

• Sept 8 - SDJACL Community Dialogue: "Not Your Model Minority"

• Sept 24 - 2022 "Never Forget" Gala: Stop AAPI Hate​

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Quarter 4

• Oct 13 - SDJACL Community Dialogue: Jack Kubota

• Nov 10 - SDJACL Community Dialogue:  Special Veterans Day Discussion

• Nov 20 - Inaugural Pacific Rim Park Friendship Walk - Register HERE

• Dec 8 - SDJACL Community Dialogue: Prof. Gary Sosa on Mixed Race, Mixed Culture, Mixed Identity​