TorontoNAJC Update – July 2018
June 30, 2018
WE SHOULD KNOW EACH OTHER – Saturday, July 7, 2018 – St. Andrew’s – St. David’s Anglican Church – 49 Donlands Avenue, Toronto – 3:00 – 5:00 PM – Justice Maryka Omatsu will preside over a viewing of her video, Swimming Upstream – Injustice Revealed – To be followed by an intergenerational panel discussion. Toronto NAJC Board member Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi will provide a Sansei perspective, Frank Moritsugu, Nisei and Kerry Kimoto, Yonsei. [. . .] You can register and learn more HERE about this event organized by Japanese Canadians for Social Justice.
Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day Coalition – Monday, August 6, 2018 – Nathan Phillips Square – Peace Garden 4:30 PM – Toronto’s Hiroshima Nagasaki Day Coalition invites us to support “2 Minutes to Midnight: Time to Ban the Bomb!” the 73rd commemoration of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A TorontoNAJC grant was given to the Toronto Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day Coalition in recognition of the the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). Mrs. Setsuko Thurlow OC was chosen by ICAN to accept the award in Stockholm, Sweden. Complete details can be found HERE.
Japanese Canadian Heritage Marker Project in Southwestern, Ontario – Opening Ceremony – Friday, September 7, 2018- Chatham Ontario – 11:30 am Pain Court (Dover Court) site, 18 Saint Bernadette Street, Chatham, Ontario. The purpose of the Heritage Marker Project is to place signage at five Work Farm sites in Harwich, Dresden, Dover Centre, Valetta and Eatonville in Southwestern Ontario commemorating Japanese Canadian men assigned as farm laborers to area farms during World War II. COMPLETE PROJECT DETAILS.
Gala Reception to Commemorate 30th Anniversary of Redress – Thursday, November 8, 2018 We have momentum! We are over 35% of the way to capacity for the Gala Reception to be held in Toronto on November 8th, 2018. The reception will take place in LUMA Restaurant and the Founder’s Lounge in the TIFF Bell Lightbox. DETAILS & EARLYBIRD SPECIAL
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