Nuchi du Takara Memorial Commemoration of Battle of Okinawa

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Community Event

Jun 201118
2:00p.m.

Japantown Peace Plaza
Post St. between Webster and Laguna
San Francisco, California, 94115
United States

Please join this event commemorating the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. Ceremony with Reverend Ronald Nakasone. Performances by Nakayoshi (Okinawan singing) group, Genyukai (Okinawan sanshin 3 string lute music), Colin Ehara (spoken word), Alton Chung (storytelling), special collaboration between Kinuko Mototake (Okinawan dance), Wesley Ueunten (sanshin), Melody Takata (taiko) and Francis Wong (saxophone). A premiere screening of the Nuchi du Takara Oral History Project will follow in the NJAHS Peace Gallery.

 

njahsdev . Last modified May 29, 2011 12:15 a.m.


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