BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:events.uid.6550@www.discovernikkei.org
DTSTART:20220402T000000Z
DTEND:20220402T000000Z
DESCRIPTION:&lt;strong&gt;Free&lt;/strong&gt;\n\nWhile the story of how over 125\,000 p
 ersons of Japanese ancestry were incarcerated in American internment and c
 oncentration camps during WWII has become widely recognized\, little has b
 een told about the ways in which Japanese American Buddhists and Christian
 s alike drew on their faith to survive forced removal\, incarceration\, fa
 mily separation\, and unjust deportation. \n\nJoin &lt;strong&gt;Duncan Ryuken
  Williams&lt;/strong&gt;\, co-curator of the exhibition &lt;em&gt;Sutra and Bible: Fa
 ith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration&lt;/em&gt;\, who will b
 e in conversation with &lt;strong&gt;Sherman Jackson&lt;/strong&gt; (USC King Faisal
  Chair of Islamic Thought and Culture and author of I&lt;em&gt;slam and the Bla
 ckamerican&lt;/em&gt;) and &lt;strong&gt;Russell M. Jeung&lt;/strong&gt;(Professor of Asian
  American Studies at SF State University and Co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate)
  about the links between the wartime Japanese American experience with oth
 er forms of religious and racial animus and exclusion in the United States
 . \n\nThis discussion will be followed by a Japanese &lt;em&gt;renga&lt;/em&gt; (li
 nked-verse-poetry)-style prayer of interconnected readings including excer
 pts from Dharma talks or Christian sermons delivered during the wartime re
 moval or incarceration as well as letters\, diaries\, and poems written in
  the camps. Readers are Buddhist and Christian clergy as well as descendan
 ts of the wartime writers including &lt;strong&gt;Rev. Marvin Harada&lt;/strong&gt; 
 (Bishop\, Buddhist Churches of America)\, &lt;strong&gt;Rev. Mark Nakagawa&lt;/str
 ong&gt; (West District Superintendent\, United Methodist Church)\, &lt;strong&gt;
 Rev. Ron Kobata&lt;/strong&gt; (retired\, Buddhist Church of San Francisco)\, 
 &lt;strong&gt;Kevin Kowta&lt;/strong&gt; (lay leader\, Union Church of Los Angeles/gr
 andson of Rev. Sohei Kowta)\, &lt;strong&gt;Hoshina Seki&lt;/strong&gt; (President\,
  American Buddhist Study Center [NYC]/daughter of Rev. Hozen Seki)\, &lt;str
 ong&gt;Satsuki Ina&lt;/strong&gt; (Co-Founder\, Tsuru for Solidarity)\, and &lt;stro
 ng&gt;Mitch Homma&lt;/strong&gt; (President\, Amache Alliance/Vice-President\, Ame
 rican Baptist Historical Society/great-grandson of Rev. Masahiko Wada). \
 n\nTogether\, the program will interlink faith leaders from the Buddhist\,
  Christian\, and Muslim traditions\, literary memories across time and pla
 ce\, and provide a community vision of freedom and equal justice through i
 nsight and compassion. \n\n&lt;a href=&quot;https://9644p.blackbaudhosting.com/96
 44p/tickets?tab=2&amp;amp\;txobjid=5d8343fe-9973-4cf8-92cf-429795a68b53&quot;&gt;RSVP 
 FOR IN PERSON&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href=&quot;https://9644p.blackbaudhosting.com/9644p/ti
 ckets?tab=2&amp;amp\;txobjid=6b834826-2ba9-4c2f-a154-7f91e3ad6054&quot;&gt;RSVP FOR VI
 RTUAL&lt;/a&gt;\n\n&lt;em&gt;Photo credit: Hanamatsuri\, the celebration of the Buddha
 &#x27;s birth\, held at Gila River concentration camp\, Arizona\, 1944. Gift of
  Tamotsu Ikemoto (93.104.6)&lt;/em&gt;\n
DTSTAMP:20240420T100405Z
SUMMARY:Interlinking Past &amp;amp\; Present: A Conversation and Reading About 
 Race\, Religion\, and American Belonging
URL:/en/events/2022/04/02/interlinking-past-present-a-conversation-and-re/
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR