Events

4 Events

  • Saturday
    10 AM - 11:15 AMDemonstration

    Ikebana - Japanese Flower Arranging

    Watch and learn about Ikebana, Japanese Flower Arranging, from The Ohara School of Ikebana Chicago Chapter instructor and lecturer Ms. Yuko Inoue Darcy. She will share her knowledge and expertise while creating her arrangement. Join in the flower selection process, learn floral symbolism, and how to follow the process for making an arrangement in the Ohara School style.

    Japanese American Service Committee·Rogers Park / West Ridge
  • Saturday
    12 PM - 12:45 PMDemonstration

    Ikebana - Japanese Flower Arranging

    Watch and learn about Ikebana, Japanese Flower Arranging, from The Ohara School of Ikebana Chicago Chapter instructor and lecturer Ms. Yuko Inoue Darcy. She will share her knowledge and expertise while creating her arrangement. Join in the flower selection process, learn floral symbolism, and how to follow the process for making an arrangement in the Ohara School style.

    Japanese American Service Committee·Rogers Park / West Ridge
  • Saturday
    1 PM - 3 PMTalk/Discussion

    Crystal City: America’s Last WWII Concentration Camp

    Join the Japanese American Service Committee (JASC) and the Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee (CCPC) for the official opening program of the national traveling exhibition: Crystal City: America’s Last WWII Concentration Camp.


    Unlike standard War Relocation Authority camps, the Department of Justice internment camp at Crystal City, Texas, held Japanese, German, and Italian nationals alongside thousands of Japanese, German, and Italian Latin Americans who were extrajudicially renditioned from Central and South America for wartime hostage exchanges.


    This opening program brings together camp survivors and descendants - including Bekki and Brian Shibayama (children of Japanese Peruvian incarceration survivor and activist Isamu "Art" Shibayama) - to share powerful family narratives and local connections to postwar resettlement in Chicago. RSVP required - seating is limited.

    Japanese American Service Committee·Rogers Park / West Ridge
  • Sunday
    11 AM - 12 PMDemonstration

    Tea Ceremony

    On Sunday, October 18th at 11:00 AM, discover harmony and hospitality of Japan as you observe a demonstration of traditional tea ceremony, Chado, or Way of Tea. Afterward, guests are invited to enjoy matcha and seasonal Japanese sweets (wagashi). Available while supplies last.

    Japanese American Service Committee·Rogers Park / West Ridge