by Jill Shiraki | Jan 15, 2025 | Classes & Events, Featured, News
J-Sei’s 34th Annual Crab Feed
We received such a warm welcome at The Fratellanza Club that we decided to host J-Sei’s Annual Crab Feed there again! They are located one block east of J-Sei and have on-site parking.
Feast on fresh Dungeness crab, Asian salad, garlic noodles, rolls, desserts, and beverages with your family and friends at J-Sei’s in-person, sit-down, family-style crab feed! (Menu subject to change depending on availability of crab.)
Enjoy music, no host bar, and time to greet friends, socialize and mingle from 5 pm. Dinner begins at 6 pm There will be one seating time for this family-style event.
Live band, no host bar, and raffle drawing: 5:00 to 6:00 pm
Doors to dining room and seating open: 6:00 pm
Dinner : 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Dinner tickets: adults $75, children 12 & under $30
Sorry, no To-Go meals available. RSVP by Sunday, January 26, 2025.
Two Options for RESERVATIONS
Sign up Online
(1) To pay online use the donorbox (in next column). For custom amount, calculate your total amount and type the amount. Check box to add the number of tickets in the comment box.
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Send by Mail
(1) Download and complete the form on the Crab Feed flyer. (2) Send the form with a check and mail to: J-Sei, 1285 66th Street, Emeryville, CA 94608
by Jill Shiraki | Jan 15, 2025 | American Harvest, Classes & Events, Featured, Lament in the Night, Minor Feelings, Phone Booth at the Edge
Mizuko: True Sprit – Meet Artist and Writer Art Nomura
Saturday, February 8, 2024, 2 pm
“Mizuko: True Spirit” is an epic American-immigrant tale of hardship, assimilation, and the eventual triumph that ensued. When the Takahashi’s, one of the wealthiest families in western Japan lost their great fortune in 1900, five-year old Mizuko Takahashi went from riches to rags. Mizuko’s lifetime in Japan and America offers the reader an intimate look into the world of an Asian immigrant. This book is the story of one woman’s efforts to surmount racism, sexism, and poverty in the 20th century. Featured is a riveting accounting of the matriarch’s life in Manzanar Concentration Camp for three years beginning in 1942.
Art Nomura will share his book, the creative process of memoir writing, and inspiration for his work.
Art Nomura has worked as a painter, sculptor, potter, filmmaker, writer, and New Media artist since 1968. Several of his works have themes directly connected to the Asian American experience. His work has screened on PBS, cable, and in festivals, galleries, museums, and universities worldwide. Nomura has taught media production and writing since 1981.He is Professor Emeritus in Film/TV Production at the School of Film and Television, Loyola Marymount University.
RSVP for this free event.
by Jill Shiraki | Jan 15, 2025 | Classes & Events, Featured, Other News
COURTING A MAN WHO DOESN’T TALK
A book talk with Shizue Seigel
Sunday, February 15th, 2 pm
Courting A Man Who Doesn’t Talk began thirty years ago as midnight journaling to puzzle out a budding romance between a fortyish, Asian American single mother and a twenty-something white man. The personal experiment has stood the test of time, but the larger social battle for equality and respect between women and men is still being waged, one day at a time, one person at a time.
Many men don’t have words to express what’s deepest in their hearts. Lover or husband, father or son, employer or co-worker—each has different styles of wordlessness and different reasons for it. In today’s polarized world, breaking through the silence is essential, especially across divisions of race, class, generation, culture, or religion.
Shizue Seigel is a Japanese American writer, visual artist and arts activist who has supported 500+ writers and artists of color with workshops, events and publications since 2015 through her arts organization Write Now! SF Bay.
RSVP for this free event.
by Jill Shiraki | Jan 3, 2025 | Classes & Events, Featured
Mokuhanga: Japanese Woodblock – six 3-hr classes
Fridays Feb 7, 14, 28, Mar 7, 14, 28 (no class on the
3rd Fridays)
9:30 am -12:30 pm
Mokuhanga – a water-based Japanese woodblock printmaking – is environmentally friendly and can be done at home, any time, and anywhere without a press! Participants will learn the basics of this unique process, carving the woodblock, using kento (registration system), and printing with water-based ink on Japanese paper. Participants will create a small edition of beautiful, multicolor prints. All levels are welcome.
The suggested donation for the six class session will be $150( includes $45 materials fee).
Limited space is available. This class is for beginners and continuing students. For any questions, please email
jill@j-sei.org
