
Caregiver Resource & Self-Care Workshop
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After a long hiatus, we are excited to re-introduce Let’ Groove. Designed for all generations, this dance class will include warmups, simple patterns across the floor and learning a choreographed dance. If you’re looking for a fun and friendly mind-body-spirit workout, with great music, this class is for you. Please wear comfortable clothing and supportive athletic or dance shoes. Drop In: $10; or 10 classes for $80. To register, please email jill@j-sei.org
Judith Kajiwara is a life-long dance teacher and choreographer who has studied countless dance and martial art forms during her career. She currently divides her time between hip hop and Japanese Butoh. She discovered hip hop in 2001 and was so enthralled by this lively, youthful dance that she began teaching it in 2007.
Drop In: $10; or 10 classes for $80. To register, please email jill@j-sei.org
If this is your first time registering for a J-Sei Class in 2023, please click on the button below.
If you would like to pay online in advance, use the Donor Box on the right in blue.
If you have any questions, call us at 510-654-4000.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday, Noon – 5:00pm
Gallery Location: Kala Gallery, 2990 San Pablo, Berkeley, CA 94702
Kala Gallery is excited to present a retrospective exhibition Fossil of Language, featuring works by Yuzo Nakano, Artistic Director Emeritus and Co-founder of Kala Art Institute. The exhibition showcases Nakano’s work from the 1970s to the present, and celebrates his vision and contributions to Kala’s creative community and to the Bay Area art scene.
Nakano’s work traverses diverse media, including painting, printmaking, mixed media, music composition, multimedia performance, and digital media.
We are planning a docent-lead group tour and visit to Kala Art Institute on either a Thursday or Friday in early March. RSVP to jill@j-sei.org with “Kala” in the memo if you are interested. More information to come.
Freight & Salvage, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley
Join J-Sei for this special show in tribute to our Nisei generation as the Grateful Crane Ensemble from Los Angeles takes you on a sentimental journey through the Nisei’s life in America before, during and after WWII. Featuring over 20 of the Nisei’s favorite Japanese and American songs, the show promises to bring back fond memories of their lives well-lived as we say “Thank you” to them for paving the way for the younger generations to follow.
Written by Soji Kashiwagi
Featuring Jason Fong, Haruye Ioka, Keiko Kawashima, and Merv Maruyama
Musicians: Lisa Joe, Musical Director, Piano; Danny Yamamoto, Drums
GROUP TICKET Sales with J-Sei are now closed. Tickets are still available for purchase at Freight & Salvage . We hope to see you there!
Ruth’s Table
3160 21st Street, San Francisco
RSVP to jill@j-sei.org with memo “Ruths Table”. The group will enjoy a gallery visit and hands-on activity and lunch outdoors on the patio.
“Learn something. Apply it. Pass it on so it is not forgotten.” – Ruth Asawa
Generation: The Roots of Making in the Asawa-Lanier Family, brings together four generations from a San Francisco family of makers. Inspired by world-renowned artist Ruth Asawa, the exhibition serves as an opportunity to honor Asawa’s life-long commitment to community-based art education and activism in the arts.
Generation is a tribute and a testament that Asawa’s values live on through generations – in the Asawa-Lanier family, in communities and organizations, like Ruth’s Table – that share her unwavering belief that creative engagement is essential and can impact the lives of people of all ages.
The exhibition brings together works in wire and lithography by Ruth Asawa; paintings, drawings, and birthday envelopes by Albert Lanier; paintings and a clay platter by Paul Lanier; textile, collage, and painting by Aiko Lanier Cuneo; origami portraits, paintings, and paper construction by Lilli Lanier; and paintings by Lucia Ruth Soriano. All of these artists have worked with one another on public commissions, as teaching artists in schools, and collaborated on pieces in this show.
The work exhibited in Generation spans 57 years from 1965 to 2022. Motifs rooted in interwoven patterns of line, repetition, and dynamic interactions between geometric shapes, color, and forms, appear in all artists’ works creating inherent conversation and visual connections carried through varying media. Together, they form a story of four generations of a family that is joined not only in relationship, but by the curiosity and love of materials, color, and pattern.