REEL NIKKEI STORIES workshop

REEL NIKKEI STORIES Workshop
December 13, 2008
11:30am - 2:30pm
JCCCNC (1840 Sutter Street, SF)
http://www.jcccnc.org/programs/special.htm


Need the perfect personalized gift to give your family this holiday season? Join the REEL NIKKEI STORIES: A Nikkei Family Legacy Project workshop on December 13, and make your commitment to create a family legacy gift!

REEL NIKKEI STORIES is designed to engage young people to take an active role and empower them with the confidence, training and tools to interview, video document and share the untold stories of living relatives before their family histories are lost forever. Although many documentaries, books and oral histories have been produced to preserve and teach the Japanese American experience during World War II and in internment camps, your family’s personal story may still remain untold and undocumented. By interviewing and video documenting your elders’ stories, you will be able to start a dialogue in your family and learn first-hand accounts of the Japanese American experience.

This holiday season give the gift that matters most to your family and take this opportunity to capture your family history from your living relatives. For more information on how to create your family legacy project please contact Ali at 415-567-5505 or email Akagawa@JCCCNC.org.

Reel Nikkei Stories Project

Our friends at the JCCCNC are putting on a unique project, REEL NIKKEI STORIES, aiming to give young Japanese Americans the chance to interview and record on video the histories of their families. This is a great project that hopefully some of you can participate in to help preserve our community's experience as well as your personal family history. More information on the project and their first meeting is below:

From Ali Kagawa, Programs Associate at the JCCCNC:

How much do you know about your family history?


REEL NIKKEI STORIES

Info Meeting & Training Preview

10:30am – 12:30pm, October 18, 2008

JCCCNC, 1840 Sutter Street, San Francisco

FREE and open to the public. All ages welcome!

REEL NIKKEI STORIES is designed to empower young Nikkei with the confidence, training and tools to interview, video document and share the untold stories of living relatives before their oral family histories are lost forever.

Learn from professionals how to:

· Ask the right questions
· Properly video document oral histories
· Edit video
· Create and share a family legacy project

“If history becomes real to a person, it empowers them and lives through them and then can be passed on from generation to generation.” - JCCCNC Executive Director Paul Osaki

We have a limited supply of video equipment available to lend to responsible participants. To reserve your space please contact Ali Kagawa at 415-567-5505, email akagawa@jcccnc.org Sponsored by: California Civil Liberties Public Education Program (CCLPEP); The Henry and Tomoye Takahashi Foundation; Best Buy