Event information:

Friday, November 21st 12:00pm

Venice Japanese American Memorial Monument

Lincoln Blvd, Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291

What you will be doing:

Helping wipe down the monument with Windex and sweeping trash from the surrounding area. 

Volunteers will get a free lunch!

Like the message in the CACS subchat of the GroupMe to RSVP :)

Information about the monument:

The VJAMM marks the spot where some 1,000 persons of Japanese ancestry from Venice, Santa Monica, and Malibu lined up with only what they could carry in April, 1942. Buses transported them directly to Manzanar.

Meet us at Kerckhoff Patio from 6-7 to help fold 5000? cranes to leave at Manzanar’s cemetery monument in the Spring! If you don’t know how to fold a crane — we’ll teach you :) After, we’ll all walk over to Newbie together.

If you fold the most amount of cranes you can be featured in the next week’s newsletter as Crane Folder of the Week. Hope to see everyone there!

Meet us at Kerckhoff Patio from 6-7 to help fold 5000? cranes to leave at Manzanar’s cemetery monument in the Spring! If you don’t know how to fold a crane — we’ll teach you :) After, we’ll all walk over to Newbie together.

If you fold the most amount of cranes you can be featured in the next week’s newsletter as Crane Folder of the Week. Hope to see everyone there!

Meet us at the tables near Sproul from 6-7 to help fold 5000? cranes to leave at Manzanar’s cemetery monument in the Spring! If you don’t know how to fold a crane — we’ll teach you :) After, we’ll all walk over to Newbie together.

If you fold the most amount of cranes you can be featured in the next week’s newsletter as Crane Folder of the Week. Hope to see everyone there!

Meet us at Kerckhoff Patio from 6-7 to help fold 1000 cranes to leave at Manzanar’s cemetery monument in the Spring! If you don’t know how to fold a crane — we’ll teach you :) After, we’ll all walk over to Newbie together.

If you fold the most amount of cranes you can be featured in the next week’s newsletter as Crane Folder of the Week. Hope to see everyone there!

Event information:

Friday, October 24th 12:00pm

Venice Japanese American Memorial Monument

Lincoln Blvd, Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291

What you will be doing:

Helping wipe down the monument with Windex and sweeping trash from the surrounding area. 

Volunteers will get a free lunch!

Information about the monument:

The VJAMM marks the spot where some 1,000 persons of Japanese ancestry from Venice, Santa Monica, and Malibu lined up with only what they could carry in April, 1942. Buses transported them directly to Manzanar.

Meet us at Kerckhoff Patio from 6-7 to help fold 1000 cranes to leave at Manzanar’s cemetery monument in the Spring! If you don’t know how to fold a crane — we’ll teach you :) After, we’ll all walk over to Newbie together.

If you fold the most amount of cranes you can be featured in the next week’s newsletter as Crane Folder of the Week. Hope to see everyone there!

Event infomation:

Sunday, October 19th 9:00am and/or 12:00pm

Terasaki Budokan

249 S Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012

What you will be doing:

Setting up and/or cleaning up tables and chairs for a GIDRA reunion. It would be preferred if you could do both shifts since otherwise, we will have to coordinate more rides there and back at different times. Everyone could go to a cafe or hangout in Little Tokyo for 2 hours between the shifts!

Volunteers will get a free buffet breakfast!

Information about GIDRA:

In 1969, student activists on the UCLA campus also founded GIDRA, a self-published grassroots newspaper, which was later moved off-campus to reach more community people. GIDRA came to be known as "the voice of the Asian American Movement."

Meet us at Kerckhoff Patio from 6-7 to help fold 1000 cranes to leave at Manzanar’s cemetery monument in the Spring! If you don’t know how to fold a crane — we’ll teach you :) After, we’ll all walk over to Newbie together!

Starting this week — if you fold the most amount of cranes you can be featured in the next week’s newsletter as Crane Folder of the Week! Hope to see everyone there!

Meet us at Kerckhoff Patio from 6-7 to help fold 1000 cranes to leave at Manzanar’s cemetery monument in the Spring! If you don’t know how to fold a crane — we’ll teach you :) After, we’ll all walk over to Newbie together!