Date: February 22, 2025 -Time: 2P – 5P Location: JACL Cultural Center 1501 San Pedro Dr. N.E. – Albuquerque, NM 87110 On February 19, 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that authorized the forced relocation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast to internment camps during WWII. More than 120,000 were relocated […]
🎉 Get Ready for Aki Matsuri 2025! 🎉
Celebrate the spirit of autumn at the Aki-Matsuri on Sunday, 28th September 2025! 🌸🍁 Join us for a day filled with traditional Japanese fun, food, and festivities, including: 🎶 Headlining performance by San Jose Taiko 🎶 Taiko Drumming and Martial Arts 🎋 Ikebana Flower Arranging and Art Show 🎭 Traditional Japanese Performances 🍡 Mochi, Sushi, […]
Join Us for the 2025 National Day of Racial Healing!
Mark your calendars for Tuesday, January 21, 2025, as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) partners with Augsburg Fortress to participate in the National Day of Racial Healing (NDORH). From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mountain Time, the ELCA will host a free online educational event that uplifts the voices of ELCA leaders of […]
2024 Aki Matsuri | Japanese Fall Festival
Aki Matsuri | Japanese Fall Festival Sunday, September 29th, 2024
2023 Aki Matsuri | Japanese Fall Festival
Aki Matsuri 2022 – Japanese Fall Festival
AKI MATSURI 2022 at NM Veterans Memorial Park Celebrate the NMJACL’s annual fall festival Aki Matsuri 2022 on Sunday, September 25th 2022 featuring Japanese cultural exhibits, vendor fair, musical demonstrations, Japanese art, Japanese food, SUSHI from Japanese Kitchen, Beer and Sake tastings and more! The New Mexico Japanese-American Citizens League (NMJACL) has been hosting Aki […]
AN EVENING OF READINGS, MUSIC AND DANCE
Japanese Folk Dance, Natsuko Edelman Sensei New Mexico Taiko And A Multimedia Performance by the JACL Players AMERICAN DREAMS: LOST and FOUND Thursday, October 17, 2019 ~ 5:00—8 pm Albuquerque Musuem 2000 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104 Free and open to the public
AKI MATSURI : Japanese Fall Festival
Celebrate the NMJACL’s annual fall festival Aki Matsuri on Sunday, September 22nd featuring Japanese cultural exhibits, vendor fair, musical demonstrations, Japanese art, Japanese food, SUSHI from Japanese Kitchen, Beer and Sake tastings and more! The New Mexico Japanese-American Citizens League (NMJACL) has been hosting Aki Matsuri (trans.: fall festival) for over 20 years. The festival […]
Go For Broke – Japanese American World War II Experience
Courage and Compassion : Our shared story of the Japanese American World War II Experience Albuquerque, New Mexico June 1, 2019 – November 3, 2019 | Albuquerque Museum New Mexico Japanese American Citizens League How did Japanese Americans in the interior West survive WWII? What became of the Issei and Nisei (first and second generation […]
DAY OF REMEMBRANCE: Confinement in the Land of Enchantment & Japanese American Civil Rights
The JACL Players Invite You to a Lively & Engaging Multimedia Experience That Dramatizes Stories of the Prison Camps of New Mexico and the Japanese American Journey, from days of infamy to days of remembrance. This Presentation is Free & Open to the Public DAY OF REMEMBRANCE events are held every year in February by […]