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The Japanese American Museum. Performers at the San Jose Obon Festival, held annually in Japantown. Santo Market mural inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa.. Japantown is the site of the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, which moved into a new building in 2010; [4] San Jose Taiko, Shuei-do Manju Shop, [2] whose manjū were specifically requested during the 1994 visit of the Emperor of ...
San Jose Taiko was founded by Roy Hirabayashi, Dean Miyakusu and Rev. Hiroshi Abiko. [4] After the three attended a Kinnara retreat in Santa Barbara, they returned to San Jose where Hirabayashi and Miyakusu raised funds by tapping into the Japanese American band scene [5] in the San Francisco Bay Area and holding dances for San Jose Sansei.
Obon or just Bon is a fusion of the ancient Japanese belief in ancestral spirits and a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the spirits of one's ancestors.This Buddhist custom has evolved into a family reunion holiday during which people return to ancestral family places and visit and clean their ancestors' graves when the spirits of ancestors are supposed to revisit the household altars.
Joe Nedney — NFL kicker, San Francisco 49ers [99] William Yaw Obeng — Arena Football League lineman, San Jose Sabercats; Chris Owens — NFL defensive back, Atlanta Falcons [92] Tom Petitthome — former AFL player, San Jose Sabercats; Art Powell — NFL wide receiver, Oakland Raiders; Raiders' 7th all-time leading receiver [93]
Pink Poles Studio, a pole-dancing school in Atlanta, is offering a "Mommy & Me" workshop — and the concept has some heads spinning.
The San Jose Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts venue located in Downtown San Jose, California. It opened in 1972 and is now home to San Jose Dance Theatre and Broadway San Jose. It opened in 1972 and is now home to San Jose Dance Theatre and Broadway San Jose.
WORKS/San José began in October 1977, by a group of artists and San Jose State University faculty and students in downtown San Jose. [3] Early members of WORKS/San José include: Tony May, Erin Goodwin Guerrero, Ruth Tunstall Grant, Jan Rindfleisch, George Rivera, Rebecca Schapp, Anna Koster, Fred Shepard, Albert Dixon.
The Donna & Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts is a 90,000-square-foot (8,400 m 2) multi-discipline performing arts facility on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. [1] Completed in early 2003, the Schwartz Center provides a multidisciplinary teaching and performance center for the performing arts programs at Emory ...