Please join us at a networking reception to celebrate our grantee the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources’ (NCC) 25th Anniversary. Meet NCC’s leadership and stakeholders; and JUSFC Commissioners, staff and grantees. Saturday, March 24, 2018, 7:30 to 9:30pm, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Room Maryland-A. On Twitter at @j_usfc #JUSFCNCCReception
Like the elusive sands of time shifting in an hourglass, Kimi Maeda captures the intangible nature of memory in the sand drawings central to her most recent project, Bend. Connecting the past with the present, interwoven with archival video footage projected on a screen, Maeda tells the story of her father’s experience in an Arizona […]
Washington, DC January 18, 2018: The Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC) is pleased to announce that Congressman French Hill has joined JUSFC as a Commissioner. This week, Speaker Paul Ryan appointed Congressman French Hill (AR-02) to serve on the Japan-United States Friendship Commission, an independent federal government agency established by Congress in 1975. The Commission’s mission […]
Nearly 600 people attended the premiere of the Hiroshi Sugimoto: Gates of Paradise exhibition in October at Japan Society in midtown Manhattan – one of its most successful openings in its recent history. The exhibit’s striking design and Sugimoto’s monumental photographs drew critical raves from both the general public and the art world. “One always […]
Two outstanding scholars are the recipients of the 2017-18 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC) Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. The prizes will be awarded in March 2018 at a ceremony at the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Columbia University. David Boyd, SLOW BOAT (Pushkin Press, 2017); Hiroaki Sato, THE SILVER SPOON: MEMOIR OF […]
Calling all artists! Join us for a Twitter chat on January 11, 2018 at 6pm Eastern Time with the National Endowment for the Arts to discuss the U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Program. Connect with program alumna LaTasha Diggs, learn how to apply and get tips and advice during the chat! Applications are due February 1, 2018. […]
Theater Breaking Through Barriers (TBTB), is the only Off-Broadway theater in New York and one of just a few in the United States that is dedicated to advancing actors and writers with disabilities — and changing the image of people with disabilities. “We have always been an integrated company of both disabled and non-disabled artists,” […]
