SOMArts Cultural Center’s “At War” exhibit explores identities in conflict, ranging from ethnic, gender, and sexual identity to conflicts of artistic identity indicated by disparate processes, practices and mediums. The “At War” opening reception and performance featuring Peter Max Lawrence and Truong Tran will take place Friday, Feb. 3 from 6 to 9 p.m. Admission [...]

A special screening of Hiroshi Inagaki’s “47 Ronin (Part 1)” will be held at 2 p.m. at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California, at 1840 Sutter St. in S.F.’s Japantown. The film is 60 minutes long and will be in Japanese with English subtitles. The film will be preceded by a short [...]

Nihonmachi Little Friends will present its annual “Dowa no Omatsuri: A Festival of Children’s Stories” at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater, 3301 Lyon St. in S.F. The theme for the theater performance is “Help * Heal * Hope! Commemorating the One-Year Anniversary of the Northern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.” GenRyu Arts and the students [...]

The Wing Luke Museum in Seattle will host the exhibition, “Fresh Start? The Ambiguous Journeys of Japanese Picture Brides” at 719 South King St., Seattle. This exhibition is based on the lives of picture brides from Japan and sculptures that express the immigration experience. Youths aged 16 to 18 created the art as part of [...]

The Sand City and the Sand City Arts Committee presents “Transcendental Vision, Japanese Culture and Contemporary Art” at The Independent in Sand City, 600 Ortiz Ave. The show offers a subtle depiction of how Japanese ideas have migrated and influenced American Contemporary Art through the work of 12 artists; their work transcends the ancient East-West [...]

Celadon Inc. will hold its “Japanese American Day of Remembrance” Sunday, Feb. 19, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at The Independent, located at 600 Ortiz Ave. in Sand City, Calif. Flauitist Elizabeth Miranda   Todd and members of Watsonville Taiko Photojournalist Tom Graves will present a talk entitled “Gold Medal Heroes: Our Nisei Veterans” at 6:30 p.m. Larry Oda, past national president of the [...]

The 2012 Arizona Matsuri (held at the Heritage and Science Park in downtown Phoenix will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) commemorates the centennial of the gifting of cherry blossom trees from Japan. In 1912, more than 3,000 cherry trees were gifted from the City of Tokyo to the City of Washington, D.C. as [...]

The Asian Community Center will hold their fourth annual crab feed at the Sacramento Asian Sports Foundation, 9040 High Tech Court, Elk Grove, Calif. The dinner will run from 6 to 9 p.m., and will have a Hawaiian theme. Info: (916) 394-6399 ext. 121 or lucym@accsv.org.