PANA Update - April 23, 2007

Two important PANA events on Tuesday April 24:
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1. Community Vigil for VA Tech — PSR Chapel

2. Workshop: "Interreligious Community: Camp Life and Pilgrimage” — the experience of Japanese American internment during WWII and its ongoing message for the present. — 2140 Durant St., Berkeley

3. AND more PANA news too!
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1. Community Vigil for VA Tech — PSR Chapel

Community Vigil
In remembrance of all those affected by the recent tragedy at Virginia Tech (Please bring a flower)

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
1:00-1:30pm

Steps of the Chapel at the Pacific School of Religion
1798 Scenic Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94709

Sponsored by the Institute for Leadership Development and Study of Pacific Asian North American Religion (PANA Institute) and the Office of Community Life at the Pacific School of Religion.

For more information, contact Rev. Deborah Lee at (510)849-8260 or dlee-at-psr-dot-edu.

*** Please Read a Community Letter from PANA's Executive Director, Dr. Fumitaka Matsuoka, regarding the tragedy at Virginia Tech, violence and race at panainstitute.blogspot.com

*** or at http://panainstitute.blogspot.com/2007/04/pana-letter-on-va-tech-tragedy.html
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2. Workshop: "Interreligious Community: Camp Life and Pilgrimage”

Join us for a Community Program on

"Interreligious Community: Camp Life and Pilgrimage”
the experience of Japanese American internment during WWII and its ongoing message for the present.

Date: Tuesday April 24th, 2007 6:30-9:30 pm

Location: Gather at the Jodo Shinshu Parking Lot (2140 Durant St., Berkeley, CA 94704) We may be meeting at the Jodo Shinshu Center or at the Berkeley Buddhist Temple. Look for posted signs

PLEASE NOTE DATE AND VENUE MAY BE DIFFERENT THAT WHAT WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLICIZED. WE HAVE HAD A CHANGE IN THE ORIGINAL SCHEDULE. SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE.

Reflections/Presentation:
Dr. Joanne Doi, M . M . is a pilgrimage guide and teacher of the course "Manzanar: America's Internment," sponsored by the PANA Institute.
Rev. David Matsumoto, Institute of Buddhist Studies and the Berkeley Buddhist Temple, Channing Way

Carpool available, leaving Pacific School of Religion at 6:00 pm (Meet in the PANA driveway, 2357 Le Conte Ave.)

This is one of five sessions in preparation for the 38th annual pilgrimage to the former WWII site of Japanese American internment at Manzanar.

For more information or to sign up for the pilgrimage, contact Shinya at pana2@psr.edu; 510-849-8226 or go to the PANA website: pana.psr.edu.

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3. And more PANA news too!
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On the PANA Blog:

March 14, 2007: Philippines Human Rights Senate Hearing. Reportback and video link.
“I just returned from Washington D.C. where I attended the International Ecumenical Conference on Human Rights in the Philippines and the Senate Hearing on Extrajudicial Killings in the Philippines. Many of you have attended some of our educational forums on this subject…” — Rev. Deborah Lee

Spiritual Reflections on the March 14, 2007 Senate Hearing on the Extra-Judicial Killings in the Philippines
Washington D.C.: “The feeling was euphoric, almost elation…” — Rev. Deborah Lee

Report on International Women’s Day talk by Rev. Tess Vertucio from the United Church of Christ Philippines
“This year's International Women's day event at PANA gathered 20 women and men to listen and discuss the ongoing challenges facing women in church leadership around the globe. Rev. Tess Vertucio, a conference minister in the United Church of Christ Philippines (UCCP), …”

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PANA Film Screening at Major Film Festivals:

PANA's film In God's House: Asian American Lesbian and Gay Families in the Church has been accepted to screen at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (Sunday, May 6th, 2007), Frameline International LGBT Film Festival in June and the Aomori International LGBT Film Festival in Japan. In addition, we have screenings scheduled in San Francisco, Tennessee, and Asilomar, CA. See below for schedule. For more information on the screenings, please visit www.ingodshouse.com.
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April 26-29
Pilgrimage to Manzanar

35 participants will depart on pilgrimage to the WWII internment camp where 10,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated at Manzanar, California. They will be joining the 38th annual public pilgrimage to this remote and historic site, now a National Historic Site with a National Park Service Interpretive Center.

For more information or to sign up for the pilgrimage, contact Shinya at pana2-at-psr-dot-edu; 510-849-8226 or go to the PANA website: pana.psr.edu.

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PANA Institute
The Institute for Leadership Development and Study of
Pacific and Asian North American Religion
http://pana.psr.edu
Sharon Hwang Colligan, Administrative Assistant
(510) 849-8244 shcolligan-at-psr-dot-edu