Join us for this fundraiser for Nichi Bei Foundation; publishers of the Nichi Bei Weekly Japanese American newspaper in San Francisco. This is a free event, open to the public.
* Tofu Dessert Competition
* Soy and Tofu Food Booths
* Live Performances
* Soy Education
* Raffle
* Free Samples
The third annual Northern California Soy and Tofu Festival will be held on Saturday, June 1, 2013, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., in San Francisco Japantown’s Peace Plaza and Buchanan Mall, Post at Buchanan streets. It will feature various soy-related vendors, free samples, an educational component highlighting the various uses of soy, live performances, audience participation games and a Soy and Tofu Dessert Competition. New this year will be a children’s activity area and nonprofit information booths — including a bone marrow registration drive — in the expanded area in the Buchanan Mall. Co-emcees are NBC Bay Area reporter George Kiriyama and KTVU-TV reporter Jana Katsuyama.
“This festival is essentially a tribute to the almighty soybean, truly one of the most versatile food products in Asian culture, if not the world,” said Kenji G. Taguma, president of the Nichi Bei Foundation and co-chair of the Festival. “We’re excited about creating a fun venue to celebrate the joy of soy and learn about the benefits of soy and tofu, and at the same time raising critical funds to support our community-serving mission.”
While the Festival is free and open to the public, proceeds from sponsorships, vendors, some food sales and a raffle help the Nichi Bei Foundation continue to publish the Nichi Bei Weekly — the first nonprofit ethnic community newspaper of its kind in the country — and its Website, http://www.nichibei.org . The Grand Prize of the raffle is $500, with a First Prize of an Apple iPad mini and many other prizes, including handcrafted items.
“The best part about our festival is that it celebrates a subject that is not specific to any one culture or ethnic background,” said Festival Co-Chair Kiyomi Tanaka. “The diversity of soy and tofu enables people from all different communities to come together and celebrate. Also, one other thing that makes the Soy and Tofu Festival unique is that we focus on healthy living.”
Food vendors include Kikkoman, Hodo Soy Beanery, San Jose Tofu, Rau Om, cruncha ma-me, Nakayoshi Café and the food trucks JapaCurry and The Chairman Truck. The educational component will feature talks on the making of tofu and yuba, tofu misozuke (miso-cured tofu), and soy candles that double as massage oil and lotion. Entertainers include Curt Yagi and the People Standing Behind Me, GenRyu Ensemble, Jiten Daiko and the Francis Wong Ensemble, among others. The Festival will also feature the popular mascots Tofu Panda and Tofu Ninja.
Spotlight on the Need for Marrow Donors
The Festival will put a spotlight on the critical need to register people for the Be The Match Registry, as the Asian American Donor Program will hold a marrow registration drive and Chinese for Affirmative Action Executive Director Vincent Pan will speak about his successful donation of marrow to save a 12-year-old’s life. Pan will speak right before the Soy and Tofu Dessert Competition at 2 p.m., and then serve as a competition judge.
“We want to do what we can to help save lives,” said Taguma, whose childhood best friend’s teenage son Michael Sakata— of mixed Japanese and Mexican ancestry — is in desperate need of a marrow donor. “It’s crucial that we register as many in the community as we can, especially the vastly underrepresented multiracial Asian American community, so that we can find a miracle marrow match for Michael and others.”
Major sponsors include Sustaining Sponsor The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation, Kikkoman, PG&E, California Bank & Trust and Union Bank, as well as community-based organizations, businesses and individuals. Gold Media Sponsors are NBC Bay Area and KTSF-TV, while MYX TV, Korea Times, Philippine News, J Weekly and the Nichi Bei Weekly round out the pan-Asian Media Sponsors. “We would like to thank all of our sponsors and donors at all levels for helping us to evolve and expand this unique festival,” said Taguma, who also serves as the editor-in-chief of the Nichi Bei Weekly. “We would also like to thank our unique vendors for partnering with us to create such a unique venue.”
For more information, visit: http://www.soyandtofufest.org .
About the Nichi Bei Foundation and the Nichi Bei Weekly
As the historic Nichi Bei Times board of directors decided to close the newspaper after 63 years in September of 2009, a group of Nichi Bei Times staff and contributing writers, media professionals and community leaders set out to rebuild in the pioneering spirit of Japanese immigrants. They established the Nichi Bei Foundation, an educational and charitable nonprofit organization, as a means to support community organizations, shed light on community issues and document the community’s history. Just one week after the last edition of the Nichi Bei Times rolled off the presses, the very first edition of the Nichi Bei Weekly was published as the first nonprofit ethnic newspaper of its kind in the country. The Nichi Bei Foundation also organizes an annual Films of Remembrance event, screening films related to the forced relocation and incarceration of the Japanese American community during World War II.
Born in one of the worst economic climates in decades, with virtually no seed money, the pioneering rebirth of the Nichi Bei Foundation and the Nichi Bei Weekly has become one of the most inspired community movements in recent memory. Inspired by a community-serving historical legacy dating back to the Nichi Bei Shimbun in 1899, the Nichi Bei Foundation and the Nichi Bei Weekly have a simple yet profound mission: to keep the community connected, informed and empowered.
show less
* Tofu Dessert Competition
* Soy and Tofu Food Booths
* Live Performances
* Soy Education
* Raffle
* Free Samples
The third annual Northern California Soy and Tofu Festival will be held on Saturday, June 1, 2013, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., in San Francisco Japantown’s Peace Plaza and Buchanan Mall, Post at Buchanan streets. It will feature various soy-related vendors, free samples, an educational component highlighting the various uses of soy, live performances, audience participation games and a Soy and Tofu Dessert Competition. New this year will be a children’s activity area and nonprofit information booths — including a bone marrow registration drive — in the expanded area in the Buchanan Mall. Co-emcees are NBC Bay Area reporter George Kiriyama and KTVU-TV reporter Jana Katsuyama.
“This festival is essentially a tribute to the almighty soybean, truly one of the most versatile food products in Asian culture, if not the world,” said Kenji G. Taguma, president of the Nichi Bei Foundation and co-chair of the Festival. “We’re excited about creating a fun venue to celebrate the joy of soy and learn about the benefits of soy and tofu, and at the same time raising critical funds to support our community-serving mission.”
While the Festival is free and open to the public, proceeds from sponsorships, vendors, some food sales and a raffle help the Nichi Bei Foundation continue to publish the Nichi Bei Weekly — the first nonprofit ethnic community newspaper of its kind in the country — and its Website, http://www.nichibei.org . The Grand Prize of the raffle is $500, with a First Prize of an Apple iPad mini and many other prizes, including handcrafted items.
“The best part about our festival is that it celebrates a subject that is not specific to any one culture or ethnic background,” said Festival Co-Chair Kiyomi Tanaka. “The diversity of soy and tofu enables people from all different communities to come together and celebrate. Also, one other thing that makes the Soy and Tofu Festival unique is that we focus on healthy living.”
Food vendors include Kikkoman, Hodo Soy Beanery, San Jose Tofu, Rau Om, cruncha ma-me, Nakayoshi Café and the food trucks JapaCurry and The Chairman Truck. The educational component will feature talks on the making of tofu and yuba, tofu misozuke (miso-cured tofu), and soy candles that double as massage oil and lotion. Entertainers include Curt Yagi and the People Standing Behind Me, GenRyu Ensemble, Jiten Daiko and the Francis Wong Ensemble, among others. The Festival will also feature the popular mascots Tofu Panda and Tofu Ninja.
Spotlight on the Need for Marrow Donors
The Festival will put a spotlight on the critical need to register people for the Be The Match Registry, as the Asian American Donor Program will hold a marrow registration drive and Chinese for Affirmative Action Executive Director Vincent Pan will speak about his successful donation of marrow to save a 12-year-old’s life. Pan will speak right before the Soy and Tofu Dessert Competition at 2 p.m., and then serve as a competition judge.
“We want to do what we can to help save lives,” said Taguma, whose childhood best friend’s teenage son Michael Sakata— of mixed Japanese and Mexican ancestry — is in desperate need of a marrow donor. “It’s crucial that we register as many in the community as we can, especially the vastly underrepresented multiracial Asian American community, so that we can find a miracle marrow match for Michael and others.”
Major sponsors include Sustaining Sponsor The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation, Kikkoman, PG&E, California Bank & Trust and Union Bank, as well as community-based organizations, businesses and individuals. Gold Media Sponsors are NBC Bay Area and KTSF-TV, while MYX TV, Korea Times, Philippine News, J Weekly and the Nichi Bei Weekly round out the pan-Asian Media Sponsors. “We would like to thank all of our sponsors and donors at all levels for helping us to evolve and expand this unique festival,” said Taguma, who also serves as the editor-in-chief of the Nichi Bei Weekly. “We would also like to thank our unique vendors for partnering with us to create such a unique venue.”
For more information, visit: http://www.soyandtofufest.org .
About the Nichi Bei Foundation and the Nichi Bei Weekly
As the historic Nichi Bei Times board of directors decided to close the newspaper after 63 years in September of 2009, a group of Nichi Bei Times staff and contributing writers, media professionals and community leaders set out to rebuild in the pioneering spirit of Japanese immigrants. They established the Nichi Bei Foundation, an educational and charitable nonprofit organization, as a means to support community organizations, shed light on community issues and document the community’s history. Just one week after the last edition of the Nichi Bei Times rolled off the presses, the very first edition of the Nichi Bei Weekly was published as the first nonprofit ethnic newspaper of its kind in the country. The Nichi Bei Foundation also organizes an annual Films of Remembrance event, screening films related to the forced relocation and incarceration of the Japanese American community during World War II.
Born in one of the worst economic climates in decades, with virtually no seed money, the pioneering rebirth of the Nichi Bei Foundation and the Nichi Bei Weekly has become one of the most inspired community movements in recent memory. Inspired by a community-serving historical legacy dating back to the Nichi Bei Shimbun in 1899, the Nichi Bei Foundation and the Nichi Bei Weekly have a simple yet profound mission: to keep the community connected, informed and empowered.
Join us for this fundraiser for Nichi Bei Foundation; publishers of the Nichi Bei Weekly Japanese American newspaper in San Francisco. This is a free event, open to the public.
* Tofu Dessert Competition
* Soy and Tofu Food Booths
* Live Performances
* Soy Education
* Raffle
* Free Samples
The third annual Northern California Soy and Tofu Festival will be held on Saturday, June 1, 2013, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., in San Francisco Japantown’s Peace Plaza and Buchanan Mall, Post at Buchanan streets. It will feature various soy-related vendors, free samples, an educational component highlighting the various uses of soy, live performances, audience participation games and a Soy and Tofu Dessert Competition. New this year will be a children’s activity area and nonprofit information booths — including a bone marrow registration drive — in the expanded area in the Buchanan Mall. Co-emcees are NBC Bay Area reporter George Kiriyama and KTVU-TV reporter Jana Katsuyama.
“This festival is essentially a tribute to the almighty soybean, truly one of the most versatile food products in Asian culture, if not the world,” said Kenji G. Taguma, president of the Nichi Bei Foundation and co-chair of the Festival. “We’re excited about creating a fun venue to celebrate the joy of soy and learn about the benefits of soy and tofu, and at the same time raising critical funds to support our community-serving mission.”
While the Festival is free and open to the public, proceeds from sponsorships, vendors, some food sales and a raffle help the Nichi Bei Foundation continue to publish the Nichi Bei Weekly — the first nonprofit ethnic community newspaper of its kind in the country — and its Website, http://www.nichibei.org . The Grand Prize of the raffle is $500, with a First Prize of an Apple iPad mini and many other prizes, including handcrafted items.
“The best part about our festival is that it celebrates a subject that is not specific to any one culture or ethnic background,” said Festival Co-Chair Kiyomi Tanaka. “The diversity of soy and tofu enables people from all different communities to come together and celebrate. Also, one other thing that makes the Soy and Tofu Festival unique is that we focus on healthy living.”
Food vendors include Kikkoman, Hodo Soy Beanery, San Jose Tofu, Rau Om, cruncha ma-me, Nakayoshi Café and the food trucks JapaCurry and The Chairman Truck. The educational component will feature talks on the making of tofu and yuba, tofu misozuke (miso-cured tofu), and soy candles that double as massage oil and lotion. Entertainers include Curt Yagi and the People Standing Behind Me, GenRyu Ensemble, Jiten Daiko and the Francis Wong Ensemble, among others. The Festival will also feature the popular mascots Tofu Panda and Tofu Ninja.
Spotlight on the Need for Marrow Donors
The Festival will put a spotlight on the critical need to register people for the Be The Match Registry, as the Asian American Donor Program will hold a marrow registration drive and Chinese for Affirmative Action Executive Director Vincent Pan will speak about his successful donation of marrow to save a 12-year-old’s life. Pan will speak right before the Soy and Tofu Dessert Competition at 2 p.m., and then serve as a competition judge.
“We want to do what we can to help save lives,” said Taguma, whose childhood best friend’s teenage son Michael Sakata— of mixed Japanese and Mexican ancestry — is in desperate need of a marrow donor. “It’s crucial that we register as many in the community as we can, especially the vastly underrepresented multiracial Asian American community, so that we can find a miracle marrow match for Michael and others.”
Major sponsors include Sustaining Sponsor The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation, Kikkoman, PG&E, California Bank & Trust and Union Bank, as well as community-based organizations, businesses and individuals. Gold Media Sponsors are NBC Bay Area and KTSF-TV, while MYX TV, Korea Times, Philippine News, J Weekly and the Nichi Bei Weekly round out the pan-Asian Media Sponsors. “We would like to thank all of our sponsors and donors at all levels for helping us to evolve and expand this unique festival,” said Taguma, who also serves as the editor-in-chief of the Nichi Bei Weekly. “We would also like to thank our unique vendors for partnering with us to create such a unique venue.”
For more information, visit: http://www.soyandtofufest.org .
About the Nichi Bei Foundation and the Nichi Bei Weekly
As the historic Nichi Bei Times board of directors decided to close the newspaper after 63 years in September of 2009, a group of Nichi Bei Times staff and contributing writers, media professionals and community leaders set out to rebuild in the pioneering spirit of Japanese immigrants. They established the Nichi Bei Foundation, an educational and charitable nonprofit organization, as a means to support community organizations, shed light on community issues and document the community’s history. Just one week after the last edition of the Nichi Bei Times rolled off the presses, the very first edition of the Nichi Bei Weekly was published as the first nonprofit ethnic newspaper of its kind in the country. The Nichi Bei Foundation also organizes an annual Films of Remembrance event, screening films related to the forced relocation and incarceration of the Japanese American community during World War II.
Born in one of the worst economic climates in decades, with virtually no seed money, the pioneering rebirth of the Nichi Bei Foundation and the Nichi Bei Weekly has become one of the most inspired community movements in recent memory. Inspired by a community-serving historical legacy dating back to the Nichi Bei Shimbun in 1899, the Nichi Bei Foundation and the Nichi Bei Weekly have a simple yet profound mission: to keep the community connected, informed and empowered.
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* Tofu Dessert Competition
* Soy and Tofu Food Booths
* Live Performances
* Soy Education
* Raffle
* Free Samples
The third annual Northern California Soy and Tofu Festival will be held on Saturday, June 1, 2013, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., in San Francisco Japantown’s Peace Plaza and Buchanan Mall, Post at Buchanan streets. It will feature various soy-related vendors, free samples, an educational component highlighting the various uses of soy, live performances, audience participation games and a Soy and Tofu Dessert Competition. New this year will be a children’s activity area and nonprofit information booths — including a bone marrow registration drive — in the expanded area in the Buchanan Mall. Co-emcees are NBC Bay Area reporter George Kiriyama and KTVU-TV reporter Jana Katsuyama.
“This festival is essentially a tribute to the almighty soybean, truly one of the most versatile food products in Asian culture, if not the world,” said Kenji G. Taguma, president of the Nichi Bei Foundation and co-chair of the Festival. “We’re excited about creating a fun venue to celebrate the joy of soy and learn about the benefits of soy and tofu, and at the same time raising critical funds to support our community-serving mission.”
While the Festival is free and open to the public, proceeds from sponsorships, vendors, some food sales and a raffle help the Nichi Bei Foundation continue to publish the Nichi Bei Weekly — the first nonprofit ethnic community newspaper of its kind in the country — and its Website, http://www.nichibei.org . The Grand Prize of the raffle is $500, with a First Prize of an Apple iPad mini and many other prizes, including handcrafted items.
“The best part about our festival is that it celebrates a subject that is not specific to any one culture or ethnic background,” said Festival Co-Chair Kiyomi Tanaka. “The diversity of soy and tofu enables people from all different communities to come together and celebrate. Also, one other thing that makes the Soy and Tofu Festival unique is that we focus on healthy living.”
Food vendors include Kikkoman, Hodo Soy Beanery, San Jose Tofu, Rau Om, cruncha ma-me, Nakayoshi Café and the food trucks JapaCurry and The Chairman Truck. The educational component will feature talks on the making of tofu and yuba, tofu misozuke (miso-cured tofu), and soy candles that double as massage oil and lotion. Entertainers include Curt Yagi and the People Standing Behind Me, GenRyu Ensemble, Jiten Daiko and the Francis Wong Ensemble, among others. The Festival will also feature the popular mascots Tofu Panda and Tofu Ninja.
Spotlight on the Need for Marrow Donors
The Festival will put a spotlight on the critical need to register people for the Be The Match Registry, as the Asian American Donor Program will hold a marrow registration drive and Chinese for Affirmative Action Executive Director Vincent Pan will speak about his successful donation of marrow to save a 12-year-old’s life. Pan will speak right before the Soy and Tofu Dessert Competition at 2 p.m., and then serve as a competition judge.
“We want to do what we can to help save lives,” said Taguma, whose childhood best friend’s teenage son Michael Sakata— of mixed Japanese and Mexican ancestry — is in desperate need of a marrow donor. “It’s crucial that we register as many in the community as we can, especially the vastly underrepresented multiracial Asian American community, so that we can find a miracle marrow match for Michael and others.”
Major sponsors include Sustaining Sponsor The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation, Kikkoman, PG&E, California Bank & Trust and Union Bank, as well as community-based organizations, businesses and individuals. Gold Media Sponsors are NBC Bay Area and KTSF-TV, while MYX TV, Korea Times, Philippine News, J Weekly and the Nichi Bei Weekly round out the pan-Asian Media Sponsors. “We would like to thank all of our sponsors and donors at all levels for helping us to evolve and expand this unique festival,” said Taguma, who also serves as the editor-in-chief of the Nichi Bei Weekly. “We would also like to thank our unique vendors for partnering with us to create such a unique venue.”
For more information, visit: http://www.soyandtofufest.org .
About the Nichi Bei Foundation and the Nichi Bei Weekly
As the historic Nichi Bei Times board of directors decided to close the newspaper after 63 years in September of 2009, a group of Nichi Bei Times staff and contributing writers, media professionals and community leaders set out to rebuild in the pioneering spirit of Japanese immigrants. They established the Nichi Bei Foundation, an educational and charitable nonprofit organization, as a means to support community organizations, shed light on community issues and document the community’s history. Just one week after the last edition of the Nichi Bei Times rolled off the presses, the very first edition of the Nichi Bei Weekly was published as the first nonprofit ethnic newspaper of its kind in the country. The Nichi Bei Foundation also organizes an annual Films of Remembrance event, screening films related to the forced relocation and incarceration of the Japanese American community during World War II.
Born in one of the worst economic climates in decades, with virtually no seed money, the pioneering rebirth of the Nichi Bei Foundation and the Nichi Bei Weekly has become one of the most inspired community movements in recent memory. Inspired by a community-serving historical legacy dating back to the Nichi Bei Shimbun in 1899, the Nichi Bei Foundation and the Nichi Bei Weekly have a simple yet profound mission: to keep the community connected, informed and empowered.
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