2025 August Newsletter
Sounds From Our Summer
Our NCI and Summer Camps officially wrapped up a successful Summer Season for Kizuna! We hope you all enjoyed your summers as well.
Fri, Aug 22, 2025, 12:00 PM
Summer Camps 2025: FINISH
6 Weeks. 400+ Campers. SO MUCH FUN!
Kizuna had our biggest summer camp season yet and it was a wonderful experience bringing Japanese American culture and so many smiles to our campers. We can’t thank our team of 150+ Junior Counselors & Counselors enough, as they truly were the backbone of our summer camps! Some of our favorite highlights include having 2 back-to-back weeks in Gardena, working with Changing Tides again for all 6 weeks, and bringing 5 new & 3 revamped workshops into our curriculum! We already can’t wait to start planning next year.
Please check out our new 2025 Summer Camp Photo Gallery for all of the magical moments over 6 fun weeks!
2025 Nikkei Community Internship Recap
Our other summer program, the Nikkei Community Internship, wrapped up on a spectacular note as well! Our talented and funny LA cohort traveled to the beloved SJ and SF Japantowns for Closing Retreat, and they had the best time getting to know the NorCal interns and community leaders. It was a bittersweet ending for our interns who were parting ways with each other, but they know they’ll always have a home in our Japantown communities and will see each other again soon. We hope all of the participating Japanese American organizations in LA had a valuable and rewarding 8 weeks with their respective interns this summer!
Shout out to our hilarious and hard working interns this year, Sakura and Nikeese, who worked tirelessly with Kizuna during our busy summer camp season and made us smile every day!
Save the Date November 6th
Taste of Kizuna is our biggest fundraiser of the year! Kizuna is honored to work again with Andy Nakano and his team of celebrated LA executive chefs for an exclusive dinner engagement to benefit Kizuna.
Enjoy a decadent fine-dining event while also supporting a local nonprofit organization that empowers the next generation of community leaders! Check out the link below for the mouthwatering photos from last year’s dinner. Limited seating available; more information coming soon.
Community News!
NEO-JAPONISM | SAMURAI AND BEYOND: Exploring Tradition Through Technology
National Day of Action
Little Tokyo Farmers’ Market
From the Street to the World: Legacies of the Import Car Scene
When: Saturday, Aug 30, 2025 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
Where: Japanese American National Museum Democracy Center
