Tucson Chinese Cultural Center

Celebrate Year of the Rat at Tucson Japanese Festival 2020

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Our Southern Arizona Japanese Cultural Coalition (of which I am the website Editor) is sponsoring our 7th New Year’s celebration on Jan. 18, 2020 at the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center (2nd year there). We first started our event in Jan. 2014 as a Tucson Mochitsuki (mochi pounding from rice) at the Yume Japanese Gardens of … Read more

Living & Eating Healthy, Asian Style

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Here’s your chance to learn more about Asian Pacific Islander culture, right here in Tucson. Lots of good Asian food will be served (for sale), and fun for the entire family. The die-hard mah jong players of the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center & Mah Jong Mondays (at Himmel Park library) will be competing in their … Read more

Empty Bowls fundraiser to fight hunger

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Empty Bowls 2019 March 2, 2019 11:00 – 1:30pm Tucson Chinese Cultural Center 1288 W. River Rd. Tucson, AZ 85704 “We hope you will join us for a delicious samplings of soups, breads and desserts offered by local restaurants, live music; and of course, beautifully handcrafted ceramic bowls to choose from! There will be a … Read more

Tucson Chinese Cultural Center’s Lunar New Year Celebration

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  Every 12 years of the Asian zodiac, it’s the Year of the Pig. Chinese New Year is on Feb. 5, 2019, but for us Japanese, we start on January 1st. More info: http://www.tucsonchinese.org/ Support volunteer citizen journalism at the Blog for Arizona with a donation today. Your PayPal contribution keeps the Blog online and … Read more

Photo Gallery of 2019 Tucson Japanese Festival

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Our Southern Arizona Japanese Cultural Coalition sponsored our 6th annual New Year’s Tucson Japanese Festival on Jan. 20, 2019 at the a new location, the lovely Tucson Chinese Cultural Center, 1288 W. River  Rd. We seemed to have outgrown PCC Downtown where we hosted the 3rd, 4th and 5th festivals.

The highlight again was the mochi pounding (from rice), making and sampling.

This festival was a huge success with about 2000 people attending, and several dance/music performances, martial arts group demos, exhibitors (including Southern Arizona Koi Assn.), tea ceremonies, the art of kimono, children’s games (Go, kendama, fukuwarai), and of course, delicious Japanese food for sale and sample. As publicity chair, I was astounded at the # of attendees, considering that most information went out via FB or online, and not in print.

Photos below taken by M. Fumie Craig, founder of Tucson Origami Club and MC Louis Rivera, except for one by volunteer Teena Werley, which are all captioned.

Mochi display for New Year’s, courtesy M Fumie Craig
Volunteers serving mochi samples with kinako, courtesy M Fumie Craig
SAJCC Director Yuki Ibuki welcoming the audience, courtesy of Louis Rivera
koi on display by Southern Arizona Koi Association, courtesy of M  Fumie Craig
Tucson Japanese Language School display, courtesy M  Fumie Craig

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