THANK YOU to all of our festival attendees, performers, food and marketplace vendors, nonprofit partners, volunteers, sponsors, and event organizers for celebrating the Year of the Tiger and making this year’s Oregon Asian Celebration and Obon & Taiko Festival a big success!
If you would like to be a part of this incredible cultural event, please Get Involved and be one of the many volunteers that help make this event truly special in our community.
Together, let’s build community!
On August 6, 2022, a community gathered to honor the lives lost to the atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan 77 years ago. This year, the mayor of Hiroshima delivered a Peace Declaration to the world, calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons from our planet and the creation of lasting world peace. Watch here.
See this live video taken by event organizer Liana Leung of the fun and excitement at Eugene’s first night market. See video here!
*asterisk denotes Asian Council partnership
*July 30 – 37th Annual Oregon Asian Celebration
* May 5 – Student Haiku & Tanka Poetry Entries Deadline
Selected entries will be exhibited at the 37th annual Oregon Asian Celebration (July 30)
www.AsianCelebration.org/press-release
May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Month
See all Asian American & Pacific Islander Month Events!
* May 20 – Asian Night Market
Downtown Eugene East Park Block from 5:00-10:00 pm.
* May 27 – Eugene Ems baseball
PK Park (University of Oregon). Community Spotlight featuring Asian American Council of Oregon. Discount game tickets available at https://www.milb.com/eugene
April 1-20 – 17th Annual DisOrient Film Festival
Outstanding films including an opening and closing night festivities.
April 22 – 30th Annual Asian American Youth Leadership Conference (AAYLC)
June 24, 25, 26 – 25th Annual World Beat
Riverfront Park, Salem OR. Experience the music, dance, food and traditions of over 70 nations and cultures
https://www.salemmulticultural.org/festival/world-beat-festival
* July 30 – Oregon Asian Celebration and Obon & Taiko Drumming Festival
Alton Baker Park, 10:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m.
* August 6 – Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration.
Alton Baker Park – Read more here.
August 7 – Portland Chinese Festival
Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, Oregon
The mission of the Asian American Council of Oregon (AACO) is to create opportunities which foster friendship and harmonious relations among all people by presenting events and activities that will stimulate a better understanding of Asian and Asian-American cultures.
