

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Ryukyu & The United Nations: Bridging Tradition & Global Understanding
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 25 Apr, 2026 at 02:00 pm – Sat, 25 Apr, 2026 at 04:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: more info coming soon.About this EventLet's come together to celebrate the strength and resilience of the Ryukyu people through a symposium uniting indigenous voices.Ryukyu &amp; The United Nations: Bridging Tradition &amp; Global UnderstandingDate: Saturday, April 25, 2026Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PMLocation: The Peoples Forum, Paul Robeson Theater320 West 37th Street (between 8th &amp; 9th Avenues) New York, NY 10018Join Virtually: We also hope to live-stream the event, we will update the link here when we have it.Cost: *Free* to attend in-person or virtually. However, donations are graciously accepted. (All donations will be split evenly between ACSILs &amp; Ichariba Choodee Podcast).About the event:Join us for a thought-provoking and enlightening symposium hosted by ACSILs and Ichariba Choodee Podcast where we delve into the diversity of Ryukyuan culture, the pressing issues facing the Indigenous communities, and how activists are engaging in meaningful movement work. This event is a side event to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII).The event will begin with an opening cultural performance featuring music and song by Brazilian-Ryukyuan artist, Victor Kinjo. We will then shift into a series of updates from the UNPFII attendees &amp; friends who will share insights and updates within their areas of expertise: Lex McClellan-Ufugusuku, Shinako Oyakawa, and Mariko Middleton.This event promises to be an enlightening and thought-provoking experience, providing a platform for dialogue and action on issues pertinent to Okinawan indigenous communities. Please join us!Kindly RSVP to secure your spot. The event schedule is subject to change.About the Presenters:Victor Kinjo | Victor Kinjo is an Okinawan-Brazilian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, researcher and producer born in São Paulo. He is a visiting scholar at New York University Tisch School of the Arts (Performance Studies) and a post-doc researcher at the University of São Paulo Institute of Advanced Studies, with a project about arts, diversity and river regeneration. A PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Campinas, he released two albums, KINJO (2017) and TERRÁQUEOS (2022), and was the first Asian-Brazilian to be nominated as Best Singer at Brazilian Music Awards (2018) and POC Awards (2022), a prize for prominent LGBTQIA+ artists.Shinako Oyakawa | Shinako is a native Okinawan mother, activist, writer, director after school programs, and co-director of Association of Comprehensive Studies for Independence of the Lew Chewans (ACSILs) and part time lecturer of Okinawa University. Shinako specializes in language revitalization, de-militarization and de-colonization of the Ryukyu islands. Shinako has attended UN Permanet Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) and Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) to report colonized situation of the Ryukyu islands. In her free time, Shinako likes to go to beach, study Okinawan language and explore beauty of Okinawan nature with her family and friends.Alexyss McClellan-Ufugusuku | Lex is assistant coach for the Pacific Collegiate School boys’ lacrosse team and Head Coach of the University of California Santa Cruz Women’s Lacrosse team, where she is also a PhD candidate in History and Critical Race &amp; Ethnic Studies. Lex’s dissertation interrogates the unusual nature of Ryukyuan political status during the USCAR period, and the effects that that ambiguity still has on explaining Ryukyuan identity in the present. Lex has spoken on Ryukyuan issues at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York, the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva, and the International Conference on Chemicals Management 5 in Bonn, Germany.Mariko Middleton | Mariko is a proud mixed-race Ryukyan-American woman who is deeply interested in intersections of Indigenous identity, cultural reclamation, decolonization, and revitalization. She is a child born of a US military father and an Okinawan mother, and grew up stationed mostly on the East Coast of the US, and Okinawa for 3 years, before settling in Vermont where she resides currently. She is an interspiritual practitioner of earth-based spirituality, practicing hand-poke hajichaa, and co-founder of the Ichariba Choodee: Okinawan Voices &amp; Stories Podcast.
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## Event venue details

- **city**: New York
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: The People's Forum
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- **full address**: The People's Forum, 320 West 37th Street, New York, United States

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- **organizer**: ACSILs & Ichariba Choodee: Okinawan Voices & Stories Podcast (https://allevents.in/org/acsils-and-ichariba-choodee-okinawan-voices-and-stories-podcast/23923844)

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- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 25 Apr, 2026 at 02:00 pm (-04:00)
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