BonPOP: A reimagined Obon Odori Japantown event that welcomes a local, city-wide, and regional audience to immerse themselves in the long-standing Japanese tradition of honoring ancestors through dance, song, and rituals accessible to all regardless of religion, faith, ethnicity, or cultural beliefs.

Benign Neglect: An exhibition featuring photographs of sixty bonsai, cultivated by Issei (first generation) and Kihei (born in the U.S., educated in Japan, then later returned to the U.S.) Japanese Americans. These bonsai were started after the Japanese Americans returned from WWII American concentration camps. Some of the plants were likely started from seeds.

Yum Yams Festival: KOHO partnered with Kultivate Labs for their fourth festival themed Ube Meets Matcha, A Festival of Flavors in San Francisco’s historic SOMA Pilipinas Cultural District. KOHO programmed a rare, live demonstration of matcha preparation used by traditional tea-ceremony schools in Japan, Japanese-American DJ’s spinning songs from Japan, and a taiko drum performance from the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts World Music Program.

Film Festivals: KOHO participated in an AAPI Collaborative City-wide Film Festival produced by Kultivate Labs in partnership with SF Urban Film Festival and FACINE (Filipino Arts and Cinema International), as part of the Lavender Cinema Lounge series at Kapwa Gardens. KOHO’s first Japantown Film Festival in 2024 featured three films focused on the Japanese-American experience today; the influences of historical trauma, resilience and strength of generations, and the search for cultural identity.

KOHO Arts & Culture Co-Creative Hub: San Francisco Japantown’s only intergenerational, multi-use, multi-ethnic, hub for the seishin (mind, essence, and spirit) of Japanese art and culture, serving and educating multi-generations of native Japanese and Japanese-Americans, visitors from various AANHPI communities and the general public. It is a sanctuary that honors tradition while embracing the future—a place where art transcends boundaries and celebrates human expression.