Oya No Kai's mission is to enhance the level of cultural education in the Japanese Dual Language Immersion Program. We support student success by fostering a robust intern program that supports our teachers, by creating opportunities for students to experience Japanese culture directly through cultural exchanges, and by organizing community events. We hope that when our students graduate, they will be better prepared and more knowledgeable of the world around them. 

**THE AFTER-PARTY ONLINE PARTY on now until sign-ups fill or March 31st at 11PM**

If you could not join us on March 8, 2025, or want to do a sign-up party with a friend,   Click the Auction Catalog button!

Please join us for a terrific evening supporting our children in becoming global citizens as we also celebrate our amazing community!

Date: Saturday, March 8, 2025

Time: 6:00 - 9:30 pm

Location: The Melody Event Center, 615 SE Alder Street, Portland, OR 97214

Cost: $85/Ticket ($50/Teacher/Staff)

Ticket sales NOW until 2/20/2025!!

Must sit with your friends?  Purchase a whole table!

A limited number of whole tables that seat 10 will be available for purchase.  Table leaders must provide payment for the table at the time of sale.  Purchasing an entire table is a way to ensure your group of 10 will be seated together at the event.  The price of a whole table is $850 for 10 seats. Please have the table leader email the subject "Table Leader" to benefit@oyanokai.org to send their table members' names and email addresses by February 20th, 2025.  Tables of 10 must be purchased in full in advance.  If the table leader is unable to fill the whole table, please let us know by February 20th, 2025 and we will refund the unused seats.  Please note that Oya no Kai may assign unoccupied seats to other guests as needed.

Regular tickets include one event ticket, one bid number, appetizers, dinner, and one drink ticket.  Couples who purchase their tickets together may share their bid number.

Become a Sponsor!

For friends and family of our amazing community who would like to make a bigger impact by becoming a sponsor, please review these sponsor levels.

To become a sponsor, you may purchase in the ticketing area.  To send in your company logo and your guests' information or for more consultation, please email benefit@oyanokai.org.

Online Auction

Several items will be available at an online pre-event auction! Tickets are not required to bid.  Look for announcements of when the online bidding will begin.  Anyone can bid in the online auction, even if you can’t come to the in-person event on March 8th. 

2025 Artwork

We are so excited to announce this year's artwork was designed by JDLI 11th grader Saya Tipton.

From the Artist: 
"I have so many things I love about Japan, but something that stands out is my love for shrines and temples. Although I am not religious of any kind, I find these places beautiful. There are many of these shrines and temples scattered around Japan, and they are slowly getting demolished as the city grows. There is a small shrine near my grandma’s house, and the carer of the shrine seems to have stopped sweeping the stone pathway, stopped repairing the cracks that appear in the Torii, and the statues of foxes that look over the small shrine seem sad. Maybe the carer of the shrine has grown too old to take care of it. Whenever I am in Japan, I visit that shrine and brush off the foxes. I like to remind them that I appreciate them. The love and care that people treat shrines with is what I thought made them so beautiful, but I learned that it is the quiet and peaceful environment that makes them so special, especially when we are surrounded by a loud and unappreciative city. I drew the shrine I love because I wanted people to know and stop to appreciate the spaces that Japanese people have created generations ago, and are slowly disappearing in our modern day society."