Event:	Northern California Soy and Tofu Festival Share
Location:	The Event Center at St. Mary's Cathedral 1111 Gough (corner of Geary), San Francisco, CA 94109
Date:	Jun 14th 2025, 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Staff:	Manager: Wilhelm Y
RSVP:	This event is FULL Note: Space sometimes opens up just before an event

Event Description:

Important: In addition to RSVPing on the One Brick website please sign up on the OFFICIAL VOLUNTEER LINK so that Angela has your information and t-shirt size.  in the Notes section of your One Brick RSVP please indicate which shift you signed up for (8 am to 12:30 pm, 10:30 am to 3 pm, 2 pm to 6:30 pm) and under Company or Organization please indicate "One Brick."  Thank you!

A celebration of the joy of soy, the Northern California Soy and Tofu Festival is the signature fundraiser of the year for the Nichi Bei Foundation. Held in June in San Francisco’s Japantown, the festival features unique creations from a bunch of soy and tofu vendors, free samples, cooking demonstrations and workshops, soy education, live performances, a raffle, and most recently, a Soy-ful Youth Art Contest. 

The mission of the Northern California Soy and Tofu Festival is to educate the public about the health benefits and various uses of soy and tofu. In adhering to these goals, the Northern California Soy and Tofu Festival is an annual fundraiser for the Nichi Bei Foundation and strives to be a vehicle for community-building and leadership development while staying faithful to the Foundation’s mission of keeping the community connected, informed and empowered! 

This exciting culinary and cultural event showcases soy and tofu vendors, provides an educational forum on the various uses and benefits of soy and tofu, offers live music and cultural entertainment, as well as tofu eating contests. 

Proceeds from the Festival help to publish the first nonprofit ethnic community newspaper of its kind in the country, the Nichi Bei News. 

Partial proceeds to benefit the Nikkei Community Internship and Japantown Youth Leaders programs at JCYC.

What we'll be doing:

Volunteers will be assigned based on your shift and/or area of interest:

• Event Set Up
• Arts & Crafts
• Booth Staffing
• Cleaning
• Food Booth (Cooking and Serving)
• Information
• Logistics
• Merchandise Booth
• Security
• Support (Floater)
• Event Tear Down

What you should know:

All volunteer registrations must be received by May 23rd, 2025!!

Volunteers, once approved by the nonprofit, will receive an event t-shirt with the above design as shown on the event description and a lunch voucher.

Please wear comfortable shoes.

Where to Meet:

The meeting place TBD - The One Brick event manager will only be on site for the first 2 shifts from 8 am until 3 pm.

Nichi Bei Foundation:

The Nichi Bei Foundation is an educational and charitable nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping the Japanese American community connected, informed and empowered – primarily through a community newspaper (Nichi Bei News), Website (www.nichibei.org) and educational programs that showcase films on the wartime incarceration, community festivals and pilgrimages to historic sites.