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Movement Building, Activist Art and YOU!
We are challenged today with the same questions ignited by the exhibit, Then They Came for Me: “What does an American look like? Who gets to decide?” Today, each of us has the opportunity to speak out and join national efforts to defeat the U.S.
Film Screening of Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066
Never Again is Now: Mobilizing the Next Generation through the Japanese American Incarceration Story Please join us for a screening of ALTERNATIVE FACTS: THE LIES OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066, a documentary feature film by filmmaker Jon Osaki about the false information and political influences that led to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans.Through post-film discussions,
Detention, Denialism and Activism Now!
Join historians Gary Okihiro (Yale University) and Alice Yang (University of California Santa Cruz), activist Satsuki Ina (Tsuru For Solidarity) and Zahra Billoo (CAIR), Shannon Cooper (Safe Black Space) and Rev. Ronald Kobata (Buddhist Church of San Francisco) as we explore the intersection of detention,
We Belong
Join us for “We Belong,” presented by the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area (“AABA”). The day will include guided docent-led tours of the exhibition, examining the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and the important parallels to modern issues involving civil rights and immigrant communities.
Haunted Healing
Confronting Intergenerational Trauma through Film and Poetry. Traces of America's dark history still haunt us today. Join us as we confront this haunting through art and conversation. The event will be followed by a short convivial gathering in order to create additional space for conversation and connection
A Moment Recaptured – Photos, Film & Reflections
A photographer and filmmakers connect the present to moments in the past captured powerfully in iconic photos of the Japanese American incarceration during WWII. Photojournalist Paul Kitagaki Jr. seeks out the people photographed in War Relocation Authority photos of that period.
Children of the Camps: Objects, Detention & Displacement
Memories of childhood are embedded in toys and objects from our past, but what stories lie within the items of children who were detained or displaced? Nancy Ukai, Project Director of 50 Objects, a digital project that explores the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans through artifacts and stories,
Conversation: Captured History
Captured History, a focus on the power of photos and lens of wartime photographers on display in the exhibition Then They Came For Me. Hear an engaging conversation with author Richard Cahan of Un-American,
Korematsu Family Day – Fred Korematsu Speaks Up
Join us in celebration of the 9th annual Fred Korematsu Day with interactive activities and a special presentation on "Fred Korematsu Speaks Ups" with co-authors Stan Yogi and Laura Atkins.
The Realities of Othering
The Realities of Othering: Islamophobia and the Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration is a conversation between Zahra Billoo, Executive Director of Council on American Islamic Relations, Bay Area Chapter, and Dr. Suzanne Barakat of Our Three Winners.
