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A Year on Angel Island: A Project of Future Histories Lab and Berkeley Arts+Design--6-minute documentary

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A Year on Angel Island: A Project of Future Histories Lab and Berkeley Arts+Design--6-minute documentary

A Year on Angel Island: A Project of Future Histories Lab and Berkeley Arts+Design--90-second trailer

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A Year on Angel Island: A Project of Future Histories Lab and Berkeley Arts+Design--90-second trailer

A Year on Angel Island: A Project of Future Histories Lab and Berkeley Arts+Design---9-minute documentary

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A Year on Angel Island: A Project of Future Histories Lab and Berkeley Arts+Design---9-minute documentary

Rooted in Place: Radical South Asian Storytelling Blooms in Berkeley | Barnali Ghosh (Lecture, 77 minutes)

Mon, 9 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Rooted in Place: Radical South Asian Storytelling Blooms in Berkeley | Barnali Ghosh (Fall 2022 Speaker Series)

Lecture, 77 minutes; Part of the Fall 2022 Speaker Series (Landscapes of Migration, Incarceration and Resistance)

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Recording of presentation at @BAMPFA Osher Theater; free and open to the public Friday, October 7, 2022

Speakers: Barnali Ghosh, Artist, Community Activist, and Designer

Barnali Ghosh talks about creating the award-winning Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour, part of a growing movement of activist-led, place-based storytelling. She and partner Anirvan Chatterjee have led thousands of people through walks on Berkeley streets revealing little-known histories of immigrant freedom fighters in the 1910s and queer and feminist organizers in more recent years. Ghosh also led the campaign to rename part of Berkeley’s Shattuck Avenue...

Yuriko Kamiya Oral History- A Year in Infamy | Miya Rosenthal (Documentary, 20 minutes)

Mon, 9 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Yuriko Kamiya Oral History: A Year in Infamy | Miya Rosenthal (Spring 2022)

Documentary, 20 minutes; Part of the 2022-2023 A Year on Angel Island Island Project.

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Course Number: COLWRIT R4B (College Writing Programs)

Course Name: "Reading, Composition, and Research: Images of History”Term

Taken: Fall 2022Instructor on Record: Patricia Steenland

Creator Name: Miya Rosenthal

Year Created: First-Year

Product description:

“Oral History of Yuriko Kamiya: A Year in Infamy" aims to shed light on the experiences of families during World War II Japanese American internment. Through Yuriko Kamiya's life, the project utilizes documentary-style oral history, curated photographs, and personal narratives to explore the impacts of the Pearl Harbor bombing on Japanese Americans. The internment of over 125,000 Japanese Americans...

Border-thinking Through Wartime Incarceration Environments | Lynne Horiuchi and Anoma Peris (Lecture, 87 minutes)

Mon, 9 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Border-thinking Through Wartime Incarcerations Environments | Lynne Horiuchi (Fall 2022 Speaker Series)

Lecture, 87 minutes; Part of the Fall 2022 Speaker Series (Landscapes of Migration, Incarceration and Resistance)

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Recording of presentation at @BAMPFA Osher Theater; free and open to the public Friday, September 30, 2022

Speakers:

Anoma Peris and Lynne Horiuchi

Description: Anoma Pieris and Lynne Horiuchi will talk about their new book, The Architecture of Confinement: Incarceration Camps and the Pacific War. The design and location of prisoner of war camps in Singapore and Australia and of concentration camps for Japanese American civilians in the U.S. such as the one at Manzanar tested cultural boundaries and prompted resistance by incarcerated soldiers and civilians alike.

Lynne Horiuchi is an architectural historian whose work is...

Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration | Julio Morales (Lecture, 75 minutes)

Mon, 9 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration | Julio Morales (Fall 2022 Speaker Series)

Lecture, 75 minutes; Part of the Fall 2022 Speaker Series (Landscapes of Migration, Incarceration and Resistance)

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Recording of presentation at @BAMPFA Osher Theater; free and open to the public Friday, November 4, 2022

Speaker: Julio Morales, Artist and Curator

Description: Curator Julio Morales talks about his current BAMPFA exhibition, Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration, which considers the cultures and institutions of confinement that have been centuries in the making. The exhibition features newly commissioned works based on art historical images of incarceration. The twelve contemporary artists in the exhibition—Carolina Aranibar-Fernández, Juan Brener, Raven Chacon, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Ashley Hunt, Sandra de la Loza, Michael Rohd, Paul Rucker,...

Angel Island Oratorio | By Huang Ruo, Conducted by Wei Cheng, Performed by the Berkeley Chamber Chorus and the Del Sol Quartet (Excerpts, 3 min)

Mon, 9 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Angel Island Oratorio | Performance by Huang Ruo, conducted by Wei Cheng, and performed by the Berkeley Chamber Chorus and the Del Sol Quartet (Winter 2022)

Performance excerpts, 3 min; This December 3, 2022 performance of Huang Ruo’s Angel Island Oratorio at Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley, was one of two performances that were the centerpieces of a year of curriculum and public programming about immigration and incarceration called A Year on Angel Island. Along with the February 23-26, 2023 performances of Within These Walls, by Lenora Lee Dance, this oratorio for voices and strings provided UC Berkeley students a chance to perform meaningful works of art as a way to explore challenging topics.

From 1910 to 1940, the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay processed hundreds of thousands of immigrants from more than 80 countries, most from Asia. Its administration and detention facilities were built in order to enforce the Chinese Exclusion Act...

Illegal: the Theater of the Angel Island Immigration Station’s Paper Sons | Skyler Chin, Jeffrey Lo, and Sita Sunil (Lecture, 73 minutes)

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Illegal: the Theater of the Angel Island Immigration Station’s Paper Sons | Skyler Chin, Jeffrey Lo, and Sita Sunil (Fall 2022 Speaker Series)

Lecture, 73 minutes; Part of the Fall 2022 Speaker Series (Landscapes of Migration, Incarceration and Resistance)

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Recording of presentation at @BAMPFA Osher Theater; free and open to the public Friday, October 21, 2022

Speakers: Skyler Chin and Sita Sunil, Playwrights of Illegal; Jeffrey Lo, Director of The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin, Playwright

One island, two plays: Skyler Chin and Sita Sunil will discuss their new musical Illegal with Filipino-American playwright Jeffrey Lo, who recently directed The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin, which like Illegal dramatizes the family traumas created by racially exclusionary policies carried out at Angel Island. Skyler Chin was inspired to co-write Illegal by his own ancestors’ experiences...

Site-inspired Dance, Theater, and Landscapes of Incarceration | Lenora Lee and Ava Roy (Lecture, 84 minutes)

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Angel Island and Alcatraz: Site-inspired Dance, Theater, and Landscapes of Incarceration | Lenora Lee and Ava Roy (Fall 2022 Speaker Series)

Lecture, 84 minutes; Part of the Fall 2022 Speaker Series (Landscapes of Migration, Incarceration and Resistance

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Friday, September 9, 2022 Recording of presentation at @BAMPFA Osher Theater; free and open to the public

Speakers:

Lenora Lee, Artistic Director, Lenora Lee Dance

Ava Roy, Artistic Director, We Players

Co-sponsored by UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

Description: Choreographer Lenora Lee and theater director Ava Roy will discuss San Francisco Bay’s Angel Island and Alcatraz Island as creative catalysts and settings for their site-inspired performances addressing migration, incarceration, and resistance.

Lee’s dance performance Within These Walls was...

Preventing Erasure: How the Angel Island Immigration Station Was Saved | Ed Tepporn (Lecture, 76 minutes)

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Preventing Erasure: How the Angel Island Immigration Station Was Saved | Ed Tepporn (Fall 2022 Speaker Series)

Lecture, 76 minutes; Part of the Fall 2022 Speaker Series (Landscapes of Migration, Incarceration and Resistance)

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Friday, September 16, 2022 Recording of presentation at @BAMPFA Osher Theater; free and open to the public

Speaker:

Ed Tepporn, Executive Director, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation

Description: Angel Island in San Francisco Bay is a crucial spot marking the history of exclusionary, race-based immigration policy. Its immigration station has sometimes been called “the Ellis Island of the West.” But Angel Island was an ambivalent gateway, a place of incarceration and exclusion for migrants as well as an entry for half a million newcomers from 80 countries, mostly from Asia. Despite its significance, this important historical...

Within these Walls - Conversations with Creative Collaborators and Dancers of the Next Generation | Lenora Lee (Documentary, 15 minutes)

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Within these Walls: Conversations with Creative Collaborators and Dancers of the Next Generation | Lenora Lee (Spring 2023)

Documentary, 15 minutes; Part of the 2017 and 2019 performances at the U.S. Immigration Station on Angel Island, and 2022 rehearsal footage for the Berkeley Dance Project, a production of the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies at U.C. Berkeley.

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by Lenora Lee Dance in association with Lenora Lee Productions, Asian Improv aRts, Innocent Eyes and Lenses Films, Asian Improv aRts Midwest, powered by Asian Improv Nation

Directed by Lenora Lee & Francis Wong

Edited by Joel Wanek

Cinematography by Ben Estabrook, Edward Kaikea Goo, Lenora Lee, Olivia Ting, Rebecca Tsai, Joel Wanek

Production and rehearsal assistance by Lynn Huang, SanSan Kwan, Keanu Marquez, Johnny Huy Nguyen, Lucy TaflerFeaturing interviewees (in order of audio):...