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SUMMARY:Future Histories Lab: February News from A Year On Angel Island
DESCRIPTION:Within These Walls\nBerkeley Dance Project Performance\nChoreographed by Lenora Lee\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION: Zellerbach Playhouse\nWHEN: February 23-26February 23, 8:00PM\nFebruary 24, 8:00PM*\nFebruary 25, 2:00PM\nFebruary 25, 8:00PM**\nFebruary 26, 2:00PM**\n\n*Post-Show Discussion: Artistic Director Lenora Lee will share insights into the creative process — Friday, Feb. 24, immediately following the performance.\n**Pre-Show Talks: Dramaturg Crystal Song will discuss the context and themes of Within These Walls — 7:15pm on Saturday, Feb. 25 and 1:15pm on Sunday, Feb. 26 in the Zellerbach Playhouse lobby.\nWithin These Walls is an integrated, multi-media contemporary dance project featuring UC Berkeley student performers and original recorded music, poetry, and video projection. The performance serves as a meditation on healing, resilience, and compassion, inspired by experiences of those detained and processed at the Angel Island Immigration Station. It premiered in 2017 as a site-specific dance at the Immigration Station as part of a community-wide commemoration of the 135th Anniversary of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet Tickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Last Hoisan Poets\n \n\n\n\nLOCATION: Tilden Room, MLK Student Union, UC Berkeley\nWHEN: February 21, 5pm-7pm\nCome hear groundbreaking Chinese American artists/activists Genny Lim, Flo Oy Wong, and Nellie Wong read the poems carved by detainees into the walls of the historic Angel Island Immigration Station, as well as poetic works of their own. They’ll be reading in both English and the Hoisan dialect, which they are fighting to keep alive in collective memory. They’ll discuss the role of place and language in memory and activism.\nGenny Lim is San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate emeritus, the author of five poetry collections, co-author of Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, winner of the American Book Award and the award-winning play, Paper Angels.\nFlo Oy Wong is cofounder of the Asian American Women Artists Association, and author of Dreaming of Glistening Pomelos. Her solo art exhibition, “made in usa: Angel Island Shhh” explored the identity secrets of Chinese immigrants detained and interrogated in the United States.\nNellie Wong is a poet and essayist and author of Dreams in Harrison Railroad Park, The Death of Long Steam Lady, Stolen Moments and Breakfast Lunch Dinner. Nellie is the recipient of the 2022 PEN Oakland/Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award.\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCenter for Race and Gender Studies\n\n\n\nThe Center for Race and Gender Angel Island Forum Series was designed to accompany “A Year on Angel Island” and organized by Future Histories Lab and the Arts + Design Initiative. These virtual events are sponsored by the Center for Race and Gender.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNayan Shah: Bodily Defiance and Immigrant Detention\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION: Zoom Webinar. Register here ( https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_G5kQUh7wSCSzAYAbwRQDHw )\nWHEN: February 23, 4pm-6pm.Nayan Shah is a historian whose books uncover how people struggle with illness, migration and incarceration in the United States and across the globe from the 19th century to the present. Shah is Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California.\nHe is featured in documentaries on Asian American History and the History of Contagion and Pandemics for PBS and the History Channel. He has worked with the National Park Service, Angel Island Foundation, California Historical Society, and the New York Historical Society to interpret Asian American past and present. He serves on the board of Los Angeles’ East West Players, the longest-running Asian American theater in the U.S.\n\n\n\nClaire Meuschke: Lunch Poems\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION: Morrison Library (Located in Doe Library), UC Berkeley\nWHEN: March 2\n12:00 – 1:00pm – Reading (in Morrison Library)\n4:00 – 5:15pm – Craft Talk (Location TBA)\nOn March 2nd, Claire Meuschke will visit UC Berkeley for a reading and public craft talk, in conversation with Arts Research Center Director Beth Piatote.\nCLAIRE MEUSCHKE is the author of Upend (Noemi Press), which was longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award. She received a Stegner Fellowship in Poetry from Stanford University (2019-2021) and has creative writing degrees from the University of Arizona (MFA) and Pratt Institute (BFA). She was born in San Francisco, CA and currently lives in Tucson, AZ where she works to distribute traditional, arid adapted seeds.\nPresented by the Arts Research Center & the English Department with support from Engaging the Senses Foundation, Dr. and Mrs. Tom Colby, the UC Berkeley Library, The Morrison Library Fund, and the dean’s office of the College of Letters and Science. This event is part of UC Berkeley’s A Year on Angel Island project.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn About A Year on Angel Island\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n
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