WWII incarceration brought Japanese Americans and Native Americans together in disparate locations throughout the United States; both were victims of US government’s concentration and confinement policies. Betty Nobue Kano and Janeen Antoine curate artists who share this fateful history, in remembrance of those who lived it, and pay homage to their communities with sculpture, painting and poetry. These children of war, of “war brides” and GI Soldiers, of the camps, and of veterans of war from indigenous communities, Muriel Antoine, Fredrick Cloyd, Lucien Kubo, Emmanuel Montoya, Judy Shintani, Anthony Sul, and Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie are the artists who give voice to peace in the post-war era.
Dates: Monday, November 11, 2013 – Sunday, April 27, 2014 (weekends only)
All programs are free and open to the public
All progams will be at the Military Intelligence Service Historic Learning Center (Bldg. 640), Crissy Field, Presidio, San Francisco, 94129
Exhibit Opening Reception: All Nations Singers, Medicine Warriors Dancers and Genyukai, Okinawan music and shiisa
Artists Panel and Poetry: Muriel Antoine, Fredrick Cloyd, Lucien Kubo, Emmanuel Montoya, Judy Shintani, Anthony Sul, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie
Winter Solstice Celebration Performance by Harupin-Ha, Butoh dance
Children’s Craft Workshop with Judy Shintani and Anthony Sul
EO 9066 Event: Film on Black Japanese life (TBA)
Ohlone in the Presidio: Shellmound walk with Pomo Dancers
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