Past Calendar Venue List

9/21 – 12/28/01 National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS) Gallery

1684 Post St., San Francisco, CA

(exhibit + artifacts)

9/21 Press conference launching the exhibition, with Grace Shimizu, Rose Scherini, Kiku Funabiki, John Christgau, and Barbara Lubin

9/21 Opening night reception

9/22 Scholars’ panel discussion and book signing, with Lawrence DiStasi, John Christgau and Rose Scherini

11/17 “Voices of Remembrance” community reception

12/28 “Undue Process: The Untold Story of America’s German Alien Internees,”

a reading and book signing with Dr. Arnold Krammer.

2/9/02 Asian Pacific American Law Students Assn. Conference

Boalt Hall Law School, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Panel, “No Where To Go, Prisoners of INS”, with Grace Shimizu and Heba Nimr

3/18 – 4/5/02 Norlin Library, University of Colorado, Boulder

(coincided with “Alien Enemies in Wartime: Race, Ethnicity and Civil Liberties”

symposium at Boulder, 4/5-6/02, organized by Max Friedman and Roger Daniels)

Max Friedman, Grace Shimizu and Jim Williams spoke at closing event for

exhibition on 4/5/02

4/10 – 20/02 City of Boston, “Anti-Hate Week”

Doric Room, Mass. State Building on Beacon Hill, 9-5pm

(coincided with “Una Storia Segreta” exhibit at same location)

4/10 Opening event with Karen Ebel and Lawrence DiStasi

5/16-19, 23-26/02 SomArts Cultural Center

934 Brannan, San Francisco, CA

(shown in lobby during a one-woman show, Strands, written and performed by the

granddaughter of a Japanese Peruvian internee in collaboration with the Asian

American Theater Company)

7/4 – 7/02 Oregon Institute of Technology

in Newell, CA (as part of the Tule Lake Pilgrimage activities)

7/5 “Enemy Alien Files” workshop, with Grace Shimizu, Amjad Obeidat, Jane Yano

and Stephanie Miyashiro

10/7 – 11/27/02 American Immigration Law Foundation Gallery

918 “F” Street, NW, Washington, D.C.

10/7 Opening event with Andrew Prazuch and Mas Yonemura

12/7 - 12/19/03 Berkeley Main Public Library

2090 Kittredge St., Berkeley, CA

(exhibit + artifacts)

12/7 Opening press conference/panel with Grace Shimizu, John Christgau, Lawrence DiStasi, Amjad Obeidat

1/2 –2/28/03 Santa Cruz Public Library

Central Branch Library, 224 Chestnut St., Santa Cruz, CA

M-Th 10am-9pm, F 10am-6pm, Sat-Sun10am-5pm

1/31 Reception, “Night of Enemy Aliens”, with Dorothy Ehrlich (Executive Director of

the ACLU-Northern California) as keynote speaker, local historian Sandy Lydon,

Heidi Donald, and Grace Shimizu

2/19 Internment commemoration event, “Day of Remembrance”, with scholar-authors John Christgau, Lawrence DiStasi, Grace Shimizu, and local historian Sandy Lydon

3/10- 4/25/03 University Library, California State University, Sacramento

2000 State University Drive, East, Sacramento, CA

(exhibit + artifacts)

3/17 Opening activities:

Press Conference

Scholars Forum, with John Christgau, Lawrence DiStasi, Isao Fujimoto, Mutahir

Kazmi, Lothar Eiserloh, and Grace Shimizu

Reception and Book Signing, with Terry Webb, Assemblyman George Nakano, John Christgau, Lawrence DiStasi, Isao Fujimoto, Wayne Maeda, Lothar Eiserloh, Vilma Ralston and Grace Shimizu

4/7 Cultural Performance with D.H. Naomi Quinones (spoken word artist)

Panel, “Enemy Alien Stories During WWII: German American Experiences”, with

John Christgau, Lothar Eiserloh, and Vilma Ralston and Reem Awad-Rashmawi

4/10 Video showing of “Hidden Internment: The Art Shibayama Story” and

Panel with Casey Peek (director and producer), Wesley Ueunten (scholar and oral

historian) and Grace Shimizu

4/17 Panel, “Then & Now: The WWII Enemy Alien Program and the US PATRIOT

ACTS I & II”, with John Christgau and other speakers to be announced

5/9 – 6/27/03 College Library, University of California, Los Angeles

220 Powell Library Building, Second Floor Rotunda, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

(exhibit + artifacts)

5/18 Opening reception with Janice Koyama (UCLA Library), Don Nakanishi (Director,

Asian American Studies Center, UCLA), Rosalyn Tonai, California Assemblyman

George Nakano, Grace Shimizu, John Christgau, and former internee Suzy Lechner

Kvammen.

7/14 – 8/17/03 Mexican Heritage Plaza

1700 Alum Rock Ave., San Jose, CA

Mon. – Fri., 8:30am-5:30pm. (open ½ hour before events on Sat. & Sun.)

7/20 Reception

8/17 Closing event, “Then & Now: Making the Connections Through Culture”

9/1 – 24/03 San Diego Central Public Library

820 “E” Street, San Diego, CA

9/12 & 13 Opening reception and event

10/6 – 11/17/03 University of Chicago

10/13 4:30pm Opening reception

2/22/04 Japanese Cultural & Community Center – No. California

1840 Sutter St., San Francisco, CA

(exhibit displayed at “Day of Remembrance 2004: Carrying the Light for Justice--

Generation to Generation, People to People”)

7/2-5/04 Oregon Institute of Technology

in Newell, CA (as part of the Tule Lake Pilgrimage 2004 activities)

7/4 “Enemy Alien Files” workshop, with Grace Shimizu, John Christgau and Mary

Salome

“JA/JLA Reparations in the Aftermath of 9/11” workshop with Audrey Shoji and

Stephanie Miyashiro

7/4 “Hidden Stories from the Enemy Alien Files” readings with John Christgau, Lee

Macey, Gregory Rienzo, Jenny Rienzo, Megumi and Kenge Kobayashi

(as part of the Cultural Program, “From the Heart: An Evening of Performances” at

the Ross Raglan Theater)

8/10-12/04 JACL National Convention

Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort – Kona Moku Ballroom

2552 Kalakaua Ave., Honolulu, Hawai’i

8/12 “Immigrants During Wartime”

Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai’i – Community Gallery

2454 South Beretania St., Honolulu, Hawai’i

--screening of “Caught In Between: What To Call Home In Times Of War” by Lina

Hoshino and trailer for “Stolen Lives”by Tara Productions

--panel: Lina Hoshino, Grace Shimizu, Audrey Shoji, Rosalyn Tonai

2/13/05 - ??? ???? CONTRACT PENDING

2/15 “Day of Remembrance: Acts of Kindness: A Tribute”

DePaul University

INQUIRIES

fall/spring (pref. Jan-Feb 2004) Sandhills Community College, North Carolina

4/30 - 5/1-2/04 Stanford Alumni Conference, Stanford University, CA

MAY Washington, D.C. Mike Honda

6/4-7/04 Third WWII Studies Conference, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

10/04-1/05 or

1/05-3/05 Ellis Island Museum, New York

NY Historical Society

Texas (San Antonio, Dallas, College Station)

Florida (Miami)

Hawaii (Honolulu, Kona, Maui)

8/15/04