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Performances
Within These Walls documentary
A new short documentary chronicles the development over several years of this important multimedia work that highlights the dark history of the detention barracks at the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay. The film chronicles iterations ranging from a professional site-specific piece performed inside the barracks to a performance by students at Zellerbach Playhouse at UC Berkeley.
Fall 2022 Speaker Series Recordings: Landscapes of Migration, Incarceration and Resistance
Indigenous Memory and Nature Interact: Native Californian Stories
Greg Sarris, Tribal Chairman, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria (Coast Miwok) and Author
In conversation with Beth Piatote, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English, UC Berkeley; Director, Arts Research Center.
Sept. 2, 2022
Angel Island and Alcatraz: Site-inspired Dance, Theater, and Landscapes of Incarceration
Lenora Lee, Artistic Director, Lenora Lee Dance
Ava Roy, Artistic Director, We Players
Sept. 9, 2022
Preventing Erasure: Saving the Angel Island Immigration Station’s Buildings and Stories
Ed Tepporn, Executive Director, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation.
Sept. 16, 2022
Border-thinking Through Wartime Incarceration Environments
Lynne Horiuchi, Architectural Historian
Anoma Pieris, Professor of Architecture, Melbourne School of Design
Sept. 30, 2022
Rooted In Place: Radical South Asian Storytelling Blooms in Berkeley
Barnali Ghosh, Artist, Community Activist, and Designer
October 7, 2022
New Video: Rethinking Place in Asian American Histories of the United States
Catherine Ceniza Choy, Professor, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley
October 14, 2022
Illegal: the Theater of the Angel Island Immigration Station’s Paper Sons
Skyler Chin and Sita Sunil, Playwrights of Illegal
Jeffrey Lo, Director of The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin; Playwright
October 21, 2022
Plague at the Golden Gate
Li-Shin Yu, Director, Plague at the Golden Gate
James Q. Chan, Producer, Plague at the Golden Gate
October 29, 2022
Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration
Julio Morales, Artist and Curator
November 4, 2022