Nicki Watt

WITHIN THESE WALLSConversations with creative collaborators and dancers of the next generation by Lenora Lee Dance in association with Lenora Lee Productions, Asian Improv aRts, Innocent Eyes and Lenses Films, … Read moreNew Video: WITHIN THESE WALLS – Conversations with creative collaborators and dancers of the next generation

The recording of the 11/29 talk by Julio Morales has been released! Watch them discuss their current BAMPFA exhibition, Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration, which considers the cultures … Read moreNew Video: Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration

The recording of the 10/29 talk featuring Li-Shin Yu and James Q. Chan has been released! Watch them discuss their American Experience PBS documentary, Plague at the Golden Gate, about … Read moreNew Video: Plague at the Golden Gate

The recording of the 10/21 talk featuring Sita Sunil, Skyler Chin, and Jeffrey Lo is now up! Watch them discuss live performance, theatrical representation, and the process of dramatizing family … Read moreNew Video: Illegal: the Theater of the Angel Island Immigration Station’s Paper Sons

The recording of Catherine Ceniza Choy’s 10/15/22 talk is now available! Watch her discuss her new book, Asian American Histories of the United States, in which she argues that Asian American experiences … Read moreNew Video: Rethinking Place in Asian American Histories of the United States

The recording of Barnali Ghosh’s 10/7/22 talk is now available! Watch her discuss creating the award-winning Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour, part of a growing movement of activist-led, place-based … Read moreNew Video: Rooted in Place: South Asian Storytelling Blooms in Berkeley

The recording of Anoma Pieris and Lynne Horiuchi’s 9/30/22 talk is now available! Watch them talk about their new book, The Architecture of Confinement: Incarceration Camps and the Pacific War. The … Read moreNew Video: Border-thinking Through Wartime Incarceration Environments

The recording of Ed Tepporn’s 9/16/22 talk is now available! Check out his discussion of Angel Island’s history as a crucial spot marking the history of exclusionary, race-based immigration policy. … Read moreNew Video: Preventing Erasure: Saving the Angel Island Immigration Station’s Buildings and Stories

The recording of Lenora Lee and Ava Roy’s 9/9/22 talk is now available! Check out their discussion of their previous and upcoming performances. They focus on site-inspired performances addressing migration, … Read moreNew Video: Angel Island and Alcatraz: Site-inspired Dance, Theater, and Landscapes of Incarceration

The recording of Greg Sarris’ 9/2/2022 conversation with Beth Piatote has been published! Check out their talk on how literature and nature intersect with stories of Bay Area Native American … Read moreNew Video: Indigenous Memory and Nature Interact: Native Californian Stories