Location: Osha Theater, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) Barnali Ghosh, Artist, Community Activist, and Designer Barnali Ghosh will talk about creating the award-winning Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour, part of a growing movement of activist-led, place-based storytelling. She and partner Anirvan Chatterjee have led thousands of people through walks on ... Read moreRooted in Place: Radical South Asian Storytelling Blooms in Berkeley

Location: Osher Theater, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) Catherine Ceniza Choy, Professor, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley Catherine Ceniza Choy will discuss her new book, Asian American Histories of the United States, in which she argues that Asian American experiences are essential to any understanding of US history and ... Read moreRethinking Place in Asian American Histories of the United States

Location: Osher Theater, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) Skyler Chin and Sita Sunil, Playwrights of Illegal Jeffrey Lo, Director of The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin; Playwright One island, two plays: Skyler Chin and Sita Sunil will discuss their new musical Illegal with Filipino-American playwright Jeffrey Lo, who recently directed The Paper Dreams ... Read moreIllegal: the Theater of the Angel Island Immigration Station’s Paper Sons

Location: Osher Theater, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) Li-Shin Yu, Director, Plague at the Golden Gate  James Q. Chan, Producer, Plague at the Golden Gate Director Li-Shin Yu and producer James Q. Chan will discuss their American Experience PBS documentary about an outbreak of bubonic plague in San Francisco’s Chinatown. More than ... Read morePlague at the Golden Gate

Location: Osher Theater, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) Julio Morales, Artist and Curator Curator Julio Morales will talk about his current BAMPFA exhibition, Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration, which considers the cultures and institutions of confinement that have been centuries in the making. The exhibition features newly commissioned works based ... Read moreUndoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration

Elizabeth Fair has chosen to cancel her talk in order to respect the UC graduate student strike. Elizabeth Fair, PhD Student, UC Berkeley Department of the History of Art Elizabeth Fair will discuss the material and spatial qualities of the Chinese poetry carved into the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station by detainees. Her ... Read more[CANCELLED] Poetry in Place: Interpreting the Angel Island Immigration Station

Location: Zoom Webinar Charlton Lee and Kathryn Bates, Del Sol QuartetHuang Ruo, ComposerWei Cheng, Director of Choral Programs, UC Berkeley The composer and performers of Angel Island–Oratorio for Voices and Strings will discuss the work, which will be performed at UC Berkeley on December 3. The Del Sol Quartet commissioned the oratorio in order to illuminate ... Read moreAngel Island — Oratorio: Chinese Exclusion, Music, and Storytelling