a project of the UC Berkeley Global Urban Humanities Initiative
Location: Angel Island Immigration Station Detention Barracks, on Angel IslandPresented by the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation Join us for a concert presentation of ILLEGAL, a new musical created and performed by Skyler Chin, co-composed by Sita Sunil, and featuring Catherine Gloria. The show is inspired by family secrets and poetry etched into the walls ... Read moreIllegal: A New Musical Concert Presentation
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
Colonialism is Terrible, but Pho is Delicious November 15, 2022, 7 pmby Dustin ChinnDirected by Oanh NguyenPost-show discussion with Prof. Lok Siu, author of The Food Truck Generation (forthcoming)UC Berkeley Night at the Aurora Theatre2081 Addison Street, BerkeleyTickets for UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and the A Year on Angel Island community: $15 with code FHL15 ... Read moreColonialism is Terrible But Pho is Delicious
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
Angel Island — Oratorio for Voices and Strings, composed by Huang RuoPerformed by the Berkeley Chamber Chorus conducted by Wei Cheng and the Del Sol QuartetHertz Hall, UC BerkeleyDecember 3, 2022Pre-performance talk: 7:15-7:45PM Angel Island – Oratorio for Voices and Strings explores the history of Angel Island through poems by people incarcerated at the Immigration Island Station. ... Read moreAngel Island – Oratorio for Voices and Strings, composed by Huang Ruo
de Young Museum, San Francisco Join The Last Hoisan Poets, Genny Lim, Flo Oy Wong and Nellie Wong, three descendants of Angel Island immigrants, to commemorate the 113th anniversary of the Angel Island Immigration Station's opening on National Angel Island Day. This poetry program will also feature musical performances by the Del Sol Quartet. In ... Read moreNational Angel Island Day with The Last Hoisan Poets
Angel Island: History and Movementwith Erika Lee (University of Minnesota)VIRTUAL EVENT - ZOOM WEBINARSponsors: Center for Race and Gender, Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative Organized by the Center for Race and GenderCo-sponsored by the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration InitiativeThe CRG Angel Island Forum Series was designed to accompany "A Year on Angel Island," organized by Future Histories Lab and the ... Read moreErika Lee: Angel Island: History and Movement (CRG Angel Island Forum Series)
"Criminalizing Migration and Indefinite Detention: Chinese at Angel Island and McNeil Island Prison"with Elliott Young (Lewis & Clark College)VIRTUAL EVENT - ZOOM WEBINAROrganized by the Center for Race and GenderCo-sponsored by the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration InitiativeThe CRG Angel Island Forum Series was designed to accompany "A Year on Angel Island," organized by Future Histories Lab and ... Read moreElliott Young: Criminalizing Migration and Indefinite Detention: Chinese at Angel Island and McNeil Island Prison (CRG Angel Island Forum Series)
Tilden Room, 5th Floor MLK Student Union, UC Berkeley The Last Hoisan Poets will read the moving poems that were carved into the walls of the detention barracks by immigrants incarcerated at the Angel Island Immigration Station. The poems will be read in the Hoisan-wa dialect of the immigrants, as well as in translation. Some ... Read moreThe Last Hoisan Poets read Chinese poetry of Angel Island detainees
Bodily Defiance and Immigrant Detentionwith Nayan Shah (University of Southern California) VIRTUAL EVENT - ZOOM WEBINAROrganized by the Center for Race and GenderCo-sponsored by the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration InitiativeThe CRG Angel Island Forum Series was designed to accompany "A Year on Angel Island," organized by Future Histories Lab and the Arts + Design Initiative."A Year on Angel ... Read moreNayan Shah: Bodily Defiance and Immigrant Detention (CRG Angel Island Forum Series)