Notice of Public Meeting Monday, May 11, 2020 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm California Civil Liberties Public Education Program Advisory Committee Meeting VIA ZOOM: [info to come]
AGENDA
I. Call to order and introductions II. Approval of minutes of previous committee meeting III. Overview of advisory committee procedures a. Declarations of committee members’ conflicts b. Procedures for observation of meeting by members of the public IV. Review of submitted public comment (see note below) V. Review and discussion of grant applications a. Preliminary scoring and discussion of applications b. Determination of recommendations for grant awardees and amounts VI. General discussion of program in immediate future fiscal year VII. General business VIII. Adjournment
Notes: • Per Executive Order N-29-20, the California Civil Liberties advisory committee meeting will be held via teleconference. access will be available by web link or phone. There will be no physical meeting location in order to comply with public health guidelines. If you need additional reasonable accommodations, please make you request no later than May 7, 2020. Please direct your request to Mary Beth Barber at [email protected]. or (916) 323-9758. Email communication is preferred. • All times indicated and the orders of business are approximate and subject to change. • Any item listed on the agenda is subject to possible committee action. • Public comments will be accepted via an online form, which will be made available 24 hours prior to the meeting.
Library – Courts Building 916-323-9759 P.O. Box 942837 [email protected] Sacramento, CA 94237-0001 www.library.ca.gov California Civil Liberties Public Education Program Advisory Committee Meeting Stanley Mosk Library and Courts Building 914 Capitol Mall, Room 218 (“American Civics Room”)
MINUTES Monday, April 15, 2019 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
Members in attendance Asmaa Ahmed, Zahra Billoo, Carin Fujisaki, Manjusha P. Kulkarni, Dale Minami, Diane Miyeko Matsuda, Dennis M. Robinson
Members not in attendance All members of the advisory committee were in attendance
California State Library staff in attendance State Librarian Greg Lucas; special projects coordinator Mary Beth Barber; library development consultant Bev Schwartzberg. Annly Roman, California Library Services Board administrator, assisted at various times throughout the meeting.
Call to order The meeting started at 9:20 am. State Librarian Greg Lucas thanked the advisory committee for their service to the California Civil Liberties program and for reviewing the applications and giving advice on the proposals. Each member of the committee in attendance greeted each other and introduced themselves, as did Barber and Schwartzberg.
Approval of minutes of previous meeting Barber directed the committee’s attention to the draft minutes from the October 2018 meeting. Matsuda recommended the notation of the members of the committee in attendance should be at the top of the document.
Billoo moved that the minutes, with the addition of the members in attendance at the meeting, be adopted as written. Robinson seconded. Ahmed, Billoo, Minami, Matsuda and Robinson approved; Fujisaki and Kulkarni abstained, as they had not yet been appointed to the committee when the meeting in October 2018 had taken place.
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Overview of the advisory committee procedures Barber gave an overview of the advisory committee procedures, including the requirement for advisory members to declare conflicts, and the procedures for the observation of the meeting by members of the public.
The applicants are as follows:
Education, Public Media and Preservation category Poston Community Alliance Fred T. Korematsu Institute (KI) Tides Center / National Veterans Network Friends of Manzanar California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) California State University Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) National Japanese American Historical Society, Inc. (NJAHS) L.A. Theatre Works Japanese American National Museum International Documentary Association (IDA) KCETLink (KCET) Heritage Future / 1888 Center Valley Public Television Inc., dba ValleyPBS - KVPT (Valley PBS) Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens League (MP/JACL) Japanese American National Museum (JANM) San Diego Chapter Japanese American Citizens League (San Diego JACL) Kizuna Little Tokyo Inc. (Kizuna) Visual Communications Media (Visual Communications) KALW San Francisco Unified School District (KALW)
Community Projects category Tule Lake Committee (TLC) New West Symphony Association (New West Symphony or NWS) Japantown Task Force, Inc. Triton Museum of Art San Diego Repertory Theatre (San Diego REP or The REP) San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra Yuba Sutter Regional Arts Council (Yuba Sutter Arts) San Francisco Flamenco Dance Company The East West Players (EWP) Musical Traditions, Inc. (Paul Dresher Ensemble) Nikkei Federation San Jose Taiko Group, Inc. (San Jose Taiko) Densho The Regents of the University of California Nihonmachi Little Friends
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Heyday Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival (AICLS or the Advocates) New Village Arts, Inc. (NVA) Opera Santa Barbara Los Angeles Opera Company (LA Opera) The ABAS Law Foundation Go For Broke National Education Center (GFBNEC) East West Players The AjA Project (AjA) Visual Communications Media (Visual Communications) API Cultural Center, Inc. (Oakland Asian Cultural Center or OACC) Nichi Bei Foundation Playground, Inc. (Playground) Visual Communications Media
The advisory members declared conflicts as follows:
Fujisaki: Cal Poly Pomona, Friends of Manzanar
Minami: Nichi Bei Foundation, National Japanese American Historical Society, Tides Center, Japanese American Citizens’ League-San Diego, Nihonmachi Little Friends, Fred Korematsu Institute, Musical Traditions, Inc., Poston Community Alliance, Japanstown Task Force.
Billoo: ABAS Foundation
Ahmed: ABAS Foundation
Public Comment Barber directed the committee members’ attention to the procedures for observation by members of the public. There was no public comment.
Review and Discussion of Grant Applications Barber disseminated a summary document that included the applicant name, proposed project summaries, and requested amounts. Barber also disseminated tables with the average draft preliminary scoring of the applications by the committee members, as well as the standard deviation. Barber explained that the standard deviation data was provided so the committee could see where there might be differencing evaluations by committee member and therefore could prioritize the meeting discussion and evaluation of those applications that have higher differences in scores.
The committee discussed each application. Committee members with conflicts left the room during the discussion of that particular application.
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Recommendations to the State Librarian The committee voted by each applicant whether to fund the application and make recommended amounts. A brief break was taken during this process for committee members and staff to get boxed lunches brought in by Roman, and continued to evaluate the applications through a working lunch. In each preliminary discussion, those members who noted conflicts left the room during the vote.
The committee made the following recommendations to the State Librarian for funding:
Applicant Requested Recommended Amount Amount Advocates for Indigenous California Language $30,000.00 $10,000.00 Survival API Cultural Center, Inc. $30,000.00 $10,000.00 California State Polytechnic University, Pomona1 $51,064.00 $51,064.00 California State University Dominguez Hills $86,310.00 $86,310.00 Densho $30,000.00 $30,000.00 Fred T. Korematsu Institute $88,315.50 $20,000.00 Friends of Manzanar $67,035.00 $37,035.00 Heritage Future / 1888 Center $23,500.00 $23,500.00 Japanese American National Museum $100,000.00 $30,000.00 KALW San Francisco Unified School District $86,600.00 $20,000.00 Kizuna Little Tokyo Inc. $20,000.00 $20,000.00 L.A. Theatre Works $78,839.00 $78,839.00 Los Angeles Opera Company $30,000.00 $30,000.00 Monterey Peninsula Japanese American Citizens $66,273.00 $66,273.00 League2 New Village Arts, Inc. $15,000.00 $15,000.00 Nichi Bei Foundation $25,000.00 $15,000.00 Nihonmachi Little Friends $30,000.00 $10,000.00 Nikkei Federation $14,400.00 $14,400.00 Poston Community Alliance $35,788.00 $15,000.00 San Diego Repertory Theatre $29,500.00 $29,500.00 San Jose Taiko Group, Inc. $30,000.00 $30,000.00 The ABAS Law Foundation $8,394.00 $10,000.00 The AjA Project $21,997.25 $21,997.25
1 This applicant had significant staff and programming amendments submitted to the State Librarian’s office prior to fulfillment of the grant agreements. The changes proposed substantially changed the nature of the project from the original proposal. Agreement was not fulfilled and grant was not allocated, and applicant was encouraged to apply again in the next grant cycle. 2 This grant recommendation was not able to be fulfilled because of complications with the nonprofit corporation’s status with the California Secretary of State’s office. Applicant was recommended to clarify their status and reapply in the following grant cycle.
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Applicant Requested Recommended Amount Amount The Regents of the University of California (UCLA) $30,000.00 $30,000.00 Triton Museum of Art $24,982.00 $24,982.00 Tule Lake Committee $30,000.00 $30,000.00 Valley Public Television Inc., dba ValleyPBS – KVPT $100,000.00 $50,000.00 Visual Communications Media (America’s $29,950.00 $29,950.00 Concentration Camps, Revisited) Visual Communications Media (All That Remains) $30,000.00 $30,000.00 Visual Communications Media (Third Act) $100,000.00 $100,000.00 Yuba Sutter Regional Arts Council $30,000.00 $30,000.00
Recommendations for guidelines and application for next round of application The members of the committee provided Barber with observations and comments on the grant guidelines, application, and preliminary evaluation procedures. Minani recommended minor edits to evaluation category descriptions, and complimented the State Library on the streamlining and thoroughness of the preliminary evaluation process and online application. Matsuda asked for notification when the grant is open for the next round, as well as information regarding the applicant’s county. Multiple committee members noted some confusion with fiscal sponsors with multiple projects, and asked for more clarification to differentiate projects in the summary documents provided by the State Library.
General business The committee briefly discussed the calendar for the next round of funding and the legislative and budgetary calendar for the California Civil Liberties program.
The meeting concluded at 3:30 pm.
MEMO
To: Advisory Committee for the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program; Greg Lucas, State Librarian
From: Mary Beth Barber, Special Project Coordinator
CC: Rebecca Wendt, Deputy State Librarian
Date: March 5, 2020
Re: California Civil Liberties grant application summary for winter 2020
Dear Members of the California Civil Liberties program advisory committee,
The latest round of applications for the California Civil Liberties program closed last week. This memo provides overview information about the grant applicants, including the total requested in the two major categories: Community Projects, with a max request of $30,000; and Education/Public Media/Preservation projects, with a max request of $100,000.
Number of applications: 36 total (22 Community Projects and 14 Education/Public Media/Preservation)
Total funds requested: $1,686,804.00 ($631,036.00 in Community Project requests and $1,055,768.00 in Education/Public Media/Preservation requests).
I have gone into the Submittable system (the grant application and review system we used previously), given you permissions and “assigned” you to review the applications. I’ve also provided summaries of these grant applicants following this one-page memo.
You will soon receive a Doodle poll looking at dates in late March to early April for a review date. Given the current complications associated with travel, we are seriously considering holding the advisory committee meeting and review of applications remotely through teleconference. Holding meetings remotely is allowed under the Bagley-Keene Act, as long as all locations are publically notified. We can work with local libraries and other community-based locations in your area to set a site – or you can publically notify a location of your choice.
More details will be in the Doodle poll and subsequent emails. In the meantime, happy reviewing!
Mary Beth California Civil Liberties grant application summary for winter 2020 Author: MB Barber; February 26, 2020 Page 2 of 16
Community Project Grant Application Summaries – February 2020
Visual Communications Media Mr. Koji Steven Sakai, Producer/WRriter Geographic Area: All California Subcategory: Storytelling,Other
What if at the same time Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps there was a zombie apocalypse? Zombie Manzanar is a limited series narrative podcast that explores this scenario. The series is intended to entertain but also shed light on this important—and often unknown—part of American history.
Requested Amount: $29,950
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Celadon Inc Celadon Arts Ms. GAIL ENNS, Executive Director Geographic Area: San Francisco Bay Area,Central Coast Subcategory: Oral history,Museum(s),Visual arts
Breaking Silence, Legacy of Incarceration includes the work of seven Sansei artists and serves as a catalyst to create social awareness and change surrounding the issues caused by the incarceration of Japanese American citizens during WWII. The exhibition sanctions this succeeding generation of artists to share personal expressions of their emotions and insights, and the reluctant, deep collective acceptance of incarceration, often left unexpressed by their parents and grandparents. The exhibition involves the community through talks, workshops, Day of Remembrance activities, a website and a catalog.
Requested Amount: $25,165
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Mission Viejo Library Ms. Sarah Stimson, Manager Geographic Area: Orange Subcategory: Community enrichment,Education, life-long learning,Local libraries,Visual arts
The Reach of Civil Liberties Project at the Mission Viejo Library will include two main components; a gallery exhibit and a film screening with panel discussion. The purpose of this project is to increase public awareness surrounding the importance of protecting civil liberties and the lasting impact, both direct and indirect, of civil liberty violations on communities in America. It will focus primarily on the California Civil Liberties grant application summary for winter 2020 Author: MB Barber; February 26, 2020 Page 3 of 16
Japanese American experience during World War II and the aftermath. The project will draw parallels between other community groups and experiences, both modern and historical.
Requested Amount: $7,025
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Southern California Asian American Studies Central, Inc. Visual Communications Media Ms. Sharon Yamato, Producer/Director Geographic Area: All California Historical documentation,Community enrichment,Youth empowerment,Education, life-long learning,Oral history,Museum(s),Local libraries,Visual arts,Film or video - public presentation,Film or video - traditional broadcast (tv, cable),Film or video - online broadcast
Documentary about intrepid California attorney Wayne M. Collins who fought tirelessly on behalf of Americans of Japanese ancestry during WWII by helping restore U.S. citizenship to 5,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry who renounced under duress as a result of the government's imposition of a "loyalty oath" while they were incarcerated and consequently held under martial law at the Tule Lake Segregation Center (with some deported to Japan). In his commitment to defending the rights of those forcefully detained, Collins also worked on behalf of others denied their Constitutional rights under Executive Order 9066, including Fred Korematsu and Mitsuye Endo.
Requested Amount: $29,400
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Nisei Baseball Research Project NBRP Ms. Yuriko Romer, Director Geographic Area: All California,Upper/Northern California (above Sacramento),Sacramento-Sierra region,Sierra Mountain areas,San Francisco Bay Area,Silicon Valley,Central Valley,Central Coast,Inland Empire (Riverside, San Bernardino, Inyo, Imperial),Los Angeles - City,Los Angeles - County,Orange,San Diego Subcategory: Historical documentation,Community enrichment,Youth empowerment,Education, children,Education, life-long learning,Museum(s),Local libraries,Film or video - public presentation,Film or video - traditional broadcast (tv, cable),Film or video - online broadcast
Guard towers and barbed wire may have contained Japanese Americans during the forced internment of World War II, but their love of baseball couldn’t be contained. Baseball was played with fervor in all ten of the Japanese American Confinement Camps throughout the internment. BASEBALL BEHIND BARBED WIRE (working title) will be a short documentary of this bitter chapter in history seen through the unique lens of baseball. It is told with moments of cheer and laughter as the incarcerees rallied to build baseball fields, play ball, and even travel long distances to proclaim their American heritage through their beloved baseball. California Civil Liberties grant application summary for winter 2020 Author: MB Barber; February 26, 2020 Page 4 of 16
Requested Amount: $30,000
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Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles ICYOLA Mr. Charles Dickerson, Executive Director Geographic Area: All California,Los Angeles - County Subcategory: Community enrichment,Youth empowerment,Education, children,Education, life-long learning,Oral history,Museum(s),Live music
The project is the composition and world premiere performance of a new piece of music for chorus and orchestra that memorializes the genocide and internment of Native-Americans, the slavery of African- Americans, the internment of Japanese-Americans, the disparagement of Latino-Americans, and the challenges of present day refugees who seek entry into the United States, and who, in some cases, are held in cages. The world premiere performance will take place at the California African-American Museum at the opening of an exhibit of artifacts that speak to all of these events in the American experience.
Requested Amount: $30,000
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Musical Traditions, Inc./Paul Dresher Ensemble Paul Dresher Ensemble Mr. Paul Dresher, Artistic Director Geographic Area: All California Subcategory: Community enrichment,Education, life-long learning,Oral history,Local libraries,Live theater,Live music
Musical Traditions/Paul Dresher Ensemble will partner with First Look Sonoma to present an original chamber opera, Both Eyes Open, about the internment of immigrants and citizens of Japanese descent, during and after World War II. The production features virtuosic musical talent, vivid interactive audio and video design, with adjoining educational display and audience participatory opportunity, and is partially funded by the National Park Service, to reach beyond those who are already aware of this history, to venues near impacted communities throughout California. Significant attention will be given to ways these events parallel current predicaments among immigrant groups in America today.
Requested Amount: $30,000
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Go For Broke National Education Center GFBNEC Ms. Andie Kimura, Education Manager Geographic Area: Los Angeles - County California Civil Liberties grant application summary for winter 2020 Author: MB Barber; February 26, 2020 Page 5 of 16
Subcategory: Historical documentation,Education, life-long learning,Preservation (local or small-scale project),Oral history,Film or video - public presentation,Storytelling
Go For Broke National Education Center (GFBNEC) seeks to illuminate the little-known experience of Japanese American women who served during World War II. This project will include three components: 1) collecting oral histories of Japanese American women who served in WWII and in the present day to determine what dynamics have changed and what has persisted; 2) identifying, analyzing and digitizing artifacts related to Nisei women serving during WWII; and 3) creating and presenting a pop-up exhibit and public program based on the research findings to expand the public’s understanding of the experiences of Nisei women who served during WWII.
Requested Amount: $29,670
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Asian Improv aRts Mr. Vinay Patel, Administrative Director Geographic Area: San Francisco Bay Area Subcategory: Live music,Storytelling
With the support of the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, Asian Improv aRts in collaboration with the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center of San Francisco will carry out a year long artist residency project in San Francisco featuring composer/musician Jon Jang that will promote the education about and discussion of current social justice issues and immigrant rights in relation to the history of Japanese American internment and the experience of Chinese and Latinx communities.
Requested Amount: 30000
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Densho Mr. Brian Niiya, Content Director Geographic Area: All California Subcategory: Preservation (local or small-scale project),Oral history
Densho proposes to conduct, preserve, and web-host fifteen video life histories of Japanese Americans with a continued focus on the immediate post-concentration camp experience in California, capturing both rural and urban experiences as well as life in hostels and trailer camps. The downloadable interviews—which will be transcribed, indexed, and segmented—will be available online as part of the Densho Digital Repository. Densho will conduct public programs in the Los Angeles and Sacramento areas. The programs will highlight some of the interviews and feature commentary by scholars who have studied this time period.
Requested Amount: $30,000 California Civil Liberties grant application summary for winter 2020 Author: MB Barber; February 26, 2020 Page 6 of 16
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Plaza de la Raza, Inc Plaza de la Raza Mr. Tomas Benitez, Development Los Angeles - County Historical documentation,Community enrichment,Youth empowerment,Education, children,Oral history,Live theater
The Ralph Lazo Project: Is a collaborative research and theatre project involving local youth (12-18) at Plaza de la Raza who will research the story of Ralph Lazo, the young Chicano from Los Angeles who protested the internment of his Japanese American friends and volunteered to be sent to Manzanar during WWII, only to later join the army and fight in the Pacific. Students will research his story using partner resources, including field trips, conduct oral interviews with living survivors, create an educational website, then write their own play, dramatizing the story and present it at venues throughout Southern California.
Requested Amount: $30,000
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California Lutheran University Ms. Michaela Reaves, Professor of History Geographic Area: Central Coast Subcategory: Community enrichment,Education, children
“In Your Own Backyard: Civil Liberties Then and Now ” will offer secondary teachers and their students a way to make the issues of civil liberties and violations a part of their own experience by having them walk and observe the places where events happened. Rather than just reading about events in a book or online, a series of lessons and the accompanying opportunities to visit these places will allow students to discover that “history” and a denial of civil liberties is not something that happens “over there” but something that has taken place “in your own backyard.”
Requested Amount: $29,826
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Japanese American Museum of San Jose JAMsj Mr. Gordon Smith, Vice-President Geographic Area: Sacramento-Sierra region,Sierra Mountain areas,San Francisco Bay Area,Silicon Valley,Central Valley,Central Coast Subcatory: Historical documentation,Education, children,Education, life-long learning,Oral history,Museum(s) California Civil Liberties grant application summary for winter 2020 Author: MB Barber; February 26, 2020 Page 7 of 16
This project will create a scale model of an Internment Camp block showing twelve barracks surrounding the block mess hall, toilets, showers and laundry buildings with partial interiors of the structures. It will be displayed at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose as part of their larger Internment Exhibit. The scale model will provide a 3-Dimensional impact, unavailable from photographs, of camp living to visitors and student groups and used by docents to help explain the Internment. The model will also be a basis for potential future Augmented Reality projects to increase its impact through linked video and documents.
Requested Amount: $30,000
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Los Angeles Opera Company LA Opera Ms. Marlinda Menashe, Director, Institutional Giving and Government Relations Geographic Area: Los Angeles - City,Los Angeles - County Subcategory: Community enrichment,Live theater,Live music
LA Opera will immerse 30 community performers and 1,750 community members in the story of a Chinese immigrant family in California in the 1800s who faced discrimination and violations of their civil liberties after the passing of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 through public performances of the opera “On Gold Mountain”. Up to eight performances will be presented at the Huntington Library in June 2021. Performances will be enhanced with education materials and performance talk-back discussions that will make connections to communities in LA who have faced and still face violations of civil liberties, including the Japanese Internment.
Requested Amount: $30,000
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Fulcrum Arts Mr. Robert Crouch, Executive and Artistic Director Geographic Area: Los Angeles - City,Los Angeles - County Subcategory: Historical documentation,Community enrichment,Education, children,Education, life-long learning,Oral history,Local libraries,Dance,Visual arts,Storytelling
Procession is a large-scale civic action and festival led by Debra Scacco, tracing the geographic and cultural memory of Los Angeles on the LA River. The project highlights strong Indigenous voices within a decolonial framework to reach large public audiences. It presents an opportunity to reframe thousands of years of history of this land, its people, and waters. The performance and festival coincide with turning points in public perspectives at this vital moment of climate crisis.
Requested Amount: $30,000
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Yuba County Sutter County Regional Arts Council Yuba Sutter Arts Mr. David Read, Executive Director Geographic Area: Upper/Northern California (above Sacramento) Subcategory: Historical documentation,Community enrichment,Education, children,Education, life-long learning,Preservation (local or small-scale project),Oral history,Museum(s),Local libraries,Film or video - public presentation,Storytelling
Through a multi-faceted, year-long series of events, exhibits and Day of Remembrance activities in February, we will help preserve and tell the stories of Japanese Americans who resided in Yuba, Sutter, Colusa and Butte counties, and were forcibly removed from their homes in 1942. Over 2,600 residents were briefly incarcerated locally in the Arboga Assembly Center near Marysville before being sent to more permanent camps. The project involves year-round displays and exhibits for the public, and in classrooms for students with new online access to information including firsthand accounts of what happened before, during and after the internment camp experience.
Requested Amount: $30,000
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Heyday Ms. Emily Grossman, Development Manager Geographic Area: All California Subcategory: Historical documentation,Community enrichment,Education, life-long learning,Oral history,Museum(s),Local libraries,Storytelling,Other
Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations is a nonfiction book written by John Tateishi, to be published by Heyday in 2020, alongside an author speaking tour.
Requested Amount: $30,000
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National Japanese American Historical Society NJAHS Ms. Melissa Bailey, Program Development Associate Geographic Area: All California,San Francisco Bay Area Subcategory: Historical documentation,Community enrichment,Education, children,Education, life-long learning
The National Japanese American Historical Society, Inc. (NJAHS), in collaboration with content experts in the Japanese American and academic communities, will plan and implement a statewide professional development series for teachers, and develop curriculum and classroom resources for elementary and secondary students entitled “We Are All Americans: Decision- Making by World War II Incarcerated California Civil Liberties grant application summary for winter 2020 Author: MB Barber; February 26, 2020 Page 9 of 16
Youth and Young Adults.” Our goal is to engage students in a deeper understanding of the complexity of how one chooses to participate as a citizen or participant in this democracy.
Requested Amount: $30,000
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Hollister Youth Alliance Youth Alliance Ms. Diane Ortiz, Executive Director Geographic Area: Central Coast Subcategory: Community enrichment,Youth empowerment,Education, children,Oral history,Film or video - public presentation,Film or video - traditional broadcast (tv, cable),Film or video - online broadcast,Storytelling
The Youth Alliance 25 Year Oral History Project will involve community youth in direct interviews and audio/video recording/podcasts of oral histories from multi-cultural community elders about the 25 year history of Youth Alliance providing innovative and culturally relevant services that strengthen and enrich rural Latino and Native American youth and families in the communities of Hollister, Gilroy and Morgan Hill, California. Youth Alliance programs are located at 20 school and community sites in San Benito and South Santa Clara counties and serve 8,500 youth and families. Goals include using strength-based, family centered and culturally sensitive practices to support youth.
Requested Amount: $30,000
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International Indian Treaty Council IITC Ms. Janeen Antoine, San Francisco Office Manager Geographical Area: All California Subcategory: Historical documentation,Community enrichment,Youth empowerment,Education, children,Education, life-long learning,Film or video - public presentation,Film or video - online broadcast,Other
IITC will promote and present the video “Gold Greed and Genocide” (1999, 22 min) and the CCL funded update (2019, 12 min) on the cultural and environmental impacts of the 1849 Gold Rush on California’s Indigenous Peoples through outreach to schools, libraries, universities, tribes, nonprofits, the internet, and the general public. IITC will produce an updated GGG study guide and a brief cross-cultural study guide on the experiences of Native-, African-, Chinese-, and Japanese-Americans. IITC with NJAHS and two other representative organizations will co-present a conference exploring human and civil rights violations among these groups.
Requested Amount: $30,000
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Blindspot Collective Mr. Blake McCarty, Director of Artistic Development Geographic Area: San Diego Subcategory: Historical documentation,Education, life-long learning,Oral history,Live theater,Dance,Other
Blindspot Collective will develop “Kagitingan,” a performance fusing music, dance, verbatim theatre, research, and cultural traditions. Kagitingan is the Tagalog word for “valor” and refers to Araw ng Kagitingan, an annual holiday marking events in the Philippines during World War II. This project explores the parallels of injustice and prejudice faced by Japanese Americans during their incarceration, and the experiences of Filipino soldiers who fought for America during World War II in exchange for citizenship. That promise was broken by the Rescission Act in 1946 and mirrors the discrimination many current military service members still experience today.
Requested Amount: $30,000
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Asian Story Theater Mr. Kent Brisby, Producing Director Geographic Area: All California,Upper/Northern California (above Sacramento),Sacramento-Sierra region,Sierra Mountain areas,San Diego Subcategory: Historical documentation,Oral history,Museum(s),Local libraries,Live theater,Live music,Film or video - public presentation
The WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans should be seen on the continuum of this nation’s fraught relationship with immigrants and xenophobia, from sobering precedents in the past to cautionary implications for the future. THE GOLDEN RULE is a new theatrical production merging multimedia with both period- and world-music, personalizing the extraordinary period of Gold Rush California from the perspective of three immigrants: the first Chinatown Madam, a runaway slave freed and returned to slavery, and a Sandwich Islander (Hawaiian) arriving years before the discovery of gold. Legal records and historical facts are the inescapable basis for questions we confront today.
Requested Amount: $30,000
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Education/Public Media/Preservation Grant Application Summaries – February 2020
Public Media Group of Southern California KCET Ms. Nancy Hytone Leb, Director of Advancement Geographic Area: Central Valley,Central Coast,Inland Empire (Riverside, San Bernardino, Inyo, Imperial),Los Angeles - City,Los Angeles - County,Orange,San Diego Subcategory: Public Media
KCET’s original program Lost LA tells the often-forgotten stories of Los Angeles and Southern California. In partnership with the USC Libraries/LA as Subject Archives, KCET will create a broadcast documentary with supporting multi-platform content including online editorials, social media, and community engagement activities which will explore the changed environment Los Angeles’ Japanese-American population faced in the years immediately following World War II. Premiering in Spring 2021, this episode will focus on the challenges Japanese-Americans encountered resettling in new neighborhoods after incarceration, and how on-going racism and lack of acceptance empowered the next generation of Asian-Americans to prioritize social justice.
Requested Amount: $100,000
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L.A. Theatre Works Ms. Vicki Pearlson, Managing Director Geographic Area: All California Subcategory: Public Media
L.A. Theatre Works will commission, produce and broadcast a new play about the Northern California branch of the American Civil Liberties Union which, under the leadership of Ernest Besig, joined with Fred Korematsu to challenge the Internment Order despite immense opposition from within and outside the ACLU. The play will be professionally recorded and broadcast on our national radio show, and digitally preserved for streaming and download through our website. We will foster public discussion through recorded interviews with civil rights attorneys, legal historians and others; social media engagement; and creation of discussion guides for students and community groups.
Requested Amount: $86,781
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Monterey History and Art Association Mr. Larry Chavez, Monterey History and Art Association Board President California Civil Liberties grant application summary for winter 2020 Author: MB Barber; February 26, 2020 Page 12 of 16
Geographic Area: Central Valley,Central Coast Subcategory: Public Media
To confront racism against Japanese Americans in the 1940's, a group of women activists garnered support from John Steinbeck and the broader community of Monterey, California. This full length documentary and the accompanying curriculum tell the story about the campaign to discourage Japanese Americans from returning to their hometowns at the end of World War II, and the courageous group of citizens who resisted this bigotry and publicly demanded “The Democratic Way of Life for All".
Requested Amount: $66,273
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Torrance Public Library Ms. June Shimonishi, Reference Librarian Geographic Area: Los Angeles - County Subcategory: Education
The goal is to create 15 Book Groups in a Box and present 3 free public programs to celebrate diversity. The Book Group in a Box provides a person everything they need to run a book club. Each Box contains 10 copies of a book, professionally prepared discussion questions, and background information. The curated titles would showcase a range of experiences from the impact of the exclusion and detention of persons of Japanese ancestry during World War II to the continuing struggles of other populations in the U.S. on the basis of race or national origin.
Requested Amount: $5,982
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Chinese for Affirmative Action Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality (AACRE) Ms. Miko Lee, Producer/Director Geographic Area: All California Subcategory: Public Media
Miko Lee, creator of the “Expanding Narratives” project and a producer for APEX Express (Pacifica Radio, KPFA), will create seven interview-based radio episodes on the internment of Japanese Americans, linking to contemporary civil liberties issues. Segments will counter historical misconceptions around the exclusion and detention of Japanese Americans and will include stories from former detainees who are aging, but still with us to offer first person accounts. Miko will excerpt shorter files as downloadable resources for educators, and project partners will help produce workshops and curriculum guides with accessible lessons for different types of learners.
Requested Amount: $55,000 California Civil Liberties grant application summary for winter 2020 Author: MB Barber; February 26, 2020 Page 13 of 16
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The University Corporation (California State University, Northridge) Mr. Clement Lai, Professor of Asian American Studies Geographic Area: Los Angeles - County Subcategory: Education
World Remaking: Intergenerational Activism and Transformative Justice focuses on the intersections between Japanese American WWII era incarceration and the struggles for transformative and reparative justice concerning incarceration, deportation, detention, and criminalization for some of the most underrepresented Asian Pacific Islander groups in Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley including Pacific Islanders, Native Hawaiians, South East Asians, and Japanese Americans. Our yearlong program will address how storytelling, performance, and public dialogue between different generations of activists and communities generate new forms of political mobilization, collective healing, and transformative justice.
Requested Amount: $100,000
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Visual Communications Media Visual Communications Ms. Rachelle Samson, Director, Strategic Partnerships Geographic Area: All California Subcategory: Education
“REVISITING: ROBERT NAKAMURA” will offer a long-overdue appreciation of the pivotal works of director Robert A. Nakamura — a key figure in the development of Asian Pacific American cinema, and a co-founder of the vanguard media arts organization Visual Communications. We propose complementary programs and activities tied to director Nakamura’s key works as a VC staff member — WATARIDORI: BIRDS OF PASSAGE (1976) and HITO HATA: RAISE THE BANNER (1980), both of which are being restored for public presentation, and which leverages the confinement experience and its aftermath in celebrating and interrogating the Japanese American experience during the 20th Century.
Requested Amount: $29,569
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Media Bridges, Inc. MBI Ms. gayle k. yamada, CEO, Media Bridges, Inc. Geographic Area: All California Subcategory: Preservation
Stories and Legacies digitally preserves hundreds of oral histories and interviews conducted over more than 35 years for television and radio programs and a book that reflect the Japanese-American California Civil Liberties grant application summary for winter 2020 Author: MB Barber; February 26, 2020 Page 14 of 16 experience, primarily in the early to mid-1900s, particularly during World War II. These personal stories range from being imprisoned in camps during the War to fighting with the Military Intelligence Service. The raw video and audio tapes and ephemera were research for the finished projects. Stories and Legacies will digitize, archive, and preserve them, making them accessible to researchers, scholars, and the general public for all time, at Stanford University.
Requested Amount: $71,513
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Japanese American National Museum JANM Mr. Thomas Gallatin, Grants Manager Geographic Area: All California Subcategory: Public Media
The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is seeking a grant in support of phase III of the Stanley Hayami Diary Project. Title "A Life in Pieces: The Diary and Letters of Stanley Hayami", this immersive and interactive exhibition will share a young Japanese American boys’ journey — from his home in the San Gabriel Valley, to life in concentration camp and then to his service in the military — through letters, journal entries, and personal artworks. Onsite at JANM beginning in Spring 2020, this exhibition will provide multiple educational and public programming – both onsite and outside of Little Tokyo
Requested Amount: $100,000
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Heritage Future / 1888 Center Ms. Jonelle Strickland, Grant Manager Geographic Area: All California Subcategory: Public Media
The 2020 Chapters series increases the scope of our 2018/2019 coverage from a single county (Orange) to the entire State of California, while also doubling our participating partnerships from “five” to “ten."
Our primary role in this third and final round will be to apply a “multiplier effect” by chronicling the goals, challenges, and public responses to programming funded through the California Civil Liberties Program over the past three years.
The California State Library will then have a tangible tool that it can use to advocate for and secure future funding to continue to promote and protect civil liberties.
Requested Amount: $40,650
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Japanese American National Museum JANM Mr. Thomas Gallatin, Grants Manager Geographic Area: All California Subcategory: Public Media
During World War II, over 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were unjustly incarcerated in American concentration camps. Approximately one-third were children. Despite the abrupt disruption to their childhoods, young people drew upon their own resilience and creativity to forge a new world for themselves. The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will present an exhibition dedicated to the many youth clubs in America’s concentration camps, which will share first-person insight into the resilience and ingenuity of young Americans who had little control over their circumstances.
Requested Amount: $100,000
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Fred T. Korematsu Institute Korematsu Institute (KI) Ms. Karen Korematsu, Executive Director Geographic Area: All California Subcategory: Public Media
The Korematsu Institute will complete the final phases of its larger project to remaster and update "Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story," so the two-time Emmy-award-winning documentary educates a new generation about the WWII Japanese American incarceration and related civil liberties challenges today. The film’s director will re-edit the film in Ultra High Definition (UHD) 4K and add material linking Korematsu’s story with current civil rights violations and other populations’ experiences. The finished film will reach the broadest-possible audience through streamers like Netflix, Amazon, and Kanopy. KI will also connect educators with complementary curricula online.
Requested Amount: $100,000
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Nichi Bei Foundation Mr. Kenji G. Taguma, President Geographic Area: All California Subcategory: Public Media
The Nichi Bei Foundation hopes to expand its Films of Remembrance program — a day-long showcase of films on the Japanese American incarceration experience during World War II — to more locations throughout California. In addition, we hope to make many of the 80 films we have showcased over the first nine years on a new Website, allowing for the streaming of such films globally. We also plan on California Civil Liberties grant application summary for winter 2020 Author: MB Barber; February 26, 2020 Page 16 of 16 sharing the streaming revenue generated with the filmmakers who created the work. Lastly, we hope to distribute grants to support new film projects, which would be presented at Films of Remembrance.
Requested Amount: $100,000
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KVIE Inc. Ms. Antonia Glenn, Director Geographic Area: All California Subcategory: Public Media
Before They Take Us Away (working title) is an original documentary feature film that captures the stories of Japanese Americans whose families “voluntarily” evacuated from California upon the issuance of Executive Order 9066 in early 1942. Approximately 5,000 Japanese Americans escaped being incarcerated in concentration camps by self-evacuating, but faced their own unique challenges as they attempted to resettle in often remote, unforgiving landscapes and battled poverty, hunger, hostility and racial violence. Before They Take Us Away is the first feature documentary to chronicle this largely unknown chapter in the Japanese American experience and in US history.
Requested Amount: $100,000 Name of Organization Project Description of Project CHAPTERS is a multi-part Creative + Cultural Podcast series (hosted by CHAPTERS: A multi-part Heritage Future - available for download) dedicated to stories surrounding 1888 Center/Heritage Creative + Cultural Podcast the exclusion, forced removal, and internment of Japanese-Americans. Future series The program also parallels a narrative thread through Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Available on Apple Podcasts and Spodify. Building History 3.0 encourages students to explore themes of civil K-12 projects about liberties, democracy, immigration, and civic engagement. Young people Japanese incarceration Building History 3.0 sometimes perceive history lessons to be boring, but this project explores during WWII -- utilizing the history of the Heart Mountain and the Japanese American civil Minecraft liberties violations during WWII -- in Minecraft! This interactive online activity leads users through the incredibly difficult California State Library Internment Experience decisions and hardships experience by Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II because of their ethnic heritage. Valley Public Radio speaks with three Central Valley residents about their Yonsei Memory Project - experience with a local storytelling workshop, as well as their own stories Fresno Arts Council public radio interview concerning prejudice, reconciliation, and redemption. A second public radio program and other media outreach took place as well. During World War II, 120,000 Japanese Americans and residents of Japanese descent were incarcerated as a result of Federal Executive California State Government Order 9066. While incarceration of Japanese Americans was primarily a Friends of the and Incarceration of federal action, the California state agencies had a significant role in the California Archives Japanese Americans During removal process. The California Archives staff has searched various WWII state agency collections in the California State Archives to create a topical collection of materials concerning Japanese American incarceration and the role of state government. The objective of this guide is to be a resource for teachers introducing their students to the California State Archives’ online exhibit titled “California State Government and Incarceration of Japanese Americans Teacher Exhibit Guide: during World War II.” It is designed to meet the standards for high school Friends of the California State Government U.S. History Curriculum. The activities in this guide will allow students to California State and Incarceration of use primary source documents to learn about the role that state Archives [1] Japanese Americans during government played in the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II World War II, explore the attitudes and sentiments of government officials at the time, and consider how the complex issues regarding Japanese American incarceration during World War II relates to current events. [2] This multi-page pre/post lesson plan for Go For Broke National Education Go for Broke National Oral Histories and Education Center's "Defining Courage" exhibition, including oral histories supported Education Center Packet by the California Civil Liberties program. Name of Organization Project Description of Project Japanese American Dynamic hosting of haunting oral histories from those who survived the Tessaku Museum of San Jose Japanese-American incarceration during WWII. Wicked Cool Stories: Oral Japanese American Histories of Japanese Oral histories of survivors of the incarceration of Japanese Americans Museum of San Jose Internment during WWII. Formal program of oral histories from survivors of the incarceration of Japanese American Manabu: Oral History Japanese Americans during WWII. Also includes a live online discussion Museum of San Jose Project (recording available at https://www.facebook. com/JAMsjOfficial/videos/636096633906083/?__tn__=-R) Kizuna staff show talks history and shows clips from the fictional TV "The Terror" (from AMC) program "The Terror," a horror program from AMC that bases its fictional Kizuna talks with Kizuna story on the real situations faced by Japanese Americans before and during WWII. Kizuna took to the street to see if pedestrians knew the meaning behind a piece of public art, a statue of a man. The man is Chiune Sugihara, a What is that? Little Tokyo Kizuna Japanese diplomat in Lithuania during WWII who gave visas through video mystery statue Japanese territory to thousands of Jews and helped them escape Germany. Cooking Up History: Kizuna Japanese American Ever wonder what Japanese Americans were eating during WWII Internment Foods internment camp? In the Kizuna Kitchen, we decided to find out! In 1943, the War Department and the War Relocation Authority (WRA) created a questionnaire to determine the loyal from the disloyal in the Japanese American internment camp. The questionnaire was Japanese American controversial in many ways due to the fact it was questioning the loyalty of Kizuna Millennials Take the Loyalty American citizens and also, the final two questions on the questionnaire Questionnaire created tension, confusion and anger due to their wording and implications. To explore the contents and how the previous generation might have felt, we asked young Japanese Americans to take the questionnaire. Blindly Tasting Japanese Kizuna cooked up some WWII Japanese American incarceration foods -- Kizuna Incarceration Foods then we brought our Kizuna friends together for a blind taste test. Name of Organization Project Description of Project Kizuna Marketing Intern Nicole Oshima was tasked with covering the 2019 Los Angeles Day of Remembrance at the Japanese American National Museum. This years theme was Keeping Children Safe and Families Together comparing and contrasting today with what happened Day of Remembrance: to Japanese Americans during and after World War II. She had the Kizuna Keeping Children Safe and opportunity to interview 3 community organizers, Hideki Fukusumi, Kay Families Together Ochi, and Koji Steven Sakai asking them why Day of Remembrance is still important today. (This program came after the initial funding for the organization from the California Civil Liberties program, but fits in with the educational mission of the original investment.) The Fred T. Korematsu Institute promotes the importance of remembering one of the most blatant forms of racial profiling in U.S. history, the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. In this collection, standards- PBS' Learning Media "Fred aligned lesson plans on the WWII Japanese American incarceration Korematsu Institute T. Korematsu Institute explore topics such as Japanese American resistance to the incarceration Collection" and the U.S. government’s misleading use of language and euphemisms. Each lesson plan integrates a documentary film clip and includes background information, focus questions, objectives, historical thinking skills, detailed activities, and supplementary materials. Hour-long version of The Ito Sisters, a documentary that captures the rarely told stories of the earliest Japanese immigrants to the United States and their American-born children. Featuring interviews with the three National Japanese sisters -- conducted in their 80s and 90s -- the film is also brought to life The Ito Sisters: An American American Historical through family and archival photographs and documents; verbatim quotes Story Society from prominent historical figures; commentary and analysis from renowned scholars; and artistic illustrations. Main website at www. itosisters.com, which includes various articles about the film and the subject matter. Silent Sacrifice: Stories of American Incarceration is a two-hour documentary film that will shed light on the ramifications of Executive Silent Sacrifice: Stories of Order 9066. This landmark film shares the experience of Japanese Valley PBS American Incarceration Americans before, during and after WWII with a focus on the Merced, Tulare, Fresno and Pinedale Assembly Centers. Full film available for viewing online. This dynamic online resource explains the history of California's past Kelley House Museum Story-map of Look Tin Eli discriminatory laws and the success Chinese-Californian Look Tin Eli in the northern part of the state. History article and list of A local northern California museum examines the historic record of Kelley House Museum "China Towns" in Northern Chinese-American settlements in rural northern California. California Name of Organization Project Description of Project HEAR: Histories of Exclusion And Resistance is a series exploring the HEAR: Histories of KALW connections between Japanese American incarceration and modern civil Exclusion And Resistance liberties issues. Audio available from multiple programs. A seven-part short video series designed as thought provoking educational material for classroom or small group discussions about the We the People video series incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII in violation of their civil California Museum and discussion guides liberties. The goal of this series is to inspire people to become informed and politically involved in decision making that effects our communities and our country. A Nevada City Union article describes the project. Despite the trauma of their incarceration during World War II, Japanese Americans built new lives while detained at concentration camps like Manzanar. Three renowned photographers captured these scenes: KCET Three Views of Manzanar outsiders Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams and incarceree Tōyō Miyatake who boldly smuggled in a camera lens to document life from within the camp. This edition of the community-based radio program Your Call, guests and moderators discuss links between the mass incarceration of people of KALW Your Call broadcast Japanese descent and modern policies under the discussion question, "How do we avoid repeating the civil liberties violations of Japanese American detention?" On this edition of Your Call, hear the first conversation from an ongoing series of events exploring the connections between Japanese-American incarceration and modern civil liberties issues. KALW hosts talk with KALW Your Call broadcast 2 activist Grace Shimizu, asylum seeker and immigration advocate Veronica Aguilar, and Norm Ishimoto, whose parents were incarcerated. Reporter Laura Morel discusses her reporting on immigrant children who've been forcibly separated from their parents. On this edition of Your Call, hear the discussion at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose about communities that have faced KALW Your Call broadcast 3 exclusion, from Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II to immigrants from around the world. Radio program is slated to address that "Immigrant rights activists say 'Never Again is Now'" The national organization Go for Broke provided information like this to Kingsburg Historical the Central California historical society in Kingsburg to craft and make Society and Go for Education packet available an educator's packet on the subject of civil liberties violations Broke during World War II. Name of Organization Project Description of Project L.A. Theatre Works records plays live in performance -- this time The Sisters Matsumoto. In 1945, three Japanese American sisters return to their farm in Stockton California after years in a camp, and discover dark Sisters Matsumoto (radio LA TheatreWorks secrets about the life they’re trying to rebuild. Includes a post-play play recording) discussion with actor George Takei, playwright Philip Kan Gotanda, and director Tim Dang. While the open radio/podcast time has passed, there is an archive version available (fee based). The filmmakers and others involved in the various films shown during the Films of Rememberence film festival discuss the WWII forced relocation Films of Remembrance Nichi Bei Foundation and other topics related to civil liberties. Multiple videos hosted by Nichi post-screen discussions Bei, and multiple articles available at https://www.nichibei.org/tag/films-of- remembrance/. Guidance for teaching U.S. History with a focus on the incarceration of people of Japanese descent during WWII. This lesson places an emphasis on one aspect in particular, the consternation caused by the Education Guide from the questionnaire that was used to determine the loyalty of the Japanese and CSU Dominguez Hills CSU Japanese American Japanese Americans incarcerated in War Relocation Authority (WRA) Digitization Project camps and the subsequent removal of “disloyals” to the Tule Lake Segregation Camp. Lesson plans and guides to the research of primary materials available. The Living Memory Lab creates cross-cultural and intergenerational Yonsei Memory Project’s Fresno Arts Council memory practices. Information about this project and others was “Living Memory Lab” highlighted by Vogue magazine in March of 2019. Eleven fellows of the Yonsei Memory Project delivered work in an evening Yonsei Memory Project - performing -- work that was crafted as part of the Storytelling for Change Fresno Arts Council "Storytelling for Change" program. A local Central Valley cultural news source described the experience. "Relocation camps changed First-person article in the Los Angles Times about the programming at the Glendale Library, Arts the lives of many Japanese Glendale Library about the impact of the incarceration of Japanese & Culture Americans during World Americans during World War II. Project was part of the City of Glendale's War II" (LA Times) "Reflect Space" programming. As part of a series that introduces young readers to real-life heroes and heroines of social progress, the story of Fred Korematsu’s fight against Fred Korematsu Speaks Up Heyday discrimination explores the life of one courageous person who made the (children's book) United States a fairer place for all Americans, and it encourages all of us to speak up for justice. Name of Organization Project Description of Project The Japanese Diaspora Initiative (JDI) aims to make the Hoover Institution Library & Archives a leading center for archive-based research Japanese Cultural and and analysis on historical issues regarding Japan in core areas of interest Hoji Shinbun Digital Community Center of to the institution: war, revolution, and peace. This collection includes Collection Northern California ShinSekai (1906-1912); NichiBei Shinbun (1906-1918); Heimin Shinbun (1911-1919) that were housed with this nonprofit previously, as well as other materials. "Lost L.A.: Descanso Gardens" explores the history of one of southern California's most-beloved public gardens -- on that has a deep history with the civil liberties violations during WWII and the Japanese American KCET Descanso Gardens community. From its pre-colonial origins as an oak woodland to its contemporary role as a living museum, the film examines how the Descanso Gardens reflects the social, political and cultural evolution of Los Angeles. KCET's multi-media program Lost LA examined the history of Descanso Gardens. This online article examines one aspect of the Garden's history: KCET Reconsidering the Camellia it's famous camellias and the Japanese Americans who nurtured before having to sell their nursery during WWII. The Kingsburg Historical Society hosted a multi-faceted exhibit created by Courage and Compassion: the Go For Broke National Education Center and featuring local Central Kingsburg Historical travelling exhibit on Valley stories from World War II. Local media coverage was from the Society Japanese American WWII Fresno Bee, and an educator's guide was provided. http: experience //kingsburghistoricalpark.org/event-item/communities-of-compassion/. The Fresno Bee covered the various community talk-backs and related projects surrounding the "Courage and Compassion" travelling exhibit Kingsburg Historical Courage and Compassion about the Japanese American WWII experience, hosted by the local Society exhibit and community talks Central Valley historical society and with an emphasis on the multi- cultural impact of on the area. This popular Curriculum Toolkit, which is sent to educators free-of-charge, Korematsu Curriculum includes an expanded Teacher's Guide and new multimedia materials. Korematsu Institute Toolkit Educators may request kits here: http://www.korematsuinstitute. org/curriculum-kit-order-form/ Norman Mineta and his This documentary portrait of the American statesman and trailblazer, Media Bridges Legacy: An American Story premiered on Monday, May 20, 2019, on various PBS stations nationally. Name of Organization Project Description of Project "The events and circumstances that led to the Japanese prison camps in the 1940s are strikingly similar to what’s happening today," notes the website. Every incarcerated man, woman, and child was forced to wear a Riverside Art Museum People of the Tags video tag with a name and a number. Made of replicas of these tags, Wendy Maruyama’s hanging sculptures bear silent witness, and performing artists interact with the local Inland Empire community through storytelling. Compelling graphic novel based on the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the U.S. Army's Japanese American segregated fighting regiment. Even with their families confined behind barbed wire in American concentration (independent authors camps, these soldiers fought to rescue their fellow countrymen lost Koji Steven Sakai & 442 - The Graphic Novel behind enemy lines. The 442nd would become the most decorated unit of Phinneas Kiyomura; the War. A fictionalized account based on the actual events, "442" follows Rob Sato, illus.) young Japanese Americans soldiers as they suffer prejudice, internment and terrible casualties in their battle to rescue the Lost Battalion. Copies were distributed to California schools and public libraries. L.A. Theatre Works records plays live in performance -- this time Hold These Truths. During WWII in Seattle, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi fights the US government's orders to forcibly remove Hold These Truths (radio and incarcerate all people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast. As LA TheatreWorks play recording) he struggles to reconcile his country's betrayal with his passionate belief in the US Constitution, Gordon begins a 50-year journey toward a greater understanding of America's triumphs - and a confrontation with its failures. Includes interview with the playright. Small fee for digital recording. The Civil Liberties Project at AjA explores the socio-political climate in which Japanese-American incarceration occurred in the United States. Participants in the project produced photography in response to or were The Civil Liberties Project at AjA Project inspired by the original documents and photographs from the time period. AjA Ultimately The Civil Liberties project asked participants to think critically about their identities: “who they are, what that means, and why that matters”. The theater company's play, Shizzy's Story, examines the real history of a Shizzy's Story (theatrical Los Angeles educator's family history during the incarceration of Enrichment Works production for children) Japanese Americans during WWII. This local news story gives an overview of the play and its impact. Exiled Voices, an education program dedicated to cultivating empathy and understanding for vulnerable populations through visual and Intrepid Theatre Exiled Voices School Tour performing arts, visited various schools in southern CA. The San Diego Union Tribune covered the program: https://www.sandiegouniontribune. com/entertainment/theater/sd-et-theater-intrepid-20180216-story.html. Name of Organization Project Description of Project Japanese American Museum Exhibit of Citizens League, Fresno Bee article about the local impact of the museum exhibit, with Japanese Americans in the Central California information from survivors of the incarceration of Japanese Americans San Joaquin Valley District Council during WWII as well as community program impact. For the Los Angeles premiere of the Broadway musical Allegiance in Japanese American Study guide companion for spring of 2018, a study guide was created and distributed. Now available Cultural and Alliegiance: the Musical online at no cost for the public. Video archive of project available at http: Community Center //allegiancemusical.com/#Qu4bQzbG6um37JE1.97. Students from all over Los Angeles County performed alongside LA Opera artists in the "The White Bird of Poston," composed by Eli Villanueva with libretto by Leslie Stevens. This opera explores themes of In-School Opera Teaches service and citizenship, as well as the issues of prejudice, racism and LA Opera Important Lessons Both On cultural differences. Classroom teachers partner with LA Opera teaching and Off the Stage artists to create, multi-week, choral programs that foster a love of music and are integrated into the curriculum, featuring themes of community building, social justice, and cooperative action. These simulated horse stall barrack are included in the Dislocation and Dislocation and Divergence National Japanese Divergence installation at the MIS Historic Learning Center in the Presidio - replica of the Japanese- American Historical of San Francisco. National Archives photographs of life in repurposed American incarceration Society horse stalls and barracks of Tanforan, Santa Anita, and Salinas living conditions “Assembly Centers” are included as well. Showcase of films and community discussions surrounding the signing of Executive Order 9066, leading to the forced incarceration of approximately 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry into camps during Nichi Bei Foundation Films of Remembrance World War II. Films and discussions include the impact of these civil liberties violations and parallels to other situations today. The program is an annual event, noted at https://www.nichibei.org/films-of-remembrance/. Authors created curricula involving topics such as immigration, persecution, and assimilation to allow increased empathy to inform PEN in the Community PEN Center USA West students’ own storytelling, and students shared their creative work in a writing residencies final reading to celebrate the printing of a shared anthology, Telling Our Story. https://pen.org/event/telling-our-story-2/ "For the Sake of the Children" explores the legacy of the Japanese American incarceration, its impact on current generations who are descendants of families who were incarcerated and the complex interplay Poston Community For the Sake of the Children of culture, racial prejudice, history, and intergenerational differences. For Alliance the Sake of the Children captures the diverse voices of women who surmounted imprisonment, racial prejudice, displacement and resettlement. https://www.forthesakeofchildren.org/resource Name of Organization Project Description of Project During World War II, people of Japanese decent were forced to wear a tag with a name and a number. Made of replicas of these tags, artist Wendy Maruyama: E.O. Wendy Maruyama created hanging sculptures and performing artists Riverside Art Museum 9066 and The People of the presented pieces that gave dramatic testimony to the real people behind Tags these tags -- stories that included acts of bravery and human decency that can teach us strategies for navigating the turbulence of today. The information site InlandEmpire.us profiles the workshops and public #NeverForget: Voicing events at the art museum that include Artists-in-Residence outreach to Riverside Art Museum Unheard Stories at the community to hear stories of kismet and kindness about or that Riverside Art Museum resonate with the Japanese American incarceration during WWII. Theatrical review in the San Jose Mercury News of Jeanne Sakata’s TheatreWorks Silicon Review of “Hold These “Hold These Truths” at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in 2018, a one- Valley Truths” person play originally written in 2007. TheatreWorks Silicon Review of "Hold These Valley Truths" at Bay Area Plays. Review of the production of the play "Hold These Truths" in August 2018. TheatreWorks Silicon KQED review of "Hold KQED's review and background of Hold These Truths, a play about Valley These Truths" Californian Gordon Hirabayashi. Summary of the Moving Walls short documentary, based on the book of Visual Communications Moving Walls Documentary the same name, about the Heart Mountain incarceration camp of - Moving Walls about Heart Mountain Japanese Americans during WWII and the re-use of the camp materials by local homesteaders after the war. Summer 2019 witnessed a mainstream cable-network serial based in the WWII camps that incarcerated Japanese Americans in violation of their TIME article on impact of civil liberties. "[It] will be a welcome rarity: a mainstream depiction of the n/a Civil Liberties program on World War II incarceration camps in which Japanese Americans are popular culture actually at the center of their own story." The Civil Liberties program is noted as a contributor in this shift over time. Starting Aug. 12, Season 2 of AMC’s anthology “The Terror” — set within LA TIMES interview with a WWII-era Japanese American community plagued by horrors star of The Terror, cable supernatural and human — will bring new attention to this underexamined n/a television series set in the chapter in American history. Previous projects funded by the Civil Japanese American Liberties program laid the public knowledge of these events that serve as incarceration camps. the setting for the program. Name of Organization Project Description of Project In February 1942, nearly 120,000 U.S. citizens and residents lost their freedom, their homes and their possessions solely because of their ancestry. A few months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, Manzanar: The Wartime 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt signed into effect Executive Order Photographs of Ansel California Center for 9066, allowing the relocation of all persons of Japanese ancestry living Adams & Wendy Maruyama the Arts - Escondido within a 50- to 60-mile stretch of the Pacific Ocean along western coast of - article in the San Diego the United States. This often-overlooked, dark chapter of the U.S. World Tribune War II effort is the subject of a joint exhibition at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido: “Manzanar: The Wartime Photographs of Ansel Adams” and “Wendy Maruyama: Executive Order 9066.” (from the article) This Washington Post article examines the parallels of the Japanese- Reparations Mean More American experience with the African-American experience concerning then Money for a Family n/a civil liberties and the economic price of discrimination on a community who Endured Slavery, from over time. Multi-media effects, primary source documents and the Washington Post photographic images are used quite effectively in this article. Dozens of students participated in an immersive performing arts program that leads performance. When they’re not learning the music or working Lifetime Lessons at Opera out the basics of stage movement, the campers are immersed in powerful LA Opera Camp experiences and discussions about civil rights and social justice -- as well as field trips to museums to learn about the Holocaust and Japanese- American incarceration camps during WWII. [1] Responder updated this value.
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