AZ Gallery's new art exhibition "Sansei Granddaughters' Journey: From Remembrance to Resistance" in San Bruno honors the history of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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Panel on refugees to discuss advocacy, concerns
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
Posted Mar 08, 2021
Sara Bedford is director of the New American Program at Jewish Family Service of Western Massachusetts. (Photo by Anne-Gerard Flynn, Special to The Republican)
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SPRINGFIELD Sara Bedford, director of the New American Program at Jewish Family Service of Western Massachusetts that resettled 63 refugees last year in Greater Springfield, is among the panelists who will discuss their work, as well as the resilience of those fleeing oppression, on Tuesday, March 9, 7 to 8:30 p.m.
The link to the virtual panel on Zoom can be accessed on the Springfield College website, springfield.edu/news/virtual-panel-discussion-refugee-issues-march-9
‘Shadows from the Past: Sansei Artists and the American Concentration Camps’
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STOCKTON LH Horton Jr. Gallery at San Joaquin Delta College presents “Shadows from the Past: Sansei Artists and the American Concentration Camps,” opening with an online exhibition at http://gallery.deltacollege.edu on Thursday, Jan. 21, and an opening reception to meet the artists at 5:30 p.m. PST. Participate online via Zoom: https://www.deltacollege.edu/event/shadows-past-sansei-artists-and-american-concentration-camps-opening-reception-
The exhibition presents the work of eight nationally recognized Sansei artists whose work reflects their mutual Japanese American history and the racial injustice of their families’ incarceration during WWII in the American concentration camps. These Sansei are now the last generation to hear the stories of those incarcerated first-hand.