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Nobuko Miyamoto - YES! Magazine


Nobuko Miyamoto
Nobuko Miyamoto
is a third-generation Japanese American songwriter, dance and theater artist, and activist. She is the artistic director of Great Leap. Her work has explored ways to reclaim and decolonize our minds, bodies, histories, and communities, using the arts to create social change and solidarity across cultural borders. Her albums A Grain of Sand, with Chris Iijima and Charlie Chin, and 120,000 Stories are part of the Smithsonian Folkways catalog.
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Asian American Sisters in the Movement for Racial Liberation


Asian American Sisters in the Movement for Racial Liberation
Apr 12, 2021
The author, Nobuko Miyamoto, attends the opening night of “Allegiance” at Japanese American Cultural & Community Center on Feb. 28, 2018, in Los Angeles.
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A look back at inter-racial solidarity between Black Americans and Asian Americans, from Nobuko Miyamoto in “Not Yo’ Butterfly.”
From internment camp to Broadway to activism, Nobuko Miyamoto steered her life toward creativity and liberation. In this excerpt from her memoir, Not Yo’ Butterfly
(forthcoming, University of California Press, 2021), she describes how working on films about the Black Panthers and the Young Lords in the late 1960s led her to Yuri Kochiyama and a sanctuary for inter-racial solidarity. ....

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'Yellow Pearl: Celebrating the Birth of the Asian American Movement'


‘Yellow Pearl: Celebrating the Birth of the Asian American Movement’
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On Wednesday, April 7, at 11:30 a.m. PST, watch the #HERITAGEiRL livestream as artists-activists Nobuko Miyamoto, Elizabeth (Liz) Young, and Arlan Huang, reminisce about the Basement Workshop, Asian Women United, the Yellow Pearl Project, and the people and groups that made it happen.
This program will be facilitated by Phil Tajitsu Nash from the University of Maryland. Click here to watch.
In 1972, the collective known as Basement Workshop in Chinatown, NYC published the art book “Yellow Pearl.” It was originally a project meant to illustrate the music of Chris Iijima, Nobuko Miyamoto, and Charlie Chin, but grew into a 57-page compilation of writing, art, and music by over 30 Asian American artists. The introduction of the collection reads: ....

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Nobuko Miyamoto's New Album: '120,000 Stories'


Nobuko Miyamoto’s New Album: ‘120,000 Stories’
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Singer, artist, and activist Nobuko Miyamoto has announced her newest album, “120,000 Stories,” on Smithsonian Folkways.
Her first album was 1973’s seminal “A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America,” released by Barbara Dane’s Paredon label, which was the first album of its kind detailing the experiences of Asian Americans in the 20
th century.
“120,000 Stories” continues that legacy; its title evokes the approximate number of people of Japanese ancestry who were incarcerated in camps run by the U.S. government during World War II.
It collects new music, recorded with Grammy-winner Quetzal Flores in Los Angeles, that speaks to issues such as Asian American stereotypes and the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as music from “A Grain of Sand,” recordings of her late-1970s group Warriors of the Rainbow, and performances from various stage productions thr ....

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