Co-presentation with Kimi Kodani Hill, family historian and author of Topaz Moon, and Linda Harms Okazaki, genealogist and family historian, President of the California Genealogical Society and Library, about tracing your family's roots and telling your family history. Part of the J-Sei Saturday Morning Series.
Will serve as a fellow at conference with Director Martha Rhodes, faculty Gabriel Fried, Joan Houlihan, John Murillo, and Patrick Phillips, and fellow Eugenia Leigh.
Presentation of Topaz, Making Home from War, and related projects.
Group reading for Litquake and Lit Crawl with Seventeen Syllables writing collective: Caroline Kim Brown, Jay Ruben Dayrit, Lillian Howan, Grace Loh Prasad, Marianne Villanueva, and MC Brynn Saito.
Reading poems from Topaz in a co-presentation with Laurel Blossom, author of Longevity.
This intergenerational event features published stories by Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in camps during World War II and poetry from Janice Mirikitani, Brynn Saito, and me.
Group Lit Crawl reading with members of Seventeen Syllables Writing Collective: Lillian Howan, Caroline Kim-Brown, Grace Loh Prasad, and Brynn Saito.
Group reading with members of Seventeen Syllables Writing Collective--Jay Ruben Dayrit, Lillian Howan, Caroline Kim-Brown, Grace Loh Prasad, Brynn Saito, Marianne Villanueva--and special guest, Mari L'Esperance.