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From: Andrea Temkin [mailto:andreatemkin@gmail.com]
Free Online Workshop by Facing History
Artists and educators working with immigration and identity issues might join a free online workshop by Facing History & Ourselves: "Civic Dilemmas: Religion, Migration and Belonging." The two-week workshop, March 26-April 8, 2009, requires a minimum time commitment of three hours over that period. Key questions include: How does migration impact the identities of migrants and non-migrants? How should communities balance the competing needs of reproducing national identity, promoting integration and community cohesion and pluralism? And, how do these issues play out in schools? In schools, is there a contradiction between creating common identities and fostering group pride? Discussion will feature two new publications from Facing History: "Stories of Identity: Religion, Migration and Belonging" and "What Do We Do with a Difference: France and the Debate Over Headscarves in Schools." Resources may be downloaded for free.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
"Uncle Toisan" History Alive! Performances
From: judy.hu@gmail.com
Chinese Historical Society of America
Presents...
"Uncle Toisan"
Exclusive school performances to Bay Area public schools this spring
CHSA offered free performances in a similar vein in 2006 with the History Alive! performance of "Chinatown is Burning! Hugh Liang: Eyewitness to the 1906 Earthquake and Fire," the special presentation we had prepared for the Earthquake Centennial celebration.
Performed by Artist-in-Residence Charlie Chin, "Uncle Toisan" features the unique experience of a Chinese American immigrant to the United States. This one-man theater performance has historical relevance to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Angel Island, World War II, and the modern post-civil rights movement.
Performances are offered free to Bay Area public elementary, middle and high schools during May and June this year--just in time for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in May.
This Chautauquan performance allows school-age audiences to see history come alive in the form of storytelling in which the presenter takes on the character of an actual person in history, tells that person's story, takes questions from the audience in character, and then finally steps out of the character in order to discuss the character's life.
The "Uncle Toisan" presentation is about one hour long. More detailed information is below. Please contact me if you have any questions; otherwise to schedule bookings of "Uncle Toisan," please contact Michelle Louie at michelle@chsa.org or 415-391-1188 x101.
Judy Hu
Communications Director
Chinese Historical Society of America
965 Clay Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
t: 415-391-1188 x107
e: judy@chsa.org
w: chsa.org
ABOUT "Uncle Toisan"
Uncle Toisan enters the country as a 17 year old "paper son" (immigrants who purchased legal immigration status as a "paper son" of an American citizen), then perseveres through a two-month detention at Angel Island Immigration Station on the eve of its closing in 1939. Angel Island Immigration Station, often called Ellis Island of the West, operated from 1910 to 1940 as a detention center to control the flow of immigrants--largely Chinese, but also Japanese and Russian.
He is then drafted in 1942 to serve in Europe during World War II, returning from the battlefield to face discrimination at home as a laborer in the restaurants and laundries of SF Chinatown. However, he witnesses and experiences the tremendous changes in Chinatown stemming from the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the final lifting of Exclusion, the growth of Asian American political empowerment and the changing demographics of California due to post Vietnam war rounds of immigration.
The premise of the story will be Uncle Toisan playing the Chinese two stringed fiddle called the erhu on the street in Chinatown to make a few extra dollars to supplement his retirement in a small apartment he shares with his nephew's family who recently immigrated from the People's Republic of China. It is the early 1990's and Uncle Toisan is in his late 70's. A group of students from UC Berkeley Asian American Studies class on a walking tour led by CHSA guides, stops to talk to him, inspiring him to share his story.
"Uncle Toisan" is generously supported by a grant from the James Irvine Foundation and the California Council for the Humanities as part of the Council's statewide California Stories Initiative.
Chinese Historical Society of America
Presents...
"Uncle Toisan"
Exclusive school performances to Bay Area public schools this spring
CHSA offered free performances in a similar vein in 2006 with the History Alive! performance of "Chinatown is Burning! Hugh Liang: Eyewitness to the 1906 Earthquake and Fire," the special presentation we had prepared for the Earthquake Centennial celebration.
Performed by Artist-in-Residence Charlie Chin, "Uncle Toisan" features the unique experience of a Chinese American immigrant to the United States. This one-man theater performance has historical relevance to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Angel Island, World War II, and the modern post-civil rights movement.
Performances are offered free to Bay Area public elementary, middle and high schools during May and June this year--just in time for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in May.
This Chautauquan performance allows school-age audiences to see history come alive in the form of storytelling in which the presenter takes on the character of an actual person in history, tells that person's story, takes questions from the audience in character, and then finally steps out of the character in order to discuss the character's life.
The "Uncle Toisan" presentation is about one hour long. More detailed information is below. Please contact me if you have any questions; otherwise to schedule bookings of "Uncle Toisan," please contact Michelle Louie at michelle@chsa.org or 415-391-1188 x101.
Judy Hu
Communications Director
Chinese Historical Society of America
965 Clay Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
t: 415-391-1188 x107
e: judy@chsa.org
w: chsa.org
ABOUT "Uncle Toisan"
Uncle Toisan enters the country as a 17 year old "paper son" (immigrants who purchased legal immigration status as a "paper son" of an American citizen), then perseveres through a two-month detention at Angel Island Immigration Station on the eve of its closing in 1939. Angel Island Immigration Station, often called Ellis Island of the West, operated from 1910 to 1940 as a detention center to control the flow of immigrants--largely Chinese, but also Japanese and Russian.
He is then drafted in 1942 to serve in Europe during World War II, returning from the battlefield to face discrimination at home as a laborer in the restaurants and laundries of SF Chinatown. However, he witnesses and experiences the tremendous changes in Chinatown stemming from the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the final lifting of Exclusion, the growth of Asian American political empowerment and the changing demographics of California due to post Vietnam war rounds of immigration.
The premise of the story will be Uncle Toisan playing the Chinese two stringed fiddle called the erhu on the street in Chinatown to make a few extra dollars to supplement his retirement in a small apartment he shares with his nephew's family who recently immigrated from the People's Republic of China. It is the early 1990's and Uncle Toisan is in his late 70's. A group of students from UC Berkeley Asian American Studies class on a walking tour led by CHSA guides, stops to talk to him, inspiring him to share his story.
"Uncle Toisan" is generously supported by a grant from the James Irvine Foundation and the California Council for the Humanities as part of the Council's statewide California Stories Initiative.
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