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Interesting film events coming up in Marin
A screening of Marin filmmaker Felicia Lowe’s “Carved in Silence,” her documentary on the detention of Chinese immigrants at ...
Angel Island State Park Interpreter Casey Dexter-Lee shows a Chinese engraved poem made by detained immigrants on the walls of the historic Angel Island Immigration Station in Tiburon, Calif., on ...
Angel Island Immigration Station was built in 1910 in the San Francisco Bay mainly to process immigrants from China, Japan, and other countries on the Pacific Rim. Its primary mission was to ...
A new book by a Saint Paul author tells the story of Chinese immigrants applying to enter the US 100 years ago. The young adult novel incorporates the poems that people detained at Angel Island ...
Angel Island felt like the perfect place to debut the work the team has done so far because, according to Guariglia, it is a past “product of Chinese exclusion.” “Here we had right in our own backyard ...
Cross Ellis Island with Alcatraz and you get Angel Island, the subject of a new national exhibit at the Mai Wah Museum in Uptown Butte.
The “Angel Island Project,” a work by seven choreographers for 12 dancers inspired by Asian immigrants detained in a federal facility on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay from 1910-40 ...
Many people know Angel Island as a lovely spot to hike or picnic, unaware that it was the Ellis Island of the West Coast from 1910 to 1940, processing immigrants, particularly Chinese and other ...
Angel Island makes a fitting backdrop since it served as a U.S. Immigration Station that processed nearly a million immigrants from more than 80 countries between 1910 to 1940.
The Gateway to Gold Mountain: The Angel Island Immigration Experience, a national exhibit, will open Tuesday, July 1, at the Mai Wah Museum, 17 W. Mercury St., in Uptown Butte. Hours are Tuesdays ...
Oakland Ballet Company Artistic Director Graham Lustig's Dancing Moons Festival showcasing Asian-American and Pacific Islander artistry, which was created in response to anti-Asian hate that arose ...