BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:events.uid.2986@www.discovernikkei.org DTSTART:20110315T000000Z DTEND:20110315T000000Z DESCRIPTION:\n<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline\;"><a href="h ttp://www.heydaybooks.com/">About Making Home from War</a></strong>\n\nWri tten by twelve Japanese American elders\, Making Home from War is a collec tion of stories about their exodus from concentration camps into a world w hich\, in a few short years\, had drastically changed.\n\nKiku Hori Funabi ki grew up in San Francisco&rsquo\;s Japantown until 1942\, when she was i ncarcerated in Heart Mountain\, Wyoming\, concentration camp. After her re lease\, Kiku attended Queens College and eventually resettled with her fam ily in the Bay Area\, where she matriculated at UC Berkeley. In 1984\, as a representative for former inmates\, she went toe to toe with the House J udiciary Committee in Washington\, D.C\, to challenge the injustice of the forced removal.\n\nBrian Komei Dempster is a Sansei (third-generation Jap anese American). He received B.A.s in American ethnic studies and English at the University of Washington and an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Michigan. His poems have been published in various journals and anthologies. Dempster is the editor of From Our Side of the Fence: Gr owing Up in America&rsquo\;s Concentration Camps\, which received a 2007 N isei Voices Award from the National Japanese American Historical Society. He is currently an associate professor of rhetoric and composition and a f aculty member in Asian American studies at the University of San Francisco .\n\n<span style="text-decoration: underline\;"><strong><a href="http://ca am.gala-engine.com/2011/films-events/film/105/">About Resident Aliens</a>< /strong>\n\nIn 2002\, the United States began deporting former Cambodian r efugees with criminal offenses\, even those who had arrived as children or infants following the Cambodian genocide. Resident Aliens follows three s uch &ldquo\;returnees&rdquo\; as they adapt to an unfamiliar homeland afte r nearly a lifetime spent in the States\; largely shunned by Cambodian soc iety\, with few skills and little money\, they now must find a way to surv ive\, or end up on the streets.\n\nRoss Tuttle is a New York-based journal ist and documentary filmmaker. Resident Aliens makes its world premiere at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. His article s have appeared in the Nation\, New York Times\, Baltimore Sun\, St. Peter sburg Times and LA Weekly.\n\n<a href="http://caam.gala-engine.com/2011/fi lms-events/film/203/"><span style="text-decoration: underline\;"><strong>A bout Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol. (Lucy Ostrander)</stro ng></a>\n\nFumiko Hayashida unwittingly became an iconic figure of Japanes e internment after a photograph of her carrying her sleeping daughter to M anzanar was featured in countless museums and magazines. At the age of 97\ , Hayashida continues to speak out on behalf of the 60\,000 U.S. citizens who were forced into relocation camps during World War II.\n\nThe films ar e being presented as part of the&nbsp\;<a href="http://caamedia.org/festiv al/">San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival</a>. &nbsp\; \n\nFor more information\, email njahs@njahs.org or call (415) 921-5007.\n \n DTSTAMP:20240418T082939Z SUMMARY:Making Home From War Artist Talk And Pre-Reception For Documentary Films Resident Aliens And Fumiko Hayashida. URL:/en/events/2011/03/15/making-home-from-war-artist-talk-and-pre-receptio n/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR