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DESCRIPTION:<span style="color: #c21313\;">FREE\n<span style="color: #c2131
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 e opening of <strong><em>Aki’s Market</em></strong>\, a new and uniquel
 y personal project by acclaimed multimedia artist and filmmaker <strong>G
 lenn Akira Kaino</strong>. Visit this new exhibition for free\, explore th
 e museum\, and dance along to a performance by <strong>DJ Melo-D of the B
 eat Junkies</strong>.\n\n<strong><em>Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market</em></str
 ong> is inspired by Akira and Sachiye Shiraishi’s small neighborhood ma
 rket (1957–1970) in East Los Angeles. Created by artist Glenn Akira Kain
 o (Akira’s grandson and namesake)\, the exhibition explores the transgen
 erational trauma from the World War II Japanese American incarceration exp
 erience through the stories of Kaino\, his family\, and the community. It 
 is also an interrogation of the American practice of displacement—collap
 sing almost 100 years of cultural subjugation into a spiritual\, explorato
 ry space from which the building blocks of peace might be discovered.\n\nT
 he exhibition draws from the life of Kaino’s grandfather\, Akira Shirais
 hi\, a legendary high school football player who was unable to realize his
  dreams of attending Occidental College when he was incarcerated at the He
 art Mountain concentration camp in Wyoming. Upon returning to East LA afte
 r the war\, he and Sachiye dedicated their lives to building their market 
 on the corner of Blanchard Street and Geraghty Avenue—a multicultural an
 chor that served the Japanese and Hispanic communities.\n\nKaino only knew
  his grandfather through family stories. To recreate the market\, he pulle
 d from his artistic toolkit and used his skill of unlocking past memories 
 through layered conversations (as in his work with historical figures like
  Olympian\, Tommie Smith). He used this methodology to draw out family mem
 ories and paint a full picture of the place they called “The Store.”\n
 \nThrough a virtual reality recreation of the store and an installation of
  a contemporary store with the same name\, <em>Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Marke
 t</em> is an exhibition about collective memory where the archival bleeds
  into the imaginary and where the most advanced technology serves the most
  personal past.\n\nGlenn Kaino: Aki’s Market <em>is supported in part b
 y the National Endowment for the Arts\, the City of Los Angeles Department
  of Cultural Affairs\, and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors thr
 ough the Department of Arts and Culture\, with special thanks to the Pasad
 ena Arts Alliance. The exhibition is also supported in part by the VIA Art
  Fund.</em>\n
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SUMMARY:Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market Opening Celebration
URL:/en/events/2023/06/30/glenn-kaino-akis-market-opening-celebration/
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