SAN BRUNO –Taking place on Saturday, February 25, 2023, 1-4 p.m., The Art of Resilience is an afternoon of arts activities following the Day of Remembrance and honoring the local history of Tanforan and beyond.
Registration and the full program schedule are below:
1:00PM & 3:30PM Exhibit Tour @ San Bruno BART Station
Two (2) tours of the San Bruno BART station’s Tanforan 1942 Incarceration: Resilience Behind Barbed Wire exhibition with artist and curator Na Omi Shintani unfolding the lesser known history of the site for its role as a racetrack turned detention center for the incarceration of Bay Area Japanese Americans during World War II and the broader impacts of Executive Order 9066.
2:00PM Panel Discussion @ AZ Gallery in The Shops at Tanforan
A panel discussion highlighting collective efforts to honor and memorialize the histories, figures, and narratives of communities of color and the role art plays featuring artists Carlos “Kookie” Gonzalez, Paul Kitagaki, Diana Li, and Patricia Montgomery. The panel will take place at AZ Gallery, in the Shops at Tanforan.
3:30PM Memorial Walkthrough @ San Bruno BART Station
A walkthrough of the new Tanforan Memorial just outside the station commissioned by the Tanforan Assembly Center Memorial Committee with Steve Okamoto. Featuring a sculpture based on photos of the Mochida sisters taken by photographer Dorothea Lange along with the 8,000+ names of those who were sent to long-term concentration camps through the site.
Attendance for all events are FREE and open to the public but spots are limited for each activity, so we ask that attendees register in advance: https://www.aawaa.net/art-of-resilience
For more information about the exhibit, contact Jennifer Easton – jeaston@bart.gov. For more information about the Tanforan Memorial: https://www.tanforanmemorial.org/
This project is supported by a Humanities for All Project Grant.
The exhibit received generous support from BART, a Humanities for All grant from California Humanities, a Japanese American Confinement Sites grant from the National Parks Service.
