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A spirited movie short about older lesbians in a retirement community.

Library Innovation Lab Enters Fourth Year

Library Innovation Lab September Programs

Libraries around the state that are participating in the 2020 Library Innovation Lab program offer an exciting array of virtual and socially distanced public programs this fall.

SAN DIEGO LECTURE–Join Professor Susan Hasegawa for a lecture on Japanese Americans in San Diego. For nearly 150 years, Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans have called San Diego County home, attracted to the warm climate and economic opportunities. How did they contribute to the history and growth of the San …

SAN DIEGO FILM SCREENING–Join us for a film screening of Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story. In 1942, Fred Korematsu refused to show up to the incarceration camps. Over the next 40 years, he took his case to the highest courts in the land, seeking an acknowledgment …

  SAN DIEGO LECTURE–Join Peter Irons, UCSD legal scholar and political science professor and David Loy, ACLU San Diego legal director for an eye-opening and thought-provoking dialogue about the U.S. government incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Dr. Irons was part of the legal team in the successful …

SAN DIEGO–One Man’s Internment Story program will be conducted in an interview format following a short history of Japanese American internment. Carlsbad resident Jack Kubota was born in Pasadena, California, but moved to the Imperial Valley when he was an infant. His family had a trucking business, and he grew …