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DESCRIPTION:Rhythmix Cultural Works honors the memory of Alameda’s lost Japantown 
 with a commemorative celebration of the Day of Remembrance. \n\nWhen: 
 Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020 @ 6 PM - 9 PM\n\nWhere: K Gallery & Rhythmix 
 Theater, 2513 Blanding Ave, Alameda, CA 94501\n\nRSVP: 
 https://rhythmix.secure.force.com/ticket/#sections_a0F1K00000FmrecUAB\n\nThe 
 annual Day of Remembrance, February 19, 1942, commemorates the signing of 
 Executive Order 9066, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which led to the 
 forced removal and incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry 
 living on the West Coast, who had to abandon their jobs, their homes, and 
 lives, to be sent to one of ten internment camps scattered in desolate, 
 remote regions of the country. \n\nNo Japanese Americans were ever charged, 
 much less convicted, of espionage or sabotage against the United States. 
 Yet they were targeted, rounded up, and imprisoned for years, simply for 
 having the “face of the enemy.” \n\nExecutive Order 9066 is responsible 
 for the disappearance of a once thriving Alameda Japantown. The words and 
 stories of the Japanese in Alameda remind us of an extreme act of racial 
 targeting that took place only 78 years ago.\n\n6:00 pm - 9:00 pm - K 
 Gallery opening of “the writing is on the wall”\n\n‘The writing is on 
 the wall’ is an indication of imminent danger. K Gallery’s exhibit 
 includes: Japanese calligraphy and carbon copies of typewritten letters 
 from WWII internment camps, artist Najib Joe Hakim’s photographs of 
 Palestinian and Lebanese walls and Salma Arastu’s paintings that are 
 inspired by the scripture of the Quran.\n\n7:00 pm - 7:30 pm - In the 
 Rhythmix Theater\n\nMaze Daiko and Kallan Nishimoto perform: Heart of the 
 Mountain with Poems\n\nExcerpts from the documentary Honoring Alameda’s 
 Japanese Americans introduced by Reverend Michael Yoshii of Buena Vista 
 United Methodist Church, Alameda.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/17/18830736.php
SUMMARY:2020 Day of Remembrance for Alameda’s Lost Japantown after EO 9066
LOCATION:Rhythmix Cultural Works, 2513 Blanding Ave, Alameda, CA 94501
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/17/18830736.php
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