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Currents, an Operetta and Panel led by Gail M. Nomura
May 7 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Free
AC Petersen, librettist; and Jeremy Berdin, composer, present an original live operetta, Currents, portraying a Japanese American family from Bainbridge Island 1937-1952.
The work is performed live, in English, and will have projected supratitles / open captions as well as ASL interpretation.
The Post-performance panel will be moderated by Gail M. Nomura, Associate Professor Emerita of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington.
Panelists include Shigeru Nishida, who was twelve years old when he and his family, who were farming in the Yakima Valley, were sent to the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in 1942.
