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Immigrants’ torment as Angel Island detainees re-created in dance By Beth Spotswood , Columnist Updated Sep 14, 2017 2:28 p.m. Yi-Ting Hsu, Lynn Huang, and Eric Koziol, in "Within These Walls" ...
Inspired by the experiences of detainees at Angel Island, the United States’ primary immigration facility on the West Coast from 1910 to 1940, the ballet features the work of seven choreographers: ...
The Oakland Ballet Company's Angel Island Project is a one-time show this weekend that celebrates AAPI culture and looks at the history of those detained on the island between 1910 and 1940.
In “Angel Island,” a staged oratorio about the anguish and isolation of Chinese detainees at Angel Island Immigration Station in California, a choir recites a poem about tyranny and misfortune.
Angel Island State Park Interpreter Casey Dexter-Lee shows enlarged photos of immigrants who were detained at the historic Angel Island Immigration Station in Tiburon, Calif., on Friday, Nov. 8, 2024.
The Angel Island Tiburon Ferry ($6-$18 round trip) runs from the dock at 21 Main St. in Tiburon to the island on winter ...
The majority of immigrants who passed through California’s immigration station, Angel Island, were from China and Japan—and tens of thousands of them were detained there.
When Chinese poetry was discovered written and carved into Angel Island's barrack walls in the 1970s, she helped translate some of the 100 detainees' poems into English, and shared them in a book ...
Her first play, Paper Angels, a story about Angel Island detainees like her parents, was picked up by American Playhouse. A lover of words, ...
You can count on suffering to supply stage music with heft, and Huang Ruo’s choral drama Angel Island mined a mother lode of the stuff in its inaugural run at BAM this past week. Equal parts ...
Correction officers have been systematically strip-searching detainees in the Manhattan criminal courthouses, even after they have already been thoroughly searched in their respective jails on Rike… ...
The Oakland Ballet Company's Angel Island Project is a one-time show this weekend that celebrates AAPI culture and looks at the history of those detained on the island between 1910 and 1940.