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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.
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: ...
‘Angel Island Project’ is inspired by protest poetry carved into the walls of the Angel Island immigration station between 1910 and 1940 by Chinese detainees, some of whom were held up to two ...
The Angel Island Tiburon Ferry ($6-$18 round trip) runs from the dock at 21 Main St. in Tiburon to the island on winter ...
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 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. A sweeping view of ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.