Tag: japanese internment

When taiko meets big band and swing dancing!

Swingposium, performed last June in San Jose, was a tribute to Japanese Americans who were involved in swing music and dance while incarcerated in internment camps during World War II.

“Swingposium is essentially a dance as opposed to a concert,” San Jose Taiko Artistic Director Franco Imperial explained in the lead up to the event. “The intention is to celebrate the amazing people who, in the midst of being incarcerated, turned to music and dance as a means of survival. We’ve invited Epic Immersive to help craft a dynamic environment for the audience. This is not a typical show where you sit and passively observe.”

When taiko meets big band and swing dancing!

geniusbee:

Resistance can take many forms – from education to litigation, from within a small community to throughout the globe. Though I have omitted highly important figures like Yuri Kochiyama and Fred Korematsu, I wanted to spotlight lesser-known individuals who resisted injustice in a variety of ways. They demonstrate that we too can act against oppression and inequality, however we are able.

[Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga] [Ina Sugihara] [Mitsuye Endo] [Norman Mineta] [Aki Kurose] 

Many thanks to The Densho Project for the research materials

I’ve put a printed zine version of these drawings and stories on my Storenvy for preorder, all profits from sales of the zine will be donated to the ACLU. Zines will be shipped out in early March.