OFFICIAL 2009 DAY OF REMEMBRANCE EVENTS

Thursday, February 19-Friday, March 13 (Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm)
Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building Gallery, University of Utah, 215 S. Central Campus Drive - map
An exhibit of photographs by DOROTHEA LANGE & ANSEL ADAMS
depicting the wartime internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans
presented by American West Center, University of Utah
Read the feature in The Salt Lake Tribune

Thursday, February 19, 4pm
Humanities Building, University of Utah, 215 S. Central Campus Drive, Room 109 - map
free public lecture by Gary Y Okihiro, PhD, Columbia University,
author of Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
presented by the Ethnic Studies/Asian Pacific American Studies Programs, University of Utah

Thursday, February 19, 7pm
Studio Theatre @ Rose Wagner, 138 W 300 S
fundraising preview performance of BLOCK 8 benefiting the Topaz Museum
Email Rick Okabe at the Topaz Museum to reserve tickets

Friday, February 20 thru Sunday, March 8, times vary
Studio Theatre @ Rose Wagner, 138 W 300 S
World premiere of BLOCK 8 by Matthew Ivan Bennett

Saturday, February 21, 11:30am
Main Library Auditorium, 241 E 400 S

a free screening of the film THE CATS OF MIRIKITANI

Saturday, February 21, 1pm

Main Library Auditorium, 241 E 400 S
a free screening of the documentary TRANSCENDING: THE WAT MISAKA STORY
followed by a discussion with the Misaka Family

Sunday, February 22, 3:30pm
Studio Theatre @ Rose Wagner, 138 W 300 S
public discussion with the actors, director, playwright (others TBA)
following the matinee of BLOCK 8

Tuesday, February 24, 7pm

Historic Tower Theatre, 879 E 900 S
a free screening of the documentary TOPAZ
followed by a discussion with filmmaker Ken Verdoia
and Rick Okabe from the Topaz Museum

Friday, February 27, 5pm
Humanities Building, University of Utah, 215 S. Central Campus Dr, Room 101 - map, 

excerpts of video interviews of

former WWII Topaz Internment Camp internees

presented by the Topaz Museum

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