AIISF Newsletter / August 2022

A Message From AIISF’s Executive Director

Last month, we had the opportunity to welcome several different groups to Angel Island. Our friends at UC Davis’s History Project brought over 80 educators to the site to learn about and experience its history in person. We hope that the trip helps inspire and inform how they teach their students about Angel Island. We also welcomed Professor Weihong Du and a group of students from Knox College. And we were honored to host Jeffrey Klein and his wife Barbara. Jeffrey’s mother Rosa was detained on Angel Island and is featured in the Opening Doors exhibit at AIIM.

This month, we hope that you are all taking the opportunity for some rest and relaxation. Many of you are probably trying to squeeze in a vacation or staycation before the Fall season. Here are a few Angel Island-related suggestions for things to do in August.

  • Join us on Sunday, August 14 for our virtual family event: "Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist" with author Julie Leung!

  • Visit the Angel Island Immigration Museum (AIIM)! The new museum building is expanding its opening times (again) for the rest of the summer and will now be open on Wednesdays through Sundays. This is the same schedule as the Detention Barracks Museum.

  • Hike the beautiful trails on Angel Island and create your own photo safari. Keep your cameras ready because you might be able to snap a picture from afar of a mule deer, robin, hawk, or one of the many animals that call Angel Island home.

And in September and October, we are looking forward to:

  • Hosting the National Japanese American Historical Society’s temporary exhibit Enemy Alien Files: Hidden Stories of World War II.

  • The launch of our API Animated Histories Project on September 27th, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Asian Pacific Fund!

  • Partnering with the Nichi Bei Foundation on their Nikkei Pilgrimage on Saturday, October 1.

We hope to see you out on Angel Island or during one of our programs!

Edward Tepporn
AIISF Executive Director

Register for our virtual family event: "Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist" Read Aloud

Join us for a FREE virtual family event with author Julie Leung who will be doing a read-aloud of her children's book 'Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant, and Artist,' which was awarded the Asian/Pacific American Award for Best Picture Book by the American Library Association.

Our event is on Sunday, August 14, 10:00 - 10:45 am. To register, visit our event page here. We look forward to seeing you and your entire family!

The Angel Island Immigration Museum (AIIM) has expanded its opening hours!

We are excited to share that the Angel Island Immigration Museum (AIIM), located inside the former hospital, has expanded its opening hours to include some weekdays. Just like the Detention Barracks Museum, the new hours are:

Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday; 11:00am - 2:30pm

Saturday & Sunday; 11:00am - 3:30pm

Be sure to visit our webpage to plan your visit to Angel Island!

Upcoming temporary exhibition opening this October, 'Enemy Alien Files'!

AIISF and AISP are proud to collaborate with the National Japanese American Historical Society to serve as the first site for their new traveling exhibition Enemy Alien Files: Hidden Stories of World War II.

The exhibition, funded by the National Park Service's Japanese American Confinement Sites program, offers a comparative and multicultural presentation of the little-known stories of over 31,000 German, Italian, and Japanese immigrants who were discriminatingly deemed "enemy aliens" during WWII.

Opening September 17 in the Angel Island Immigration Museum.

Join AIISF at the Camron-Stanford History Fair next month!

Explore, play, and learn with the Bay Area’s best history museums, organizations, and doers at the Camron-Stanford History Fair on Saturday, September 10! Along with 20 local history museums, AIISF will have a booth where you can learn more about how they can help you better connect to the past. Browse sample exhibits, engage in fun activities, and get a sneak peek at upcoming events, programs, and much more!

Learn more about the history fair by visiting CSH's event page here or RSVP by clicking below!

UC Berkeley has launched their Future Histories Lab, a project of the UC Berkeley Global Urban Humanities Initiative

n 2022-2023, UC Berkeley’s Arts + Design Initiative and Future Histories Lab will sponsor a series of music and dance performances, exhibitions, public conversations, and courses using Angel Island’s historic immigration station as a jumping-off point for discussion about race in America, global migration, and architectures of incarceration.

We applaud UC Berkeley's creative initiative that reminds us 0f the immigrant experiences on Angel Island and stories of exclusion and belonging.

Learn more by visiting their Future Histories Lab webpage!

Other Community Events:

White Sky, Falling Dragon, a play by Steve "Spike" Wong to premiere later this month!

Presented by Soaring Dragon Endeavors, White Sky Falling Dragon is playwright and director Steve "Spike" Wong's newest play premiering in August and showing until September at the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts.

Inspired by the stories of his Chinese immigrant grandparents and parents, the play is split between settings from old China, World War II, to the dinner table of his youth, full of tales of challenge, hard work, racism, and success.

You can book your tickets to White Sky Falling Dragon here!

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