CODY, WY
Friday, July 26, 2019 @ 2:00 pm & 3:20 pm
2019 Heart Mountain Pilgrimage 
Holiday Inn Cody – At Buffalo Bill Village, 1701 Sheridan Ave.

“Resisters & Their Legacy:” Documentarian Frank Abe, resister Tak Hoshizaki, and historian Art Hansen will discuss the draft resistance movement at Heart Mountain and the living legacy of the largest organized resistance to the mass wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans in WW2. Frank will screen a clip from Conscience and the Constitution. The panel will be presented twice to accommodate all pilgrims.  Frank will also sign copies of the Conscience DVD  on discounted sale in the Taggart Room from 7:00 to 8:00 pm. Download a PDF of the final schedule and RSVP via the Facebook Event.

SAN JOSE, CA
Saturday, June 15, 2019 @ 1:00 pm
Japanese American Museum of San Jose
535 N. Fifth St.

JOHN OKADA book talk and signing with co-editor Frank Abe. A return for him to the Santa Clara Valley where he grew up and graduated from Cupertino High School and UC Santa Cruz. Download the flyer and RSVP via the Facebook Event.

SEATTLE, WA
Thursday, May 2, 2019 @ 6:00 pm
University of Washington Libraries “Libraries Unbound” fundraising dinner
Husky Union Building Ballrooms

JOHN OKADA co-editor Frank Abe will serve as a “table author” for the Friends of the University of Washington Libraries 14th annual fundraising dinner, “Libraries Unbound.” John’s sister Connie was the longtime art librarian for the UW Libraries, and our book is indebted to the Suzzallo and Allen Libraries for the microfilms and bound volumes where we rediscovered all of Okada’s unknown works.

MADISON, WI
Thurs-Fri, April 25-26, 2019
Association for Asian American Studies annual conference
Madison Concourse Hotel

1) Thursday, April 25, 1:00 – 2:30 pm in the Assembly Room. Filmmakers Frank Abe, Emiko Omori, and Chizu Omori will appear on a panel chaired by Greg Robinson on “‘Rabbit in the Moon’ and ‘Conscience and the Constitution’: Looking Backward and Forward.”  Panelists: Elena Tajima Creef will analyze the visual and photographic elements of these films and how they interact with their storylines. Robert Hayashi will discuss storytelling in the films and their narrative strategies. Jonathan van Harmelen will situate the two films within the history of the documentary film. Karen Inouye and Chris Suh will discuss the historical legacy of the films and their use as teaching tools, both inside the classroom and outside. RSVP via the Facebook Event.

2) Friday, April 26, 1:00 – 2:30 pm in the Caucus Room. OKADA co-editor Floyd Cheung will chair a panel on “John Okada’s Unknown Works: Reassessing the (Un)governability of Japanese Americans in Mid-Century America.”  RSVP via the Facebook Event. Presenters:

TACOMA, WA
Sat., April 6, 2019, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Washington State History Museum
Book Fair, 1911 Pacific Avenue

JOHN OKADA co-editor Frank Abe will meet with readers and sign books at a table from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, and present a book talk at 2:00 pm, at a book fair in connection with the museum’s new exhibition, A Thousand Words Worth: Washington Authors Tell Stories Through Objects. For the exhibit, Abe curated a section around a quote from John Okada’s opening lines to No-No Boy.  Included with museum admission, free for members. Download the flyer, and RSVP via the Facebook Event.

SEATTLE, WA
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 @ 7:00 pm
Elliott Bay Book Company
1521 Tenth Avenue

Frank Abe will join Art Hansen in presenting Nisei Naysayer: The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura, in the area of Omura’s birth on Bainbridge Island. Hansen edited Omura’s wartime diary. Abe documented Omura in the film, Conscience and the Constitution, and provided the afterword to this new volume. RSVP via the Facebook Event.

TOKYO, JAPAN
Monday, March 25, 2019 @ 3:00 – 6:00 pm
The Kyoto University Tokyo Office in Marunouchi
Shin-Marunouchi Building
1 Chome-5-1, Marunouchi, Chiyoda

Co-editor Frank Abe will present a visual gallery of images showing how the life of John Okada informed his work, and contend that it is time to declare No-No Boy as “The Great Nisei Novel” envisioned by his contemporaries. Frank will also discuss a new project to collect fiction and poetry published in Japanese by Issei and Kibei Nisei incarcerees for an anthology of the literature of Japanese American incarceration.  Preceding Frank on the program will be research scientist  Lyle de Souza, speaking on  Nikkei literature in Australia. See the Facebook Event.

HOLLAND, MI
Thursday, March 7, 2019 @ 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Hope College
Bultman Student Center
Schaap Auditorium, 115 E. 12th Street

For the college’s annual Asian Heritage Education and Diversity Lecture, Frank Abe will share the personal journey that led him to help reframe the narrative around the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans – from resettlement in the Midwest, to redress for the injustice, to recovery of the story of resistance to that injustice. Included will be excerpts from his film, Conscience and the Constitution. Throughout, he will relate this experience to that of those targeted in America today on the basis of race, religion, or immigration status. Open to the public. Presented in collaboration with the college’s Phelps Scholars Program, Hope’s Asian Perspective Association, the Center for Global Engagement and the Department of American Ethnic Studies. Download the PDF flyer and see the Facebook Event.

SEATTLE, WA
Weds., February 27, 2019 @ 12:30 pm
University of Washington
Mary Gates Hall, Room 251

Co-editor Frank Abe will speak about the books JOHN OKADA and No-No Boy with students of Vince Schleitwiler’s Japanese American Incarceration class.

NEW YORK, NY
Saturday, February 23, 2019 @ 1:00 pm
Japanese American United Church
255 7th Avenue

“Day of Remembrance” co-founder Frank Abe will speak at the 2019 New York Day of Remembrance.  RSVP at their Event page.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019 @ 11:00 am
Films of Remembrance
New People Cinema
1746 Post St.

Our extended interview with James Omura from Disc Two of the Conscience and the Constitution DVD will screen as part of “Voices of Resistance,” a free multimedia presentation with author Art Hansen. Art will present his two new books, Nisei Naysayer: The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura and Barbed Voices: Oral History, Resistance, and the World War II Japanese American Social Disaster. The free presentation kicks off the 2019 Films of Remembrance festival.

STORRS, CT
Thursday, February 21, 2019 @ 4:00-6:00  pm
University of Connecticut Asian and Asian American Studies Institute
Homer Babbidge Library, Room 1102

2019 “Day of Remembrance” panel at UConn with JOHN OKADA co-editors Frank Abe, Greg Robinson, and Floyd Cheung. Sponsored by the UConn Asian and Asian American  Studies Institute and the UConn Asian American Cultural Center. Download the PDF flyer and RSVP via the Event page.

NEW YORK, NY
Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019 @ 7:00 pm
JAJA – Japanese Americans and Japanese in America
12 W. 18th St, Apt #3E

JOHN OKADA co-editor Frank Abe with speak with the informal potluck gathering of people of Japanese ancestry living in NY. RSVP at their Event page.

SEATTLE, WA
Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019 @ 7:00 pm
Elliott Bay Book Company
1521 Tenth Avenue

Frank Abe introduces professor Duncan Ryuken Williams, Director of the USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture, for the launch of American Sutra: Buddhism and the WWII Japanese American Internment, a groundbreaking history of Japanese American Buddhists put in camp while insisting that they could be both Buddhist and American. Download the PDF flyer and RSVP via the Event page.

LOS ANGELES, CA
Monday, Feb. 4, 2019 @ 12:30 – 1:45 pm
University of California, Los Angeles
Kaplan Hall, Room A68 

Frank Abe will speak with students of Prof. Kelly Fong’s AAS 103 Social Science Research Methods class on the research behind the book, JOHN OKADA, and his film, CONSCIENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION.  Download the PDF flyer.

LOS ANGELES, CA
Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019 @ 2:00 pm
Japanese American National Museum
100 N. Central Ave.

Southern California book launch for JOHN OKADA with co-editors Frank Abe, Greg Robinson, and special guests, at an event moderated by Densho’s Brian Niiya. Admission free but RSVP at their Event page.

LOS ANGELES, CA
Friday, Feb. 1, 2019
University of Southern California
Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture
Doheny Memorial Library, East Asian Seminar Room

JOHN OKADA co-editors Frank Abe and Greg Robinson will present on the life of the author and the process of unearthing his lost stories. Free admission.  RSVP on their Event page and download the PDF  flyer.

PALO ALTO, CA
Thurs., Jan. 10, 2019 @ 7:00 pm Palo Alto Rinconada Library
1213 Newell Road
Embarcadero Room

JOHN OKADA book talk and signing with co-editor Frank Abe. RSVP via the Facebook Event and download the flyer.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Tues., Jan. 8, 2019 @ 6:00 pm
San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street, Latino/Hispanic Rooms A & B 

JOHN OKADA book talk and signing with co-editor Frank Abe. RSVP via the Facebook Event.

2018

CHICAGO, IL
Weds., Nov. 28, 2018 @ 6:30 pm
Japanese American Service Committee
4427 N. Clark Street

JOHN OKADA co-editor Frank Abe will trace the author’s development as an artist, with a special focus on how Okada revealed the emotional truth of the postwar resettlement of Japanese Americans while writing the novel in the Midwest. See the JASC flyer. RSVP via the Facebook Event and download the flyer.

SEATTLE, WA
Saturday, November 17, 2018 @ 11:00 am
Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience
719 S. King Street

At The Wing’s first-ever “Book-O-Rama” book fair, JOHN OKADA co-editor Frank Abe will chat with guests and sign books. At 12:30 in the theater he will discuss and show the Chinatown locations in No-No Boy. RSVP via the Facebook Event.

SEATTLE, WA
Saturday, November 10, 2018 @ 2:00 pm
Kinokuniya Seattle
525 S. Weller St. inside Uwajimaya Village

JOHN OKADA book talk and signing with co-editor Frank Abe, in the heart of Okada’s imaginative landscape for his novel, No-No Boy. RSVP via the Facebook Event and download the flyer.

EMERYVILLE, CA
Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018 @ 4:00 pm
J-Sei, 1285 66th Street

The second half of a double-header for the Bay Area book launch of JOHN OKADA,  with co-editors Frank Abe and Greg Robinson. RSVP via the Facebook Event and download the flyer.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018 @ 12 noon
National Japanese American Historical Society
1684 Post Street, San Francisco Japantown

The first half of a double-header for the Bay Area book launch of JOHN OKADA, with co-editors Frank Abe and Greg Robinson. RSVP via the Facebook Event and download the flyer.

BOISE, ID
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 @ 7:00 pm
Civil Liberties Symposium
Boise State University
1910 W University Dr.

Keynote address by Frank Abe for the 13th annual Civil Liberties Symposium, on the 40th anniversary of the first “Day of Remembrance,” followed by a screening of Sharon Yamato’s film, Moving Walls. RSVP via the Facebook Event.

SEATTLE, WA
Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018, @ 2:00 pm
Seattle Central Library
1000 Fourth Avenue Microsoft Auditorium

Please join us for the book launch of JOHN OKADA: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of NO-NO BOY — on the 95th anniversary of his birth in Seattle, and at the Central Library where he once worked as a reference librarian. Co-editor Frank Abe will present images from his new biography of Okada, and join contributors Shawn Wong and Stephen Sumida for a conversation moderated by Tom Ikeda of Densho. Co-sponsored by the Seattle Public Library, the Elliott Bay Book Company, Densho, and the Wing Luke Museum. Free to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing. See the Seattle Channel video of the entire program or download and listen to the Seattle Public LIbrary podcast of the event.

SEATTLE, WA
Wednesday, August 8, 2018 @ 11:30 am
Wing Luke Asian Museum’s “It Happened Here” series
Hing Hay Park, Maynard and King Streets

“The Chinatown landscape in John Okada’s No-No Boy: ” Under the pagoda at Hing Hay Park, JOHN OKADA co-editor Frank Abe will share events on the corner of Maynard and King both fictional and real from the world of Seattle author John Okada. Frank will read from Okada’s classic novel set in Seattle’s historic Chinatown, No-No Boy, and point out the landmarks from Okada’s childhood at the Yakima Hotel, his postwar return to the Pacific Hotel, and sites from the life of Hajime Jim Akutsu, the real-life model for the novel’s protagonist. Sponsored by The Wing and the City of Seattle’s Urban Parks Partnership.  UPDATE: The event was live-streamed on the Wing Luke Asian Museum’s Facebook page. See the 40-minute Facebook Live video here.

PALO ALTO, CA
Saturday, August 4, 2018 @ 6:00 pm
Palo Alto Buddhist Temple
2751 Louis Road, in the Hall

JOHN OKADA co-editor Frank Abe will speak and sign books at the Asian American Curriculum Project book exhibit in the Hall, during the cultural program attached to the 2018 Obon Festival. See the flyer.

TWIN FALLS, IDAHO
Friday, July 6, 2018 @ 11:15 am
Minidoka Pilgrimage College of Southern Idaho Fine Arts Center, Room 87

“John Okada, No-No Boy, and the Draft Resistance at Minidoka”– Frank Abe will present a gallery of images that reveal the new biography and long-unseen short stories and play that inform his new book, JOHN OKADA: The Life and Rediscovered Works of the Author of No-No Boy. He will examine the draft resistance of Jim Akutsu at Minidoka, which provided a model for the protagonist of No-No Boy, and preview a forthcoming graphic novel portraying the Minidoka draft resisters as part of the entire story of camp resistance.

KLAMATH FALLS, OR
Sunday, July 1, 2018
Tule Lake Pilgrimage
Oregon Institute of Technology

Frank Abe, Martha Nakagawa, and Takako Day will present a workshop on “No-No Boys, John Okada, and the Kibei Resistance at Tule Lake.”  Drawing from the argument in Martha’s chapter for our book, JOHN OKADA: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy, and rejecting old stereotypes, this workshop will break down the false constructions of loyalty and disloyalty created by the government at Tule Lake through registration, segregation, and renunciation. We will examine the life of novelist John Okada, whose novel No-No Boy incorrectly framed the perception of Tule Lake resisters in the public and inside our own community. Takako Day, author of Show Me the Way to Go Home: The Moral Dilemma of Kibei No-No Boys in World War Two Incarceration Camps, will speak about  Kibei dissenters at Tule Lake whom she interviewed in Japanese. We will also preview the storyline of my forthcoming graphic novel chronicling Japanese American resistance to incarceration, with a special focus on how the book seeks to reframe the registration crisis and renunciation at Tule Lake as expressions of protest and resistance. Moderator Art Hansen will lead a Q and A discussion. He will touch upon his new book, Nisei Naysayer, describe how journalist James Omura initially misunderstood the protest at Tule Lake against the loyalty oath, and compare the resistance at Tule Lake with other examples of dissent covered in his other forthcoming new book, Barbed Voices.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Friday, May 25, 2018 @ 3:40 pm
American Literature Association 
Hyatt Regency, 5 Embarcadero

Session 12-B:  Okada and Beyond – Using a gallery of images, Frank Abe will reveal the new  biography and long-unseen stories that inform our forthcoming book, “JOHN OKADA: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy.”  Organized by The Circle for Asian American Literary Studies (CAALS). Chairs: David Cho, Hope College, and Christine Kitano, Ithaca College.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Saturday, March 31, 2018 @ 8:00 am
Association for Asian American Studies
Westin St. Francis, Grand Ballroom

Co-editors Frank Abe, Greg Robinson, and Floyd Cheung and contributor Jeffrey Yamashita will introduce their forthcoming book, “JOHN OKADA: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the author of No-No Boy.” Panel S-12 in your program. At the panel, Abe will present the new information captured in his biography of Okada, supported with a gallery of images drawn from the author’s life. Cheung will investigate the influence of Okada’s college writing instructor on the creation of several previously unknown short stories which show the young writer experimenting with genre a decade before No-No Boy. Yamashita reviews two generations of critical literature on No-No Boy, reflecting shifts in approaches by the academic community. Robinson chairs the proceedings.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Saturday, February 24, 2018 @ 6:00 pm
2018 Films of Remembrance
New People Cinema, 1746 Post St.

Filmmaker Frank Abe will moderate a discussion after a screening of “Speak Out For Justice” (2018, 14 min., see the trailer), Steve Nagano’s new film drawn from video of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians hearings in Los Angeles in 1981.

SACRAMENTO, CA
Fri., February 23, 2018 @ 1:00-3:00 pm
ACC Senior Services
7334 Park City Drive

CONSCIENCE will screen as part of the “Films of Resistance” series for the 2018 Day of Remembrance. Producer Frank Abe will speak on a panel moderated by Dr. Linda Revilla along with retired Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Charles Kobayashi and Dr. Phillip Akutsu of Sacramento State University, whose father Jim Akutsu is featured in our film and also in our forthcoming book on John Okada. Co-sponsored by the Jan Ken Po Cultural Association and supported by a grant from API Rise.  Admission is free and open to the public, but please RSVP to [email protected] or (916) 393-9026.

2017

PORTLAND, OREGON
Thursday, December 7, 2017 @ 5:30 pm
Lincoln Hall 1620 SW Park Avenue

CONSCIENCE screens in Portland on Pearl Harbor Day, in support of an event with artist Valerie Otani discussing “Voices of Remembrance,” her sculpture at the Portland Expo Center commemorating the 1942 incarceration of Japanese Americans. The announcement takes note of the fact that our narrator, Lawson Inada, was once Poet Laureate of Oregon.

CLEVELAND, OHIO
Saturday, November 18, 2017 @ 1:00 pm
Tinkham-Veale University Center
11038 Bellflower Road

The Social Justice Institute at Case Western Reserve University is presenting Think Tank 2017, “Educating for Struggle: State Violence, Then and Now.” I’ll be speaking at Plenary Session I on the state violence involved with the WW2 incarceration. Free and open to the community.  UPDATE: Here’s video of the presentation.

CLEVELAND, OHIO
Friday, November 17, 2017 @ 9:45 am
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Moot Courtroom (A59), 11075 East Blvd.

Participating in a symposium sponsored by the Case Western Reserve Law Review on “National Security, National Origin, and the Constitution: 75 Years After Executive Order 9066.” The event brings me back to the place of my birth at Western Reserve Hospital, as a direct result of 9066. UPDATE: Here’s video of the presentation.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Friday, September 15, 2017 @ 6:30 pm
Unitarian Universalist Center
1187 Franklin Street @ Geary Blvd.

Free screening of CONSCIENCE as part of the Sensible Cinema series sponsored by Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Council.

SEATTLE, WA
Tuesday, May 23, 2017 @ 10:20 am
University of Washington
Gowan Hall 201

Speaking to Prof. Jeannie Shinozuka’s class on “American Internment and Incarceration: Race, Discrimination, and Power” on the WW2 resistance and the immediacy of its meaning today. The class will have earlier screened CONSCIENCE.

NEW YORK CITY
Sunday, March 19, 2017 @ 3 pm
21 Pell Street Community Center

A free and timely “pop-up” screening of  CONSCIENCE, organized by NYC activists Corky Lee and Shirley Ng in historic Manhattan Chinatown to show the roots of #resistance to unjust executive orders and racial registries. A statement from the film’s producer will be read, and former Muslim U.S. Army Chaplin James Yee will attend the Q&A session afterwards.

PALO ALTO, CA
Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017 @1:30 pm
Palo Alto Mitchell Park Library
3700 Middlefield Rd., Midtown Room, 1st floor

Screening of CONSCIENCE on the 75th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066, with a post-screening conversation led by Susan Hayase, long-time activist for redress in the San Jose Japanese American community as part of the Nihonmachi Outreach Committee and the National Coalition for Redress/Reparations, and the former vice-chair of the federal Civil Liberties Public Education Fund.

BOTHELL, WA
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 @11:00 am
University of Washington, Bothell

Speaking to Prof. Mira Shimabukuro‘s class on “Public Memory and Dissent” on the roots of redress in Seattle and the first Day of Remembrance. The class will have earlier screened CONSCIENCE.

2016

JERSEY CITY, NJ
Thursday, July 21, 2016 @ 10:30 am
Westin Jersey City Newport Hotel
Liberty Room, 479 Washington Blvd.

Screening free and open to the public, as part of a pre-convention film festival at the 2016 OCA National Convention, aka the Organization of Chinese Americans. The screening will be introduced by photography legend Corky Lee.  Take the PATH train to Newport Mall station, for a five-minute walk to the hotel.

KLAMATH FALLS, OR
Saturday and Sunday, July 2-3, 2016
Oregon Institute of Technology, Diamond Peak Room

Two evening screenings of CONSCIENCE for participants in the 2016 Tule Lake Pilgrimage.

2014

SEATTLE, WA
Saturday, August 16, 2014 @ 4:00 p.m.
Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience
Tateuchi Story Theatre
719 South King Street

“Acts of Resistance on Film.“ A screening and Q and A held in connection with two events — the Wing Luke’s current exhibition, “In Struggle: Asian American Acts of Resistance,” and ACT Theater’s production of Hold These Truths, a play about federal court defendant and draft resister Gordon Hirabayashi.

SEATTLE, WA
Thursday, February 20, 2014
South Seattle Community College
Jerry Brockey Student Center, Room A
6000 16^th Avenue SW, Seattle

For the college’s Day of Remembrance program, for students, faculty, staff and the larger community. All events are free and open to the public.

2013

SEATTLE, WA
Saturday, November 2, 2013, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Nagomi Tea House, 519 Sixth Ave. S.

In a program aimed at the Japanese-speaking community, we’ll screen a version of our film with Japanese subtitles that were created for us by the Fukuoka Film Festival. Presented by Hokubei Hochi Foundation, The North American Post, and Soy Source. Free admission with suggested donation.

FIFE, WA
Thursday, October 17, 2013 7:00 p.m.
Fife History Museum

Screening of CONSCIENCE and discussion with producer Frank Abe, local historian Ron Magden, Tacoma attorney Daniel C. Russ, and Elsie Taniguchi with Puyallup Valley JACL.

SEATTLE, WA
July 5, 2013
Japanese American National Museum annual conference
Seattle Sheraton 

We’re sharing a DVD exhibit table, speaking at a panel on the “Tangled Routes to Japanese American Redress,” and moderating a Friday evening screening of Farewell to Manzanzar reunited with old friend Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston.

SEATTLE, WA
April 17-20, 2013
Association for Asian American Studies annual conference
Westin Seattle

Held down a DVD exhibit table screening the film on a laptop and sharing the story with conference attendees. Also moderated a panel on “Revisiting the Sites of Japanese American Incarceration.”

SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Monday, February 18, 2013, 5:30 pm
“Films of Remembrance”
Nihonmachi Little Friends, 1830 Sutter St.

Our DVD featurette, “The JACL Apologizes,” caps off a full day series of screenings in San Francisco Japantown. The event is sponsored by the Bay Area Day of Remembrance Consortium, the Nichi Bei Weekly and the National Japanese American Historical Society.  Free admission.

2012

SEATTLE, WA
Fri.-Sat., July 6-7, 2012
2012 JACL National Convention Bellevue Hyatt Regency

In the author’s booth at various times both days, speaking with delegates and signing DVDs.

LOS ANGELES, CA
Saturday, May 12, 2012 @ 11:00 am
Japanese American National Museum
100 N. Central Ave.

Join us for the Southern California debut of the new Two-Disc Collector’s Edition DVD of “Conscience and the Constitution.” Producer Frank Abe will screen the film and debut a new DVD featurette, “The JACL Apologizes.” Q&A with the filmmaker and DVD signing will follow the screening. Admission is free to the museum and the screening, thanks to the “Target Free Family Day” in celebration of Asian Pacific Heritage Month.

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND , WA
Friday, March 30, 2012 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Sonoji Sakai Intermediate School
9343 Sportsman Club Road

Bainbridge Islanders will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the first forced removal of Japanese Americans in WW2 with “A Day of History, Honor and Healing.” The day also celebrates the unique legacy of a community that stood by their Japanese American friends and neighbors and welcomed them home. The screening will be followed by a discussion with producer/writer Frank Abe, U.W. professor Dr. Tetsuden Kashima, and Bainbridge Island camp survivors. Download a printable program of the full day’s events. Admission is free.

SEATTLE, WA
Saturday, February 18, 2012 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience
Tateuchi Story Theater 719 South King Street

Please join us for the world premiere of the new Two-Disc Collector’s Edition DVD of Conscience and the Constitution. Producer Frank Abe will screen the film along with a new DVD featurette, “The JACL Apologizes,” on events that occurred after the film’s release, and answer questions. Admission is free.