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Fiscal Year 2000-2001 CCLPEP GRANT RECIPIENTS
Fiscal Year 2000-2001 CCLPEP GRANT RECIPIENTS
Kathy Hsieh
Living Voices
915 E. Pine Street, Suite 405
Seattle, WA 98122
"WITHIN THE SILENCE"
Combining a live performance with archival film
footage, Living Voices offers a unique and
unforgettable experience for all audiences
about the Japanese American incarceration.
This program was designed to enlighten people
about the incarceration and relate it to other
historical events, so that its significance
will be understood and remembered.
Kay Ochi
Sharon Yamato
Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress
1701 Clinton St., #315
Los Angeles, CA 90026
"ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXTRAORDINARY
DEEDS"
This project will document individuals involved
in the redress and reparations movement who were
also the founding members of the National Coalition
for Redress and Reparations, now called Nikkei
for Civil Rights and Redress.
Joan Osato
Pamela Wu
Asian American Theater Workshop Company
1840 Sutter Street, Suite 207
San Francisco, CA 94115-3220
"STRANDS"
A live multi-Media theater project focusing on
the events surrounding incarceration of Japanese
Latin Americans.
David R. Reetz
Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation
245 East First St.
Powell, WY 82435
A BOOK ON THE "PROTEST AND
RESISTANCE TO INJUSTICE: AN AMERICAN TRADITION" SYMPOSIUM"
This project includes transcribing, editing,
printing, distributing, and lecturing on a book
documenting the symposium "Protest and Resistance
to Injustice: An American Tradition" in Cheyenne,
Wyoming.
Mark Izu
41A Parsons Street
San Francisco, CA 94118
"LAST DANCE: A MUSICAL ORAL
HISTORY"
This musical performance will tour several cities
in California to share their project about the
experience of the concentration camps.
Chizuko Omori
2640 13th W.
Seattle, WA 98119
"RABBIT IN THE MOON IN SCHOOLS"
A project involving the co producer of the documentary,
"Rabbit in the Moon" to visit classrooms in
the San Francisco/Bay Area to discuss the Japanese
American experience with students.
Carol Lynne Horiuchi
701 39th St.
Oakland, CA 94609
"NUTS AND BOLTS: RESEARCHING
JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT IN THE BANCROF LIBRARY
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORIA IN BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA"
This project proposes a finders guide to provide
better access to materials at the Bancroft Library
for Japanese American community members and other
interested inividuals.
Robert A. Corrigan
Rebecca Thompson
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94132
"GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE"
San Francisco State University, in partnership
with renowned sculptor and artist Ruth Asawa
and the Professional Gardeners Federation of
Northern California, will a memorial dedicated
to Japanese Americans incarcerated in the camps
during World War II.
Rosalyn Tonai
National Japanese American Historical Society
1684 Post St.
San Francisco, CA 94115
"LOCKED IN/ LOCKED OUT"
An essay, poetry/ spoken word, and art competition
for high school students in the San Diego region
to encourage their understanding of the issues
surrounding the internment and how those issues
resonate today. The competition will encourage
students to link the Japanese American incarceration
experience to the experience of other populations
in comtemporary times.
Elaine S. Yoneoka
Megumi
105 Apricot Lane
Los Gatos, CA 95030-5205
"THE HEART NO LONGER SILENT:
ITERNEE'S LIVES TOLD THROUGH STORYTELLING WITH
IMAGES"
Internees' lives told through live storytelling
presentations to be conducted in the Hartford
school district.
Gary Mukai
Stanford University
SPICE
Encina Hall, Room E016
Stanford, CA 94305
"SPICE/DENSHO COLLABORATIVE"
The rich primary source archives of the Densho
Project in Seattle, will be integrated with
SPICE's high school curriculum unit, Civil
Rights Japanese-American Internment, to produce
a web-based curriculum resource for teachers
and students in California secondary schools.
Gary T. Ono
2408 Sweetwood St.
Simi Valley, CA 93063
"CALLING TOKYO: JAPANESE AMERICANS
BROADCAST IN WORLD WAR II"
A 30 minute video documentary will show the true
story of California's Japanese Americans who
volunteered to produce Japanese language radio
broadcast programs transmitted by short wave
radio directly to listeners in Japan.
Rita Takahashi
San Francisco State University
2335 Roosevelt Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94703
"OUTSIDE THE EXCLUSION ZONES:
The IMPACT OF POLICIES AND PROGRAMS ON JAPANESE
AMERICAN DURING WORD WAR II"
A book will be written and at least two presentations
will be given, focusing on the little- known
subject of how Japanese Americans residing outside
the military exclusion zones during World War
II were affected by local, state and federal
policies and programs.
Hope Kawashima
Lake Park UMC
281 Santa Clara Avenue
Oakland, CA 94610
"REFLECTIONS OF FAITH HOPE
AND LOVE"
CDs of original music, written, sung and performed
by former internees, their descendants and friends.
It will be distributed to schools, libraries
and churches in the San Francisco/Bay Area.
Rebecca Gregg
Sierra College Foundation
5000 Rocklin Road
Rocklin, CA 95677
"STANDING GUARD: A REMEMBERENC
CELEBRATION"
This is a campus wide, multi-disciplinary, faculy/student/community
directed exhibit and oral history project focusing
on the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese
Americans during World War II who were residing
in Placer county.
Grace Shimizu
Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project
P.O. Box 1384
El Cerrito, CA 94530
"JAPANESE PERUVIAN ORAL HISTORY
PROJECT (JPOHP)"
Funding will be used to complete 20 oral history
interviews of Japanese Latin Americans who were
forcibly deported from their homes in Latin America
and incarcerated in Department of Justice comcentration
camps in the US for the purpose of hostage exchange
during WWII.
Priscilla Wegars
735 East Sixth Street
Moscow, ID 83843
"GOLDEN STATE MEETS GEM STATE:
CALIFORNIANS AT IDAHO'S KOOSKIA INTERNMENT CAMP,
1943-1945"
Eduational slide lectures in major California
cities will acquaint audiences with a unique
internment camp that housed many Californians.
Publicity about this camp should help locate
more surviving internees or their families to
share and exchange information.
Kenji McCarthy Treanor
Yukiya Jerry Waki
119 Scenic Avenue
San Anselmo, CA 94960
"WIRE CUTTING"
This is a project representing the perspectives
of two young Japanese Americans as they embark
on a road trip to visit the two concentration
camps in California and learn about the internment
and redress history and publish the findings
in a zine called "Wire Cutting".
Malcolm Margolin
Patricia Wakida
Clapperstick Institute
PO Box 9145
Berkeley, CA 94709
"HIDEO DATE"
To assist in the production of a catolog of Hideo
Date's artwork to accomany a six- month exhibit.
Jon Osaki
Japanese Community Youth Council
1596 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
"THE JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION:
A GUIDE FOR FAMILIES"
JCYC will produce a special issue of its magazine
Nikkei Family entitled The Japanese American
Incarceration: A Guide for Families. The goal
of the project is to created an educational resource
on the Japanese American incarceration to share
with families.
Deborah Wong
Center for Asian Pacific America
University of California, Riverside
Department of Music, UCR
Riverside, CA 92521-0325
"FROM RIVERSIDE TO POSTON:
THE FUJIMOTO DIARIES"
This book will present selected entries from
the wartime diaries of George Fujimoto, Jr.,
a Nisei who was born and raised in Riverside,
California. The diaries cover the years 1942-47.
"From Riverside to Poston" will be a vivid personal
history of incarceration and return, and it will
provide a historical perspective on race relations
in Riverside.
Mamoru Inouye
P.O. Box 532
Los Gatos, CA 95031-0532
"THE HEART MOUNTAIN STORY"
Distribution of "The Heart Mountain Story" an
eighty-eight page book that reproduces thirty-five
photographs of the Heart Mountain Concentration
Camp will be distributed to 911 senior and 314
middle/junior high schools in the State of California.
Brian Tadashi Maeda
J-Town Pictures
1912 Armacost Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90025
"THE MUSIC MAN OF MANZANAR"
This project will create a documentary on Lou
Frizzell a 22 year old music teacher at the
Manzanar Concentration Camp who taught drama
and music.
Zenobia Lai
Asian Law Caucus
720 Market Street, Suite 500
San Francisco, CA 94102
"FROM FRED KOREMATSU TO WEN
HO LEE: DEFENDING THE CIVIL RIGHTS"
This project will conduct a conference to address
and examine civil rights challenges facing the
Asian American community by linking Japanese
Americans incarceration experience with current
civil rights issues that are being challenged
by the new immigrant communities.
Christina Lim
KTEH
1585 Schallenberger Road
San Jose, CA 95131
"RETURN TO THE VALLEY"
This is a one-hour documentary about Japanese
Americans returning to the Santa Clara Valley
and Central Coast areas after incarceration
during WWII. KTEH will also work with the Japanese
Americans Resource Center/Museum in presenting
their project on an on-line website.
Yasuko Ann Ito
San Mateo Chapter JACL
111 North Grant Street, #5
San Mateo, CA 94401
"SAN MATEO JAPANESE AMERICAN
CITIZENS LEAGUE (JACL) HISTORY PROJECT"
A 300 page history book on the Japanese American
experience in San Mateo county will be produced
focusing on the original settlers in 1872 through
the war years, their incarceration in Tanforan
and Topaz and their return home.
Julie G. Cho
145 S. Sierra Madre Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91107
"FROM CAMP TO SWING: A JAPANESE
JAZZ ODYSSEY"
This documentary will seek to raise awareness
of Japanese American participation in popular
culture after World War II, through a former
internee's experience from playing jazz in the
incarceration camp as well as with segregated
bands throughout the American midwest.
Laura Takeuchi
Mas Yamasaki
JASEB
2126 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
"A PAST TO BE REMEMBERED"
To develop a visual model to enhance and expand
upon an on-going school presentation.
Professor Devon Carbado
University of California, Los Angeles
School of Law
P.O. Box 951476
Los Angeles, CA 90095
"RACE, LAW, AND CITIZENSHIP:
BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS RESPONSES TO THE JAPANESE
AMERICAN INTERNMENT"
This paper will explore the competing concerns
about demonstrating loyalty to the United States,
and, at the same time, criticizing the forced
incarceration of Japanese Americans.
Tim Dang
East West Players
244 S. San Pedro St., Suite 301
Los Angeles, CA 90012
"MANZANAR"
To provide assistance to produce a production
on the original musical theatre work about
the WWII incarceration experience called, "Manzanar" by
Russ McCoy and Dan Taguchi.
Nicole Branton
Cherstin Lyon
University of Arizona
Department of Anthropology
Tucson, AZ 85721-0030
"THE TUCSONIANS"
This project will conduct oral history interviews
of five Japanese American resisters of conscience
who were imprisoned at the Catalina Federal
Honor Camp in 1943-1945 for refusing to register
for the draft in protest of the incarceration
of persons of Japanese ancestry during World
War II.
Paul Osaki
California Japanese American Community Leadership
Council
1840 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
"PRESERVING CALIFORNIA'S JAPANTOWN
LEGACY"
This will provide initial funding to create three
permanent outdoor historic landmark exhibits
in three historic Japantowns in the State of
California.
William M. Kaneko
1040 19th Avenue
Honolulu, HI 96816
"HAWAII AJA's UNLAWFULLY EVACUATED
BUT NOT INTERNED: THE EVACUATION AND REDRESS
OF HAWAII AJA'S UNLAWFULLY EVACUATED FROM THEIR
HOMES DURING WW II"
This project will document the unwritten history
of approximately 400 American of Japanese Ancestry
in Hawaii who were not interned but unlawfully
evacuated from their homes during WWII.
Sachiko
Mr. Dom Magwili
Another Dom and Saachi Show
5300 Raber St.
Los Angeles, CA 90042
"A JIVE BOMBER'S CHRISTMAS"
Initial funding will be provided so that the
creators can write a screenplay.
Rick Walker
Artemis Productions
1333 N. California Blvd, Suite 190
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
"OUR LEGACY, Part II"
Maestro Kent Nagano, Conductor of the Berkeley
symphony will compose and conduct a symphony
piece on the Japanese American experience.
Gary Kurutz
California State Library Foundation
1225 8th Street, Suite 345
Sacramento, CA 95814
"JAPANESE AMERICAN MEMORIAL
GARDEN"
This project will create a garden in memory of
the Japanese American interment.