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Fiscal Year 2005-2006 CCLPEP GRANT RECIPIENTS
Fiscal Year 2005-2006 CCLPEP GRANT RECIPIENTS
Phyllis York, et al
Davis Joint Unified School District
Project: Korematsu Elementary School Program
Description: Centered around the opening of the new Fred Korematsu Elementary School in Davis, a coalition of teachers, parents and community members will collect and adapt CCLPEP and related materials for an elementary school library and curriculum, with a special focus on the life and experiences of Fred Korematsu.
Amy Kato, et al
Visual Communications/Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress
Project: “Stand Up For Justice” DVD Production and Screenings
Description: This grant will help to produce DVDs and underwrite community screenings and film festival entries of “Stand Up for Justice,” the inspiring story of Ralph Lazo, a young Latino who went to Manzanar voluntarily with his Nisei classmates in 1942.
Philip Kan Gotanda/Carey Perloff
American Conservatory Theater
Project: ACT Production/Performance of “After the War”
Description: The play “After the War” chronicles the return of the Issei and Nisei to their neighborhood, and is set in a Japantown boardinghouse. It will be performed at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
Tom Ikeda
Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project
Project: WRA Camp Newspaper Collections
Description: Densho will digitize and make available the newspaper collections from the 10 WRA camps, and will also create classroom lesson plans with these materials.
Michael Singh
Michael Singh Productions, Inc.
Project: Broadcast and Exhibitions of “Valentino’s Ghost”
Description: “Valentino’s Ghost” is a documentary film exploring the manner in which Muslims, Arabs, and the religion of Islam have been depicted in movies, news, government propaganda, and a wide variety of other media.
Alisa M. Lynch
Manzanar National Historical Site
Project: Manzanar Education Curriculum Package
Description: This grant will support the creation of an innovative curriculum package that will help teachers and students connect the lessons of Manzanar to contemporary and Constitutional issues.
Philip Tamaki
Blake Tamaki
Project: High School Visit to Manzanar
Description: This project will document the journey of eight high school students to Manzanar, with the purpose of creating a photo-essay from the point of view of today’s youth. This photo essay will include photos of Manzanar Internment Camp, a brief history of the Internment, Constitutional analysis, and Yonsei perspectives and personal reflections on experiences and reminiscences of grandparents or family members who were internees.
Anna Tatar
San Diego Public Library
Project: San Diego County programs to celebrate “Dear Miss Breed”
Description: The San Diego County libraries will present a number of entertaining and educational programs about the librarian Miss Clara Breed, whose support and care for the children who frequented her library and were interned in WWII show how a single person can touch the lives of many.
Ruth Tobar
Children’s Book Press
Project: Production and Publicity of “A Place Where Sunflowers Grow”
Description: “A Place Where Sunflowers Grow” is a bilingual (Japanese-English) children’s picture book about a girl who is interned at Topaz. This project will help to fund the publicity, online teacher’s guide, and book events in the three California Japantowns.
Karen Ishizuka
Tadashi Nakamura
Project: Educational DVD of “Pilgrimage”
Description: This grant will fund the production and distribution of DVDs of the 30-minute documentary “Pilgrimage,” with special features in addition to the finished film. In addition, multi-ethnic, multigenerational screenings will be held in Los Angeles and San Francisco, in conjunction with other campus and community organizations.
Susan B. Richardson
Project: Publication of Topaz Camp memoir
Description: This grant will help fund the publication of “I Call To Remembrance: A Topaz Camp Memoir,” by Nisei poet and Topaz internee, Toyo Suyemoto.
Keith Aoki, Anupam Chander and Madhavi Sunder
UC Davis School of Law
Project: Fred Korematsu: All American Action Hero comic book
Description: This project will write and design a comic book featuring an all-new hero and role model for people of all ages: Fred Korematsu. This comic book will then be made available to California schools.
Akemi Kikumura-Yano, Ph.D
Japanese American National Museum
Project: JANM Programs featuring CCLPEP projects
Description: The Japanese American National Museum will develop and coordinate a series of events built around past or present CCLPEP projects, which will help to foster an increased awareness and understanding of Japanese American history.
Allison Campbell
Riverside Metropolitan Museum
Project: Harada House Curriculum
Description: The Riverside Metropolitan Museum will publish a curriculum package entitled “Reading the Walls,” featuring the stories of three local Nikkei families before during and following WWII, and the landmark Harada House. This package will include the development, printing and distribution of a workbook, and an accompanying website.
Lewis Kawahara
Project: Sharp Park Photo Exhibit
Description: This project will include research and data collection within the German American and Italian American communities to develop a photographic exhibition of the Sharp Park Immigration Camp, illustrating how the imprisonment of these communities led to the mass evacuation and internment of persons of Japanese Ancestry.
Benjamin Pease
Project: Map and Online Atlas of California Japantowns
Description: This project will produce maps of approximately 12 major historic and existing Japantowns, and post them online as a Japantown Atlas website. This information will be shared with interested libraries, museums, and community groups.
Barbara Takei
Project: Completion of NARA Research
Description: This project will complete ongoing research at the National Archives and Records Administration with regard to the Tule Lake Segregation Center during WWII, culminating in the preparation of a manuscript examining the government actions and the individual circumstances that led thousands of Japanese Americans at the Tule Lake Segregation Center to renounce their US citizenship.
Greg Marutani
Project: Children’s Village of Manzanar
Description: This project will preserve the history of the Children’s Village at Manzanar by documenting the personal recollections and history of Ms Lillian Matsumoto, who oversaw the operation of the facility and care of the orphans there.
Clyde Kusatsu
Lodestone Theater Ensemble
Project: Oral Histories for “Living in Silence” documentary project
Description: “Living in Silence” is a documentary about Toraichi Kono, personal secretary and confidant to actor Charlie Chaplin. This phase of the project is aimed at conducting oral histories and interviews with individuals who knew Toraichi Kono, i.e., friends, family members, and colleagues, including those who worked with him on behalf of the Renunciants
John Christgau
Enemy Alien Files Consortium
Project: Multicultural Curriculum Package for Enemy Alien Issues
Description: This project will create an age-appropriate multicultural curriculum package on WWII enemy alien internment issues. Three 20-25 minute Readers Theater Scripts, focusing on enemy alien internment from Japanese, German and Italian American perspectives will be developed as part of the package. It will be showcased at a Conference in 2007.
Crystal Langley
Merced Union High School District
Project: “Nisei Monologues” Performances
Description: The Nisei Monologues is a full-length play comprised of real stories from Internees. It will be produced in conjunction with the Drama Departments of the Merced Union High School District, and performed in two locations.
Karin Nelson
Museum of Craft and Folk Art
Project: The Art of Gaman Exhibit
Description: The Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco will produce and run an exhibition built on Delphine Hirasuna’s book, The Art of Gaman. The exhibition will include arts and crafts made by Japanese American internees, made from scrap and found materials in and around the camps.
Colleen Oinuma/Christopher Toshiro Jocson
ASUC/Nikkei Student Union
Project: “Visions:” A Field Study Program and Student-run Stage Production
Description: The Nikkei Student Union at UC Berkeley will develop and launch a student-led field study course on Japanese American history and culture, and also develop and present a student-run stage production open to the public, presenting unique interpretations of the Japanese American experiences.
Joanne Oppenheim
Project: The Diary of Stanley Hayami
Description: Stanley Hayami was 16 years old when he was sent to Heart Mountain. He kept a diary, filled with his thoughts and observations on life, augmented with sketches and drawings. Like many young Nisei men, he joined the 442nd, and fought bravely, earning a Bronze Star, but didn’t make it home. This diary inspired the author to seek out more information from Stanley’s friends and family, so that the full story of Stanley Hayami’s life could be told.
Kenyon Ching Mayeda/Jon Osaki
Japanese Community Youth Council
Project: Civil Liberties Youth Empowerment Project
Description: The Civil Liberties Youth Empowerment Project will train and inspire college students throughout California to help educate their peers and others about the Japanese American experience leading up to, during and immediately following WWII.
For more information on any of these projects or about CCLPEP itself, please contact Program Director Amy Sullivan at (916) 653-8722 or email asullivan@library.ca.gov