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Fiscal Year 2006-2007 CCLPEP GRANT RECIPIENTS
Fiscal Year 2006-2007 CCLPEP GRANT RECIPIENTS
Gary Kurutz
California State Library Foundation
Project: “George E. Outland Collection”
Description: Primary source collection of George E. Outland’s papers which include: manuscripts, pamphlets, petitions, resolutions, and camp newspapers documenting the internment of Japanese Californians from 1943 to 1947.
Colleen Oinuma
UCB Nikkei Student Union
Project: “Nikkei Student Union Field Course”
Description: University California Berkeley course on civil liberties developed and facilitated solely by students that will 1) encourage students to think critically about the definition of civil liberties and its significance in their personal lives, 2) Allow students to become leaders and mobilize a community through leadership, and; 3) bridge the generational gap and racial barriers that prevent individuals from recognizing the impact of civil liberties infringements of all individuals in all communities.
Michael Singh
Michael Singh Productions
Project: “ Valentino’s Ghost”
Description: A documentary film that draws parallels between current affairs of today and the egregious racial profiling campaigns that targeted the Japanese in WWII.
Hiroshi Kashiwagi
Project “ Japanese American Historical Plays"
Description: Collection of eight plays written since 1948 that cover topics including the Depression in the 1930’s, World War II, internment, and the post war and recovery efforts of the author and his family.
Ms. Yuki Nishinaka, Japanese American Museum of San Jose
Project: “From Our Land”
Description: “From Our Land” is an exhibit and a view of history about how farmers of Japanese ancestry along with their community transformed the land they lived on and the political landscape they lived within. The exhibit consists of a forum and opening event, new media presentations, documentaries, three-dimensional display, farm artifacts, hand built three-dimensional books (pop-up), and banners.
Ms. Joanne Oppenheim
Project: “Hayami Diary”
Description: This book project shares and increases public access to the complexity of the Japanese American World War II incarceration experience. It is built around Stanley Kunio Hayami’s diary. Stanley Kunio Hayami was a southern California teenager who recorded his experiences at Heart Mountain relocation center during World War II. The publication will be an annotated diary the includes the complete contents of Hayami’s diary as well as historical narrative, commentary from his friends and family, and related illustrations and images.
Mr. Kaz Maniwa, (CJACLC)
Project: “ California Japantowns”
Description: A comprehensive website that will feature multiple Nisei interviews that have been captured and posted to the website. The website will also include community profiles, surveys and historical photographs.
Gail Kitaji, Salinas Valley Chapter of Japanese American Citizens League
Project: “Story of the Japanese in the Salinas Valley”
Description: Sandy Lydon, a historian who helped guide the extensive interview process of the Nisei of Salinas Valley will write the manuscript for the book entitled “The Story of the Japanese in the Salinas Valley.”
Dennis Jones, Sierra Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Project: “Journey to Topaz”
Description: This is a one-women’s play based on the children’s novel “Journey to Topaz” by Yoshiko Uchida. It tells the story of Japanese-American internment through the eyes of an 11-year-old Berkeley girl. This play will be performed for school children, and public performances for seniors in the Gold Country and Central Valley.
Eric Murata, Nikkei Student Union
Project: “Student Performance of Executive Order 9066”
Description: Performance play that focuses on cultural identity, history and imperative community issues. It will be performed at the Nikkei Student Union’s Annual Cultural Night.
Tom Graves
Project: “Nisei VFW Posts of California”
Description: This grant will obtain original photographs of selected California Nisei Veterans of Foreign Wars Posts, conduct oral interview of the Nisei members and to collect and digitize the historical documents and photographs provided by Nisei Posts. In addition a DVD slide show tentatively entitled “Outposts on a Lonely Landscape: The Nisei VFW Posts of California” will be produced.
Brian Komei Dempster (JCCCNC)
Project: “Making Home from War”
Description: The anthology will offer stories on the Resettlement period written by the eleven authors of its companion book, “From Our Side of the Fence.”
Kay Ochi and Janice Iwanaga Yen, Nikkei for Civil Rights
Project: “Stand Up for Justice”
Description: The National Coalition for Redress/Reparations has accumulated 27 years worth of photographs, newspapers, press releases, correspondence and lawsuits filed on behalf of denied applicants. The most significant documents will be posted onto the website to serve as an educational component.
Grace Shimizu, Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project / NJAHS
Project: “Hidden Internment: Challenges to Civil Liberties in Wartime
Description: This project will launch a new online resource to promote the Enemy Alien Files Consortium (EAF) project. In addition, there will be an outreach and marketing initiative utilizing public events.
Christina Lim, KTEH-TV Northern California Public Broadcasting
Project: “Return to the Valley”
Description: This project will update and upgrade the existing “Return to the Valley” website for an additional five years. The “Return to the Valley” on-line teachers guide and the listings of CCLPEP and other resources (books, videos, other websites) will be aligned to the California state history and social studies standards. Teacher workshops will be held in three counties. A teacher’s workshop materials packet will be created so that the materials from the workshops can be easily replicated in every school throughout the district.
Gail Yamada, Media Bridges, Inc.
Project: “MIS WWII Veterans Interviews
Description: This project will digitize video interviews and written transcripts of three veterans who were in the Military Intelligence Service during and after World War II.
Frank Abe, Resisters.com Productions
Project: “Conscience and the Constitution Digital Preservation”
Description: This project will be converting the documentary film “Conscience and the Constitution” that was a prior CCLPEP grant project from its VHS format into a digital format for the CCLPEP collection.
Jeff Lui, Visual Communications
Project: “CWRIC Hearings”
Description: Digitization the entire 26-hour Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) hearings held in Los Angeles inn 1981.
Soji Kashiwaga, Grateful Crane Ensemble
Project: “The Place to Be”
Description: The project will tour and perform the play “Nihonmachi: The Place to Be” to three venues in California.
Hiroshi Shimizu and Jim King, Tule Lake Committee – Tulelake Unified School District
Project: “Tule Lake Teacher Workshop”
Description: This project, coordinated by the Tule Lake Committee in partnership with the Tule Lake Unified School District, is a follow-up to the successful teacher’s training that was offered eight years ago. This project will include a for-credit teacher workshop and a guided tour of the Tule Lake Internment Camp. In addition, the Grateful Crane Ensemble will perform “Camp Dance” as a companion cultural event to outreach to the local community.
Cory Shiozaki
Project: “From Barbed Wire to Barbed Hooks”
Description: The project consists of twelve oral interviews that will be filmed and captured into a digital format and posted to a website. In addition, the project will begin working on a pod cast walking tour of Manzanar National Historic Site.
Marlene Tanioka
Project: “Japanese Americans of Merced County”
Description: There are three parts to this project. The first part of this project will be the Centennial Celebration of the descendents of Yamoto Colony settlers. A photographic journal will be the product. The second part will be the installation of two permanent monuments in memory of all Issei Pioneers who settled in Merced County. The third part of the project will raise awareness of the Japanese American experience with the greater Merced area through panel discussions, classroom and community group presentations, a Day of Remembrance film festival, fairs, and upgrading and maintaining a website.
Michael Matsuda, Rueben Martinez LEAP
Project: “Mendez v. Westminster Book Reprint”
Description: The children’s book “Mendez vs. Westminster: For All the Children” will be translated into Spanish. In addition, 2,000 copies of the book will be distributed throughout Southern California.
Banafishehi Akhlaghi, Agape Foundation / NLSCA
Project: “MEMSA”
Description: Identify and interview Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (MEMSA) individuals who have had experiences similar to the Nikkei cases during WWII. Compare and contrast how National Legal Sanctuary for Community Advancement (NLSA) clients of today post 9-11 and the Nikkei experiences are similar. The result of the research and interviews will be a series of oral histories capturing NLSCA clients on film.
Jon Funabibki, Department of Journalism SFSU
Project: “Ruth Asawa’s Garden of Remembrance”
Description: An educational (short) video documenting artist Ruth Asawa’s role as designer of the Garden of Remembrance at San Francisco State University and her legacy as an educator and activist.
Natalie Yakushiji, Daruma no Gakko
Project: “I-Turn / Intern
Description: A short video documentary produced by youth. Interviews of internees will be conducted by young people affiliated with Daruma No Gakko. These interviews will be captured into a digital format and produced into a short documentary.
Dianne Fukami, Bridge Media, Inc.
Project “Piecing Memories digitization”
Description: This project will be converting the documentary film “Piecing Memories” that was a prior CCLPEP grant project from its VHS format into a digital format for the CCLPEP collection.
Christine Johnson, (JCCCNC)
Project: “The Wat Misaka Story”
Description: This is an oral interview with Wat Misaka who was the first person of color to be drafted to play professional basketball with the National Basketball Association. His interview will be captured in a digital format along with photos.
Steven Wake, Wake Media Productions
Project: “CCLPEP In-house Digitization”
Description: This project will be converting the already existing CCLPEP projects that are currently in VHS, audio cassettes or photographical formats into a digital format.
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