California Reads Film Festival & Speaker
Date and Time
Saturday Jun 9, 2012
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
Location
Saratoga Library Community Room
Fees/Admission
Free
Website
Description
11:00 am – 12:30
Beyond Barbed Wire recounts the personal sacrifices and stories of heroism displayed by Japanese American soldiers who fought for the United States during World War II while their families were held in internment
camps.
1:00 pm - 2:30
Amy Imai (Japanese American Museum of San Jose): Presentation and screening of All We Could Carry, a film that tells the story of confinement at Heart Mountain, Wyoming.
3:30 pm - 5pm
9066 TO 9/11: America’s Concentration Camps, Then…And Now?
A documentary that directly addresses the surprising similarities between the Japanese American concentration camps of 1942 and the current treatment of many individuals of Arab descent due to 9/11.
Free program; no reservation necessary.
