BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Oakland Asian Cultural Center - ECPv6.17.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Oakland Asian Cultural Center X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://oacc.cc X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Oakland Asian Cultural Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201219T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201219T183000 DTSTAMP:20201221T182748Z CREATED:20201020T211839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201221T182748Z UID:8834-1608397200-1608402600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage: Vanessa Vân-Ánh Võ DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/heart-filled-heritage-series-van-anh-vo/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201219VanAnh_thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201204T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201204T183000 DTSTAMP:20201221T182920Z CREATED:20201113T210849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201221T182920Z UID:8948-1607101200-1607106600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Quarantini Mixer: Beer Tasting 101 With Trappist DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/quarantini-mixer-beer-tasting-101-with-trappist/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Thumbnail-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201126 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201130 DTSTAMP:20200225T002851Z CREATED:20200225T002245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200225T002851Z UID:7668-1606348800-1606694399@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Closed for Thanksgiving DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/thanksgiving/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201123T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201123T190000 DTSTAMP:20201221T182832Z CREATED:20201022T171257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201221T182832Z UID:8842-1606150800-1606158000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Quiz For a Cause! Trivia Night with Geeks Who Drink DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/quiz-for-a-cause-trivia-night-with-geeks-who-drink/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/QFAC_Nov.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201122T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201122T150000 DTSTAMP:20201122T230620Z CREATED:20201019T235654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201122T230620Z UID:8829-1606050000-1606057200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Write Now! SF Bay: Claim Ourselves\, Connect with Each Other DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/claim-ourselves-connect-with-each-other/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/11.22-OACC-Stand-Up_thumbnail.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T190000 DTSTAMP:20201120T031526Z CREATED:20201019T204943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201120T031526Z UID:8825-1605808800-1605812400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:San Francisco's Chinatown: Resilience\, Survival\, and Celebration DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/sf-chinatown-book-talk/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201119SFChinatownThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201114T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201114T180000 DTSTAMP:20201115T021334Z CREATED:20200718T004830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201115T021334Z UID:8128-1605369600-1605376800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:140 LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother Virtual Screening DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/140lbs/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/LOVE-ME-AS-I-AM_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201111 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201112 DTSTAMP:20200225T002837Z CREATED:20200225T001549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200225T002837Z UID:7665-1605052800-1605139199@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Closed for Veterans Day DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/veterans-day/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201031T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201031T103000 DTSTAMP:20201103T213623Z CREATED:20201002T013034Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201103T213623Z UID:8721-1604138400-1604140200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Sari-Sari Story Time 2: Kalipay and the Tiniest Tiktik DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/sari-sari-story-time-2/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201031SariSariKalipayThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201030T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201030T190000 DTSTAMP:20201031T165502Z CREATED:20200923T200339Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201031T165502Z UID:8687-1604080800-1604084400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Banchan Cooking Workshop 2 DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/banchan-workshop-2/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20201030Banchan2_Thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T143000 DTSTAMP:20201024T213741Z CREATED:20200918T225921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201024T213741Z UID:8663-1603544400-1603549800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Oakland Chinatown Today\, Oakland Chinatown Tomorrow DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/oakland-chinatown-today-tomorrow/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20201024OCTodayandTomorrowThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T103000 DTSTAMP:20201024T173423Z CREATED:20201002T012455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201024T173423Z UID:8717-1603533600-1603535400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Sari-Sari Story Time 1: Amina and the City of Flowers DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/sari-sari-story-time-1/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201024SariSariAminaThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T140000 DTSTAMP:20201019T182442Z CREATED:20200824T203306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201019T182442Z UID:8617-1602939600-1602943200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Chinatown Pretty Book Talk DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/chinatown-pretty-book-talk/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20201017ChinatownPrettyThumbnail-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201016T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201016T190000 DTSTAMP:20201024T173258Z CREATED:20200923T200143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201024T173258Z UID:8683-1602871200-1602874800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Banchan Cooking Workshop 1 DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/banchan-workshop-1/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20201016Banchan1_Thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201012T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201012T193000 DTSTAMP:20201019T184228Z CREATED:20200923T225708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201019T184228Z UID:8701-1602525600-1602531000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:"In the Land of My Ancestors" Film & Conversation DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/in-the-land-of-my-ancestors/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20201012LandofAncestorsThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200930 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210101 DTSTAMP:20211008T184130Z CREATED:20200813T191011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211008T184130Z UID:8575-1601424000-1609459199@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Virtual Chuseok Festival Youth Art Contest DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/virtual-chuseok-festival-youth-art-contest/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Art-Contest_thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Korean Center%2C Inc.":MAILTO:info@koreancentersf.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200925T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200925T190000 DTSTAMP:20201001T180006Z CREATED:20200717T182601Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201001T180006Z UID:8610-1601053200-1601060400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Quarantini Mixer: Spritz\, Mix\, & Drink From Home with Viridian and OACC DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/quarantini-mixer/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cocktail_thumb_02-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200907 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200908 DTSTAMP:20200225T002843Z CREATED:20200225T000327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200225T002843Z UID:7663-1599436800-1599523199@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Closed for Labor Day DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/labor-day/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200829T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200829T150000 DTSTAMP:20200908T185823Z CREATED:20200617T001659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200908T185823Z UID:7753-1598709600-1598713200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Love Me As I Am: How to Have an Inter-generational Conversation on Beauty Standards and Self-Worth DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/convo-between-generations/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/LOVE-ME-AS-I-AM_-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200808 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201005 DTSTAMP:20201103T214657Z CREATED:20200605T171347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201103T214657Z UID:7989-1596844800-1601855999@oacc.cc SUMMARY:San Francisco Beginnings of Korean Immigration (1902-1920) DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/san-francisco-beginnings-of-korean-immigration-1902-1920/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th Street\, Suite 290\, Oakland\, CA 94607\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607 CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200808SFBeginningsThumbnail-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T150000 DTSTAMP:20211007T181118Z CREATED:20200615T212353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211007T181118Z UID:8033-1595682000-1595689200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Healing Around Race: Creative Writing Workshop #2 DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/healing-around-race-workshop-2/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200711CreativeWritingThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T120000 DTSTAMP:20200715T002306Z CREATED:20200609T192022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200715T002306Z UID:8018-1594724400-1594728000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Foundational Cooking Class Series: Session 4 DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/foundational-cooking-class-series-4/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200623CookingClassThumbnail-2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200711T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200711T150000 DTSTAMP:20200715T183928Z CREATED:20200615T212228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200715T183928Z UID:8029-1594472400-1594479600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Healing Around Race: Creative Writing Workshop #1 DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/healing-around-race-workshop-1/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200711CreativeWritingThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200707T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200707T170000 DTSTAMP:20200708T174154Z CREATED:20200609T191928Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200708T174154Z UID:8016-1594137600-1594141200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Foundational Cooking Class Series: Session 3 DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/foundational-cooking-class-series-3/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200623CookingClassThumbnail-2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200703 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200705 DTSTAMP:20200225T002906Z CREATED:20200225T000243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200225T002906Z UID:7661-1593734400-1593907199@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Closed for Independence Day DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/independence-day/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T120000 DTSTAMP:20200630T191051Z CREATED:20200609T191820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T191051Z UID:8014-1593514800-1593518400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Foundational Cooking Class Series: Session 2 DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/foundational-cooking-class-series-2/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200623CookingClassThumbnail-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200623T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200623T120000 DTSTAMP:20200624T204256Z CREATED:20200609T190723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200624T204256Z UID:8006-1592910000-1592913600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Foundational Cooking Class Series: Session 1 DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/foundational-cooking-class-series-1/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200623CookingClassThumbnail-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200530T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200530T133000 DTSTAMP:20200609T185133Z CREATED:20200211T175916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200609T185133Z UID:7600-1590840000-1590845400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/celebrating-our-heart-filled-heritage/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200530HeritageThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200525 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200526 DTSTAMP:20200225T002901Z CREATED:20200225T000151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200225T002901Z UID:7659-1590364800-1590451199@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Closed for Memorial Day DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/memorial-day/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200501 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200601 DTSTAMP:20200609T185159Z CREATED:20200513T195426Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200609T185159Z UID:7873-1588291200-1590969599@oacc.cc SUMMARY:APA Heritage Month List of Community Events DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/apa-heritage-month-list-of-community-events/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/2020APAHeritageMonthThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR