BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Oakland Asian Cultural Center - ECPv6.17.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200715T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241231T120000 DTSTAMP:20250510T202247Z CREATED:20230720T075150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250510T202247Z UID:14537-1594814400-1735646400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Open E.A.R.S. for Change 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/open-ears-for-change/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Ongoing Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-05-at-6.10-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231011T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240122T170000 DTSTAMP:20240321T200858Z CREATED:20231118T084415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240321T200858Z UID:16549-1697029200-1705942800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Elder Voices: Chinatown Legacy Businesses Exhibition 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/elder-voices/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/roy-chan-exhibit-reception-thumbnail-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231209T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231209T150000 DTSTAMP:20240206T204413Z CREATED:20231118T093621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240206T204413Z UID:16612-1702126800-1702134000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Elder Voices: Chinatown Legacy Businesses Exhibition Opening Reception 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/elder-voices-opening-reception/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Upcoming Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/roy-chan-exhibit-reception-thumbnail-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR