Events
Event 1: Densho presents a conversation with Satsuki Ina. Saturday, May 11th, 2:00PM | Seattle Public Library
Ina will present her moving new memoir, “The Poet and the Silk Girl” (Heyday Books, March 2024), in which she recovers the story of how her parents survived and resisted their incarceration in U.S. concentration camps. Drawing from diary entries, heart-wrenching haiku, censored letters, government documents, and clandestine messages, Ina shares the eyewitness dispatches of Shizuko and her newlywed husband Itaru.
Event 2: Japanese Heritage Night at Bainbridge Arts & Crafts. Wednesday, May 29th, 6:00PM | Bainbridge Arts & Crafts
An evening of music, literature and history hosted by Bainbridge Arts & Crafts Gallery and Eagle Harbor Books. Micaela Omoto will lead us in song, followed by readings from Dylan Tomine, author of Headwaters and Satsuki Ina, author of The Poet and The Silk Girl, as well as a talk by Clarence Moriwaki – Let It Not Happen Again: Lessons of the Japanese American Exclusion. Speaker interviews with Star Rush, Artist, Arts Educator, Arts Leader. A book signing hosted by Eagle Harbor Book Co. (located next-door) will take place after the Q&A.
Event 3: Japanese Heritage Night at Bainbridge Arts & Crafts. Saturday, June 18th, 11:00AM–1PM
San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin Annex
632 North 5th St. San Jose, CA. 95112
Book presentation and signing.
Satsuki Ina is an emmy award-winning documentarian, community activist, and co-founder of Tsuru for Solidarity. Her memoir, The Poet and the Silk Girl, explores her family’s experience of unjust incarceration during WWII.
RSVP: SJBC@SJBETUIN.ORG
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