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Newport Symphony featuring Hunter Noack
2023-03-19 14:00 - 16:00, 2023-03-18 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Newport Performing Arts Center, 777 W Olive St, Newport, OR, 97365, United States
Come to the coast and hear the Newport Symphony with Hunter Noack as the featured soloist. I’ll be performing in the viola section.
Here’s the program:
Dvorak, Slavonic Dance in C op. 46, no. 1
Ottoroino Respighi, The Birds
Gabriela Lena Frank, Apu
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor
Tickets cost between $33.25 – $48.50 for adults, $13 for students
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Day of Remembrance Talk - Tigard Library
2023-02-19 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Tigard Public Library, 13500 SW Hall Blvd., Tigard, OR, 97223, United States
I will be giving a talk at the Tigard Public Library on February 19th, Day of Remembrance.
This is the day in 1942 when FDR signed Executive Order 9066 which authorized the mass forced removal of over 110,000 Japanese Americans from their homes. They were incarcerated in concentration camps for over three years.
I will be telling the story of my mom’s family. They were all incarcerated … except for my uncles who served in the U.S. Armed Forces.

Vancouver Master Chorale - Christmas Joy
2022-12-11 15:00 - 16:30, 2022-12-10 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | First Presbyterian Church, 4300 Main St., Vancouver, WA, 98663, United States
Selections from Handel’s Messiah & Traditional Carols
Vancouver Master Chorale is a fully vaccinated choir

Newport Symphony: Free July 4th Concert
2022-07-04 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Newport High School, 322 Eads St, Newport, 97365, United States
Join us for the fabulous and free Fourth of July concert at Newport High School, 322 Eads St on Monday July 4 at 4 pm. This annual event is a gift to the community by the Newport Symphony Orchestra.
Parking is available on the street, at the Lincoln County fairgrounds, and in the NHS parking lot.
Masks and vaccinations not required per local and state guidelines.
Instagram: @newportsymphonyorchestra
Round up your family and friends and come!

Race Talks: Who Gets To Be American?
2022-05-10 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | McMemins Kennedy School, 5736 NE 33rd Ave, Portland, OR, 97211, United States
Join RACE TALKS and Mitzi Asai Loftus and Toby Asai Loftus as they explore correlations between internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and present-day refugee policies and protests.
Screening of: OPB Oregon Experience – “Oregon’s Japanese Americans: Beyond The Wire”
This is a hybrid event: you may attend in person at the Kennedy School Gym, or you may join virtually online.
The event is free, and donations are encouraged.

Newport Symphony - Latin Fireworks
2022-03-20 14:00 - 16:30, 2022-03-19 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Newport Performing Arts Center, 777 W Olive St, Newport, OR, 97365, United States
Adam Flatt, conductor
Mónica Abrego, soprano
Soprano Mónica Abrego will light up the Performing Arts Center stage with her incandescent renditions of Latin favorites, and the orchestra will round out he season with super-high voltage Mexican repertoire in what is sure to be great evening of music.
Blas Galindo: Sones de Mariachi
Aaron Copland: El Salón México
Arturo Marquez: Danzón no. 2
José Pablo Moncayo: Huapango
Juventino Rosas: Sobre las Olas
Plus, a spectacular set of selected songs from the Mexican and Spanish repertoire
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Japanese American Incarceration in CA & OR: My Mother's Experience
2022-02-23 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | OR
The Brown Club of Oregon and The Brown Club of San Francisco have invited me to talk about my mother’s family experience being incarcerated during World War II for no crime beyond being of Japanese ancestry.
During the talk I will be sharing family photos and historical notes, and will include video clips of talks mom (who turns 90 y.o. this year) has given in the past. Mom plans to connect and take part in Q&A after the presentation.
More information and free registration can be found on the Take PART website.
This talk will be online and is free to the public. You must register to obtain the Zoom link.

Take PART: Talk on Japanese American Incarceration During World War II
2022-01-20 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | OR
Take PART (Portland Anti-Racism Team) has invited me to talk about my mother’s family experience being incarcerated during World War II for no crime beyond being of Japanese ancestry.
During the talk I will be sharing family photos and historical notes, and will include video clips of talks mom (who turns 90 y.o. this year) has given in the past.
I warmly invite you to join the presentation live, but if you cannot, a recording will be published afterwards.
More information and free registration can be found on the Take PART website.
To attend, you must register (for free) to obtain the Zoom link to join.

Take PART is the Portland Anti-Racism Team, a group whose mission is to confront
racism and engage in dismantling the systems that continue racial inequality. This is their website.
I am very impressed with their talks and presentations which I find thought provoking, respectful, and very enlightening. Past presentations can be viewed online here.

Newport Symphony: Piano Spectacular
2022-01-16 14:00 - 16:30, 2022-01-15 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Newport Performing Arts Center, 777 W Olive St, Newport, OR, 97365, United States
Adam Flatt, conductor
Clayton Stephenson, piano
Van Cliburn Junior Piano Competition prizewinner Clayton Stephenson makes his Oregon Coast début with the most electric of all piano concertos.
Hector Berlioz: Rákóczy March from The Damnation of Faust
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Symphony no. 2
Gabriela Lena Frank: Three Latin American Dances
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
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Vancouver Master Chorale: Christmas Joy
2021-12-12 15:00 - 17:00, 2021-12-11 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | First Presbyterian Church, 4300 Main St., Vancouver, WA, 98663, United States
Feel the “Christmas Joy” of Handel’s Messiah and your favorite traditional carols. Come and celebrate the Joy of Christmas as the Vancouver Master Chorale begins the 2021-2022 live concert season with a soul-stirring roof-raising performance of Handel’s Messiah accompanied by orchestra. An assortment of other seasonal sounds will round out the experience with the choir harmonizing on English carols by Rutter, again with orchestra, and raising voices in the Appalachian carol Brightest and Best with a sprightly fiddle setting the mood.
