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Event Series Resilience – A Sansei Sense of Legacy

Resilience – A Sansei Sense of Legacy

Washington State History Museum 1911 Pacific Ave, Tacoma

February 4-July 7, 2023 Told from the point of view of Sansei (third generation) Japanese Americans, Resilience—A Sansei Sense of Legacy features eight artists whose work reflects on the effects of EO9066 as it resonated from generation to generation. While several of the artists employ traditional Japanese methods in the construction of their work—Lydia Nakashima > Continue Reading

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SKATE: Rinks, Derbies & Discos in Washington Skate History

Washington State History Museum 1911 Pacific Ave, Tacoma

Lace up your skates and get ready for a roll down memory lane with this new exhibition! Relive the glory of roller disco, couples’ skate, the snack bar, skate fashion, and your favorite skating music. Learn how present-day roller derby and new innovations are enlivening skate culture. The exhibition also explores how skating culture has > Continue Reading

Event Series Resilience – A Sansei Sense of Legacy

Resilience – A Sansei Sense of Legacy

Washington State History Museum 1911 Pacific Ave, Tacoma

February 4-July 7, 2023 Told from the point of view of Sansei (third generation) Japanese Americans, Resilience—A Sansei Sense of Legacy features eight artists whose work reflects on the effects of EO9066 as it resonated from generation to generation. While several of the artists employ traditional Japanese methods in the construction of their work—Lydia Nakashima > Continue Reading

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Scholarly Selections Elegies, Obits, and Honoring Life in Writing: A Creative Exploration of Love with Sarah Chavez, Ph.D

Washington State History Museum 1911 Pacific Ave, Tacoma

While loss and change potentially initiate painful grieving, artists and writers across time have used writing to remember and contextualize life and experience to bring forward the goodness that preceded a loss and/or that which is to come. Western culture has historically encouraged a forgetting or rewriting of the past, but as ancestral and community-focused > Continue Reading

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2023 Day of Remembrance Resilience – A Sansei Sense of Legacy exhibition opening

Washington State History Museum 1911 Pacific Ave, Tacoma

FREE – the Washington State History Museum has free admission from 3-8 PM on Third Thursdays Join us for the opening of Resilience – A Sansei Sense of Legacy and honor the annual Japanese American Day of Remembrance. Meet Susan Kamei, author of the acclaimed book When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of > Continue Reading

SKATE: Rinks, Derbies & Discos in Washington Skate History

Washington State History Museum 1911 Pacific Ave, Tacoma

Lace up your skates and get ready for a roll down memory lane with this new exhibition! Relive the glory of roller disco, couples’ skate, the snack bar, skate fashion, and your favorite skating music. Learn how present-day roller derby and new innovations are enlivening skate culture. The exhibition also explores how skating culture has > Continue Reading

Event Series Resilience – A Sansei Sense of Legacy

Resilience – A Sansei Sense of Legacy

Washington State History Museum 1911 Pacific Ave, Tacoma

February 4-July 7, 2023 Told from the point of view of Sansei (third generation) Japanese Americans, Resilience—A Sansei Sense of Legacy features eight artists whose work reflects on the effects of EO9066 as it resonated from generation to generation. While several of the artists employ traditional Japanese methods in the construction of their work—Lydia Nakashima > Continue Reading

Museum Admission

SKATE: Rinks, Derbies & Discos in Washington Skate History

Washington State History Museum 1911 Pacific Ave, Tacoma

Lace up your skates and get ready for a roll down memory lane with this new exhibition! Relive the glory of roller disco, couples’ skate, the snack bar, skate fashion, and your favorite skating music. Learn how present-day roller derby and new innovations are enlivening skate culture. The exhibition also explores how skating culture has > Continue Reading

Event Series Resilience – A Sansei Sense of Legacy

Resilience – A Sansei Sense of Legacy

Washington State History Museum 1911 Pacific Ave, Tacoma

February 4-July 7, 2023 Told from the point of view of Sansei (third generation) Japanese Americans, Resilience—A Sansei Sense of Legacy features eight artists whose work reflects on the effects of EO9066 as it resonated from generation to generation. While several of the artists employ traditional Japanese methods in the construction of their work—Lydia Nakashima > Continue Reading

Museum Admission

SKATE: Rinks, Derbies & Discos in Washington Skate History

Washington State History Museum 1911 Pacific Ave, Tacoma

Lace up your skates and get ready for a roll down memory lane with this new exhibition! Relive the glory of roller disco, couples’ skate, the snack bar, skate fashion, and your favorite skating music. Learn how present-day roller derby and new innovations are enlivening skate culture. The exhibition also explores how skating culture has > Continue Reading