Posted on May 1, 2008 by judy24
Lisa Petrides and Judy Shintani are performing “Honoring Grandmothers from Far Lands” again, this time at the Ted Adcock Senior Center in Half Moon Bay at 12:20pm, May 8th. The performance is part of the Mother’s Day Luncheon which starts at noon. This event is organized by the Senior Coastsiders.
“It is interesting how much a [...]
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Posted on February 12, 2008 by judy24
Me, Judy Shintani, and fellow coastside alumni Judy Johnson-Williams, are in an art show which opens this Friday, 2/15. JFKU alumni sister Dorothy Nissen is showing her work in this show too.
“Acts of war make people behave in many different ways. The Women On War exhibit features images of war, not just the Iraq War, [...]
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Posted on January 24, 2008 by judy24
I typically do not get too political on this blog, but this really makes me mad.
This is an edited down version of a yahoo new story:
The surveillance law, which authorizes the administration to eavesdrop on phone calls and see the e-mail to and from suspected terrorists, expires on
Feb. 1.
Vice President Dick Cheney prodded Congress on [...]
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Posted on July 26, 2007 by judy24
We (Lisa Petrides and Judy Shintani) will be telling the stories of our grandmothers this Saturday at the Enso Art Gallery, using spoken word and movement. This will be our second time performing this piece. The first time was up at Gallery Route One in Pt Reyes, California.
It is interesting that two women from [...]
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Posted on May 12, 2007 by judy24
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The Remembrance Shrine, February 2007 - Found objects, writings, rice paper
This piece will be on display in the Alumni Show at the John F Kennedy Arts and Consciousness Gallery, Berkeley, California, May 15-June 17, 2007.
I created this piece to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the internment of Japanese-Americans that occurred in the U.S. [...]
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Posted on May 12, 2007 by judy24
I just found this most incredible event that is happening on June 2 at Tanforan Shopping Center. Here is the press release:
SAN FRANCISCO (March 16, 2007) – In February 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which sent 120,000 Japanese Americans to United States concentration camps during World War II. For nearly 8,000 San [...]
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