Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Up the Yangtze
This eye-opening documentary looks at the astonishing changes brought by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam to the Yangtze River in China.
When:
May 16, 2008 12:00am
"A POTENT INDICTMENT OF THE DAM-AGE DONE!
Says more about what's being lost—culturally, geographically, morally—
than any parade of talking heads ever could."
–Time Out New York
Read the reviews:
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/uptheyangtze
Read IndieWIRE on Up the Yangtze's opening:
http://www.indiewire.com/biz/2008/04/iw_bot_chinese.html
WATCH THE TRAILER:
http://zeitgeistfilms.com/uptheyangtze
UP THE YANGTZE
STARTS MAY 16 AT:
Los Angeles
Laemmle's Royal*
11523 Santa Monica Blvd.
310-477-5581
www.laemmle.com
* Q&A WITH FILMMAKER ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
After the 7 pm Show
Pasadena
Laemmle's Playhouse 7*
673 East Colorado Blvd.
626-844-6500
www.laemmle.com
* Q&A WITH FILMMAKER ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
After the 5pm Show
Encino
Laemmle Town Center 5
17200 Ventura Blvd.
818-981-9811
www.laemmle.com
Santa Ana
Regency South Coast Village
1561 W Sunflower Avenue
Sunflower & South Coast Plaza
714-557-5701
www.regencymovies.com
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