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.
Crime and Punishment
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco will screen Crime and Punishment.
When:
April 7, 2011 7:30pm to 12:00am
Where
As part of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ “Fearless” series, Crime and Punishment will be playing April 7th. Winner of the International Human Rights Award at the Nuremberg Film Festival, Best Documentary at France’s Festival des Trois Continents, and awarded Best Director by One World International Human Rights Documentary, Variety critic Robert Koehler calls Crime and Punishment “Stunning“.
On the North Korean border, Chinese military police enforce the law with a heavy hand, leading to moments of harrowing abuse and surreal satire. Amidst the barren wintry landscape of Northeast China, Chinese military police officers rigidly enforce law and order in an impoverished mountain town. They raid a private residence to bust an illegal mahjong game, casually abuse a pickpocket accused of throwing away evidence, and berate a confession out of a scrap collector working without a permit. The police switch between precise investigative procedure, explosions of violent fury, and moments of comic ineptitude, all captured incredibly before the camera.
Tickets for the screening are $7 for general admission and $5 for seniors, students, and teachers. Gallery admission is included in ticket price. Tickets can be purchased online here. For directions and more detailed pricing information, visit the YBCA website.
YBCA’s “Fearless” series is a collection of the most compelling, politically engaged documentary cinema in the world right now is coming from China. Totally under the radar, with low/no budgets and little/no hope of their work being shown in their own country, filmmakers are using inexpensive digital technology to tell stories that would never otherwise be told. This is not easy stuff — the films tend to be long, and often depict human rights abuses, stories of chaos and neglect, and of state-sanctioned deception. It is a deeply committed cinema, which expects no less from the viewer.
Cost:
$7 for general admission and $5 for seniors, students, and teachers
Event Website URL:
Phone Number:
415-978-2700
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