JAHSSC Author/Artist Faire - Japanese American Historical Society of Southern California NEW

Author/Artist Faire, sponsored by the Japanese American Historical Society of Southern California and the Torrance Library.  Saturday, May 7, 2011, 11 am - 5 pm, Katy Geissert Civic Center Library, 3301 Torrance Bl., Torrance 90503.  Free admission.

Date
May 7, 2011

Time
11:00 am - 5:00 pm

Books, artwork, presentations by Japanese American writers and artists members of the JAHSSC.  Daylong presentations on 2nd floor, Polly Watts Story Theater: Children's program - Sunny Seki (Tale of the Lucky Cat), Shig Yabu (Hello, Maggie), Stan Terasaki (Ghosts for Breakfast), Janet Mitsui Brown (Thanksgiving at Obaachan's). Adult presentations: Women in History( Valerie Matsumoto, Karen Ishizuka, Sharon Yamato); sansei poets, traci kato kiriyama and Amy Uyematsu - This is NOT the poety you learned in school; Award winners Naomi Hirahara & Cynthia Kadohats: Getting There: the Writing and Publishing Process; Camp - Kaleigh & Kimberly Komatsu (In America's Shadow) and Chiz Judy Sugita de Queiroz (Camp Days 1942-1945); Dr Mikio Sankey (Nutrition for Everybody).

Books, artwork in Community Meeting Room, 1st floor:  Heritage Source (vendor), additional writers: Don Hata, Glenn Omatsu, Kaori Tanegashima, NCRR, Eiko Masuyama, Ansho Mas Uchima, Wakako Yamauchi; Artists: Mary Higuchi, Yasuko Sakamoto, Ruby Tabata, Mary Kageyama Nomura, Janet Mitsui Brown, Amy Uyematsu, Chiz Judy Sugita de Queiroz.