"Songs for J-Town," 4/23/22 performance at the Presidio
Theatre - Emmy Award winning composer Mark Izu presents an evening
of American jazz infused with traditional Japanese Gagaku music
and poetry about San Francisco's Japantown.
Digital Collage Images:
A Filipino Mother and
daughter. Photo: Pacifico Mortel (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) via
FoundSF.org
Filipino poet Al Robles in San Francisco's
Manilatown on August 4, 1977. Photo by Nancy Wong, San Francisco,
California (CC BY-SA) 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
I-Hotel
protest, San Francisco January 1977. Photo by Nancy Wong, San
Francisco, California (CC BY-SA) 4.0 via Wikimedia
Commons
Hayward, Calif.--Grandfather and grandchildren awaiting
evacuation bus. Photo by Dorothea Lange
Young Woman Riding a
Phoenix. Attributed to Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信 Japanese, 1725 (?)–1770
Art Institute Chicago (CC0 1.0)
Suenobu Togi Sensei, photo
courtesy of Mark Izu
Benkyodo Candy Factory, 1906
Brenda
Wong Aoki & Mark Izu, Japantown photos by Mark Shigenaga
Blossoms & mandala photos by Andi Wong
Digital Collage by Andi Wong