BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) - ECPv6.17.5.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://museumca.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261018T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261018T235959 DTSTAMP:20261016T220515Z CREATED:20260916T192117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261016T220515Z UID:10002374-1792281600-1792367999@museumca.org SUMMARY:Spotlight Sundays: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange DESCRIPTION:Your browser does not support the video tag.\n \n \n \n \n\n Your browser does not support the video tag.\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nSpotlight Sundays: Cultural Fire Storytelling and Film Screening\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpotlight Sundays: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwo Performances at 1 pm and at 3 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor this month’s Spotlight Sunday join us for a live production of Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange\, an immersive one-hour play written by Tess Taylor and directed by Ciera Eis. Last West was born from OMCA’s archive of Lange’s images and notebooks and returns to bring this legendary Bay Area photographer’s stories to life. We will travel with Lange as actors perform the journey outlined in her road journals and oral histories\, and witness again the California we experience today. Set against a stunning projected backdrop of Lange’s photographs\, this offering is a meditation on witness\, migration\, and time.  \n\n\n\nThis production is a culmination of a weekend of programming centering and celebrating Dorothea Lange’s life and work. Kick off the weekend on Friday\, October 16\, 5:30–7:30pm with a free public symposium at UC Berkeley’s Northgate Hall\, featuring Last West creator Tess Taylor and Ken Light\, UC Berkeley Professor of Photojournalism. Saturday\, October 17\, 1–3 pm join Last West actors from the production in an intimate day of teasers with pop up monologues in OMCA’s Galleries of Art and History right alongside Lange’s displays. Free with gallery admission.  \n\n\n\nExplore more of Lange’s work in our latest special exhibition\, BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration\, an augmented reality (AR) experience that brings new context to Lange’s iconic 1942 photographs. We invite you to join us for this special weekend of programming and experience Lange’s work through new perspectives\, stories\, and voices. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeneral TICKETs – 1 pm\n\n\n\nGeneral TICKETs – 3 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nMEMBER TICKETs – 1 pm\n\n\n\nMEMBER TICKETs – 3 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccessibility\n\n\n\nOakland Museum of California (OMCA) is committed to providing programs that are accessible\, welcoming\, and inclusive of our community. Wheelchairs\, sensory inclusive devices\, and additional amenities are available for checkout on a first come\, first served basis at the Ticketing Desk. To request other accommodations\, like American Sign Language (ASL)\, Cantonese\, Spanish or another language interpreter\, please email visitor@museumca.org at least three weeks before the event. Learn more about our accessibility options. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout last west creators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Tess Taylor | Writer\n \n Tess Taylor is a poet\, playwright\, cultural critic\, and the author of five poetry collections\, including Rift Zone and Work & Days. Her fifth collection\, Come Bite\, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in April 2027. She served as the 2024–25 Poet Laureate of El Cerrito\, CA as a 2024 Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellow. She has taught at UC Berkeley\, UC Davis\, Saint Mary’s College\, and Whittier College\, and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Seamus Heaney Centre in Belfast\, Northern Ireland. Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange—originally written in the OMCA Archive— began as a collage poem commissioned by MoMA in 2020\, and has grown into an immersive theater piece. \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Ciera Eis | Director\n \n Ciera Eis (she/her) is a theatrical director who develops socio-political new work\, with an eye for the queer\, messy\, visceral\, and wildly funny. She has developed new work at Berkeley Repertory Theatre\, American Conservatory Theater\, Magic Theatre\, and Shotgun Players\, with recent directing credits including Love U: Queer New Musical (Z Space)\, Faust on 4Chan (The Ground Floor\, Berkeley Rep)\, and Circle Mirror Transformation (Custom Made Theatre). For five years she produced Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor new-work residency\, and she has served as Artistic Director of both Custom Made Theatre Company and FaultLine Theater. She is a 2024 Directors Lab West recipient and a 2019–2021 SDCF Observer.  \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Ryan Yu | Projection Designer\n \n Ryan Yu is a Bay Area–based media and projection designer working across theatre\, dance\, and music. For Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange\, Ryan built the production’s immersive visual world\, translating Dorothea Lange’s photographic archive into a living\, shifting backdrop that moves with the performance. \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Sara Witsch | Sound Designer\n \n Sara Witsch (she/they) is a Bay Area sound designer\, production specialist\, and self-described noise-maker\, with a degree in Theater Arts from San Francisco State University\, where she studied sound design\, production\, and performance for the stage. Her sound work has been heard in theatres and unexpected outdoor spaces across the Bay Area\, as well as in podcasts\, radio plays\, film\, and video games. The Bay Area Reporter has praised her designs as “inviting from the moment you enter the theater\, and enveloping once the action gets underway.” Sara is Co-Artistic Director and Production Manager of SoundPlay Media\, a collective devoted to sound-specific performance art. \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Last West Cast\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReturn to Events URL:https://museumca.org/event/spotlight-sundays-roadsongs-for-dorothea-lange/ LOCATION:James Moore Theater\, 1000 Oak St\,\, Oakland\, California\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Spotlight Sundays,Ticketed,Conversation / Lecture,Members ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumca.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Sonomastage-image-internment-list-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261115T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261115T143000 DTSTAMP:20261028T183351Z CREATED:20261015T191855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261028T183351Z UID:10002379-1794747600-1794753000@museumca.org SUMMARY:Spotlight Sundays: Japanese American Legacies of Resistance DESCRIPTION:Your browser does not support the video tag.\n \n \n \n \n\n Your browser does not support the video tag.\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nSpotlight Sundays: Cultural Fire Storytelling and Film Screening\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpotlight Sundays: Japanese American Legacies of Resistance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram | 1–2:30 pmCall to Action | 2:30–3:30 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis Sunday\, we are stepping into the historical legacy that inspired OMCA’s latest special exhibition\, BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration. With opening remarks by OMCA Executive Director Lori Fogarty\, we will engage with this present moment in American history with the clarity and learnings of the past.  \n\n\n\nGuest speakers Satsuki Ina and Miya Sommers\, who both have personal or familial ties to wartime incarceration\, will be joined in conversation by host Joemy Ito-Gates to explore how the shadows of this history led them to paths of anti-imperialist organizing\, solidarity anchored in love\, and healing work in times of enduring racial injustice. TaikoPeace will close the day with an interactive performance of “Ei Ja Nai Ka\,” honoring Japanese American immigrant ancestors of this era and the echoes of their resistance through taiko\, dance\, and song. Come ready to learn\, engage\, and connect with one another! \n\n\n\nVisitors are invited to continue the conversation during a post-program Call to Action gathering. Japanese American Families for Justice\, Nikkei Resisters\, and Tsuru for Solidarity will facilitate interactive protest art activities and share resources on how to get involved with current campaigns. \n\n\n\nThis program is a part of our exhibition programming for BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration\, on view through December 27\, 2026. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeneral TICKETs ON SALE 10/30\n\n\n\nmember TicketS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccessibility\n\n\n\nOakland Museum of California (OMCA) is committed to providing programs that are accessible\, welcoming\, and inclusive of our community. Wheelchairs\, sensory inclusive devices\, and additional amenities are available for checkout on a first come\, first served basis at the Ticketing Desk. To request other accommodations\, like American Sign Language (ASL)\, Cantonese\, Spanish or another language interpreter\, please email visitor@museumca.org at least three weeks before the event. Learn more about our accessibility options. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Speakers and Performers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Satsuki Ina\, PhD\, was born in the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, a WWII maximum-security prison camp for so-called “disloyal” Japanese Americans during WWII. Her parents answered “No” to the so-called Loyalty Questionnaire and\, under duress\, renounced their American citizenship. She is co-founder of Tsuru for Solidarity\, a project of Japanese American social justice advocates working to support front-line immigrant and refugee communities being targeted today. She is a community trauma consultant and author of The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love\, Imprisonment\, and Protest (Heyday Books 2024). She is Professor Emeritus at California State University\, Sacramento. \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Miya Sommers (they/she) is a mixed-race gosei (fifth-generation Japanese American) and a third-generation settler on the territory of xučyun\, the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people\, the successors of the sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. In deepening their understanding of this inheritance and responsibility as a settler at the intersection of the U.S. and Japanese empire\, Miya’s political commitments center on building in tandem with movements for collective liberation through their work as an educator and land steward.  \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Joemy Ito-Gates (she/her) is a mother\, Ethnic Studies educator\, and community activist. She has been a public educator for twenty-three years and is the co-superintendent of the  Buddhist Church of Oakland’s Dharma School. She is a core member of the grassroots organization Japanese American Families for Justice and has had writing published in Britt Hawthorne’s Raising Antiracist Children and the newly released Mixed Roots: Writers on Multiracial Identity & Both/And Belonging\, edited by Anne Liu Kellor. \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n TaikoPeace\, founded by PJ Hirabayashi in 2018\, uses Japanese taiko drumming to spread kinetic energy\, spiritual vibration\, and joy while inspiring positive social change and world peace. “PEACE” stands for her acronym: Partnerships\, Empathy\, and Creative Empowerment. Her signature composition\, “Ei Ja Nai Ka\,” performed worldwide\, commemorates the first Japanese immigrants to America through taiko drumming\, dance\, and song. TaikoPeace frequently collaborates with other artists. Currently\, 888 Taiko Collective has joined TaikoPeace\, uniting drum\, dance\, and song as expressions of resistance\, joy\, and solidarity with communities engaged in social justice work. \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReturn to Events URL:https://museumca.org/event/spotlight-sundays-japanese-american-legacies-of-resistance/ LOCATION:James Moore Theater\, 1000 Oak St\,\, Oakland\, California\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Spotlight Sundays,Ticketed,Conversation / Lecture,Members ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumca.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/i-nxJZc4C-X2.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR