SOLD OUT - Bamboo and Barbed Wire Screening
Category: Events Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Thursday, Mar 12, 2020 6 PM-8:30 PM
Location
Idaho State Museum
610 N Julia Davis Dr
Details
THIS SCREENING IS NOW SOLD OUT. We have added a second screening on Sunday, March 15th at 1pm. Please visit history.idaho.gov/events-programs for more information!
Join us on Thursday, March 12th, for a special screening of the film “Bamboo and Barbed Wire” by Idaho filmmaker Karen Day. Afterward, hear about Karen Day’s experience researching and making this feature-length film. “Bamboo and Barbed Wire” documents the stories of Japanese-Americans incarcerated at the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Jerome County, Idaho.
This event is in connection with the new exhibit at the Museum from the Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibit, “Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II,” which opens to the public on January 25th, 2020.
Included in the screening and presentation, guests can visit the “Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II” exhibition presented in the Syringa gallery at the Idaho State Museum for free. Doors open at 5:00 PM for visitors to explore the new exhibit, and the program begins at 6:00 PM.
All proceeds from this event will go to the Museum’s Traveling Trunk program. These trunks extend the Museum experience into classrooms all over the state of Idaho. They contain primary sources for students to engage with, along with three full hours of activities for teachers to facilitate with their students. One of the new trunks to be offered focuses on the history of the Minidoka Incarceration Camp that was located near Jerome, Idaho.
For more information about the screening, please reach out to the Idaho State Museum at events@ishs.idaho.gov or by calling 208-780-5194.
Photograph by Dorothea Lange, Courtesy of the National Archives. Caption for image: “Oakland, California. Young evacuee of Japanese ancestry guarding the family belongings near the Wartime Civil Control Administration station. In half an hour the evacuation bus will depart for Tanforan Assembly center”
