Upcoming Program Events
Every month you are invited to attend a reading, walking tour, gallery talk or book signing as part of our regular programming. We encourage you to attend these monthly events and bring a guest or two. We look forward to seeing you soon at the California Historical Society. Unless otherwise noted all events will be held at the California Historical Society's headquarters located at 678 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105.
| Thursday| July 17| 6-8 p.m. | Free |
Immigration at Golden Gate- Book Talk and Signing with Robert Barde
Angel Island is both an important piece of American history and a metaphor for the immigration process on the West Coast. To illuminate the many facets of the Chinese immigration experience in California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Barde follows the various threads of one Chinese female immigrant’s 20-month detention on Angel Island. Her experience was extraordinary—not only in being the longest known detention at the Immigration Station, but in being connected to so many important events and central characters in immigration through the Golden Gate. Her tale is chillingly relevant to today’s debates over exclusion and detention.
The author is Deputy Director of the Institute of Business and Economic Research at the University of California, Berkeley.
| Thursday| August 7| 6-8 p.m. | Free |
Digging to Chinatown Book Talk & Presentation with Historian and Author Connie Young Yu
Author of Chinatown, San Jose, USA, Connie Young Yu will be sharing her knowledge and involvement in Heinlenville, the San Jose Chinatown and multicultural community that transformed into today's Japantown. A descendant of the Heinlenville community, she and her family were central to the creation of San Jose's Ng Shing Gung museum. Connie Young Yu will be discussing the newly emerging results of an archaeological excavation taking place at the site of her grandparents' store.
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