Illegal: the Theater of the Angel Island Immigration Station’s Paper Sons | Skyler Chin, Jeffrey Lo, and Sita Sunil (Lecture, 73 minutes)

Illegal: the Theater of the Angel Island Immigration Station’s Paper Sons | Skyler Chin, Jeffrey Lo, and Sita Sunil (Fall 2022 Speaker Series)Lecture, 73 minutes; Part of the Fall 2022 Speaker Series (Landscapes of Migration, Incarceration and Resistance)Click the title and scroll to the gray box below to access the video.Recording of presentation at @BAMPFA Osher Theater; free and open to the public Friday, October 21, 2022Speakers: Skyler Chin and Sita Sunil, Playwrights of Illegal; Jeffrey Lo, Director of The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin, PlaywrightOne island, two plays: Skyler Chin and Sita Sunil will discuss their new musical Illegal with Filipino-American playwright Jeffrey Lo, who recently directed The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin, which like Illegal dramatizes the family traumas created by racially exclusionary policies carried out at Angel Island. Skyler Chin was inspired to co-write Illegal by his own ancestors’ experiences at Angel Island, and Sita Sunil’s work as an artist is also shaped by her family’s history of immigration. In addition to his directing work, Jeffrey Lo’s playwriting often deals with issues of Asian American identity. This will be a stimulating conversation across generations and genres.UC @Berkeley Arts + Design Fridays: Landscapes of Migration, Incarceration, and Resistance is a lively series of talks by artists, performers, scholars, and activists exploring themes of global and US migration, exclusion, and belonging. It is also a UC Berkeley course offered as Humanities 20: Explorations of Art + Design. Organized by Susan Moffat, Creative Director of Future Histories Lab and Executive Director of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative and by Lisa Wymore, Professor of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies and Faculty Advisor of Berkeley Arts + Design. Hosted by Susan Moffat.--This speaker series is part of a program of music and dance performances, exhibitions, public conversations, and courses called A Year on Angel