{"id":"Strands (play)","doctype":"articles","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Strands%20(play)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Strands%20(play)/"},"title_sort":"strandsplay","description":"One-woman show written and performed by D.H. Naomi Quinones that centers on her\n  \n   Japanese Peruvian\n  \n  grandfather's World War II internment story and her discovery of it. Kiichiro Yoshida was a Japanese Peruvian journalist who was one of over 2,000 Japanese Latin Americans interned in the United States during World War II. Separated from his family, he was not allowed to return to Peru at the end of the war and was instead deported to Japan. Quinones tells the story through video, spoken word poetry, and martial arts.\n  \n   Strands\n  \n  was commissioned by the Asian American Theater Company in association with the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center and was funded in part by a grant from the\n  \n   California Civil Liberties Public Education Program\n  \n  . 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Naomi Quinones;\nInterestLevel:Grades 9-12; Adult;\nReadingLevel:;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Evils of racism; Power of the past;\nGenre:;\nPoV:Autobiographical piece by granddaughter of Japanese Peruvian internee;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:No availability;\nFreeWebVersion:No;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:No;\nWarnings:;\nDenshoTopic:;\nGeography:;\nChronology:1940s to 2000s;\nFacility:;\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-Plays\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  <p>\n   Name:Strands;\nFirstDate:2002-05-16;\nFinalDate:2002-05-26;\nLocation:SomARTS Cultural Center, San Francisco;\nWriter:D.H. Naomi Quinones;\nDirector:Ellen Sebastian Chang;\nProducer:Pamela Wu;\nCreative:Judi Nihei (dramaturgy); Francis Wong (music); Melody Takata (music); Doug Hirai (music); Casey Peek (video);\nTechnical:;\nCharacters:;\nWebsite:;\nPlaybillLink:;\nIBDBID:;\nIODBID:;\nTheatricaliaID:;\nPublisher:;\nPubDate:;\nCurrentPublisher:;\nCurrentPubDate:;\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p>\n  One-woman show written and performed by D.H. Naomi Quinones that centers on her\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Japanese_Latin_Americans\" title=\"Japanese Latin Americans\">\n   Japanese Peruvian\n  </a>\n  grandfather's World War II internment story and her discovery of it. Kiichiro Yoshida was a Japanese Peruvian journalist who was one of over 2,000 Japanese Latin Americans interned in the United States during World War II. Separated from his family, he was not allowed to return to Peru at the end of the war and was instead deported to Japan. Quinones tells the story through video, spoken word poetry, and martial arts.\n  <i>\n   Strands\n  </i>\n  was commissioned by the Asian American Theater Company in association with the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center and was funded in part by a grant from the\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/California_Civil_Liberties_Public_Education_Program\" title=\"California Civil Liberties Public Education Program\">\n   California Civil Liberties Public Education Program\n  </a>\n  . The sixty-minute performance premiered at he SomARTS Cultural Center in San Francisco on May 16, 2002.\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n  <b>\n   Authored by\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Brian_Niiya\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n    Brian Niiya\n   </a>\n   , Densho\n  </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n</div>\n","moreinfo":"<div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n  <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n   For More Information\n  </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n  <p>\n   D'Souza, Karen. \"Lost History Revived in One-Woman Show.\"\n   <i>\n    San Jose Mercury News\n   </i>\n   , May 21, 2002, 1F.\n  </p>\n  <div id=\"RelatedArticlesDisplay\">\n   <div class=\"section\" id=\"Related_Articles\">\n    <h2>\n     <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Related_Articles\">\n      Related Articles\n     </span>\n    </h2>\n    <div class=\"section_content\">\n     <p class=\"mw-empty-elt\">\n     </p>\n     <div id=\"RelatedArticlesSectionDisplay\">\n      <div class=\"section\" id=\"\">\n       <h3>\n        <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"\">\n        </span>\n       </h3>\n       <div class=\"section_content\">\n        <p class=\"mw-empty-elt\">\n        </p>\n        <ul>\n         <li>\n          <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Plays_on_incarceration\" title=\"Plays on incarceration\">\n           Plays on incarceration\n          </a>\n         </li>\n        </ul>\n       </div>\n      </div>\n     </div>\n    </div>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n  <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20250625170556\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.025 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.032 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 271/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 4940/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 824/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 6/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n  <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%   15.688      1 -total\n 26.32%    4.129      1 Template:RelatedArticles\n 20.61%    3.234      1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 13.59%    2.132      1 Template:Databox-Plays\n 13.32%    2.090      1 Template:RelatedArticlesSection\n 13.23%    2.075      1 Template:Published\n 12.68%    1.990      1 Template:AuthorByline\n 12.10%    1.899      1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n  <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:3720-0!canonical and timestamp 20250625170555 and revision id 28784\n -->\n </div>\n</div>"}