Performance and Talk: No-No Boy

Event Date: 

Tuesday, October 30, 2018 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Event Location: 

  • MultiCultural Center Lounge

Date: Tuesday October 30, 3-5pm

Location: MultiCultural Center Lounge

No-No Boy is a multimedia concert performed by Julian Saporiti and Erin Aoyama. Taking inspiration from interviews with World War II Japanese Incarceration camp survivors, his own family’s history living through the Vietnam War, and many other stories of Asian American experience, Saporiti has transformed his doctoral research at Brown University into folk songs in an effort to bring these stories to a broader audience. Alongside Aoyama, a fellow PhD student at Brown whose family was incarcerated at Heart Mountain, Wyoming, one of the 10 Japanese American concentration camps, No-No Boy aims to shine a light on experiences that have remained largely hidden in the American consciousness.