
Little Tokyo & Other Tales
- Shorts Programs, Special Presentations
- 42 mins
FREE/PAY WHAT YOU CAN
Encounter stories and spaces rooted in community, featuring our home neighborhood of Little Tokyo, elders who create healing thorugh intergeneration connections, and our beloved Edmund Soohoo. In partnership with Little Tokyo Neighbors, API RISE, and LA Chinatown Firecracker Run.
In this program
EDMUND SOOHOO: THE HEART OF CHINATOWN
Directed by Visual Communications, Walt Louie
A heartfelt portrait of Edmund Soohoo, a beloved community organizer and Chinatown icon, told through the perspectives of those who knew him and witnessed his impact.
Love Has Two Meanings
Directed by Kevin Duncan Wong
Twelve Chinese elders confront community safety challenges in Oakland’s Chinatown and beyond.
THE PUGWOOLY SHOW: BRONZEVILLE LITTLE TOKYO
Directed by Carey Louis Westbrook, Maya Garcia-Luis
Bronzeville Foundational Black American culture comes to life in this Little Tokyo drawing lesson of jazz, hip-hop, kawaii comics, and history with Pugwooly and Mr. Carey, as they address the issues and actions of Black / Asian solidarity!
Dates & Times
Democracy Center @ JANM
May 3, 2025
10:00 am