Sat., April 26, 2025, 4 to 6:30 pm
Sanctuary
You are invited to a dramatic reading of a play written to commemorate the 150th anniversary of First Congregational Church of Berkeley, which served as the Civil Control Center in the spring of 1942 for the registration and evacuation of more than a thousand local people of Japanese extraction who were then incarcerated at Tanforan and Topaz. It is based on contemporary diaries and letters, interviews and resources collected in 1974 and gathered over the past year during preparations for the Berkeley Historical Society’s current watershed exhibition, “Roots, Removal, and Resistance: Japanese Americans In Berkeley.” It follows the efforts of organizers to humanize the process and hints at the monstrous changes in store for the evacuees.
While this event is free to attend, we invite you to please register HERE so we can get a head count. We also invite you to participate in a freewill offering in support of Tsuru for Solidarity. Thank you!
This event will take place in the historical sanctuary of First Church Berkeley UCC. The front door is on Dana Street between Durant and Channing. Limited parking is available in our parking lot, the entrance to which is off of Durant. The sanctuary is wheelchair-accessible including accessible restrooms and access to hearing-assistive devices is included. First Church Berkeley is an explicitly queer- and trans-affirming faith community. People of all faiths and no faith are welcome to this event (and all our events).