Currents, an operetta at McMenamins Anderson School

7pm doors open at 6pm

In this original operetta, by AC Petersen, librettist, and Jeremy Berdin, composer four vocalists portray the experiences of a Japanese American family from Bainbridge Island in 1937, revealing the emotions and obstacles of characters torn apart and trapped on both sides of the Pacific Ocean during World War II. The performance will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A about the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans set in motion by Executive Order 9066. 

Panel moderated by Gail M. Nomura, associate professor emerita of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington. Her most recent publication is , : , which she co-edited with Shirley Hune. Nomura is a past president of the Association for Asian American Studies.

Panelists include Shigeru Nishida, who was twelve years old when he and his family, who were farming in the Yakima Valley, were sent to the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in 1942.