Events

Event: Book Talk with Satsuki Ina. Wednesday November 13th, 5:30PM - 7:30PM. UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library

Dr. Satsuki Ina will discuss the process of writing The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest, a “compelling and prismatic love story of one family’s defiance in the facee of injustice_and how their story echoes across generations. “Connecting the past to the present, Ina links her family’s story to struggles against ongoing mass incarceration at the U.S. - Mexico border.


Event: Book Talk with Satsuki Ina. Saturday, November 9th, 1:00PM - 3:00PM California Museum

Join author Satsuki Ina at the California Museum for a discussion of her new memoir, The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest, the story of the Ina family, who were among the 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry that the U.S. forcibly displaced and incarcerated after declaring war on Japan in WWII.


Event 1: Densho presents a conversation with Satsuki Ina. Saturday, May 11th, 2:00PM | Seattle Public Library

Ina will present her moving new memoir, “The Poet and the Silk Girl” (Heyday Books, March 2024), in which she recovers the story of how her parents survived and resisted their incarceration in U.S. concentration camps. Drawing from diary entries, heart-wrenching haiku, censored letters, government documents, and clandestine messages, Ina shares the eyewitness dispatches of Shizuko and her newlywed husband Itaru.


Event 2: How We Thrive: Asian American Healing, Co-Presented by CAAMFest
Thursday, May 16th, 2024, 7:00PM | The Commons and on Livestream

Cultural stigmas and intergenerational traumas make navigating mental health in the Asian American community complex, but modern day practitioners and healers offer expansive frameworks for a holistic approach. Hosted by Bay Area journalist Cecilia Lei, join KQED and CAAMFest for an empowering evening to redefine community resilience by honoring all parts of ourselves.
The event will feature comedy by Kristee Ono; a discussion between licensed therapist Soo Jin Lee of the Yellow Chair Collective, healing practitioner Angela Basbas Angel and community activist, author and filmmaker Satsuki Ina; and a tasting of bites by Chef Yana Gilbuena.


Event 4: Book Presentation and Signing
San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin Annex
Saturday, May 18th, 11:00AM–1PM
632 North 5th St. San Jose, CA. 95112

Book presentation and signing.
Satsuki Ina is an Emmy award-winning documentarian, community activist, and co-founder of Tsuru for Solidarity. Her memoir, The Poet and the Silk Girl, explores her family’s experience of unjust incarceration during WWII.

RSVP: SJBC@SJBETUIN.ORG
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Event 3: Japanese Heritage Night at Bainbridge Arts & Crafts. Wednesday, May 29th, 6:00PM | Bainbridge Arts & Crafts

An evening of music, literature and history hosted by Bainbridge Arts & Crafts Gallery and Eagle Harbor Books. Micaela Omoto will lead us in song, followed by readings from Dylan Tomine, author of Headwaters and Satsuki Ina, author of The Poet and The Silk Girl, as well as a talk by Clarence Moriwaki – Let It Not Happen Again: Lessons of the Japanese American Exclusion. Speaker interviews with Star Rush, Artist, Arts Educator, Arts Leader. A book signing hosted by Eagle Harbor Book Co. (located next-door) will take place after the Q&A.


Event 5: Satsuki Ina Conversation with Andrew Way Leong
Book Passage: Corte Madera Store
Sunday, June 9th, 2024: 4:00PM PT

Ina's memoir, "The Poet and the Silk Girl," offers a poignant glimpse into her parents' survival and resistance during their internment in U.S. concentration camps. Through a blend of personal accounts such as diary entries, haiku, censored letters, and official documents, Ina reconstructs the experiences of her parents, Shizuko and Itaru. In conversation with Andrew Way Leong, assistant professor at UC Berkeley, the event promises a candid exploration of this often overlooked aspect of American history.


Event 6: Tule Lake Pilgrimage
July 5-8, 2024

Details to come.


Event 7: Satsuki Ina in Conversation with Brandon Shimoda
Tuesday, July 23, 2024, 6:00PM PST
Virtual Event hosted by City Lights

City Lights and Heyday Books celebrate the publication of The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest by Satsuki Ina. This is a virtual event on the Zoom platform. Please register below.