Civil Wrongs: Music about Black American & Japanese American Incarceration with Jon Jang, piano

Thursday, August 10 at 7pm 
Sha'ar Zahav (290 Dolores St, San Francisco)
FREE
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shenson-faculty-concert-series-jon-jang-piano-tickets-630589910397?aff=oddtdtcreator

Civil Wrongs Music will commemorate the 35th Anniversary of the signing of the Civil Liberties Act on August 10, 1988, the United States federal law granting reparations to Japanese Americans who had been wrongly incarcerated by the United States government during World War II.

The program will feature Mediations on Integration, written by Charles Mingus in 1964 in response to a Life Magazine article about prisons being built in the South to incarcerate Black Civil Rights activists, and Jang’s original 1987 composition Reparations Now!, paying tribute to the National Coalition for Redress and Reparations for Japanese Americans, as well as a support statement for reparations for Black Americans.

Featuring Musicians:

Erika Oba, flute; Gary Brown, double bass; Jon Jang, piano; Deszon Claiborne, percussion (CMC Faculty)