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SUMMARY:Excavating Sound: Untold Stories from the Asian American Experience
DESCRIPTION:Featuring the music of renowned jazz musicians Francis Wong and Scott Oshiro and the poetry of Caroline Mei-Lin Mar.\nCurrent Exhibit – Petaluma Chinatown Unearthed: Remembering the Past for a Better Future\n& Chinese Pioneers: Power and Politics in Exclusion Era Photographs\n\nPetaluma Historical Library & Museum\nSaturday\, April 26 · 3 – 5 pm\n20 4th Street\, Corner of 4th & B St. Petaluma\nGeneral Admission: $ 25.00 \n\nPurchase Tickets Here \nJoin us at the Museum for an exciting evening of music and spoken word inspired by the Asian American Experience\, featuring the poetry of Caroline Mei-Lin Mar and the music of renowned jazz players Francis Wong and Scott Oshiro. This event is hosted by Lina Lin Hoshino and presented in partnership with the Petaluma Old Chinatown Ad Hoc Committee. \n \nFrancis Wong has had an artistic career full of accomplishment and positive notice\, including being considered one of “the great saxophonists of his generation” by the late jazz critic Phil Elwood. His work is well-documented on recordings\, as he is featured on over forty titles as a leader and sideman. A critical vehicle for his work is Asian Improv aRts\, the organization he co-founded in 1987 with pianist Jon Jang\, which has been widely recognized for its role in creating a distinctive Asian American/West Coast sound in creative music. \n \nScott Oshiro is a Bay Area-based flutist and music technology researcher. As an African and Okinawan American\, Scott’s creative and academic work incorporates influences from his heritage and combines them with Jazz\, Hip Hop\, and Electronic music. He recently received his Ph.D. at the Center for Computer Research in Music & Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University\, where he researched the intersection between quantum computing\, music\, and culture. Scott is an Asian Improv aRts fellow\, developing quantum computer music improvisation systems for an album featuring BIPOC artists\, showcasing the connection between music and quantum physics. \n \nCaroline Mei-Lin Mar is the great-granddaughter of a railroad laborer and the author of Water Guest\, the Editors’ Selection for the 2024 Wisconsin Poetry Series. She is the author of Special Education (Texas Review Press)\, which won the 2019 X. J. Kennedy Prize\, and the chapbook Dream of the Lake (Bull City Press). Carrie is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College\, a member of Rabble Collective\, and serves on the board of Friends of Writers. She is a longtime ninth grade health educator in her hometown of San Francisco\, and lives in Oakland\, CA. She has been granted residencies at Hedgebrook\, Ragdale\, and Storyknife\, among others. You can find her online at carolinemar.com
URL:https://www.petalumamuseum.com/calendar-event/excavating-sound-untold-stories-from-the-asian-american-experience/
LOCATION:Petaluma Historical Library & Museum\, 20 4th St\, Petaluma\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Current Exhibit,Exhibit Presentations
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SUMMARY:Current Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Petaluma Chinatown Unearthed: Remembering the Past for a Better Future\n& Chinese Pioneers: Power and Politics in Exclusion Era Photographs\n\nPetaluma Historical Library & Museum\n20 4th Street\, Corner of 4th & B St. Petaluma\nThis event is free\, please make reservations here\nThrough June 8\, 2025 \nDownload a PDF Copy of the Calendar of Events for this Exhibit Here \nOur current exhibition is comprised of two companion exhibitions that shed light on the Chinese American experience in Petaluma and California history. Chinese Pioneers: Power and Politics in Exclusion Era Photographs presents a visual history of the social\, political\, and judicial disenfranchisement of Chinese Californians—as well as moments of Chinese agency and resilience—in the decades before and after the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. Petaluma Chinatown Unearthed: Remembering the Past for a Better Future uses artifacts\, maps\, and historical records to explore the years between the 1860s and 1890s\, when Petaluma was home to a thriving community of Chinese laborers. By the 1900s\, most residents of Chinese descent were driven out by racist scapegoating and wide-spread Anti-Chinese movement. This exhibit will also highlight what Petaluma’s contemporary AAPI community is doing to shed light on stories that are hidden in plain sight in. \nSupport for Petaluma Chinatown Unearthed and related programming is generously provided by the City of Petaluma\, the Asian American Alliance of Marin\, Asian American Pacific Islander Coalition of North Bay\, Japanese American Citizens League\, Minami Tamaki LLP\, NBC Bay Area\, Von Chan DDS\, Frank Chong\, and the Petaluma River Park Foundation. Chinese Pioneers is an exhibit by the California Historical Society and touring through Exhibit Envoy. Institutional support provided by San Francisco Grants for the Arts and Yerba Buena Community Benefit District. The Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation supported the first 6 bookings of this exhibition.
URL:https://www.petalumamuseum.com/calendar-event/exhibition-opening/
LOCATION:Petaluma Historical Library & Museum\, 20 4th St\, Petaluma\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Current Exhibit
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SUMMARY:What Was Worn in Mexican California: Myth Versus Reality
DESCRIPTION:Discover what the people of Mexican California (1822-1846) really wore\, and what their clothing reveals about the era. \nThursday\, September 26\, 2024\n11:00 – 12:30 pm\nPetaluma Historical Library & Museum\n20 4th Street (Corner of 4th & B Street)\nCost:  Free – Reservations Required \nWhat did the people of Mexican California (1822-1846) wear\, and what does it reveal about the era? Illustrator and author David W. Rickman will share what he’s learned about the fashions of pre-statehood Californios\, as well as Franciscans\, neophyte Native Californians\, soldiers\, and others. Learn how their fashions serve as an important visual marker of changing societal and political influences and find out how we can separate the myths and fantasies (think Zorro!) from the realities when it comes to the clothing worn by the Californios. \nJoin us at the Museum for this free virtual presentation and enjoy coffee and light refreshments. If you can’t join us in-person\, a link to participate online will be provided. Donations in support of the Museum are appreciated! \nAnd be sure to catch our latest exhibit\, Telling Stories of Mexican California: Real Life & Myth Making\, on view September 12-November 3.
URL:https://www.petalumamuseum.com/calendar-event/what-was-worn-in-mexican-california-myth-versus-reality/
LOCATION:Petaluma Historical Library & Museum\, 20 4th St\, Petaluma\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Current Exhibit,Exhibit Presentations
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SUMMARY:Cornerstone Club Salon with Erin Garcia
DESCRIPTION:Members at the Cornerstone Club Level are cordially invited to join us for the inaugural Cornerstone Club Salon\, a new opportunity for Petaluma Historical Library & Museum donors to connect with like-minded community members and engage in a lively exchange of ideas with history thought leaders. \nHear directly from Erin Garcia\, Director of Exhibitions & Engagement at the California Historical Society and curator of Telling Stories of Mexican California: Real Life & Myth Making. She’ll share her insights on creating the exhibition\, discuss the enduring legacy of Californio culture\, and tell us about the challenges of researching pre-statehood California. \nWine and light refreshments will be provided. \nThis event is a benefit of membership at the Cornerstone Club level. For information about joining\, please email:\nsatchley@petalumamuseum.org\nStacey Atchley\,\nExecutive Director
URL:https://www.petalumamuseum.com/calendar-event/cornerstone-club-salon-with-erin-garcia/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Cornerstone Club Salon,Current Exhibit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240912T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241103T190000
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SUMMARY:Current Exhibit - Telling Stories of Mexican California - September 12
DESCRIPTION:Our Current Exhibit: Telling Stories of Mexican California: Real Life & Myth Making. \n \nSeptember 12 – November 3 2024\nPetaluma Historical Library & Museum\n20 4th Street (Corner of 4th & B Street)\nExhibit Hours:  Thursday – Sunday 10 am – 4 pm\nCost:  Free\, Donations Appreciated \nTelling Stories of Mexican California: Real Life &Myth Making is a revealing new exhibition that highlights the true stories of California’s Mexican period\, which lasted from 1822-1846. The exhibit holds these facts up alongside the fantasy depictions used by early stakeholders\, who viewed California’s history through the lenses of their own experiences and chose to present narratives that suited their purposes. One of the most pervasive narratives was a picture of an idyllic bygone era of ranchos where dons and doñas enjoyed lives of abundance. These romanticized memories fail to include Native peoples\, Franciscan friars\, and the hard scrabble facts of early settlements. \nThrough powerful photographs\, stories\, and artifacts\, Telling Stories of Mexican California: Real Life & Myth Making broadly outlines California’s history leading up to statehood as a backdrop to the factual and fictional stories that emerged after the US takeover. It considers nineteenth-century Mexican American individuals and families who told their stories and looks at some of the early narratives that helped create an enduring California mythos\, as well as the stories that were ignored in favor of this new\, often exaggerated or fictionalized lore. When California became a state\, these tales were used by boosters to draw new visitors and settlers\, successfully reconfiguring a fearful foreignness into a charming regional identity\, one that persists even today. \nThough it lasted less than three decades\, California’s Mexican period helped shape the distribution of land\, wealth\, and power after California officially entered the union in 1850. Telling Stories of Mexican California reflects on this past\, and how romanticized retellings made lasting impacts on the state’s culture and popular understandings of its history. \n  \n \n\nThe exhibition is developed by the California Historical Society\, drawing extensively from the their collections and consisting of 10 to 11 free-standing pop-up banners. The Petaluma Historical Library & Museum was one of three institutions selected through a competitive process as a sponsored host\, generously funded by the Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation. The Museum will concurrently display artifacts from our own collection related to early Mexican-American history in our region. \nTelling Stories of Mexican California: Real Life & Myth Making was developed and organized by the California Historical Society and tours through Exhibit Envoy. Institutional support provided by San Francisco Grants for the Arts and Yerba Buena Community Benefit District. The Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation supported the first 3 bookings of this exhibition.
URL:https://www.petalumamuseum.com/calendar-event/current-exhibit-telling-stories-of-mexican-california-september-12/
LOCATION:Petaluma Historical Library & Museum\, 20 4th St\, Petaluma\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Current Exhibit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240705T003000
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SUMMARY:Current Exhibit: Her Side Of The Story
DESCRIPTION:Discover the stories of California’s often-overlooked pioneer women who blazed trails and left an enduring legacy for generations to come. \nJuly 5-August 25 \nIlluminating the hardships\, joys\, and lives of female pioneers\, Her Side of the Story: Tales of California Pioneer Women highlights first-person stories from the women who traveled by land or sea to settle in California prior to statehood. In 1900\, The Association of Pioneer Women of California formed and collected the reminiscences of women who arrived in California before 1854 in a single ledger. This incredible document\, filled with over 800 handwritten stories of California pioneer women\, is the basis for this exhibition. Organized by The Society of California Pioneers\, the exhibition will feature first-person quote panels\, maps\, photographs\, and other materials. The Museum will concurrently display artifacts from Petaluma’s early women residents\, including journals and other personal objects. \nHer Side of the Story: Tales of California Pioneer Women was developed by The Society of California Pioneers and travels through Exhibit Envoy.
URL:https://www.petalumamuseum.com/calendar-event/current-exhibit-her-side-of-the-story/
LOCATION:Petaluma Historical Library & Museum\, 20 4th St\, Petaluma\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Current Exhibit
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