FREE, open to the public on the JANM Plaza

Wednesday–Friday, August 28–30 • 7:30 p.m.–10 p.m.

Pulling together the moving parts of her +LAB residency experience, traci kato-kiriyama—with home base JANM—presents a performance-installation utilizing large-scale projections and sound scapes of letters of the past in conversation with the present.

From sunset to 10 p.m. each night, the public can enjoy a loop of the projections and sound scape recorded from letters found in JANM’s Collections department as well as kato-kiriyama’s Tea & Letter Writing series and community engagements in collaboration with Cognate Collective. The letters are thread together by issues of family separation that surpass time and connect communities then, now, and into the future as we contemplate, discuss, and plot how we’ll elevate our active definitions of Solidarity, Community, and Home, in Little Tokyo and beyond.

Each night will host areas for tea drinking, letter writing, an interactive listening station produced by Cognate Collective, and live performance featuring kato-kiriyama with Residency collaborators, including Umi Hsu, Rino Kodama, Ally Vega, Linda Wei, Mya Worrell, and Kuniharu Yoshida.

Please note that live performances will vary each night. For details closer to each date, follow @traciakemi1 on Instagram.

+LAB is a bold initiative that allows Little Tokyo Service Center to join forces with artists and cultural institutions to find imaginative ways to empower the Little Tokyo community. A project of the Little Tokyo Service Center, in partnership with the Japanese American National Museum, Visual Communications, Japanese American Community and Cultural Center, and Sustainable Little Tokyo.