Season 1: ANGEL ISLAND
How does a string quartet help build community from Chinese immigrant poetry carved into detention-center walls on Angel Island? Strip away layers of paint - and shame - and let their words sing out after 100 years of silence.
…..Following Del Sol’s journey with Huang Ruo’s ANGEL ISLAND Oratorio
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Andrea Klunder, Producer
The Creative Impostor Studios
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Charlton Lee, Host
credit: Chloe Jimenez
The Quartet, Co-hosts
Executive Producer: Donald Fineberg & Andrea Fellows Finberg
Season 1 Guests:
Members of the Del Sol Quartet
Huang Ruo, Composer
Ed Tepporn, Executive Director, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
Genny Lim, poet, co-author of Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island 1910-1940, part of the Last Hoisan Poets, Angel Island descendant
Andi Wong, project coordinator #artsed4all, community coordinator for Angel Island Project, Angel Island Descendant
Casey Dexter-Lee, Angel Island State Park Interpreter
Sidney Chen, vocalist and Artistic Advisor, Volti
Emiko Ono, Director of the Performing Arts Program, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Susan Moffat, Creative Director, Future Histories Lab at University of California, Berkeley
Senior Master Sergeant. Taylor Armstrong, Enlisted Conductor, Pianist, and Superintendent of US Air Force Band Singing Sergeants
Matthew Ozawa, Director of New York premiere production of “ANGEL ISLAND” with Beth Morrison Projects as part of the Prototype Festival / Next Wave Festival co-produced by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
Performers & Audience members from the New York premiere performance
Season 1 Credits:
Project Creator: Del Sol Quartet
Producer: Andrea Klunder, The Creative Impostor Studios, Charlton Lee, Kathryn Bates, Hyeyung Sol Yoon, Ben Kreith
Editor: Andrea Klunder
Host: Charlton Lee
Story Editor & Sound Design: Andrea Klunder
Technical Director & Post Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz
Field Producer & Recording Engineer: Kathryn Bates
Executive Producers: Andrea Fellows Fineberg, Don Fineberg
Graphic Design: Felicia Lee
Additional Production Support: Verena Lee, Alex Riegler, Lisa Widder