Ages: All Ages
Date: Saturday, June 3, 2017
Time: 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. (until supplies are exhausted)
Location: Moses Lake Museum & Art Center, 401 S. Balsam St.
Cost: FREE

Use tape to make your name stand out on an original painting by YOU!

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Dates: June 9 - September 8, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, June 9, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. with presentation at 7:00 p.m.
Location: Moses Lake Museum & Art Center, 401 S. Balsam St.
Cost: FREE

On February 19, 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the forced removal and incarceration of more than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast to concentration camps. Between 1942 and 1944, thousands left the camps to work in seasonal farm labor. This exhibit introduces their story.
 
Uprooted features a selection of photographs from Russell Lee’s documentation of Japanese American farm labor camps near the towns of Nyssa, Oregon and Rupert, Shelley, and Twin Falls, Idaho.  As a photographer for the Farm Security Administration, Lee captured nearly six hundred images of the Japanese American wartime experience.
 
Uprooted is supported, in part, by grants from the National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Preservation Program; the Idaho Humanities Council, a State-based Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities; and the Fred W. Fields Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation.

Photograph courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, LC-USF34-073809-E.

Date: Friday, June 9, 2017
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Moses Lake Museum & Art Center, 401 S. Balsam St.
Cost: FREE

Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau presents:

In the lead-up to World War II, Japantown in Seattle featured grocery stores, cafes, and native-language services, as well as labor and music clubs. Trading companies imported Japanese goods, and restaurants served the familiar sukiyaki, tofu, and miso soup. In Eastern Washington, Japanese farmers prospered.
 
Then came Executive Order 9066. Those born in Japan, as well as their American-citizen offspring, were sent, without due process, to concentration camps in windswept deserts. Throughout the West Coast, 120,000 Japanese Americans were forced from their homes. Most Seattle Japanese spent the war years at Camp Minidoka in Idaho, and when they returned, most had lost everything and could not find jobs.
 
How did they face this injustice and rebuild their lives? How does a lively immigrant community face racist or religious hatred? The 75^th anniversary of Executive Order 9066 is in 2017, and Mayumi Tsutakawa, whose father was renowned sculptor George Tsutakawa, will reveal her family’s 100-year history against the backdrop of this dramatic American story.
 
Mayumi Tsutakawa is an independent writer and curator who has focused on Asian/Pacific American history. She co-edited The Forbidden Stitch: Asian American Women’s Literary Anthology which received the Before Columbus Foundation’s American Book Award. She also edited two books on pioneer Asian American artists: They Painted from their Hearts and Turning Shadows into Light. Tsutakawa received her master’s degree in communications and her bachelor’s degree in East Asian studies at the University of Washington. Her graduate thesis is one of the few documents to research pre-war Japanese American newspapers. Tsutakawa also was manager of grants for the Washington State Arts Commission and previously directed King County’s arts and historic preservation programs. Tsutakawa lives in Seattle.

Date: Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Moses Lake Museum & Art Center, 401 S. Balsam St.
Cost: FREE

Local author Matthew Sullivan reads from his new novel Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore. Purchase a copy of Matthew Sullivan’s book in our Museum Store and have it signed after the presentation!
 
Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs - the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store’s overwhelmed shelves. But when Joey Molina, a young, beguiling BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore’s upper room, Lydia’s life comes unglued. Bedazzling, addictive, and wildly clever, Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore is a heart-pounding mystery that perfectly captures the intellect and eccentricity of the bookstore milieu and will keep you guessing until the very last page.
 
Matthew Sullivan received his MFA from the University of Idaho and has been a resident writer at Yaddo, Centrum and the Vermont Studio Center. His short stories have been awarded the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize and the Florida Review Editor's Prize for Fiction and have been published in many journals, including The Chattahoochee Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Fugue, Evansville Review, and 580-Split. In addition to working for years at Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver and at Brookline Booksmith in Boston, he currently teaches writing, literature, and film at Big Bend Community College in the high desert of Washington State. The author of Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore is married to a librarian and has two children.

• Register anytime before the car show or on the day of, starting at 9am
• Car Show from 11-4
• Outdoor beer garden 12pm to close (Must be 21)
• Live Music
  • Noon-4pm - Cover Story
  • 5pm-9pm - Stony River
  • 9pm-12am - DJ