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The Bay Area Improv Scene is a commonly used name [1] [2] [3] for a loose association of musicians and composers centered in the San Francisco Bay Area who create a style of music that evolved largely from avant-garde jazz and modern classical music, with influences from other areas such as electronic art music, free improvisation, and musique concrète.
The San Francisco Japanese School (SFJS) is a Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT)-designated weekend Japanese school serving the area. The school system, headquartered in San Francisco, rents classrooms in four schools serving a total of over 1,600 students as of 2016; two of the schools are in San Francisco and two are in the South Bay.
The head physician at Tanforan was Dr. Kay Kitagawa, who prior to his detention had practiced medicine in San Francisco. [12] Dr. Kazue Togasaki was detained for a month at the Tanforan Assembly Center, and while there she delivered fifty babies and led an all-Japanese-American medical team.
The Japan Center is a shopping center in the Japantown neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It opened in March 1968 and was originally called the Japanese Cultural and Trade Center . [ 1 ] It is bounded by Geary (on the south), Post (on the north), Fillmore (on the west), and Laguna (on the east).
J-Pop Summit is a Japanese cultural festival held every summer since 2009 in San Francisco, California, United States. [1] It is hosted by Superfrog Project, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization . The festival brings together different aspects of Japanese culture, including music, fashion, film, art, games, tech innovations, anime , food, as ...
Two San Francisco police officers were investigating reports of a woman screaming. Bassist Peter Albin recalls the band raising the roof off one day in the 1960s when their playing was interrupted ...
The Chinese Historical Society of America (simplified Chinese: 美国华人 历史 学会; traditional Chinese: 美國華人歷史學會; pinyin: Měiguó Huárén Lìshǐ Xuéhuì; Jyutping: Mei 5 gwok 3 Waa 4 jan 4 Lik 6 si 2 Hok 6 wui 6; abbreviated CHSA) is the oldest and largest archive and history center documenting the Chinese American experience in the United States.
Kabuki Theater originally opened in 1960 as a large dinner theater. [1]Interiors of Sundance Kabuki in 2010. The theater was the first multiplex in San Francisco. [2] As part of the original Japan Center mission to showcase Japanese culture, it was the first authentic Kabuki theater in America, designed in a traditional 17th century style with a proscenium, stage entrance/exit ramp, revolving ...