Oakland Ballet Company's Angel Island Project spotlights immigration island detainees The Oakland Ballet Company's Angel Island Project is a one-time show this weekend that celebrates AAPI culture and looks at the history of those detained on the island between 1910 and 1940.

Sunday, May 4 at 3 PM, Paramount Theatre Oakland

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Detained Chinese immigrants carved their anguish into a wall a century ago. Those words inspired a ballet Oakland Ballet Company takes on a harrowing chapter of US-Chinese history with a piece about Angel Island, ‘the Ellis Island of the west’

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Sunday, May 4 at 3 PM, Paramount Theatre Oakland

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Oakland Ballet draws from the poetry of Angel Island detainees in new show The Oakland Ballet’s newest performance, the “Angel Island Project," hopes to depict the experiences of Chinese immigrants who were victim to discriminatory travel policies.

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