Litquake | Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes w/ Albert Samaha & Jason Bayani

Co-presented by Philippine American Writers and Artists

Nearing the age at which his mother migrated to the US, when non-Europeans arrived after immigration quotas were relaxed in 1965, journalist Albert Samaha began to question the ironclad belief in a better future that had inspired her family to uproot themselves from their birthplace. Tracing his family’s history through the Philippine’s unique geopolitical roots in Spanish colonialism, American intervention, and Japanese occupation, in Concepcion Samaha fits their arc into an ambitious, intimate, and incisive exploration of what it might means to reckon with the unjust legacy of imperialism, to live with contradiction and hope, to fight for the unrealized ideals of an inherited homeland. In conversation with Kearny Street Workshop’s Jason Bayani. FREE, $5-10 donation (pre-registration required)

This program is indoors. Mask and proof of vaccination are required at the door. Please read the requirements at litquake.org/covid.