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    Page 10 n THE ASIAN REPORTER
Asian Heritage Issue
May 1, 2023
Oregon Public Broadcasting to feature shows
with an Asian focus throughout Heritage Month
Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) has released its
schedule of Asian-related programs, shows, and documen-
taries airing during Asian Heritage Month. The organiz-
ation is featuring pieces created by the Center for Asian
American Media (CAAM), Oregon Experience, Pacific
Heartbeat, America ReFramed, Independent Lens, and
others.
The list of features include premieres of Nam June
Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV on Tuesday, May 16, and
Fanny: The Right to Rock on Monday, May 22. Nam June
Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV traces the life and work of the
avant-garde artist best known as the father of video art
who coined the term “electronic superhighway.” Fanny:
The Right to Rock tells the story of the first all-women
band to release an album with a major record label.
Locally produced shows, such as episodes of Oregon
Experience, include Oregon’s Japanese Americans on May
8 and Massacre at Hells Canyon on May 15. In addition,
segments of Asian Americans, the five-part series
released in 2020, traces the epic story of Asian Americans
spanning 150 years of immigration, racial politics,
international relations, and cultural innovation.
The programming is scheduled to air on both OPB and
OPB World. Several shows are also streaming online
through various services, including <www.pbs.org>. For
more information, call (503) 293-1982. To learn more, or to
view the full schedule online, visit <www.opb.org>.
Below is a partial schedule:
Asian Americans: “Breaking Ground”
May 1, 9:00pm, OPB World
May 2, 11:00pm, OPB
In an era of exclusion, new immigrants arrived in the
U.S. from China, India, Japan, the Philippines, and
elsewhere. Eventually barred by anti-Asian laws, the first
show in the epic five-part Asian Americans series that
premiered in 2020 — titled “Breaking Ground” — tells
how newcomers became America’s first “undocumented
immigrants” even as they built railroads and dazzled on
the silver screen. They also took the fight for equality to
the U.S. Supreme Court.
Stories From the Stage: “Asian Voices”
May 1, 11:30pm, OPB World
Every day, millions of people create their own defini-
tions of what it means to be Asian American. And to do
this, they rely on history, culture, family, and friends to
deal with their dual identities. In “Asian Voices,” an
episode of Stories From the Stage, storytellers share tales
that speak to the richness and variety of the Asian-
American experience.
Rising Against Asian Hate: One Day in March
May 2, 10:00pm, OPB
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FIVE-PART SERIES. Pictured is Bhagat Singh Thind as a young
man wearing his U.S. Army uniform and holding a rifle at Camp Lewis in
1918 during World War I. Thind, a Sikh American, was the first U.S. ser-
viceman to be allowed for religious reasons to wear a turban as part of
their military uniform. Thind is featured in the five-part Asian Americans
series. (Photo courtesy of Dr. Bhagat Singh Thind Spiritual Science
Foundation)
to the Oregon Ballet Theatre. Now, she is creating films to
highlight her work. “I just love seeing my costumes in
motion, in performances, and in film,” says Lin. “They
really just come to life.”
America ReFramed: Jaddoland
May 4, 9:00pm, May 6, 7:00pm & 11:00pm, OPB World
May 3, 10:00pm, OPB World
In March 2021, a 21-year-old man murdered eight
people, including six women of Asian descent, at three
spas in Atlanta, Georgia — a horrific attack in a year of
widespread anti-Asian violence. Rising Against Asian
Hate: One Day in March pays tribute to the lives lost,
examines the rise of anti-Asian racism, and documents a
growing movement to fight back and stop the hate. The
one-hour documentary takes a deep dive into this critical
moment of racial reckoning while exploring the need for
better hate crime legislation, demanding accountability
from law enforcement, and chronicling a community as
they break their silence to rise up against hate.
Ultimately, the film asks the crucial question of what’s
next for Asian Americans — in the courts, in the voting
booth, and in the streets.
Barakan Discovers: “Ainu, a New Generation”
May 3, 9:00pm, OPB World
May 24, 11:00pm, OPB
Learn about the Ainu, an indigenous people in northern
Japan, in “Ainu, a New Generation,” an episode of
Barakan Discovers. The Ainu were once subjected to
cultural assimilation policies and many of their traditions
were lost, but now, young Ainu are spearheading a
movement to restore their heritage. In the show, host
Peter Barakan meets an artisan who re-creates old craft
items; performers with a new take on traditional singing
and dancing; and a YouTuber who presents language
lessons. He also looks at the oppression of the past and the
possibilities that exist in the future.
POV Shorts: Where I’m From
May 4, 8:00pm, OPB World
Where I’m From, a POV Short, tells stories about home
and how it shapes us. A segment of the show, “Sing Me a
Lullaby,” which spans 14 years and two continents,
follows a daughter as she searches for her mother’s birth
parents in Taiwan, unravelling complex tensions between
love and sacrifice.
Mr. Tornado
May 4, 11:00pm, May 5, 7:00pm &
May 8, 7:00pm, OPB World
Mr. Tornado tells the remarkable story of Tetsuya
Theodore “Ted” Fujita, whose groundbreaking work in
research and applied science saved thousands of lives and
helped Americans prepare for and respond to dangerous
weather phenomena. Fujita devoted his life to unlocking
the mysteries of severe storms.
Oregon Art Beat: “Fabric of Life”
May 4, 8:00pm & May 7, 6:00pm, OPB
“Fabric of Life,” an episode of Oregon Art Beat, focuses
on Fuchsia Lin, an artist, costume designer, and
filmmaker. Lin’s designs have become fantastical, other
worldly costumes that have graced stages from Broadway
Several Asian Heritage Month
programs are streaming online at
<www.opb.org> and <www.pbs.org>.
Nadia Shihab’s Jaddoland is an intimate portrait of the
work and process of the director’s visual artist mother,
Lahib Jaddo. The film offers a fresh look at the immigrant
story in America. Through an exploration of her mother’s
art and connections to her life in Texas, Shihab also drafts
a unique picture of how art can help both the creator and
the audience make sense of familial and cultural
connections, loss, perseverance, and life.
And Then They Came for Us
May 5, 10:00pm, OPB World
Inspired by the book Un-American: The Incarceration of
Japanese-Americans During World War II by Richard
Cahan and Michael Williams, And Then They Came for Us
brings history into the present, retelling the difficult story
of Executive Order 9066, which paved the way to the
profound violation of constitutional rights that resulted in
the forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans
and the Japanese-American activism that followed, with
community members speaking out against the Muslim
registry and travel ban. The 50-minute documentary fea-
tures George Takei and many others who were incar-
cerated, as well as recently rediscovered photographs of
Dorothea Lange.
Try Harder!
May 6, 5:00pm & May 6, 9:00pm, OPB World
Try Harder!, an episode of Independent Lens, takes
place at Lowell High School, San Francisco’s academic
pressure cooker, where the kids are stressed out. With a
majority Asian-American student body, high-achieving
seniors share their dreams and anxieties about getting
into a top university.
“Bloodline”
May 6, 6:30pm & 10:30pm, May 14, 8:30pm, OPB World
“Bloodline” is a profile of Vietnamese-American chef Tu
David Phu and the evolution of his culinary aesthetic. The
program follows Tu as he returns home to Oakland,
California, after competing on the cooking series “Top
Chef.” From the son of refugees growing up in West
Oakland to a professional chef, Tu’s acclaimed culinary
creations are heralded as the next wave of Asian fusion
representing Vietnamese culture.
Oregon Experience: Oregon’s Japanese Americans
May 8, 9:00pm, OPB
In Oregon’s Japanese Americans, an episode of Oregon
Experience, viewers discover the history of Japanese
Americans in Oregon, from their early beginnings to
forced incarceration during World War II and beyond. By
the 1920s, Japanese-American communities in Portland
and Hood River were thriving. Immigrant pioneers
managed businesses, farms, and orchards with their
American-born children. The attack on Pearl Harbor in
1941 changed everything.
Asian Americans: “A Question of Loyalty”
May 8, 9:00pm, OPB World
May 9, 11:00pm, OPB
An American-born generation straddles their country of
birth and the homelands of their parents in “A Question of
Loyalty,” an episode of the five-part series Asian Ameri-
cans. Those loyalties are tested during World War II when
families are imprisoned in detention camps and brothers
find themselves on opposite sides of the battle lines.
America ReFramed: Blurring the Color Line
May 11, 9:00pm, May 13, 7:00pm &
11:00pm, OPB World
Blurring the Color Line follows director Crystal Kwok
as she unpacks the history behind her grandmother’s
family, who were neighborhood grocery store owners in
the Black community of Augusta, Georgia, during the Jim
Crow era. By centering women’s experiences, Kwok poses
critical questions around the intersections of anti-Black
racism, white power, and Chinese patriarchy in the
American South.
Reel South: Seadrift
May 11, 10:00pm & May 13, 8:00pm, OPB World
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