API America Forum: Information & Survey
Preserving Asian Pacific Islander America: Mobilizing Our Communities
San Francisco's Japantown, June 24-26, 2010
To learn more about plans for the forum, see: http://www.apinhpforum.org/index.html
Your input and ideas are important to us. Please help us understand whether the ideas we have identified reflect your concerns by taking a very brief survey.
This constituency-building forum will convene a network of groups and individuals who are stewarding Asian Pacific Islander history and who:
- share an interest in broadening understanding of API cultural heritage in America;
- want to expand the discussion about who we are and the variety of API resources and API chapters in American history that we are struggling to preserve;
- want to share best practices, advice, and success stories to equip attendees with proven and innovative tools with which to pursue preservation efforts in their own communities;
- hope to engage new audiences and develop fresh approaches for preserving API heritage resources in these challenging times; and
- desire to put forward a pan-Asian preservation agenda and demonstrate an expanded meaning for "historic preservation" that will continue to ensure a place for diverse groups at preservation's table.
Preserving Asian Pacific Islander America: Mobilizing Our Communities, will:
- demonstrate how preserving Asian Pacific Islander America can be synonymous with promoting community pride, cultural identity, and neighborhood vitality;
- create opportunities for stewards and advocates for Asian Pacific Islander heritage resources to forge consensus, share best practices, and increase capacity and outreach; and
- strengthen connections between the stewards of America's Asian Pacific Islander heritage and the organized historic preservation movement.
Please help us get the word out and gather input by letting others know of the forum.
The dates for the forum will be June 24-26, 2010; most activities will take place on Friday, June 25.
As planning progresses, we will provide updated information here.
The following groups are contributing to plans for the forum:
- Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
- California Civil Liberties Public Education Program
- California Japanese American Community Leadership Council
- Chinese American Citizens Alliance
- Chinese American Museum
- Chinese Historical Society of America
- El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument
- Filipino American National Historical Society
- Guam Preservation Trust
- Japanese American National Museum
- Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California
- Japantown Task Force
- Little Manila Foundation
- Little Tokyo Service Center
- National Japanese American Historical Society
- National Park Service, Western Region
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Preserving California's Japantowns
