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Visions of America Film Series in Idaho Falls

January 30, 2025

Idaho State University's Idaho Falls campus and the Museum of Idaho are proud to announce the upcoming film series, Visions of America, to be screened at the Idaho Falls campus in three free events this spring. All are welcome to attend.

As part of the America250 initiative celebrating the Semiquincentennial anniversary of the nation, PBS Books and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) have filmed Visions of America: All Stories, All People, All Places, that, "explores our post-pandemic nation with a renewed interest in the places, people, and stories that have contributed to the America we live in today."

Each short film will be accompanied by a panel discussion, questions from the audience, and book sales of relevant titles from local mainstay Winnie & Mo's Bookshop

· Thursday, February 20: Exploring the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle
· Thursday, March 13: A Journey to the Freedom Tower: Stories of Cuban Migration
· Thursday, April 10: Discovering 18th & Vine in Kansas City

The events will take place on the ISU Idaho Falls campus, in the Tingey Administration Building's Auditorium. Doors are at 6:30 p.m. where book sales will be available and local organizations will distribute their information. The program will begin at 7 p.m.

The first event on Thursday, February 20 will be a screening of Exploring the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle, a deep dive into the only pan-Asian community-based museum in the U.S., the life of its namesake, and a moving discussion on the experiences of Japanese-Americans interned in camps during WWII.

ISU and the Museum of Idaho (MOI) will welcome the Japanese American Citizens' League and the Sister Cities organization for an enlightening discussion on the experiences of AAPI communities in Idaho. The event also coincides with the Day of Remembrance, acknowledging that on February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, sentencing 120,000 Japanese-Americans, the majority of them U.S. citizens, to internment camps.

Future events will celebrate the experiences and contributions of the Cuban-American community on March 13, as well as the innovations sparked by African-Americans in baseball and jazz music on April 10.

If you are interested in offering your expertise as a panelist at any of these events, please reach out to the ISU-Idaho Falls Librarian, Aeryle Kuehn via email aerylekuehn@isu.edu.


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