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"San Jose Taiko Presents Swingposium"

San Jose Taiko’s highly-acclaimed Swingposium employs the power of performance to teach about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.

Swingposium is an immersive production that combines taiko, jazz, swing dance, and theatre to tell a hidden history of one way Japanese Americans maintained morale in WWII “internment camps” - through swing dances with live big band music. 

The audience is surrounded with the sights and sounds in a fictional mess hall serving as a dance hall behind barbed wire. Active participation pulls them deeply into the emotional trajectory of the story: the fear and loss of being incarcerated without due process, the struggle to maintain dignity and hope, and the perseverance of the human spirit.

For tickets and information: https://taiko.org/swingposium-hilo

Questions can be directed to swingposium@taiko.org

To help support the production efforts:  https://donorbox.org/swingposium-hawaii

Swingposium is presented by San Jose Taiko and Isemoto Contracting Co. Ltd.

February 18th

AUNTY SALLY KALEOHANO’S LUAU HALE

One show: 6:30 - 8:30PM