Name: Alton Chung ~ History in the First Person
Start: 2023-01-31T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2023-01-31T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Wasmer Art Gallery / Bower Arts Complex / Florida Gulf Coast University

Alton Chung ~ History in the First Person

Storytelling Oral Performance Series. Produced byDr. Joel YingandProf. Lori CorneliusforFlorida Gulf Coast University (FGCU),Dept of Language and Literature, Dept of Integrated Studies, College of Arts and Sciences. Open to the Public. Sponsored by the Seidler Foundation, Wasmer Art Gallery, and theFlorida Storytelling Association.

FGCU Storytelling

Stories that bring history alive. Storytelling Performer & Teaching Artist visits FGCU.

Wasmer Art Gallery / Bower Arts Complex / Florida Gulf Coast University

Alton Chung has perfected the art of the historical story. He is often commissioned to craft and tell the stories of others and keep history alive. He embodies the characters, often telling in the first person.History is the story of what happened and everyone has a story. They may have been a witness, heard the tale from someone who was, or have studied events long enough to imagine what it might have been like to be there. Join storyteller Alton Takiyama-Chung for first person stories of the Chinese immigrants to the US in the 1850s, life on Hawaii’s Plantation in the 1930s, the first Christmas in a Japanese American Incarceration Camp during WWII, and a present day excursion into the haunted Shanghai Tunnels. Come along for an evening of stories and hearing history through the eyes of those who lived it.

Japanese-Korean storyteller Alton Takiyama-Chung, grew up with the superstitions and the magic of the Hawaiian Islands. He tells stories from Hawaii, Asian folktales, ghost stories, stories from the Japanese-Americans experience of WWII, the Plantation Days in Hawaii, and the immigration of the Chinese into the US. He has performed at the Timpanogas and the National Storytelling Festivals, and at international storytelling festivals in the Cayman Islands, Singapore, Vietnam, India, and Thailand. He also is a former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Storytelling Network, the national organization for storytellers in the US. (www.altonchung.com)

Alton Chung ~ History in the First Person

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