Community | Wednesday, November 1 | 10:00 AM | FREE
FUSION Social Club November 1
On November 1st, Nikki Nojima Louis will visit FUSION Social Club as our featured guest. Nikki is a theatre artist, educator, and writer. Nikki has worked extensively at the NW Asian American Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, and Seattle’s Group Theatre. Recently, she has been traveling to screenings of a new film in which she’s involved - Portland Film Festival, Santa Fe Film Festival, and LaFemme Festival in Beverly Hills. Nikki will share her recent projects/experiences along with her personal story. Please RSVP if you are attending.
ABOUT FUSION SOCIAL CLUB
Spend an hour every other Wednesday in FUSION’s spirited 708 space. All are welcome to gather together to explore art, theatre, music, food, travel, events of the day, literature, and the world of film. Laurie Thomas, FUSION Co-founder, will lead the group In an hour-long journey of discussion with featured guests beginning October 18th at 10:00 am in the 708 Lobby. Casual conversation will continue at Novel Point Coffee from 11:00–11:30. Social Club is FREE of charge and full of LIFE.
ABOUT NIKKI NOJIMA LOUIS
Nikki Nojima Louis was born in Seattle, incarcerated during WWII in Minidoka, Idaho, and grew up in Chicago. Her father was taken by the FBI on her fourth birthday, December 7, 1941, and held in prison camps in New Mexico until 1946. As a teenager in the 1950s, she was the only non-white member of several professional dance companies, including one that toured to the segregated South.
Louis became active in multicultural theater when she joined the Northwest Asian American Theatre; a women’s peace show, Word of Mouth; and the Seattle Group Theatre. Meeting Gordon Hirabayashi in 1985 inspired her to write her first oral history play, Breaking the Silence, which benefited the Hirabayashi Defense Fund. Breaking the Silence continues to tour widely and was performed in Hiroshima in 2013 at the invitation of the World Friendship Center.
Louis has received writing commissions from the Smithsonian/Museum of History & Industry-Seattle, Washington State Centennial, Pioneer Square Theatre, Bainbridge Island Performing Arts, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and the World Friendship Center, Hiroshima. In 1989, she traveled to Tashkent, Uzbekistan as a member of the Seattle-Soviet Theatre Exchange where she performed with Russian, Uzbek, and Korean theater artists. She has taught Theater at the University of Washington and Creative Writing at Florida State University and the University of New Mexico.