Friday, July 9, 2021 | 7PM to 8PM
Online Event: Watch on YouTube
The Center for Remembering & Sharing (CRS) presents CROSSING BOUNDARIES Concert Series Vol. 14: UNFORGOTTEN SONG, viewable online from July 9, 2021 for one month.
Musician gamin has created “Unforgotten Song,” a music and multi-media work, to commemorate the anguish of Comfort Women, enslaved local women throughout Japanese-occupied East Asia, from 1932 to 1945. Inspired by visual artist Chang-Jin Lee’s recordings and exhibition, this tribute is intended to include all women who are, and have been, victims of sexual violence and exploitation. These songs of our strong and resilient Mothers and Grandmothers must be “unforgotten” in order to inspire succeeding generations of women and men. This concert transforms the archived songs sung by survivors into tales of resilience, courage, and strength in the face of suffering and injustice. In poignant irony, gamin’s composition results in a beautiful yet heartbreaking paean not only for victims in the past but also for all women who are deeply suffering from injustice in the world.
CROSSING BOUNDARIES is a performance series devoted to creating unforgettable art experiences that dissolve boundaries between performers and audiences, traditional and new music, and the local and the global, bringing people together and promoting the awareness that we each possess a limitless creativity inside us.
Co-Sponsor
Center for Remembering & Sharing (CRS)
Asian American / Asian Research Institute – City University of New York
