Special events celebrating Asian American culture and promoting Asian Hate awareness | Free of charge, registration required
Leading up to the November 18th East Coast premiere of Music and Songs of Shanghai Sonatas: A New Musical, Master Players presents the Shanghai Sonatas Educational Residency (SSER), a series of educational activities promoting the awareness of Asian hate, the Holocaust, and genocide.
We hope you will join us for the many inspiring, free-of-charge educational events offered during SSER, from a curated docufilm series to special multimedia presentations by many world-renowned scholars and historians on topics such as the Shanghai Jewish Ghetto musicians, Chinese traditional music and culture, the Holocaust, WWII and modern Chinese history.
SSER will include events such as:
• Documentary screenings, including the Oscar-winning From Mao to Mozart and The Garden Bridge, a new documentary about the making of Shanghai Sonatas
• Traveling exhibition from the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum
• “From Page to Stage”: conversations and Q&As with the creators and cast of Shanghai Sonatas
• Multimedia presentations with Dr. Sophie Fetthauer, Shanghai Jewish Refugees researcher from Germany
• Special presentation and book signing with Betty Grebenschikoff, Shanghai Jewish ghetto refugee and author of Once My Name Was Sara: A Memoir
• A Chinese cultural festival including live performances by 6-WIRE, a moon cake/dumpling making competition, and a reading of Song dynasty poems by UD professor of Chinese Dr. Haihong Yang, and a Q&A session
