Collections
- StoriesCollected by city and year.
- Bainbridge Island 2025Collection in progress.
- Bainbridge Island 2026Fifteen stories, May 17, 2026.
- 2026 cast and biosStorytellers, guests, and the printed roster.
- 2026 crew and creditsCreative team, credits, remembrances, thanks.
- 2026 digital programPrinted booklet, story room, and program links.
Bainbridge Island 2026 stories
- 1. Harold & CrisalmaA love story carried across childhood, war, memory, and migration
- 2. Stephanie ReeseA performer carrying family sacrifice into every song
- 3. Steve FongBelonging, citizenship, and the moment identity changes shape
- 4. Gina CorpuzPoetry as truth-telling, resistance, and becoming
- 5. Clarence MoriwakiA childhood wound and the long shadow of racism
- 6. Felomina Flores SalangaA mother, a community, and the spirit of bayanihan
- 7. Sam OmotoCamp, war, Hiroshima, and the stubborn work of survival
- 8. Akiko OmotoA daughter honoring her mother with tenderness and care
- 9. Jan FongA wedding, a dress, and the joy of beginning again
- 10. Sara’s Adoption StoryAdoption, China, identity, and loving a child into herself
- 11. Emma & Grandpa KeizoA granddaughter remembering the man who kept Japan close
- 12. Mere & JasonRomance, family history, and the meeting of two worlds
- 13. Frank TsuchiyaIncarceration, impossible choices, and citizenship reclaimed
- 14. Larry NakataTrust, business, and community after wartime injustice
- 15. The Manzanar TableBeauty, silence, and resilience carried in one family artifact
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