On Wednesday, August 7, at 7pm, at the Nevada Theatre, Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra (CATS), in partnership with The Onyx Downtown, is presenting And Then They Came for Us, an award-winning documentary by Abby Ginzberg and Ken Schneider and starring George Takei, an actor and activist, better known as “Mr. Sulu” from Star Trek. And Then They Came for Us was filmed in 2017, in response to President Trump’s “Muslim Travel Ban”. Its message still resonates today, comparing the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans at Internment Camps, better known as War Relocation Centers, to what is happening in American streets today, especially towards immigrants and people of color.
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AND THEN THEY CAME FOR US is a cautionary and inspiring documentary for all societies, directed by Abby Ginzberg and Ken Schneider. In 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, paving the way for the forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. The film educates audiences about
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As a prelude and fundraiser to our play, Rashomon, and in collaboration with The Onyx Downtown at the Nevada Theatre, we are showing the acclaimed 1950’s movie by Akira Kurosawa.
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Next up for CATS on Thursday, August 14, 2025, 7:00 p.m., in collaboration with The Onyx Downtown, at the Nevada Theatre, is a screening of the documentary, Tyrus, by filmmaker Pamela Tom.
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CATS announces another collaboration with The Onyx Downtown on Thursday, September 26, 7:00 p.m., at the Nevada Theatre, a stream of a solo performance. It’s a play; it’s a movie; it takes a deep dive into being female in North Korea.
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