TYRUS, an award-winning documentary by Pamela Tom, will make its debut at the Nevada Theatre on Thursday, August 14, at 7:00 p.m. This screening is part of Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra’s (CATS) ongoing Cultural Enrichment Program, telling compelling stories of Asians through films and events. The screening is presented jointly by CATS and The Onyx Downtown at the Nevada Theatre; we invite all to stay after the film to meet the filmmaker virtually for a Q&A.

In the early 1900s, Tyrus Wong, a nine-year old boy from China, immigrated to the U.S. with his father. What was the political “climate” like at that time towards the Chinese? Due to the Chinese Exclusion Act* [1] , their journey into the U.S. was by way of the Angel Island Immigration Station in the San Francisco Bay (kn

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