Lunch at Kyoto Restaurant and Petaluma Historical Library & Museum

UPDATED ON THURSDAY, 5/8: MEET AT THE RESTAURANT AT NOON, THEN GO TO THE MUSEUM

Another dining and educational event! Meet at at the Kyoto Restaurant in Rohnert Park at noon for lunch, then drive to the Petaluma Historical Library and Museum, arriving about 1:45 PM on Friday, May 23

Kyoto restaurant offers lunch specials in addition to some great sushi. As usual, please bring enough cash to cover your food and beverage plus 30% for tax and tip.

Link to Kyoto Lunch Menu:

https://www.kyotorohnertpark.com/menu-lunch  

Exhibits at the Petaluma Museum

Petaluma Chinatown Unearthed is presented in partnership with the Petaluma Old Chinatown Memorial Park Ad Hoc Committee and uses artifacts, maps, and historical records to explore the years between the 1860s and 1890s, when Petaluma was home to a thriving community of Chinese laborers. By the 1900s, most residents of Chinese descent were driven out by racist scapegoating and a wide-spread Anti-Chinese movement. This exhibit also highlights what Petaluma’s contemporary AAPI community is doing to shed light on stories that are hidden in plain sight in.

Chinese Pioneers is drawn from the California Historical Society’s collections and consists of 11 free-standing pop-up banners. The exhibit begins in the Gold Rush era, when significant numbers of Chinese people began to arrive in California. Anti-Chinese sentiment led to protests, violence, and vigilante expulsions up and down the West Coast. The Chinese Exclusion Act banned Chinese laborers from immigrating, becoming citizens, and tightened restrictions on previous residents reentering the country. It is against this backdrop that the exhibit considers the broad range of nineteenth-century imagery depicting the first generations of Chinese Californians and how visual culture influenced, aligned with, and diverged from the politics of Exclusion and the actions of the state.