![]() Beaty/Denverite Courtney Ozaki shows a map of the walking tour for Stories of Solidarity. ![]() Beaty/Denverite Courtney Ozaki's grandparents and father (bottom right) in a historic image on display in the Stories of Solidarity exhibit at the historic Savoy in Five Points. “Both sides of my family ended up in Five points following World War II and the closing of the Japanese incarceration camps that they were living in for a number of years." Kevin J. My parents grew up in the five points neighborhood,” Ozaki said. "This project came out of an interest in my personal family history. The project - titled Stories of Solidarity: Japanese Americans in Five Points - is a collaboration between the Japanese Arts Network, Mile High Japanese American Citizens League, and is supported by Arts in Society, but for creator Courtney Ozaki it's personal. ![]() Today, in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood, an interactive story-sharing, web-based app takes visitors back in time for a unique neighborhood tour of what that time was like. Now, a new interactive mapping project and exhibition is telling the story of one group of these Americans.ĭenver experienced a boom in Japanese culture and businesses after World War II and the closure of Colorado’s internment camps, which imprisoned over 10,000 people of Japanese descent. Denver's Historic Five Points and Curtis Park neighborhoods have a rich history of being home to many different kinds of people.
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