Contact:  Rick Peterson, Manager of News Services, 414/832-6590
For Immediate Release						April 9, 1997

One-Woman Show Celebrates Asian Heritage Month


APPLETON, WIS.  In celebration of Asian Heritage Month, writer-composer-actress
Nobuko Miyamota brings her one-woman, multi-media show, "A Grain of Sand," to
Lawrence University's Cloak Theatre Saturday, April 19 at 8 p.m.  Admission is
$2 at the door.

Through poetic fusion of song, story, dance and video imagery, Miyamoto
balances a detailed personal history of her life as an artist and political
activist with a broader social context, including the World War II Japanese
internment camps and the more recent Los Angeles riots.  She calls her
performance "one grain in the sandbox of stories that are part of Asian-
Americana."

A veteran of Broadway theatre, Miyamota has danced and sung in productions of
"West Side Story," "The King and I" and "Flower Drum Song." 

Miyamota's appearance is sponsored by ASIA-A, the Lawrence Asian-American
student organization.