Detroit PBS: Wisdom Gone Wild Screening and Panel Discussion
Schedule
Tue, 10 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
603 E Liberty St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Michigan 48104 | Ann Arbor, MI
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✨Free Admission - Doors Open: 6:00 PMAs part of Detroit PBS’ yearlong caregiving initiative, the station, in partnership with the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor and Asian American Journalists Association – Michigan Chapter, invites you to an evening of film, conversation and community.
This event is a co-presentation with POV.
Our ability to create memories and hold on to them not only shapes our identitiy but informs the relationships between us and the people we hold dear. For elders in our communities who are living with dementia, the loss of those memories and the personal histories they share with families and loved ones can present many challenges in their lives as well as for those who care for them.
We invite you to join us for a screening of filmmaker Rea Tajiri’s documentary “Wisdom Gone Wild.”
✨ ABOUT THE FILM
“Wisdom Gone Wild” is a vibrant tender cine-poem, in which filmmaker Tajiri collaborates with her second-generation Japanese American (Nisei) mother as they confront the painful curious reality of living in the shadows of dementia. Made over the course of 16 years, the film blends humor and sadness in an encounter between mother and daughter, which blooms into an affectionate portrait of love, care and a relationship transformed. A post-screening panel discussion will follow including the filmmaker and additional panelists in the fields of caregiving and dementia health.
✨ PANELISTS
•Rea Tajiri, Director, “Wisdom Gone Wild”
•Peggy Du, Exec. Director, Association of Chinese Americans
•Shaista Kazmi, Founder, Apna Ghar Home Care; Client and Patient Care Coordinator, Sukoon Care
•Dr. Tanav Popli, Clinical Asst. Professor, Dept. Of Neurology, University of Michigan
✨ MODERATOR
•Bill Kubota, Detroit PBS senior producer and filmmaker, Asian American Journalists Association – Michigan Chapter board member
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Rea Tajiri is a Philadelphia-based documentary filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist, whose critically acclaimed career spans over 35 years. Poetic, subtly layered and politically engaged, her work advances the exploration of forgotten histories, multi-generational memory, landscape and the lives of Nikkei. Tajiri is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, 2025 USA Artist Fellow and Professor in the Film Media Arts Department at Temple University where she teaches documentary filmmaking.
CAREGIVING AND DETROIT PBS
This screening and panel discussion for “Wisdom Gone Wild” is a signature event in Detroit PBS’ yearlong initiative on Caregiving, made possible by grants from the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation, the Michigan Health Endowment Fund and AARP Michigan.
Doors open at 6:00 PM
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