Manzanar Committee Mourns the Loss of Member James To rafu.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from rafu.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Bonbu Stories and UCLA Kyodo Taiko to Be Featured at Manzanar Pilgrimage
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Screen shot of UCLA Kyodo Taiko during an April 2021 recording session at UCLA.
Bonbu Stories and UCLA Kyodo Taiko will perform during the 52nd annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, which will be held online on Saturday, April 24, at 12 p.m. Pacific Time on the Manzanar Committee’s YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/manzanarcommittee.
Further details about this year’s pilgrimage program, including speakers and other participants, will be announced at a later date.
Bonbu Stories, an Asian American arts collaborative dedicated to using music as a medium for raw storytelling and building connections, was created by Miharu Okamura, Sydney Shiroyama, Miko Shudo, Kendall Tani, Emily Yoshihara and Vicky Zhang, under the mentorship of P.J. Hirabayashi (TaikoPeace), and Dan and Chris Kubo. Being deeply rooted in their Asian American identities and cultures, they strive to share the raw, honest, broken, e
Manzanar Committee Stands with Indigenous Leaders to Oppose Open-Pit Mine rafu.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from rafu.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Manzanar Committee Announces 6th Annual Sue Kunitomi Embrey Student Awards Program
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Winners of the fifth annual Manzanar Committee Student Awards Program. (Photo by Jason Fujii/Manzanar Committee)
On Feb. 15, the Manzanar Committee announced its sixth annual Sue Kunitomi Embrey Student Awards Program, a creative works program in which K-12 students may submit essays, short stories, poetry, works of art, including drawings, collages, posters, and works involving technology, including animation, podcasts, movies, or videos.
The program, which was previously known as the Manzanar Committee Student Awards Program, was renamed for Sue Kunitomi Embrey, a founding member of the Manzanar Committee who was an educator, community activist, labor union organizer, and writer. She also fought tirelessly to establish Manzanar as a National Historic Site, and was instrumental in organizing the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage (now in its 52nd year) to ensure that this dark chapter of Ameri
2021 L.A. Day of Remembrance to Be Held Online Feb. 13
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“Uniting with Other Communities to Keep Democracy Alive” is the theme of the 2021 Los Angeles Day of Remembrance (DOR), to be released on YouTube at 2 p.m. PST on Saturday, Feb. 13.
The pre-recorded video will be available on the Manzanar Committee’s YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/manzanarcommittee.
The Day of Remembrance is held annually to commemorate President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942, which resulted in the unjust incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese Americans and their immigrant parents in American concentration camps and other confinement sites during World War II.