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Bonbu Stories and UCLA Kyodo Taiko to Be Featured at Manzanar Pilgrimage

Bonbu Stories and UCLA Kyodo Taiko to Be Featured at Manzanar Pilgrimage Posted On 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

2021 L.A. Day of Remembrance to Be Held Online Feb. 13

2021 L.A. Day of Remembrance to Be Held Online Feb. 13 Posted On “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.