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Activists to Be Featured Panelists During 2021 Manzanar At Dusk Program
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A small group discussion at the 2019 Manzanar At Dusk. (Photo by Gann Matsuda/Manzanar Committee)
Community activists Kathy Masaoka and traci-kato kiriyama will be the featured panelists during the 2021 Manzanar At Dusk program, part of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, scheduled from 5 to 8 p.m. Pacific Time on Saturday, April 24, live and online via Zoom.
Kathy Masaoka
The Manzanar At Dusk program follows the 52nd annual Manzanar Pilgrimage that same day, to be released at noon on the Manzanar Committee’s YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/manzanarcommittee.
Now in its 23rd year, Manzanar At Dusk is co-sponsored by the Manzanar Committee and the Nikkei Student Unions (NSU) at California Polytechnic University, Pomona, CSU Fullerton, CSU Long Beach, UCLA, UC Riverside, and UC San Diego.
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
2021 Manzanar At Dusk to Connect Past, Present Injustices via Live Program Online
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Manzanar At Dusk is a program between the Manzanar Committee and college students to educate others about the significance of the Japanese American incarceration experience.
Connecting the injustices of the past with similar injustices of the present will be the focus of the 2021 Manzanar At Dusk program, part of annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, which is scheduled from 5 to 8 p.m. (Pacific Time) on Saturday, April 24, live and online via Zoom.
The Manzanar At Dusk program follows the 52nd annual Manzanar Pilgrimage that same day, to be released at noon PT on the Manzanar Committee’s YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/manzanarcommittee.
52nd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage/2021 Manzanar at Dusk to Be Held Online
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Crowd shot looking west towards the Manzanar cemetery and the Eastern Sierras during the 48th annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, April 29, 2017, at the Manzanar National Historic Site. (Photo by Gann Matsuda/Manzanar Committee)
“Upholding Democracy and Constitutional Rights for All: No More Concentration Camps” is the theme for the 52nd annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, which will be held online on Saturday, April 24, at 12 p.m.
The 2021 Manzanar at Dusk program will also be held online in the hours following the Manzanar Pilgrimage.
Manzanar was the first of the American concentration camps in which more than 120,000 Japanese Americans and their immigrant parents were unjustly incarcerated during World War II.