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Date and Time
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May 16 2024 3:30 PM to 8:00 PM
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Location
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Washington State History Museum, 1911 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98402
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Description
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Japanese American Day of Remembrance
Thursday, May 16, 3:30 to 8:00 PM
FREE
Join us for the 7th Annual South Sound Japanese American Day of Remembrance. This event will open with a resource fair to commemorate the eviction of Tacoma’s Japanese Americans and place this event within a larger context.
Educators will learn more about the various sites, events, organizations, and people in western Washington who are teaching the public about Japanese American history. Clock hours will be available for K-12 teachers from 3:30 to 5:30 PM. Artists Yoshi Nakagawa and Yuka Petz will facilitate an interactive printing activity. This resource fair will be followed by live performances by Fuji Taiko and Kabuki Academy before a brief procession from the Washington State History Museum’s Remembrance exhibit to Union Station to remember the Japanese American community that was forced to report to the Tacoma train station.
The programming will conclude with a panel conversation, “Making the Invisible Visible: “Righting” Asian American and Pacific Islander Histories,” moderated by public historian Tamiko Nimura at “Scholarly Selections.”
Schedule of Events
3:30 to 5:30 PM – Resource Fair
5:30 to 6:00 PM – Live performances by Fuji Taiko and Kabuki Academy
6:00 to 6:30 PM – Procession from Remembrance gallery to Union Station
6:30 to 7:30 PM – Scholarly Selections panel conversation moderated by Tamiko Nimura
Participating Organizations:
Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community
Densho
Fuji Taiko
HistoryLink.org
Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Washington
Kabuki Academy
Minidoka Pilgrimage
Neely Mansion Association
The Northwest Room at the Tacoma Public Library
Puyallup Valley JACL
Tacoma Japantown Project
Washington Ethnic Studies Now
Washington State Historical Society
Yoshi Nakagawa
Yuka Petz
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