57th Annual Pilgrimage Program

Join us in person or tune into our Facebook live stream on Saturday, April 25th 2026 for the 57th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage

Program Schedule:

11:30am – Call to Order with Music by UCLA Kyodo Taiko and Ken Koshio

11:55am – Banner Procession

12pm Speakers including
-Welcome from Emcees Maiya Kuida Osumi and Tony Osumi
-Welcome from Jeremiah Joseph, Cultural Resources Protection for the Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Tribe
-Jeremy Scheier, Superintendent MNHS
-Opening Remarks by Bruce Embrey, Manzanar Committee Chair
-Keynote Address by Dale Minami
-Musical Interlude by UCLA Kyodo Taiko
-Hussam Ayloush, Council on American-Islamic Relations-CA Director
-Paul Hiroshi Boyea, Chair of the Terminal Islanders Preservation Initiative
-Jennifer Yamashita, UCLA Student Speaker
-Closing Camp Roll Call by Monica Mariko Embrey

1:15pm – Banner Procession to the Cemetery and Interfaith Service

1:45pm – Ondo dancing

2pm – 5pm – We encourage attendees to visit the Interpretive Center and other areas at the National Historic Site

5pm – intergenerational conversations at Manzanar at Dusk to be held at Lone Pine High School

Attendees are welcome to participate in all components of this program.

Please note we expect the weather to be cool and misty on Saturday, so please bring layers. No food is available on site, so please pack your lunch and snacks.