Official Web site of the Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee, sponsor of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage since 1969.
As is our tradition, we always have a printable program for the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, which includes articles, information about our speakers and performers, what’s going on at the Manzanar National Historic Site, and much more, and even though our Pilgrimage was virtual once again this year, you can view a printable program for the... Continue Reading →
The 53rd Annual Manzanar (Virtual) Pilgrimage will be released at 12:00 PM PDT on Saturday, April 30, 2022, and you can watch it here. To watch the video, just click on the video below. It will launch automatically at 12:00 PM on April 30. If you prefer to watch the video on our YouTube channel,... Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — Rob Bonta, Attorney General, State of California, and Ann Burroughs, President/CEO of the Japanese American National Museum, will be featured speakers during the 53rd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, to be held online, premiering at 12:00 PM PDT on Saturday, April 30, 2022, on the Manzanar Committee’s YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/manzanarcommittee. Bonta and Burroughs will... Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — Looking at different forms of resistance through the eyes, minds, and hearts of several artists will be the focus of the 2022 Manzanar At Dusk program, part of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, beginning at 5:00 PM PDT on Saturday, April 30, 2022, live and online via Zoom (videoconference). The interactive Manzanar At... Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — Dale Minami, Fred Korematsu’s lead counsel in his 1983 coram nobis case, Alan Nishio, former Southern California Co-Chair of what was then the National Coalition for Redress and Reparations, Karen Umemoto, Director, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, UCLA Kyodo Taiko and Bonbu Stories will be featured during the 53rd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage,... Continue Reading →
Editor’s Note: The 2021-22 Katari program, held this year during the January 15-16, 2022 weekend, is usually held in early November at the Manzanar National Historic Site. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it had to be moved to an online format for the second consecutive year. Despite the loss of the extremely important placed-based... Continue Reading →
Editor’s Note: The 2021-22 Katari program, held this year during the January 15-16, 2022 weekend, is usually held in early November at the Manzanar National Historic Site. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it had to be moved to an online format for the second consecutive year. Despite the loss of the extremely important placed-based... Continue Reading →
Editor’s Note: The 2021-22 Katari program, held this year during the January 15-16, 2022 weekend, is usually held in early November at the Manzanar National Historic Site. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it had to be moved to an online format for the second consecutive year. Despite the loss of the extremely important placed-based... Continue Reading →
by Wendi Yamashita Over the January 15, 2022 weekend, the students who will be organizing the Manzanar At Dusk program participated in our Katari Program. Katari, which means “to tell stories” in Japanese, is two days of intensive, experiential, place-based learning about the unjust incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War... Continue Reading →
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