South Sound Day of Remembrance

South Sound Day of Remembrance
Thursday, May 18, 4:30–8:00 PM
FREE

Join us to commemorate and recognize the 81st anniversary of the wartime forced removal of people of Japanese ancestry from South Puget Sound (May 17-18, 1942).

Explore the exhibition “Resilience: A Sansei Sense of Legacy,” featuring Sansei (third generation) Japanese American artists’ responses to Executive Order 9066 and its subsequent impacts; then build on that inspiration and work with local artists and Write253 to create your own object of remembrance.

The museum will also screen the documentary film “Sansei Granddaughters’ Journey,” followed by a brief group procession to Union Station to remember the Japanese American community that were forced to report there for evacuation. The evening will conclude with a preview of the digital exhibit Tacoma Japantown with writer and public historian Tamiko Nimura.