Manzanar Baseball Project Comes to JANM on August 24, 2024

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WHAT:    

During World War II, baseball was a way for Japanese Americans in America’s concentration camps to find a sense of normalcy, uplift their spirits, and claim a connection to American culture. Today, the Manzanar Baseball Project is rebuilding and bringing to life the baseball diamond at Manzanar National Historic Site. 

WHEN:    

Saturday, August 24, 2024 from 11 a.m.–1 p.m.

DETAILS:   

This special event will feature artist and Project Director Dan Kwong in conversation with Josh Morey, Bobby Umemoto, Chris Komai, and Prof. Susan Kamei about this compelling project, the rich history of Japanese Americans and baseball, and how they overlap within this overlooked chapter in US history.

WHERE:    

Japanese American National Museum
100 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012

RSVP:    

RSVP at janm.org/events.

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About the Japanese American National Museum (JANM)

Established in 1985, JANM promotes understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity by sharing the Japanese American experience. Located in the historic Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles, JANM is a center for civil rights, ensuring that the hard-fought lessons of the World War II incarceration are not forgotten. A Smithsonian Affiliate and one of America’s Cultural Treasures, JANM is a hybrid institution that straddles traditional museum categories. JANM is a center for the arts as well as history. It provides a voice for Japanese Americans and a forum that enables all people to explore their own heritage and culture. Since opening to the public in 1992, JANM has presented over 100 exhibitions onsite while traveling 40 exhibits to venues such as the Smithsonian Institution and the Ellis Island Museum in the United States, and to several leading cultural museums in Japan and South America. JANM is open on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday–Sunday from 11 a.m.–5 p.m. and on Thursday from 12 p.m.–8 p.m. JANM is free every third Thursday of the month. On all other Thursdays, JANM is free from 5 p.m.–8 p.m. For more information, visit janm.org or follow us on social media @jamuseum.