Dear Tacoma arts community, Please join me in commemorating the anniversary of the forced removal of Tacoma’s Japanese American population in 1942. This year our theme is “Youth, Arts, and Remembrance.” As always, the event is FREE and we welcome you to join as many or as few portions of the program as you wish. For parents, we welcome you to bring the little ones to do origami or do coloring pages between 4:30-5:30. For letterpress fans, Write253 will be doing a letterpress demonstration with a relevant take-home poster from 4:30-7:00PM. For artists, we’re bringing Bay Area artists NaOmi Shintani and Reiko Fujii to talk about their pieces in the RESILIENCE exhibit, and to introduce their documentary Sansei Granddaughters’ Journey. We’ll do a brief procession holding ceramic cups made by my sister, local artist Teruko Nimura. And for history buffs, I’ll be previewing my digital exhibit Tacoma Japantown with my panel of assistants. More details and links are available below. With gratitude for all your support, Tamiko ********* 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* <https://www.washingtonhistory.org/exhibit/resilience/>, 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, * <https://www.sanseigranddaughters.com/>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.