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Get Lit! Festival Presents: Displacement and the Japanese American Experience

3/21/2021

 
Spokane Chapter of JACL
​presents 
a Free Virtual Event
Displacement and the
Japanese American Experience

Sun April 18, 2021 @ 11:30 AM PST
Featuring Kiku Hughes and John Streamas
​

As part of Spokane's virtual
Get Lit! Festival by
Eastern Washington University
Preregister now at the following link:
https://inside.ewu.edu/getlit/festival/
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This event will explore Japanese American experiences, focusing on World War II internment camps and the damaging racial politics that allowed them to become a forgotten landmark of American history.

​Writer and professor John Streamas will open the event by sharing some of his poetry, and Kiku Hughes will read from her historical graphic novel Displacement, a riveting and bittersweet story of a teenager pulled back in time to witness her grandmother’s experience in internment camps during World War II. Following the readings, Streamas will lead Hughes in a discussion about her work and the importance of sharing historical narratives that still carry a timely weight.


For information on how to stream this free event, visit getlitfestival.org. Almost all festival events this year will be FREE and available to watch on their YouTube channel.
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More about Get Lit!: The Get Lit! Festival began in 1998 as a one-day marathon of literary readings sponsored by Eastern Washington University Press and EWU’s Department of Creative Writing. Then The Spokesman-Review lovingly called it “the little literary festival that could,” and they were right. By 2004, the festival had become a community tradition that thousands of people from Spokane and the surrounding region enjoy every year.

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