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

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.

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.