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DESCRIPTION:<strong>***UCLA Premiere for Tadashi Nakamura's new film PILGRI
 MAGE***\n\n***FREE musical performances by NATIVE GUNS***\n\n\nPILGRIMAGE 
 - A film by Tadashi H. Nakamura\n\nMONDAY\, APRIL 16th at 7pm</strong>\n\n
 UCLA - The Cooperage\n(Located on the A Level of Ackerman building)\n308 W
 estwood Plaza\nLos Angeles\, CA 90024-5000\n\n*Park in Parking Lot 6\nDire
 ctions:<a href="http://www.ucla.edu/map/driving.html">http://www.ucla.edu/
 map/driving.html</a>\n\n\nPILGRIMAGE tells the inspiring story of how an a
 bandoned WWII\nconcentration camp has been transformed into a current-day 
 symbol of\nrestrospection and solidarity in the aftermath of 9/11.\n\nThis
  event is FREE!  Don't miss your chance to see PILGRIMAGE and the\nNATIVE 
 GUNS perform live!  Director Tadashi Nakamura will be in the\nhouse to dis
 cuss the film.  For more information please contact Tad\nat: <a>tadillac@o
 nebox.com</a>\n\n\n\nSynopsis of PILGRIMAGE:\n\nTotal running time: 20 min
 .\n\nPilgrimage tells the inspiring story of how a small group of Japanese
 \nAmericans in the late 1960s uncovered their lost history and created\nth
 e Manzanar Pilgrimage\, transforming the once-abandoned WWII American\ncon
 centration camp into a vibrant symbol of retrospection and\nsolidarity for
  people of all ages\, races and nationalities in our post\n9/11 world.\n\n
 Although there are now numerous films on the mass incarceration of\nJapane
 se Americans during World War II\, this dark chapter of American\nhistory 
 lay virtually forgotten until 1969 when two young Japanese\nAmericans set 
 out to find a place called Manzanar and ended up\ncreating an annual event
  that has since attracted thousands of people.\nCalling it a ?pilgrimage\,
 ? it was the first public event in the nation\nto call attention to the re
 ality of the WWII concentration camp\nexperience that had almost been dele
 ted from public\nunderstanding.\n\nWith a hip music track\, never-before-s
 een archival footage and a\nstory-telling style that features both old and
  new pilgrims\,\nPilgrimage is the first film to show how the WWII camps w
 ere reclaimed\nby the children of its victims and how the Manzanar Pilgrim
 age now has\nfresh meaning for diverse generations of people who realize t
 hat when\nthe US government herded thousands of innocent Americans into wh
 at the\ngovernment itself called concentration camps\, it was failure of\n
 democracy that would affect all Americans. As the U.S. is again in\ntumult
 uous times\, Pilgrimage is a timely and engaging film that brings\nnew and
  much-needed insight to the lessons of the past for our post\n9/11 world.\
 n\nSponsored by:\nUCLA Center for EthnoCommunications\, UCLA Center for Co
 mmunity\nPartnerships\, UCLA Asian American Studies Center\, CAPSA\, MSA\,
  NSU\,\nSamahang Pilipino
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SUMMARY:"Pilgrimage" Film Screening & Native Guns Performance- FREE!
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