Launch Symposium // Education and Memory at the Gordon Hirabayashi Recreation Site

This event launches the project, Education and Memory at the Gordon Hirabayashi Recreation Site introducing the public to the team of scholars, community partners and creative collaborators bringing arts and education programming connecting the University of Arizona, Tucson-area communities, and the Gordon Hirabayashi Recreation Site (GHRS), formerly the Catalina Federal Honor Camp. The symposium will include remarks, tabling, a "Meet the Artists" reception, and a live mapping community visioning session. This event is open to members of the public, and refreshments will be served.  A 2026 awardee of the 2026 Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program, administered by the National Park Service, the project will bring public programs, guided site workshops, course materials, and a culminating digital/print publication, the project will expand public understanding of GHRS as a historic Japanese American confinement site and a critical place for learning about citizenship, constitu