National Park Service Amache Workshop

Sonoma County JACL hosts

National Park Service Amache Workshop

Sunday, April 23, 2023

11 am – 1pm

Enmanji Memorial Hall

1200 Gravenstein Hwy So., Sebastopol

Now that the Amache Concentration Camp (Granada Relocation Center) has been approved as a National Historic Site, the National Park Service (NPS) is moving on with next steps and they want to hear from you!

The NPS is preparing a foundation document to guide future planning and management of Amache National Historic Site.

Before writing the document that will determine what the site will look like and how it will be managed, they want to engage with the Amache stakeholders (those who were or families of those incarcerated there) and the general public to gather their opinions on preliminarily management planning for the new Amache National Historic Site.

Sebastopol is one of eleven sites in Colorado and California where NPS is holding workshops to gather feedback.

Learn more about the foundation document process and share your thoughts and ideas on the future of Amache. There will be a short informational presentation (about 30 minutes), followed by opportunities to ask questions and share thoughts and ideas with NPS staff in an open-house format where attendees can move around to different stations and share information with NPS staff on different topics (about 1.5 hours).

Also available that day, for those who want to share stories or memories of Amache or experiences leading up to or after incarceration, Sonoma County JACL will have a video recorder setup to capture it.

No registration necessary. Proof of Covid-19 vaccination is required for entry.

If you have any questions, please email us at communications@sonomacountyjacl.org.