Instructor: Chester Hashizume
This popular genealogy workshop has been expanded to provide even more useful tips to create your family tree. Participants will receive assistance in identifying ancestors and relatives in Japan, and will also learn how to access family trees in the National Museum's Family Registry. This four-hour session includes a one-hour break. Class fees are $45 for National Museum members, $55 for non-members. Fees include materials and museum admission.

Learn the intricacies behind the process of woodblock printmaking. Fees are $20 for National Museum members and $30 for non-members, includes museum admission.

The first of two evenings celebrating National Poetry Month features poets Junichi Semitsu and Amy Uyematsu.

In this third of five sessions, we continue our examination of selected propaganda artifacts displayed in the exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community featuring Dr. Mitchell T. Maki, Acting Dean, College of Health and Human Services at California State University, Los Angeles to reflect on propaganda prevalent during the resettlement era post-World War II. He will consider what lessons we can learn from the past to address current attempts to defend the incarceration of Japanese Americans and justify assaults on civil liberties.

Ann Yonemura, curator of Japan After Perry and Senior Associate Curator of Japanese Art at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, discusses the exhibition's extraordinary, colorful woodblock prints in the context of the momentous historical events that propelled Japan into the modern age.

Naomi Hirahara follows up her acclaimed first mystery novel Summer of the Big Bachi with another Mas Arai adventure. The story follows Mas Arai's daughter, Mari, who from the time she was a child was completely gasa-gasa (never sitting still, always on the go). Mas, a gardener and Hiroshima survivor haunted by his past, never had much time for his family. Now, Mari is asking for his help and Mas finds himself in New York City and in the middle of a murder mystery. A light reception with the author will precede the program and book signing at 6:30 PM.

Relive history and learn about present day Little Tokyo with National Museum volunteers on this historical walking tour. Fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes museum admission. Reservations and comfortable shoes and clothes are recommended. Weather permitting.

In advance of Tango No Sekku or Boys' Day in Japan, learn about the Children's Day Festival and create your own Koi Nobori (carp streamer).

By invitation.

In time to celebrate Boys' Day, create a collage card with origami. Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes museum admission and supplies. Reservations are recommended.

Ayako Ishigaki (1903-1996) had a remarkable career as a journalist, biographer, television personality, and activist. She chronicled her extraordinary life in a stirring and exquisitely written book spanning decades, countries, and cultures. Restless Wave has been reissued with an afterword by Yi-Chun Tricia Lin and Greg Robinson that sheds additional light on Ishigaki's life and work, much of which took place in Little Tokyo. Lin and Robinson will discuss this pioneering book and the woman who wrote it.

Poetry Month continues with readings by poets Hiroshi Kashiwagi and Juliet Kono.

Learn how to create woodblock prints through demonstrations and an activity where participants design and create their own simple prints using a variety of materials. Also, discover what it takes to develop a mural by lending a hand to paint our very own portable mural.