Tour our ongoing exhibition Common Ground: Heart of a Community with our experienced and knowledgeable docents.

Through her new children’s book, Mei Ling in China City—a true story about a Chinese American girl in China City and a Japanese American girl in Manzanar—author Icy Smith (Sui Bing Tang) will present the history of LA’s early Chinatown and China City.

FREE ALL DAY!

Enjoy a day of family fun with anime and comic book activities and workshops. Keeping checking back for program schedule!

Generously sponsored by Target.

2009 Target Free Family Saturday schedule

March 14 – Say Cheese!

April 11 – What's Cooking?

Other Family Events at the National Museum

March 28: SPRING ROLLS into JANM (a family cooking workshop)

Gokurosama: Contemporary Photos of the Nisei in Hawaii opens.

Create fun Girl’s Day and recycled security envelope flowered cards for your friends and family. $8 for National Museum members; $13 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies.

This exciting documentary features the first Asian American pro basketball player, Wat Misaka. This film will be shown at the Aratani/Japan America Theater.

To make reservations or for more information contact: Aratani/Japan America Theatre Box Office 213 680-3700. Tickets are $10 General Admission, $8 Seniors/Students, $7 JACCC & JANM Members.

Presented in collaboration with the Japanese American Community Culture Center, Little Tokyo Service Center, and the National Museum.

Free Screening of Whispers

Chumash filmmaker George Angelo, Jr. interviews and documents three Indigenous cultures of Southern California: the Chumash, Tongva/Gabrielino, and Juaneno. This extraordinary documentary presents their history and living traditions, with a special focus on rock art, the tomol, and dolphin dancers. Guests for the night include filmmaker George Angelo, Jr.

Bringing the Circle Together: A Native American Film Series

Bringing the Circle Together: A Native American Film Series is a FREE monthly film series located in downtown Los Angeles at the National Center for Preservation of Democracy. The film series was established to provide quality documentaries by and about Indigenous people of the Americas, and bring together a central gathering place where discussion and awareness of issues can be shared with the Native community and its supporters.

The film series is held at the National Center for Preservation of Democracy located at 111 North Central Avenue, between 1st Street and Central Avenue, in downtown Los Angeles. The NCPD can be reached via train, bus, or parking in the area (pdf for directions). Films will begin at 7pm, and it is advisable to arrive at least 15-20 minutes prior for seating.

The film series is hosted by Lorin Morgan-Richards and Tahesha Knapp-Christensen and is sponsored by the following organizations:

The Japanese American National Museum
The National Center for Preservation of Democracy
The Southern California Indian Center, Inc.
Haramokngna American Indian Cultural Center
Hecho de Mano
Nahui Ohlin

For more information about the film series please visit www.myspace.com/nafilmseries
or by email at nafilmseries@aol.com

FREE ALL DAY!

The Day of Remembrance program marks President Roosevelt's signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, which authorized the unconstitutional forced removal of 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast and Hawai'i during World War II. Keep checking here more information and an updated program schedule.

*NEW: Professor Roger Daniels will be giving the keynote address!

Presented in collaboration with the Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress, the Japanese American Citizen’s League–Pacific Southwest, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Lane Hirabayashi (The George & Sakaye Aratani Chair in Japanese American Internment, Redress and Community), and the National Museum.

Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with National Museum docents. $8 Members; $13 non-members, includes Museum admission. Comfortable walking shoes and clothes recommended. Weather permitting.

Saturday, Feb 28 @ 8:00 PM
Sunday, March 1 @ 3:00PM & 7:30 PM

In commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre.

Written by Elizabeth Wong, and directed by Peter J. Kuo, Letters is about a decade-long correspondence between two pen pals and their search for true democracy. Panel discussion of civil and human rights advocates and scholars will follow the Sunday matinee performance at 5 PM. $15 members/Student/Seniors/Groups (10+); $20 for non-members.

For more information, visit http://www.myspace.com/studentrevolutionary1989/or call 310-594-3068.