Give that special someone a card that they will remember. Participants will learn how to make three-dimensional cards that pop up when opened. Members $5, non-members $11, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Participants will learn how to cut and shape layers of paper into beautiful Kiri-e card design. Members $5, non-members $11, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Instructor: Chester Hashizume
Discover your long-lost relatives and create your own family tree. This workshop will also teach you how to enter your family tree in the Museum’s National Family Registry. Members $5, non-members $11, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Enjoy a two-part doll making class in celebration of Girls Day. Participants will learn how to construct delicate Hinamatsuri (Girls Festival) dolls out of Japanese fabric. Members $5, non-members $11, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Please see February 10 for more information.

Day of Remembrance (DOR), the community’s annual commemoration of President Roosevelt’s signing of EO 9066 and the World War II exclusion and internment of Japanese Americans and Japanese Latin Americans, will be held at the Japanese American National Museum. The 2001 DOR marks the 20th Anniversary of the Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress (NCRR), formerly known as the National Coalition for Redress & Reparation. The National Museum, the Pacific Southwest District JACL, and other community organizations join with NCRR in reflecting upon the 20+ year journey for redress and justice, and the continuing efforts for a vibrant and strong community.

Participants will learn the art of sumi-e (ink brush painting) flowers. Members $5, non-members $11, includes National Museum admission and supplies

Give that special someone a card they will remember. Participants will learn how to make three-dimensional cards that pop-up when opened. Members $5, non-members $11, includes National Museum admission.

Instructor: Chester Hashizume
Discover your long-lost relatives and create your own family tree. This workshop will also show you how to enter your family tree in the Museum's National Family Registry. Member $5, non-members $11, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Tsumami zaiku are traditional Japanese hair ornaments made of silk. In this class, Shibata Sensei will teach participants how to make their own tsumami zaiku. Member $5, non-members $11, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Learn the art of making three-dimensional cards that pop-up when opened. Members $5, non-members $11, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Participants will learn the art of sumi-e (ink brush painting) flowers. Members $5, non-members $11, includes National Museum admission and supplies

Celebrate an experience for the whole family! Join us for a fun-filled day of arts, crafts, and workshops. Help make the world's longest lei! No reservations necessary.

Floral Lei-making
Learn how to create a traditional Hawaiian floral lei to celebrate special occasions.

Candy and Money Lei-making
Do you know leis made of candy or money are popular gifts for graduation? Join us to create your very own leis.

Learn how to make ceremonial paper cords for tying and decorating presents. Members $5, non-members $11, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Workshop with Chester Hashizume

Discover your long-lost relatives and create your own family tree. This workshop will also show you how to enter your family tree in the Museum's National Family Registry. Members $5, non-members $11, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Instructor: Masato Baba, lead instructor for the Kenny Endo Taiko Ensemble

An exciting introduction to taiko drumming for children covering basic concepts of form, stance, and rhythmic patterns, with one of the taiko community's most promising young musicians. No experience necessary. Wear comfortable clothes.

Led by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (Fellow 1991) and David Mura (Fellow 1986)

Based on the premise that "you should write what you know," this course takes a closer look at how culture plays an integral part in inspiring writing. As a participant you will learn how culture can impact your creative process and sense of self as a writer. Designed for writers at all levels, this course offers a lifelong method for studying the craft of writing and finding inspiration in the world around you.

To register for the workshop, please call UCLA Extension at 310.825.9971. Members of the National Museum, Asian American Writers' Workshop or David Henry Hwang Writers Institute should register under the code #L8036, non-members use code #L8028.

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Pop-Up Cards

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Origami Animals

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Pop-Up Cards

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Mizuhiki (ceremonial paper cords for tying and decorating gifts)

Workshop with Chester Hashizume
Discover your long-lost relatives and create your own family tree. This workshop will also show you how to enter your family tree in the Museum's National Family Registry. Member $5, non-members $11, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Class with Ryoko Shibata: Sumi-e (ink brush painting)

Inmates of America's concentration camps carved bird pins out of found wood. Participants will examine bird pins on display in the exhibitions, Henry Sugimoto: Painting an American Experience and Common Ground: The Heart of Community. Who made them and why? Following this activity, children will learn how to draw and make simple carvings of bird pins. Appropriate for children ages 6-12 years old. Cost: $5 for Museum members, $11 for non-Members.

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Tsumami Zaiku (traditional Japanese hair ornaments made of silk)

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Oshie (pasted rag picture)

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Mizuhiki (ceremonial paper cord) cards

Instructor: Chester Hashizume
Discover your long-lost relatives and create your own family tree. This workshop will also teach you how to enter your family tree in the Museum’s National Family Registry. Cost: $5 for Museum members, $11 for non-members (includes Museum admission).

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Christmas ornaments

Presented by Japanese Students Network
This unique career event presented by the Japanese Students Network will offer college students an opportunity to meet and interact with leading Japanese and American corporations, not-for-profit organizations and student organizations. Admission is free to registered participants. To register and/or for further information, please contact www.jstudentnetwork.com.

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Sumi-e (ink brush painting) cards

Craft class with R yoko Shibata: Christmas Cards

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: New Year Cards (Japanese style)

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: New Year's Eve Thank You cards

Preserve Your Family Treasures
This workshop will teach you the basics of how to care for your family papers, photographs, books, etc. to protect them from unnecessary deterioration and damage.

All About Archives: An Introduction to Organizing Your Records
This workshop will provide practical information on handling items such as immigration records, birth certificates, diaries, and other important documents along with complete exercises in arranging and labeling archival records.

For more information or to make reservations for these programs, please call René Tomita at 808.946.5417.

Please see January 23 for more information.

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: New Year’s Sumi-e (Year of the Horse)

Please see January 23 for more information.

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Hinamatsuri (Girls Day) Doll-Making Series, Part I

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Hinamatsuri (Girls Day) Doll-Making Series, Part II

Workshop with Chester Hashizume
Discover your long-lost relatives and create your own family tree. This workshop will also teach you how to enter your family tree in the Museum’s National Family Registry. $5 for Museum members, $11 for non-members (includes Museum admission).

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Oshi-E (Boys and Girls Day)

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Pop-up cards

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Easter Cards

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Boy's Day Origami Cards

Workshop with Chester Hashizume
Discover your long-lost relatives and create your own family tree. This workshop will also teach you how to enter your family tree in the Museum’s National Family Registry. $5 for Museum members, $11 for non-members (includes Museum admission).

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Sumi-e Spring Flowers

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Tsunami Zaiku

A free workshop for educators focusing on the National Museum’s upcoming exhibition featuring the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. Come gather practical, standards-based ideas for teaching students about their own communities. A continental breakfast will be provided. For more information or to reserve a space, please call Allyson Nakamoto at 213.830.5626. Reservations will be taken on a first come, first served basis.

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Pop-Up Card Making (Japanese Style)

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Sumi-e painting

Shibata Sensei will lead a series of hands-on workshops to explore traditional Japanese and American doll making. Participants will learn how to make Japanese traditional dolls out of rice paper in this session.

Participants will learn how to create traditional Japanese doll hair ornaments (tsumami) out of rice paper.

Instructor: Chester Hashizume
Discover your long-lost relatives and create your own family tree. This workshop will also teach you how to enter your family tree in the Museum’s National Family Registry. $5 for Museum members, $11 for non-members (includes Museum admission).

Participants will learn how to make traditional Japanese and American dolls.

Demonstration
The Ogasawara-ryu Sencha School will demonstrate the art of tea ceremony using fine green tea leaves. The practice of tea ceremony helps to develop concentration and appreciation of beauty.

1:00pm and 2:00pm.

Come to join us to dress up your dolls. Learn how to make unique doll costumes out of traditional Japanese color napkin paper.

Join Shibata sensei and learn how to construct American dolls out of rice paper.

Learn how to make traditional Japanese wooden slippers for your dolls.

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Instructor: Chester Hashizume
Discover your long-lost relatives and create your own family tree. This workshop will also teach you how to utilize family tree software programs for recording and maintaining your genealogy. $5 for National Museum members, $11 for non-members (includes Museum admission).

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Free program

Join the National Museum and International Institute of Los Angeles for a celebration of Los Angeles’ cultural diversity with delicious tastings, cooking demonstrations, storytelling and hands-on workshops.

The International Institute of Los Angeles, a non-profit United Way agency founded in 1914, provides a comprehensive array of social services in 18 languages to approximately 20,000 people annually.

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Have you ever had the desire to write poetry, fiction or memoirs, but don’t know where to begin? Then come to the National Museum’s writing workshop, where instructor Cecilia Manguerra Brainard will teach participants how to enhance their creativity by learning how to tap into the right-brain. Specific exercises will be given and participants will have the chance to do some writing and sharing.

Brainard has been teaching creative writing since 1989, and now teaches classes at the Writers Program, UCLA Extension, and Writing for Animation at USC. She is the author and editor of ten books, including the internationally acclaimed novel, When the Rainbow Goddess Wept. In her newly released novel, MAGDALENA, Brainard explores the loves and secrets of three generations of women in the Philippines from the time of the Spanish American War, World War II, and Vietnam War.

Following the workshop will be a Publication Party of MAGDALENA.

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies.

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies.

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies.

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies.

Instructor: Chester Hashizume
Discover your long-lost relatives and create your own family tree. This workshop will also teach you how to enter your family tree in the Museum’s National Family Registry. Fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission.

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies.

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies.

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Instructor: Chester Hashizume

Discover your long-lost relatives and create your own family tree. This workshop will provide participants with information on research sources and ways to find information about ancestors in Japan. Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission.

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Free to the public. Space limited to 25 participants. For reservations, please call 213.744.2077.

Participants will have an opportunity to play taiko and learn about the origins and traditions of the big drum.

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes National Museum admission and supplies

Instructor: Chester Hashizume
Have you ever wondered who all of your relatives were at the Family Reunion? This workshop will provide tips on how to create your family tree and offer sources of information to help identify ancestors and relatives in Japan. You will also learn to access your family tree in the National Museum’s Family Registry. Fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes National Museum admission.

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Learn how to preserve your family images for generations to come. This workshop, presented by the National Museum’s Associate Collections Manager Nikki Chang and Assistant Archivist Robert Dirig, will provide helpful guidelines to improve the care of your family’s home movie collection and photographs/photo albums. With the understanding that optimal preservation conditions are quite costly, this workshop will inform you about what is ideal and how you can work towards achieving what is possible with limited resources. Fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes National Museum admission. Reservations are highly recommended.

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes National Museum admission and supplies.

Come join Hydaiko, the network of taiko players for a brief overview about taiko! Taiko drummers from several different groups in Southern California will host this workshop and jam session presenting you with the opportunity to learn about the history of taiko in North America, gain hands-on experience with different instruments, and participate in a demonstration of the creative process of a taiko jam session. All participants will have the opportunity to play taiko and learn about the origins and traditions of the big drum.

Participants will use Pentelâ„¢ Gel Pens to create colorful landscapes. Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies.

Learn how to fold colorful paper into frogs, rabbits, birds, and more! Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies.

Instructor: Chester Hashizume.
Have you ever attended a family reunion and wondered who everyone was? This workshop will provide tips on creating own your family tree and will offer sources of information to help identify ancestors and relatives in Japan. You will also learn to access your family tree in the National Museum's Family Registry. Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission.

Create unique flowers with thread, paper, and cords. Class Fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies.

Learn how to create your own unique holiday cards. Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies.

Deck the halls with your own geometric ornaments (most ornaments will be crafted out of yarn). Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies.

Show your appreciation to loved ones and friends with personalized thank you cards. Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies. 1:00pm.

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