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From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i

March 14, 1998 - January 3, 1999

This exhibition traces the evolution of Japanese American identity in multicultural Hawai'i as seen through the eyes of the first generation to the present. Americans of Japanese ancestry (AJAs) share their story through the use of personal artifacts, family photographs, and first-person accounts. Told from an AJA perspective the uniqueness of the Island culture is evident and is truely a story involving all of Hawai'i's people. This exhibit is funded in part by The Rockefeller Foundation and The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership.

 


Thursday, Apr 19, 2001

Opening of the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan

Opening of the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan

 


Tuesday, Aug 28, 2001

Closing of the traveling exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i at the National Museum of Ethnology

 


Friday, May 24, 2002

Opening of the exhibition, From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i

Opening of the exhibition, From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i

 


Sunday, Jun 23, 2002

Closing of the exhibition, From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i

Closing of the exhibition, From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i

 


Saturday, Oct 12, 2002

Opening of the exhibition, From Bento Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i

at the Niigata Prefectural Museum of History in Nagaoka, Japan

 


Sunday, Nov 24, 2002

Closing of the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i

Closing of the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i

 


Saturday, Jan 25, 2003

Members' Reception and International Nikkei Research Project Book Signing in Hon

Join the National Museum's Hawai'i Advisory Council for a 10th Anniversary Members' Reception in Honolulu, Hawai'i. The reception will also feature an update on the international travel and "homecoming" of the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i, plans for Bento reunion activities on Maui in February 2004 when the exhibition ends its run at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center, and a book signing of reference publications developed through the International Nikkei Research Project by Dr. Akemi Kikumura-Yano, the National Museum's vice president of programs.

For more information on the Hawai'i program, please contact Rene Tomita at 808.946.5417 or Florence Ochi at 213.830.5652.

2:00 PM

 


Friday, Dec 12, 2003

Pre-opening reception and tour of From Bento to Mixed Plate

National Museum members are invited to attend a pre-opening reception and tour of From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese American Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center in Kahului, Maui. For more information, please contact Rene Tomita in the National Museum's Honolulu office at 808.946.5417 or via email at rtomia@janm.org.

 

 

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