JANM Volunteers Host Kokoro Craft Show on October 11, 2025

Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo. 

LOS ANGELES, CA – Volunteers of the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will host the 2025 Kokoro Craft Show on Saturday, October 11, 2025, at the Los Angeles Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple from 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Admission is free and parking is $10.

Kokoro is a Japanese word meaning heart, mind, and spirit. The first craft show was a volunteer-led fundraising event for JANM during a national economic downturn in 2009. Now in its seventeenth year, this annual craft show is a free in-person event featuring fashion apparel and accessories, jewelry, ceramics, gifts, and more. This special event will also feature performances by Sunset Jive at 10:30 a.m. and the JANM Band at 1 p.m. This event is sponsored by the Friends of JANM and proceeds will benefit JANM’s cultural, educational, and volunteer programs.

For more information about the 2025 Kokoro Craft Show, visit kokorocraftshow.com or visit the craft show on Facebook and Instagram.

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About the Japanese American National Museum (JANM)

Established in 1985, JANM promotes understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity by sharing the Japanese American experience. Located in the historic Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles, JANM is a center for civil rights, ensuring that the hard-fought lessons of the World War II incarceration are not forgotten. A Smithsonian Affiliate and one of America’s Cultural Treasures, JANM is a hybrid institution that straddles traditional museum categories. JANM is a center for the arts as well as history. It provides a voice for Japanese Americans and a forum that enables all people to explore their own heritage and culture. Since opening to the public in 1992, JANM has presented over one hundred exhibitions onsite while traveling forty exhibits to venues such as the Smithsonian Institution and the Ellis Island Museum in the United States, and to several leading cultural museums in Japan and South America. JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus, throughout Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Southern California, and beyond from early January 2025 through late 2026. For more information, visit janm.org/OnTheGo or follow us on social media @jamuseum.