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Manzanar Baseball Project Comes to JANM on August 24, 2024

2024年08月05日

PSAWHAT: During World War II, baseball was a way for Japanese Americans in America’s concentration camps to find a sense of normalcy, uplift their spirits, and claim a connection to American culture. Today, the Manzanar Baseball Project is rebuilding and bringing to life the baseball diamond at Manzanar National Historic Site. WHEN: Saturday, August 24, 2024 from 11 a.m.–1 p.m.DETAILS: This special event will...

Defining Courage at the Ron Robinson Theater (Little Rock, AR)

2024年06月07日

ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY! Friday, June 7, 2024 • 4:30 p.m. Ron Robinson Theater Little Rock, AR Defining Courage is a gripping and emotional journey into the legacy of Nisei veterans, a segregated combat team of Japanese American soldiers that fought during World War II and that remains the most highly decorated unit in US Army history. Drawing upon decades of filmmaking and investigative journalism...

Celebrate Summer with JANM’s Natsumatsuri Family Festival

2024年06月07日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will celebrate summer with its free Natsumatsuri Family Festival on Saturday, August 10, 2024 from 11 a.m.–5 p.m. The Museum’s annual festival features cultural performances, crafts, and activities for families and kids of all ages. Tickets are free and available at janm.org/events. Advance reservations are recommended. A full schedule of events will be p...

Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement at Chicago Asian American Showcase

2024年05月19日

Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement will have its Chicago premiere at the Chicago Asian American Showcase on May 19, 2024. Director Quyên Nguyen-Le and subject Nobuko Miyamoto will join in dialogue at the screening. Experience this new sweeping documentary from JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center and PBS SoCal that follows the life of visionary artist-activist Nobuko Miyamoto and her work that changed Asian A...

"Because they might be a threat..." Memories of the Children's Village at Manzanar

2007年01月14日

On June 23, 1942, forty orphans arrived at Manzanar. By the time the camp closed, more than sixty joined their ranks. As assistant superintendent, Lillian Matsumoto oversaw the operation of the facility and care of the orphans. Now in her nineties, Matsumoto shares her memories in a very special program that includes her daughter, Karyl Matsumoto, and oral historian, Greg Marutani. Reservations recommended. This p...

"Common Ground: The Japanese American National Museum and the Culture of Collaborations"

2005年05月15日

This collection of essays outlines how the National Museum operates in collaboration with other institutions, museums, researchers, audiences, and funders. Authors will speak on their case studies which explore collaboration with community-oriented partners in order to document, interpret, and present their histories and experiences and provide a new understanding of what museums can and should be in the United State...

Evening of Poetry

2005年04月28日

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

"An Introduction to The History and Practice of Taiko"

2005年02月15日

In advance of the exhibition Big Drum: Taiko in the United States (opening July 2005), musician, Yuta Kato will lead an eight-week course to give students a historical and practical approach to learning taiko. Early reservations are recommended due to limited space. Course fees are $100 for National Museum Members and $125 for non-members. Participants must be at least 16 years old.

U.S. Government Appropriates Federal Funds To Establish National Center For The Preservation Of Democracy At Japanese American National Museum

2000年10月17日

The Japanese American National Museum and the Chairman of its Board of Governors, The Honorable Daniel K. Inouye, United States Senator from Hawai‘i, announced today the appropriation of $20 million in federal funds to establish the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy which will be affiliated with the National Museum in Los Angeles. The new National Center will be headquartered in the National Museum’...

Slide Presentation and Book Party—"Topaz Moon: Chiura Obata’s Art of the Internment"

2000年06月24日

Featuring: Kimi Kodani Hill Join Kimi Kodani Hill as she discusses the art and lives of her grandparents, Chiura, an artist and professor at UC Berkeley, and Haruko Obata, who created art during their incarceration in Tanforan and Topaz, Utah. The Obatas are also the parents of Gyo Obata, architect of the National Museum’s Pavilion.