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Contested Histories: Preserving and Sharing a Community Collection

2024年10月19日 - 2025年01月05日

During World War II, Japanese Americans incarcerated in America’s concentration camps demonstrated their resilience, ingenuity, and creativity, from crafting necessities like furniture and tools to creating works of art. In 2015, thanks to the efforts of community organizations, leaders, and activists, like the Earle K. & Katherine F. (Muto) Moore Foundation, the Japanese American History: Not For Sale Facebook page,...

Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement at HIFF (Hawai‘i)

2024年10月12日 - 2024年10月13日

Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement will have its Hawai‘i premiere at the Hawai‘i International Film Festival on Saturday, October 12 and Sunday, October 13, 2024.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 America forever.Featuring rare archival footage, Nobuko M...

Pioneers to Prodigy: Pioneering Asian Dancers on Film

2024年09月08日

Discover the power of dance with screenings of the documentaries Michio Ito Pioneering Dancer-Choreographer (2012, 22 minutes) and Ten Times Better (2024, 30 minutes) and a short film featuring the Music Center’s Spotlight Award Winner, Lex Ishimoto. Jennifer Lin, director of Ten Times Better, will be joined in conversation with Nancy Kwan, star of the film version of Flower Drum Song. Learn about the dancers who bro...

Author Discussion—"Nisei Naysayer: The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura" by James Matsumoto Omura; edited by Arthur A. Hansen

2018年08月25日

If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. The late journalist James "Jimmie" Omura was among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. In his sharply written columns, Omura called out leaders in the Nikkei community for what he saw as their complicity with the US government’s unjust and unconstitutional policie...

"From Minidoka to Minnesota: A Carleton College Story of the Japanese American Internment" by Fred Hagstrom

2011年07月23日

This talk focuses on an artist’s book recently completed by Fred Hagstrom, Rae Schupak Nathan Professor of Art at Carleton College in Minnesota. The artist’s book is titled deeply honored and tells the story of Frank Shigemura, who came to Carleton College in 1943. Carleton participated in the student relocation project, a program that allowed Japanese American students to leave internment camps and continue th...

"Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn " a film by Nancy Kapitanoff and Sharon Yamato, narrated by Sandra Oh

2010年11月07日

Michi Nishiura Weglyn gave up a successful career as costume designer to write the landmark book, Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps, that set the record straight about the World War II incarceration. This short film paints a portrait of her dynamic personality and gives a stunning human face to the struggle for civil justice. The film recently received a Special Jury Mention at thi...

Poetry Reading and Slides of Art Quilts: What Remains: "Japanese Americans in Internment Camps"

2010年09月11日

Margaret Chula and Cathy Erickson make the concentration camp experience come alive in their seven-year collaborative project joining poetry and quilts. Margaret's original poems, diaries, and letters in the voices of people in the camps describe the hardships and emotions they experienced. Cathy has transformed personal stories into quilts through fabric, design, and color. Their presentation shows how two art forms...

Party on the Plaza: Celebrating the Opening of "kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa"

2006年06月10日

Join us for a Party on the Plaza! In celebration of the opening of kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa, enjoy a lively evening of DJ sets and spoken-word artists. Special evening book signing with Kip Fulbeck (Museum Store open until 8PM). Food vendors and no host bar. Spoken word artists include: Armando Alvarez Austin Cho Alison De La Cruz Melanie Hensch Jenille Narvaez Daniela Schonberger Mike T Micha...

2006 Day of Remembrance Theme ‘Claiming History: Justice Along Color Lines’ to Focus on 1930’s Mexican ‘Repatriation’, Current Campaign for Official Apology

2006年01月31日

At the 2006 Day of Remembrance, marking the anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 in 1942 which led to the unconstitutional incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry, the program will focus on the historic events surrounding the so-called Mexican "repatriation" of the 1930s in which federal, state and local governments conspired to remove over one million individuals of Mexican descent from...

Textured Lives: Japanese Immigrant Clothing from the Plantations of Hawai`i - Events

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