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Two-Day Workshop—Shibori and Indigo Explorations
2024年01月27日 - 2024年01月28日
Come and join this workshop to practice, learn, and enjoy all the creativity shibori has to offer! Taught by Glennis Dolce, this two-day class will explore a variety of traditional Japanese fabric dyeing techniques, including stitching, clamping, binding, and pole wrapping. This workshop (limited to fifteen participants) is open to all levels of knowledge. All tools, supplies, and materials are included with payme...
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Imagine Little Tokyo Writing Workshop with Susan Ito and Naomi Hirahara
2024年01月13日
Participants were able to join award-winning authors Susan Kiyo Ito and Naomi Hirahara for an interactive writing workshop! Participants learned tips and got advice for writing short stories that they can submit to the eleventh annual Imagine Little Tokyo short story contest. Participants were also welcomed to sign up for a Little Tokyo walking tour with Little Tokyo Historical Society members, preceding the ...
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2023 Kokoro Craft Show
2023年10月22日
Celebrate and shop during the 15th Anniversary of the Kokoro Craft Show at JANM! This annual craft show is sponsored by the Friends of JANM and features fashion apparel and accessories, origami, bronze art, ceramics, gifts, handmade stationary, and baked goods from over sixty vendors. Shoppers who spend $25 or more will receive a 10% discount to local restaurants and enter into a drawing for a special prize ...
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Teacher Workshop: Santa Anita during World War II
2023年07月20日
Teacher Workshop: Santa Anita Race Track and Temporary Detention Centers during World War II Join us for this special teacher workshop focused on the temporary detention centers many Japanese Americans were first sent to upon being forcibly removed from their home in 1942. These so-called “Assembly Centers” served as temporary prisons while America’s more permanent concentration camps were constructed. This wo...
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Sansei Rocker: Behind the Curtain—June 11
2023年06月11日
Available tickets are sold out. Please click the following link to sign up for the waitlist and we will notify you if space becomes available. Waitlist Travel back in time to the Sansei Dance Party Era in Los Angeles during the ’60s and ’70s through live music and storytelling! Written and produced by Harry Manaka, author of Chronicles of a Sansei Rocker, former owner of the Baby Lion Supper Club, and leader ...
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Sansei Rocker: Behind the Curtain—June 10
2023年06月10日
SECTION B TICKETS AVAILABLE. BUY TICKETS Travel back in time to the Sansei Dance Party Era in Los Angeles during the ’60s and ’70s through live music and storytelling! Written and produced by Harry Manaka, author of Chronicles of a Sansei Rocker, former owner of the Baby Lion Supper Club, and leader of Somethin’ Else, this immersive performance combines the classic tunes of the Sansei Dance Party Era with ill...
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Sansei Rocker: Behind the Curtain—June 3
2023年06月03日
Travel back in time to the Sansei Dance Party Era in Los Angeles during the ’60s and ’70s through live music and storytelling! Written and produced by Harry Manaka, author of Chronicles of a Sansei Rocker, former owner of the Baby Lion Supper Club, and leader of Somethin’ Else, this immersive performance combines the classic tunes of the Sansei Dance Party Era with illuminating stories of the times. A love letter to ...
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The Japanese American National Museum Condemns Scholastic’s Request to Remove Racism from Author’s Note
2023年04月14日
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) condemns the request from Scholastic’s Rising Voices Library to remove the words “virulent racism” and a paragraph about racism throughout American history from the author’s note in Love in the Library, an illustrated children’s book by Maggie Tokuda-Hall about the World War II Japanese American incarceration. Rising Voices Library pairs diverse books wit...
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The Japanese American National Museum Decries Racist Rhetoric Against Asian American Business Leaders in Los Angeles
2023年04月12日
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) decries racist rhetoric against Walter Wang, CEO of Los Angeles-based pipe manufacturer JM Eagle, Dominic Ng, the CEO of East West Bank, and other Asian American business leaders in Los Angeles. A conservative news outlet recently published a story that wrongfully accused Wang, Ng, and former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti of supporting the Chinese Commu...