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Virtual Educator Open House—JANM Education on the Go

2024年11月19日

Hear about all the programs and resources available to you and your students while JANM is on the go! As our Pavillion undergoes exciting renovations, learn how you can bring JANM directly into your classroom with a Virtual Visit and with any of our FREE digital resources available through janm.org. Connect with the JANM Education team, get answers to any questions you have, and learn how JANM can support your work a...

Virtual Educator Open House—JANM Education on the Go

2024年11月13日

Hear about all the programs and resources available to you and your students while JANM is on the go! As our Pavillion undergoes exciting renovations, learn how you can bring JANM directly into your classroom with a Virtual Visit and with any of our FREE digital resources available through janm.org. Connect with the JANM Education team, get answers to any questions you have, and learn how JANM can support your work a...

Yeisaa nu Chimu-Don-Don: Exploring Cultural Identity through Okinawan Drumming

2024年03月09日

Eisa is a traditional Okinawan folk dance and musical performance to honor the spirit of Okinawan ancestors. As Okinawans migrated and settled all over the world, their music and dance traditions traveled with them. Join us for a conversation and Q&A with members of contemporary eisa groups—Lisa Tamashiro Maumalanga (Chinagu Eisa Hawaii), Rentaro Suzuki (Ryukyukoku Matsuri Daiko Los Angeles Branch), John Azama...

Our Fragile Democracy: Historic and Present-Day Attacks on Our Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

2024年02月24日

On August 10, 2023, Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a historic statement and apology acknowledging the complicity of the California Attorney General’s Office in the incarceration and dispossession of Japanese Americans during World War II. Join us for a community education event featuring a fireside chat with Attorney General Bonta and JANM President and CEO Ann Burroughs, a keynote introduction by Don Tamaki, and ...

JANM Denounces Attack on the Wing Luke Museum

2023年09月18日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) denounces the recent vandalism that occurred at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience. On September 14, 2023, a man smashed nine of the museum’s windows with a sledgehammer—an estimated $100,000 in damages—while yelling racist insults, interrupting an after-hours tour with Tsuru for Solidarity for community leaders and residents. W...

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 ...

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...

Sansei Rocker: Behind the Curtain—June 4

2023年06月04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 ...

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 ...

Contrasting Elements: A Guided Tour of Isamu Noguchi's To the Issei and California Scenario with Prof. Amy Lyford and Prof. Bert Winther-Tamaki

2006年04月22日

Isamu Noguchi explored California's culture, history, and terrain in two impressive works: To the Issei and California Scenario. The former, located on the plaza at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center in Little Tokyo, pays homage to the Issei pioneers. The latter, resting between two skyscrapers and a parking structure in Costa Mesa, offers a vivid sculptural portrait of the Golden State. Learn mo...