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Two Day Workshop: Shibori and Indigo Explorations (Shibori On!)

2024年04月20日 - 2024年04月21日

Learn and enjoy all the creativity that indigo and shibori have to offer! Taught by Glennis Dolce, this workshop will explore a variety of traditional Japanese fabric dyeing techniques, including stitching, clamping, binding, pole wrapping, and yanagi (willow) shibori. This workshop is limited to fifteen participants and is open to all levels of knowledge. All tools, supplies, and materials are included with payme...

JANM Book Club: Drawing by Heart with Gwen Muranaka

2023年11月18日

Join Gwen Muranaka for a talk on cartoons, creativity, and the inspirations in her life. She will be in a conversation with Susan Hirasuna, anchor of Fox 11 News, about her new book, Drawing By Heart, which is a compilation of cartoons and cross-cultural commentary. A whimsical excursion into a world of outspoken cats and dogs, where cultures clash and Spam musubi is a staple, Muranaka’s book sheds light on the u...

Defining Courage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC

2023年11月11日

One Performance only! Saturday, November 11 at 4 p.m. EST John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Washington, DC Defining Courage is a journey into the legacy of the Nisei Soldier, Americans of Japanese ancestry who served in the segregated military units of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Military Intelligence Service, and 522nd Field Artillery Battalion. Consid...

Premiere Screening—One Fighting Irishman: Wayne M. Collins and the Tule Lake Segregation Center

2023年10月28日

Join filmmaker Sharon Yamato for the premiere of her new film, One Fighting Irishman: Wayne M. Collins and the Tule Lake Segregation Center, narrated by George Takei. A conversation with George Takei, Sharon Yamato, and Wayne Merrill Collins, attorney and son of Wayne M. Collins, moderated by Brian Niiya, content director at Densho, will follow the screening. Yamato’s documentary, One Fighting Irishman, tells ...

JANM Celebrates the Oshogatsu Family Festival on January 7, 2024

2023年10月12日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will host the Oshogatsu Family Festival from 11 a.m.–5 p.m.on January 7, 2024. The popular annual New Year celebration will include free crafts, performances, and cultural activities for all ages to help ring in the Year of the Dragon. Tickets will be made available on janm.org/events later this fall. Admission to Oshogatsu is free, but advance tickets a...

Jazz in Little Tokyo with the Jon Hatamiya Sextet

2023年09月13日

Trombonist and composer Jon Hatamiya presents a set of original music exploring his personal connection to the legacy of jazz and improvised music in the Little Tokyo area. Hatamiya’s sextet features musicians at the forefront of Los Angeles’s current creative music scene who will bring audiences through the history of the area into the present day with vibrant performance. The Jon Hatamiya Sextet includes: Jon Ha...

Defining Courage Adds Shows at Hammer Theatre October 22

2023年09月11日

LOS ANGELES, CA – Following recent sold out shows in Honolulu, Irvine, and Los Angeles, Defining Courage is bringing the show to San José’s Hammer Theatre on Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. The immersive live performance honors the most decorated US soldiers of World War II—the 100th Infantry Battalion, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and the Military Intelligence Service. The stories of these Nise...

JANM Receives $564,837 from the National Parks Service JACS Grants Program

2023年06月07日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has received two grants totalling $564,837 from the National Parks Service’s Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) Grant Program. A grant of $414,663 will conserve, reimagine, and protect the Heart Mountain barracks as the centerpiece of the Museum’s new core exhibition, the nation’s largest and most comprehensive exhibition devoted to the Japanes...

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...

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...