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East West Players Presents Theater for Youth: "Patsy"

2025年04月06日

“Patsy” is an original play by Alison Minami about the first Asian American Congresswoman, Patsy Mink.While Maui High School senior and star athlete, Kailani, waits to find out if she’s been accepted into her dream school, Patsy Mink, the first Asian American congresswoman and former valedictorian of Maui High school, appears before her. As Patsy walks Kailani through the many trials and tribulations she faced throug...

Giant Robot Workshop: Plant Buddies with Sean Chao

2024年06月15日

Join Giant Robot Biennale 5 exhibition artist, Sean Chao, as he guides you through making a small “plant buddy” out of clay, reflecting on his own miniature sculpture practice. Born in Taipei and based in Los Angeles, Chao is known for his detailed miniature sculptures of polymer clay, bass wood, balsa wood, paper, and wire. This workshop is sold out. Please click the link above to sign up for the waitlist a...

Upper Level Members Wine Tasting and History with Mikami Vineyards

2024年05月18日

Join us for a unique wine tasting with Mikami Vineyards. Sample three award-winning wines and learn about winemaking, grape growing, and the Mikami family’s journey from Japan to America. Since 1896, the Mikami family has developed a passion for grape growing. Now in their second century and third generation of farming, Mikami Vineyards produces single vineyard, handcrafted wines from the premier blocks of the fam...

Act To Change Hosts 6th Annual National Asian American and Pacific Islander Day Against Bullying and Hate at JANM on May 18, 2024

2024年05月09日

PSA WHAT: May 18 is the birthday of Vincent Chin, who was murdered in a hate crime in 1982. To honor his legacy and to commemorate Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Act To Change will host a conversation with author Paula Yoo and writer Philip Chung about Yoo’s latest book, Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles 1992, and her 2021 book, From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry. This even...

2023 Holiday M.A.D.ness—Member Appreciation Days

2023年11月24日 - 2023年11月26日

We appreciate the support of JANM members and are thankful for your patronage! This year, seven museums and institutions, including JANM, are offering reciprocal 20% discount and free museum admission from Friday, November 24 through Sunday, November 26!* Participating museums and institutions: Autry Museum of the American West California Science Center Fowler Museum at UCLA Japanese American National ...

The Bias Inside Us

2023年11月18日 - 2024年01月28日

The Bias Inside Us is an exhibition and community engagement project from the Smithsonian that explores the social science, psychology, and consequences of implicit bias. Bias is an innate human trait; we all have it. Being aware of our bias can help us recognize its influence and impact on our behaviors and worldview. The Bias Inside Us offers an opportunity to learn how to challenge bias in the world through...

The Japanese American National Museum Receives $10.4 Million Endowment to Establish the Toshizo Watanabe Democracy Fellowship

2023年11月13日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has received a $10.4 million gift to establish the Toshizo Watanabe Democracy Fellowship which will promote democracy, leadership, diversity, and community empowerment. The Fellowship will facilitate dialogue and cooperation between early to mid-career leaders from Japan drawn from government, business, media, the arts, and NGO sectors and their American ...

JANM Condemns Anti-Muslim Hate Crime in Illinois

2023年10月19日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) condemns the recent anti-Muslim hate crime in Plainfield, Illinois. Six-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume and his mother, Hanaan Shahin, were stabbed multiple times by their landlord, killing Wadea and seriously injuring Hanaan. When the landlord expressed that he was angry at her for what was happening in Israel and she responded by saying “let’s pray for peace,...

JANM Book Club: Evergreen with Naomi Hirahara

2023年09月09日

Join Edgar Award–winning author, Naomi Hirahara, for a dive into the history of Little Tokyo through her newest book, Evergreen. Evergreen, the follow-up to the Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning Clark and Division, is the story of a Japanese American nurse’s aide who navigates the dangers of post–World War II and post-Manzanar life as she attempts to find justice for a broken family. Hirahara’s presentation w...

New Work by Glenn Kaino Coming to JANM June 30, 2023 – January 28, 2024

2023年05月16日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will present Aki’s Market, a new and uniquely personal project by acclaimed multimedia artist and filmmaker Glenn Akira Kaino from June 30, 2023–January 28, 2024. Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market is inspired by the small neighborhood market created and run by Akira and Sachiye Shiraishi in Los Angeles from 1957–1970. Created by the grandson and namesake of A...