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2023 Natsumatsuri Family Festival

2023年08月12日

FREE ALL DAY Join us for our 2023 Natsumatsuri Family Festival, an annual summer celebration featuring free cultural performances, crafts, and activities for families and kids of all ages! Performances by TAIKOPROJECT and Yu-ki Project Interactive storytimes Souvenir photos by Cre8tive Outlets Fun summer-themed crafts and origami Scavenger hunt for prizes Free admission all day to see our exhibit...

Karin Higa: Hidden in Plain Sight

2022年11月05日

FREE In Person RSVP Virtual RSVP Karin Higa: Hidden in Plain Sight is the first in a two-part series highlighting the legacy of the late curator, writer, and cultural activist Karin Higa. This program will explore and celebrate the intersections of art, community and organizing in Higa’s work. This conversation, along with a second panel which will be held at the Hammer Museum on November 20, coincides...

Virtual Curator Preview & Gallery Talk—Sutra and Bible

2022年02月26日

FREE Join Duncan Ryuken Williams and Emily Anderson, curators of the upcoming exhibition, Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration, for a virtual preview of many never-before-seen artifacts that tell the stories of how Japanese Americans drew on their faith to survive forced removal and incarceration at a time when their race and religion were seen as threats to national secu...

Virtual Educator Workshop—Using Miné Okubo’s “Citizen 13660” in the Classroom

2022年01月27日

FREE Join the JANM Education Unit for this virtual workshop on using the art of Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660 in the classroom. Published in 1946, Citizen 13660 was the first book-length acount of America’s concentration camps from the perspective of a former incarceree. Through a series of nearly 200 illustrations, each accompanied by a caption, Okubo documented how World War II and the subsequent incarceration upen...

Tatau at the Bishop Museum (Honolulu, HI)

2021年11月13日 - 2022年07月04日

TRAVELING EXHIBITION Bishop Museum Honolulu, HI Web: bishopmuseum.org/tatau Phone: 808.847.3511 Tatau: Marks of Polynesia explores the beauty of Samoan tattoos as well as the key role they play in the preservation and propagation of Samoan culture. Through photographs taken in the studio and on location in Samoa and elsewhere, Tatau showcases the work of traditional Samoan tattoo masters alongside...

Screening and Q&A—KIKAN: The Homecoming

2021年10月02日

$16 General Admission / FREE for Members Join the cast and crew of KIKAN: The Homecoming for a screening of this film exploring the story of a Japanese American soldier during WWII. The post-screening discussion moderated by Mitch Maki (CEO, Go For Broke National Education Center) will feature writer and Director Kerwin Berk, Director of Photography Ben Arikawa, and actors Ryan Takemiya, Anna Sun, and Kealoha ...

Author Discussion—When Can We Go Back to America? with Susan Kamei

2021年09月25日

$10 General Admission / FREE for JANM & JACL Members In this virtual program, Susan H. Kamei will discuss her new book, When Can We Go Back to America?: Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII, and the lessons that she hopes readers of all ages will take from it. She will be joined in conversation by William A. Darity Jr., Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke Univer...

Not Yo’ Butterfly with Nobuko Miyamoto (ft. Quetzal Flores)

2021年07月10日

$10 general / FREE for members Join Nobuko Miyamoto for a virtual celebration of her new album and memoir! She will be joined in conversation and performance by Quetzal Flores via Zoom. About the book: Not Yo’ Butterfly: My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution, a new memoir, is the intimate and unflinching life story of Miyamoto—artist, activist, and mother. Beginning with the harrowing...

Art Break: Ghosts! with Edwin Ushiro

2021年06月01日

Edwin Ushiro is a visual artist who captures the essence of Hawaii, youth, and nostalgia in his work with a technique that’s uniquely his own. His work resonates with the echoes of his boyhood in the “slow town” of Wailuku on the Hawaiian island of Maui. In his paintings, he recalls the sun-struck days of youth, when the world was fresh and magical, but also explores the eerie folklore indigenous to dark country road...

Private Reception and Preview opening of "Boyle Heights"

2002年09月05日

Open to members at the Director's Circle Level ($1,000) and above. Attendance at this event is by invitation only. RSVP required. Please contact Theresa Hashimoto at 213.830.5655 for more information.