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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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Our Shared Future Family Day
2023年12月17日
Celebrate Our Shared Future in Los Angeles and enjoy a day of free admission and cultural activities for all ages! Join JANM for a live reading and signing with Maggie Tokuda-Hall, an interactive origami activity, and a musical performance by East LA Taiko. Explore the new family friendly, interactive exhibition, The Bias Inside Us organized by the Smithsonian, and experience Aki’s Market, a virtual reality recreatio...
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Okaeri 2023 Conference
2023年11月10日 - 2023年11月12日
Okaeri’s 5th Biennial Conference on November 10-12, 2023 is a gathering that centers the Japanese and Japanese American LGBTQ+ experience. The conference seeks to: build community educate provide support foster understanding and inclusion for the Japanese and Japanese American LGBTQ+ community While conference content centers the specific interests, issues, and concerns of the Japanese and Japanes...
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JANM’s “Our Promise” Comprehensive Campaign Virtual Briefing
2023年10月19日
The Japanese American National Museum is amplifying its powerful voice. Our campus and programs showcase how Japanese Americans’ lives, experiences, and culture intersect and resonate with the experiences of marginalized communities in the United States. Our story is an American story. Our founders promised that the Museum would stand as a beacon of civil rights to ensure that what happened to Japanese Americans i...
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Girl Scout Day
2023年03月12日
Wear your Girl Scout or Brownie uniforms, sashes, or other regalia to JANM on Girl Scout Day for free admission to see the new exhibition, Don’t Fence Me In: Coming of Age in America’s Concentration Camps. This exhibition explores the experiences of Japanese American youth confronting the injustice of being incarcerated during World War II and the activities—including scouting—that showed their resilience and helped ...
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The Japanese American National Museum Decries Proposed Texas Law Barring Citizens from China and Three Other Countries from Buying Property in the State
2023年03月09日
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) decries Senate Bill 147, proposed legislation that targets citizens of China, North Korea, Iran, and Russia from buying property in the state. The bill’s author, Republican state Senator Lois Kolkurst, asserted that the bill would not apply to US citizens and lawful permanent residents, but given the rise in anti-Asian hate, the proposed legislation echoe...
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The Japanese American National Museum Decries Florida’s Decision to Block a New Advanced Placement Course on African American Studies
2023年01月25日
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) decries Florida’s decision to block a new and multidisciplinary Advanced Placement (AP) course on African American studies from being offered in the state’s high schools. The decision was made by Governor Ron DeSantis’s administration. The Florida Department of Education wrote a letter to the College Board stating that the new course is historically inacc...
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Ireichō
開催中
Irei: National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration is a multi-faceted project to address the erasure of the identities of individuals of Japanese ancestry who experienced wartime incarceration and to expand the concept of what monument is through three distinct, interlinking elements: a sacred book of names as a monument (Ireicho), a website as a monument (Ireizo), and light sculptures as monuments ...
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The Japanese American National Museum Announces Ten New Board Members
2022年08月30日
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has announced ten new members to its board of trustees and board of governors. Kristine Nishiyama and Dennis Sugino have been named trustees. Jennifer Hirano, Akemi Kondo Dalvi, Yuko Kaifu, Masatoshi Komoriya, David Mineta, Michele Miyakawa, Josh Morey, and Christopher Yang were named governors. “Our new board members bring a wealth of diversity and...
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Told by the children: A presentation of Oral History Stories
1997年06月14日
Children will share the oral history stories and projects that they learned how to collect at the May 17 Museum workshop. Parents, visitors, and friends are encouraged to attend. Free with Museum admission.