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Exploring the YUMIVERSE with Yumi Sakugawa

2023年05月18日

Free Join artist Yumi Sakugawa for an evening of mindfulness centered around their new coloring book that will leave participants feeling more relaxed, less anxious, and more creatively inspired! This interactive event will begin and end with guided meditation and provide space for creative exploration through coloring. Art supplies and blank paper will be provided but participants are welcome to bring their own s...

2023 Benefit & Online Auction

2023年05月13日

Join us as we honor our rich history, engage future generations, and celebrate the stories of JANM’s supporters from across the nation, and across generations. The festivities include dinner in the elegant InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, an online auction, and a program that pays tribute to JANM’s leaders and supporters who see and believe in the importance of the Museum and its enduring role in our democr...

Imagine Little Tokyo 2023 Short Story Editing Workshop

2023年01月19日

FREE Oscar-nominated screenwriter and debut novelist Iris Yamashita and veteran writer and editor Gary Phillips will host an interactive, virtual workshop with tips on how to polish a short story before submission. Miya Iwataki, co-chair of the Imagine Little Tokyo short story committee will moderate the workshop. Iris Yamashita, Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Letters from Iwojima, released her debut novel, City ...

Artist Conversation—BeHere / 1942 with Masaki Fujihata & Karen Tei Yamashita

2022年05月07日

JANM’s newest exhibition, BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration, by artist Masaki Fujihata, invites visitors to experience the photographic archive of the 1942 forced removal of Japanese Americans in new ways, including through two augmented reality installations. Join us for a conversation with Fujihata and National Book Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award medalist, Karen Tei Yamashi...

Staging our Histories: Creating Masao and the Bronze Nightingale

2022年05月03日

FREE In Person RSVP Virtual RSVP Join writers Dan Kwong and Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara in a conversation moderated by Kristen Hayashi around their new play, Masao and the Bronze Nightingale, which explores the story of a Japanese American jazz musician from Boyle Heights who falls for an African American jazz singer after World War II. About the show: In the aftermath of WWII, formerly-incarcerated Japa...

JANM’s 30th Anniversary Benefit

2022年04月30日

We cordially invite you to join us for a special evening of celebration on the historic occasion of JANM’s 30th Anniversary. We’ll reflect on all we’ve accomplished in our first three decades and the timeliness and timelessness of our mission as we continue to illluminate the Japanese American experience and promote greater understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity. Most of all, it’...

120,000 STORIES with Nobuko Miyamoto and Guests

2022年02月19日 - 2022年02月20日

FREE Los Angeles’ beloved artist Nobuko Miyamoto presents a genre-bridging concert that draws from her latest album 120,000 STORIES (Smithsonian Folkways), poignantly reflecting her experience as one of 120,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned during World War II. She is joined by producers Quetzal Flores, Derek Nakamoto and a stellar group of musicians who share her belief in the social power of music. With every pe...

Museum Store Sunday Book Signing—Hello Maggie!

2021年11月28日

We are pleased to welcome Shigeru Yabu and Willie Ito, author and illustrator of the children’s book Hello Maggie!, to launch their newly revised edition of the book at JANM! There will be a book signing after a brief discussion about this new edition and the upcoming animated film version. Hello Maggie! relates the true story of Shig’s childhood pet, a wild scavenger magpie bird, that was his companion while inca...

Screening and Q&A—100 Years from Mississippi

2021年09月11日 - 2021年09月12日

$16 General Admission / FREE for Members Please note there are two screening dates: SOLD OUT Saturday, September 11 | 2 - 3:30pm (PDT) SOLD OUT Sunday, September 12 | 2 - 3:30pm (PDT) 100 Years From Mississippi is a true story of resilience, forgiveness, memory, and hope. Join the film’s writer and director Tarabu Betserai Kirkland and associate producer Barry Shabaka Henley for a Q&A following a scree...

JANM VOLUNTEERS TO PRESENT VIRTUAL KOKORO 2020 WITH CRAFT BOUTIQUE ITEMS AVAILABLE NOV. 14-30

2020年11月02日

Los Angeles, CA The Japanese American National Museum Volunteers (JANM) will present its 12th Annual Craft Boutique online with their Virtual Kokoro 2020 fundraising event set from November 14 through 30. Proceeds will benefit JANM’s Education Programs. Traditionally, the Kokoro boutique has featured as many as 55 vendors who sell unique jewelry, kimono fabric fashions, handbags, ceramics, origami, glass art an...