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From Barbed Wire to Boogie Woogie

2023年06月17日

Celebrate the resilience of a community in struggle through personal storytelling, history, and swing music and dance!Discover what it was like to be a young person in camp, explore how jazz and big band music impacted the youth in America’s concentration camps, and learn how to swing dance in this two-part program.

The Japanese American National Museum Receives $503,877 from Two Japanese American Confinement Sites Grants

2022年12月02日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has received $327,974 for Preserving America’s Community Treasures (PACT): The Toyo Miyatake Collection and $175,903 for Eating Together: Food in Japanese America, two grants from the Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) Grant Program. The $327,974 JACS grant for Preserving America’s Community Treasures (PACT): The Toyo Miyatake Collection will ...

The Japanese American National Museum Received a $2.55 Million Multi-Year Operating Support Grant from the Perenchio Foundation

2022年11月11日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has received a $2.55 million Multi-Year Operating Support Grant from the Perenchio Foundation. This grant will support the Museum’s general operations, including programming, community engagement, fundraising, and accessibility, over three years. “We are immensely grateful to the Perenchio Foundation for this extraordinary investment in JANM to amplify...

Members Only Meet-and-Greet: Naomi Hirahara & Sarah Kuhn

2022年03月26日

FREE for Members All members are invited to this exclusive conversation and Q&A with award winning authors Naomi Hirahara and Sarah Kuhn. Naomi Hirahara is an Edgar Award-winning author of multiple traditional mystery series and noir short stories. Her Mas Arai mysteries, which have been published in Japanese, Korean and French, feature a Los Angeles gardener and Hiroshima survivor who solves crimes. The sevent...

Nisei Radicals with Diane Fujino, Ron Fujiyoshi & Miya Sommers

2021年06月05日

Join author Diane Fujino, activist-minister Ron Fujiyoshi, and community organizer Miya Sommers in a conversation around Fujino’s newest book, Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake. Fujiyoshi, a long time friend of Yasutake, will share on his experiences working alongside Yasutake with a shared “jubilee liberation praxis.” Sommers will provide...

Art Break: Clay! with Ako Castuera

2021年05月25日

Ako Castuera’s sculptural work is informed by the diverse cultural and environmental features of Southern California, on Tongva Land, where she was born and currently lives. Ako’s sculptural work is a material exploration which draws on mythmaking to give body to personal and global histories, incorporating a variety of mediums including locally gathered and commercial clay, neighborhood yard trimmings, compost, yarn...

Question 27, Question 28 by Chay Yew, directed by Jully Lee

2021年05月08日 - 2021年05月21日

Artists at Play is sharing free theatre for young audiences in celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! What were the experiences of Japanese American women during the World War II concentration camps? How did they keep hope alive for themselves, their families and community? Question 27, Question 28 by Chay Yew uses archival interviews and testimonials to tell their stories of hardship, determination, a...

Art Break: Zines! (with Rosie Yasukochi)

2021年03月23日

Join staff designer and artist, Rosie Yasukochi, for a short workshop where you’ll learn how to make your own zine, or self-published booklet. You’ll also learn a bit about the history of newspapers and independent publishing within the Japanese American community. This workshop is part of a new series of free, lunchtime art workshops that you can do with the supplies you have at home called Art Break. Art Break i...

Justice Bradley’s Reference to Korematsu is Insensitive and Offensive

2020年05月08日

Los Angeles, CA – One of the goals of the Japanese American National Museum is to preserve and share the history of people of Japanese ancestry in the United States. As the Chair of its Board of Trustees, I am usually pleased to hear public figures cite sections of that history to argue a point or draw historic parallels. After the 9/11 attacks, for instance, President George W. Bush warned against profiling Muslims ...

TRANSPACIFIC MUSICLANDS OUTDOOR CONCERT SET FOR JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

2017年09月22日

Los Angeles, CA—In conjunction with its new Transpacific Borderlands: The Art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo exhibition, the Japanese American National Museum will present Transpacific Musiclands, an outdoor concert celebrating cultural exchange between East Los Angeles and Japan on Saturday, October 14, from 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Tickets for Transpacific Musiclands are on sale no...