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Hand Casting Workshop with Glenn Kaino

2023年10月14日

Join artist Glenn Kaino for a hand casting workshop connected to the exhibition, Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market at the Japanese American National Museum. Inspired by the iconic LA Fingers, participants will be able to create plaster models of their own hands while reflecting on their connections to history and place. All three one-hour time slots are full. If you are still interested in attending this workshop, you can...

2022 Kokoro Craft Show

2022年10月30日

The Friends of the Japanese American National Museum invite you to the 14th annual Kokoro Craft Show! Fifty-six vendors will be selling hand-painted apparel, apparel for babies, kids, and pets, framed art, bronze sculptures, ceramics, food, jewelry, gifts, glass art, shibori, stationery, embroidered towels, totes, origami, and MORE! Entrance to this in-person event is free (does not include Museum admission...

We Hereby Refuse with Frank Abe, Tamiko Nimura, and Ross Ishikawa

2021年06月26日

$10 general / FREE for members The new graphic novel, We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration, presents an original vision of America’s past with disturbing links to the American present. Through the distinct but interconnected stories of Jim Akutsu, Hiroshi Kashiwagi, and Mitsuye Endo, three Japanese Americans who resisted imprisonment in American concentration camps during WWI...

Members Only Meet-and-Greet with Frank Abe, Tamiko Nimura, and Ross Ishikawa

2021年06月26日

All members are invited to this exclusive conversation and Q&A with the creators behind We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration. Frank Abe wrote and directed the PBS film on the largest organized resistance to incarceration, Conscience and the Constitution. He won an American Book Award for JOHN OKADA: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy and is co-editing a new a...

The Claudia Kishi Club Reunion

2021年01月23日

$10 or FREE for members Join filmmaker, Sue Ding, and the cast of the documentary The Claudia Kishi Club, Naia Cucukov, Sarah Kuhn, Gale Galligan, CB Lee, Yumi Sagukawa, and Phil Yu, in a discussion of the legacy of Claudia Kishi, the iconic Japanese American character from the hit Baby-Sitters Club book series. These Asian American artists, writers, and creatives will discuss how Claudia inspired them, a...

JANM AWARDED NEH GRANT TO FUND 2021 WORKSHOPS FOR TEACHERS ON ‘LITTLE TOKYO: HOW HISTORY SHAPES COMMUNITY ACROSS GENERATIONS’

2020年08月10日

Los Angeles, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is proud to announce that it is a recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to fund two Landmarks of American History and Culture teachers’ workshops in the summer of 2021 under a new educational initiative, Little Tokyo: How History Shapes Community Across Generations. NEH awarded JANM a grant of $172,445 to fund two we...

Steeping History: Tea Across Generations

2020年07月19日

Tea has a long history of bringing families together, providing comfort after a long, hard day of work, or grounding traditional ceremonies and practices. Come learn from Maria Kwong, JANM’s Director of Retail Enterprises, about Japanese American tea culture and the unique JANM Generations Teas, created in collaboration with Chado Tea Room. Each of the teas in this collection was created with a specific generation...

Film Screening—Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice

2020年02月22日

Never Give Up! tells the story of Minoru (Min) Yasui, son of Japanese immigrant parents, born in 1916, and raised in the farming community of Hood River, Oregon. He was the first Japanese American attorney in Oregon, and during World War II, he initiated the first legal test challenging the forced removal from the West Coast and subsequent incarceration of over 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry in US concentration...

Members Only Exhibition Tour: "Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty"

2015年04月19日

Hello! curator Christine Yano leads an exclusive gallery tour. Limited to 20 participants. RSVP to memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646. This event has reached capacity; no additional reservations can be accepted.

Members Only Exhibition Tour: "Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty"

2015年04月18日

Hello! curators Christine Yano and Jamie Rivadeneira lead an exclusive gallery tour. Limited to 20 participants. RSVP to memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646. This event has reached capacity; no additional reservations can be accepted.