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Ebb and Flow: Community Mental Health Conference

2024年10月12日

Gather in a welcoming space for the Asian American community to address, examine, and understand mental health in its various forms with Ebb and Flow, Little Tokyo Service Center’s second annual mental health conference in partnership with JANM. Conference plenaries will be interspersed with workshops and small group discussions focused on specific mental health topics. There are sessions for a variety of ages and ex...

International Museum Day 2024

2024年05月18日

The International Council of Museums (ICOM) announces International Museum Day (IMD) on Saturday, May 18, 2024. Since 1977, ICOM has organized IMD to raise awareness around how museums foster cultural exchange, mutual understanding, and cooperation among people. On May 18, enjoy free admission all day to JANM to see our current exhibitions!

2023 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

2023年05月05日 - 2023年05月07日

Free The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF), presented annually by Visual Communications (VC), Southern California’s leading showcase for new Asian Pacific American and Asian international cinema, announced today the program for the 39th edition of the festival. The festival returns May 4–15 in Los Angeles and will feature an exciting lineup of in-person programming, along with virtual programming fo...

Combining Culinary Cultures: A Conversation with Nikkei Chefs from LA, São Paulo, and Lima

2022年12月03日

Join us for a conversation with noted Nikkei chefs—Niki Nakayama of n/naka (Los Angeles, CA, US), Telma Shiraishi of Restaurante Aizomê (São Paulo, Brazil), and Roger Arakaki of Sushi Ito (Lima, Peru). The program will be moderated by Gil Asakawa, author of the recently published book, Tabemasho! Let’s Eat!: A Tasty History of Japanese Food in America. Carole Iida-Nakayama, co-owner and sous chef of n/naka and n/...

NUNO and J-Scent Trunk Show

2022年11月19日 - 2022年11月20日

We are pleased to announce our first post-pandemic, in-person trunk show featuring one of our popular vendors, NUNO! Chad and Charles will be back at JANM with some rarely-offered NUNO clothing as well as the time-honored favorite selection of scarves and shawls (you can see examples of NUNO wares in our catalog.) And joining us for the first time is J-Scent, the fabulous Japanese fragrance maker, creator of uniqu...

Premiere Screening and Discussion—“Giant Robot: Asian Pop Culture and Beyond” (ARTBOUND)

2022年10月21日

FREE Join us for the premiere of the new episode of KCET’s award-winning arts and culture series ARTBOUND focused around the influence of Asian American pop culture magazine Giant Robot. A panel discussion with Eric Nakamura, Martin Wong, Renee Tajima-Peña, Dylan Robertson, and James Jean, moderated by Clement Hanami, will follow the screening. Tickets to this program are sold out.

JANM 30th Anniversary Digital Film Festival—Barbara Kawakami: A Textured Life

2022年07月29日

FREE The 2010 JANM exhibition, Textured Lives: Japanese Immigrant Clothing from the Plantations of Hawai`i, was born from a gift by Barbara Kawakami to JANM’s permanent collection of beautiful plantation-era clothing. Kawakami started her formal studies of these textiles and clothing at the age of 53. Now at 100, she is still a noted author, historian, and storyteller who has dedicated much of her life to ...

38th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

2022年05月10日 - 2022年05月13日

The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF), presented annually by Visual Communications (VC), Southern California’s leading showcase for new Asian Pacific American and Asian international cinema, announced today the program for the 38th edition of the festival. The festival returns May 5–13 in Los Angeles and will feature an exciting lineup of in-person programming, along with virtual programming for our au...

Contested Histories at Noguchi Museum (Long Island City, NY)

2022年04月08日 - 2022年04月10日

TRAVELING DISPLAYThe Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden MuseumLong Island City, NYFor more information and for advance tickets, visit noguchi.org. Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects created by persons of Japanese descent while wrongfully incarcerated in the World War II American concentration c...

POSTPONED: Conversation on Beyond the Betrayal with Arthur Hansen & Lawson Inada

2022年01月22日

EVENT UPDATE Due to the rapidly increasing COVID-19 infection rates in Los Angeles County due to the Omicron variant, this program is postponed until further notice. All those who have already RSVPed will be contacted when a new date is set. The safety of our community is of paramount importance to us, as is our obligation as a public institution to do our part to support efforts to inhibit the spread of the ...