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Holiday Tales with Stanley Hayami

2021年12月18日 - 2021年12月19日

In this immersive experience, get transported back to the 1940s with actor Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa, the voice of Stanley Hayami in A Life in Pieces, as he reads aloud from the letters and diaries of Stanley. Diary entries and letters will be selected from his time during the winter holidays in the Heart Mountain concentration camp and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Please note there will be three similar readings...

Tea & Letter Writing: To Our Future Selves

2021年04月14日

$10 suggested donation Gather with us in the comfort of your own home to share tea and conversation! This month we're thrilled to have Mitsuko Brooks join us to share inspiration and practice with her mail art and inspire our own artistic mailings. traci kato-kiriyama, former Little Tokyo +LAB Artist-in-Residence at JANM, will host two rounds of creative writing in reflection of the past year and looking ahead to ...

What Does It Mean to Be Nikkei in 2021?

2021年02月06日

FREE In 2018, The Nippon Foundation, in collaboration with JANM, launched the Global Nikkei Young Adult Research Project to examine how young adult Nikkei around the world feel about and express their Japanese heritage. Analyzing the data from a worldwide survey and global regional focus groups, the project sought to obtain a deeper understanding of their similarities and differences, as well as their cel...

MEMBER EXCLUSIVE: Behind the Scenes at Azay!

2021年01月08日

FREE for members Get an exclusive, behind the scenes tour of a restaurant during the busiest holiday of the year! Azay Little Tokyo, with Chef Akira Hirose, will show the process of developing and preparing their special Oshogatsu menu. Only for members! RSVPs are required using this form or by contacting memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646 by Tuesday, January 5. RSVP NOW This event is presented in conj...

JANM RECEIVES TWO JAPANESE AMERICAN CONFINEMENT SITES GRANTS

2020年05月01日

Los Angeles, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has received over $530,000 in grants from the Department of Interior, National Park Service (NPS) through the Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) grant program. The funds will support two projects - the development of an experiential exhibition that will explore the important role that religious institutions and individuals played for Japanese Amer...

JANM’S ANNUAL OSHOGATSU FAMILY FESTIVAL SET FOR JANUARY 5, 2020

2019年12月17日

Los Angeles, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM), will hold its annual Oshogatsu Family Festival on Sunday, January 5, 2020, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The New Year celebration will include free crafts, performances, and cultural activities for all ages to help ring in the Year of the Rat. New Year’s, or Oshogatsu, is one of Japan’s longest and most important holidays. Although Oshogatsu originally refer...

Tea & Letter Writing: gathering in relaxation, expression & conversation

2019年12月05日

FREE Do you miss the art of letter writing? Would you like the opportunity to write a letter to the future of Little Tokyo or to a future stakeholder of this community? Gather with us in a relaxed atmosphere to share tea and conversation and write letters—with plenty of prompts provided by traci kato-kiriyama, former Little Tokyo +LAB Artist-in-Residence at JANM. Come write about your hopes and dreams for...

The Grassroots Redress Movement: A Conversation with Activists, Then and Now

2019年10月20日

FREE Members of Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress (NCRR) will discuss the many contributions needed to secure the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 which provided a government apology and redress to Japanese Americans who were forced to leave their homes and businesses during World War II. NCRR compiled accounts of the redress campaign into a recently published book, The Grassroots Struggle for Japanese A...

Contested Histories at Seabrook Educational and Cultural Center (Bridgeton, NJ)

2019年07月20日 - 2019年07月21日

TRAVELING DISPLAY Seabrook Educational and Cultural Center Bridgeton, NJ Saturday: 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Sunday: 12 p.m.–3 p.m. 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 camps. It w...

"Behind Barbed Wire" Book Signing and Reception with Paul Kitagaki Jr.

2019年04月20日

SOLD OUT To commemorate the upcoming release of his new book, Behind Barbed Wire, and in celebration of his highly regarded exhibition, Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit, join photographer Paul Kitagaki Jr. for a special reception with several of the exhibition’s subjects. Kitagaki will also be signing copies of his forthcoming book, which has an official publication date of September 2019, but he will be off...