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Premiere Screening and Q&A—We Said No! No!

2022年10月15日

$20 general, $10 member Join JANM for the world premiere of the new award-winning documentary film, We Said No! No!, by director Brian Maeda. The film combines interviews with Japanese Americans and their family members who were once derisively referred to as “No No Boys.” The film features archival footage and dramatic reenactments of incidents in the Tule Lake Segregation Center. A Q&A with the cast and crew wil...

Nima Voices: Episode 9—Greg Robinson

2022年07月12日

Nima Voices is an interview series where we uplift our Nima through brief, but enlightening, interviews. In the ninth episode, Greg Robinson, a noted author and scholar of Japanese American and Japanese Canadian history, will be interviewed by guest host Lisa Doi, a curatorial assistant at the Japanese American National Museum and a PhD Student in American Studies at Indiana University. Greg has been contribut...

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...

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...

JANM RECEIVES GRANT AWARD FROM CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES

2020年04月30日

Los Angeles, CA – California Humanities has recently announced the March Humanities For All Project Grant awards. The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has been awarded $20,000 for its project entitled Wakaji Matsumoto: An Artist in Two Worlds, Los Angeles and Hiroshima, 1917-1944. Humanities For All Project Grant is a competitive grant program of California Humanities which supports locally-developed proje...

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

2015年02月28日

Join Jamie Rivadeneira, JapanLA founder and Hello! curator, on this 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02月22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02月21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.