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Origami with Ruthie Kitagawa: Holiday Wreaths and Cards

2018年12月01日

Get ready for the holidays and learn from JANM’s resident origami expert Ruthie Kitagawa how to make a holiday-themed origami card and a wreath. Space is limited to 15 participants. Advance purchase of a ticket is required. $12 non-members, free for JANM members. Museum admission included. This workshop is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affair...

JANM Free Family Days: Superheroes!

2018年11月10日

FREE ALL DAY This full day of crafts, performances, and other activities will be inspired by real-life heroes as well as the fictional characters of Kaiju vs Heroes: Mark Nagata’s Journey through the World of Japanese Toys. ALL DAY ACTIVITIES: Superhero Capes: Attention all crime-fighting kids and their grown-up sidekicks! Make your own superhero cape and unleash your hidden powers. Superhero M...

Origami with Ruthie Kitagawa: Floral Cards

2018年09月29日

Learn from JANM’s resident origami expert Ruthie Kitagawa how to make a card adorned with cheerful origami flowers. Space is limited to 15 participants. Advance purchase of a ticket is required. $12 non-members, free for JANM members. Museum admission included. This workshop is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs. In the Nancy K. A...

Members Only Meet-and-Greet with Art Hansen

2018年08月25日

All members are invited to this exclusive reception with Art Hansen, professor emeritus of History and Asian American Studies at California State University, Fullerton, and editor of Nisei Naysayer: The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura, prior to his author discussion at 2 p.m. Space is limited. RSVP by August 21 using the link below. You can also contact memberevents@janm.org or 213...

Before They Were Heroes at Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA)

2017年05月03日 - 2017年06月26日

TRAVELING EXHIBITION Harvard Medical School Boston, MA Susumu “Sus” Ito’s WWII photographs were taken while on a tour of duty through Europe as a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team’s 522nd Field Artillery Battalion. While Ito participated in such dramatic events as the rescue of the Lost Battalion, these rare and breathtaking images capture the humble daily lives of a group of young Japanese A...

East West Players: A Writers' Gallery Reading

2017年03月23日

FREE East West Players presents a reading of June is the First Fall, written by Yilong Liu and directed by Jeff Liu. After a painful breakup, a Chinese American gay man returns home to Hawaii, where he must confront his sister, his father, and himself about an unspeakable past that separated them, and a tender family history that held them together. Inspired by a portrait of Afong Moy, the first Chinese ...

JANM Summer Night Concerts—Electronic and Hip Hop Night

2016年08月18日

FREE Join us for an evening of electronic and hip hop music with Asian and Pacific Islander American performers. The featured headliner tonight is Dumbfoundead, a Korean American rapper straight out of LA’s Koreatown. Called a "walking bag of charisma" by genius.com, Dumbfoundead has appeared on Last Call with Carson Daly and counts Drake among his fans. Also featured are Year of the Ox, an APIA rap duo ...

Sadako’s Crane

2016年05月31日 - 2019年08月31日

Born in Hiroshima, Japan, Sadako Sasaki was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city. When she was twelve, she contracted leukemia and was hospitalized. One of her roommates at the hospital told her about the Japanese belief that anyone who folds one thousand cranes would be granted a wish, so Sadako began folding cranes with the hope of recovering from her disease. Sadly, although she folded 1,300 ...

K-12 Teachers’ Workshop—Legacy Voices: The World War II Japanese American Experience

2015年09月19日

FREE for K-12 teachers This unique professional development opportunity will explore the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II through local and national stories. The training will focus on national civil rights hero Fred T. Korematsu, the “assembly centers” of California, and the personal accounts of those affected by the incarceration experience. The workshop will also inc...

NATIONAL MUSEUM RECOGNIZES ORIGINAL FOUNDERS AT 2010 ANNUAL GALA DINNER

2010年06月03日

The Japanese American National Museum marked its 25th Anniversary since its incorporation in 1985 at its 2010 Annual Gala Dinner, "25 Years & Beyond: Celebrating the Spirit of Our Community", with special recognition going to the original founders of the institution in activities at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel before almost 1,100 supporters. Founding President Bruce Kaji spoke on behalf of the early volu...