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Hanashi Oral History Pop Up
2019年09月21日
FREE Come see a selection of Go For Broke National Education Center’s Hanashi (“to talk”) Oral Histories. GFBNEC has been recording interviews of Nisei veterans of World War II as well as their contemporaries in the armed forces for over twenty years. Stay for as many interviews as you like; this day-long opportunity does not have formal presentations or introductions. Presented in partnership with Go For Broke...
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Edible Adventures: Graze Little Tokyo
2019年04月20日
SOLD OUT On this culinary walking tour, explore the hidden corners of Little Tokyo and hear stories of the neighborhood’s past while sampling tasty snacks. Food stops will include renowned mochi makers Fugetsu-Do, mochi ice cream inventors Mikawaya, and popular imagawayaki (red bean cake) seller Mitsuru Café, while neighborhood stops will include Union Church of Los Angeles/East West Players, Koyasan Bei...
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Members Only Meet-and-Greet with Frank Abe and Greg Robinson
2019年02月02日
All members are invited to this exclusive reception with Frank Abe and Greg Robinson, editors of John Okada: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy, prior to the discussion about the book at 2 p.m. Space is limited. RSVP by January 29 using the link below. You can also contact memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646.
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Author Discussion—"The Great Unknown: Japanese American Sketches" by Greg Robinson
2017年02月25日
If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. The Great Unknown: Japanese American Sketches is a collection of biographical portraits of extraordinary but unheralded figures in Japanese American history—men and women who made remarkable contributions in the arts, literature, law, sports, and other fields. Recovering and celebrating the stories of noteworthy ...
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Comedy InvAsian Live Tapings—Joey Guila
2017年02月24日
JANM is pleased to host Comedy InvAsian, a new series of one-hour standup comedy performances that will be filmed in front of live audiences in our Tateuchi Democracy Forum. Come be a part of the audience as six of the nation’s most exciting Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) comedians take the stage. Joey Guila has been featured on Showtime, VH1, G4 Tech TV, and Myx TV, and was the headliner on the F...
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East West Players: A Writers' Gallery Reading
2016年11月01日
FREE East West Players presents a reading of Mutt: Let’s All Talk About Race!, written by Christopher Chen and directed by Rodney To. The Republican Party finally realizes it has a problem with race, so it decides its best chance for success in the 2016 presidential election is to back a candidate who is a mixture of every race on earth. A one-night performance produced as part of the company’s Politics ...
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East West Players: A Writers' Gallery Reading—"The Piano"
2016年03月24日
FREE In this edition of A Writer’s Gallery, East West Players presents a reading of The Piano, written by Robert Kuang. An Asian-Jewish-American family collides with music, food, and identity crises, as the death of a Chinese patriarch forces three generations of Asian American women to live under the same roof for the first time. A powerful multigenerational drama about the complexities of the Asian Amer...
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Members Only Exhibition Tour: "Making Waves"
2016年03月12日
Join exhibition curator Dennis Reed for an exclusive gallery tour entitled "Tender Views, Modern Expressions." Reed will provide an overview of Making Waves while focusing on the photographers who worked in Los Angeles, several of whom he knew personally. He will discuss the character of their work, which ranged from gentle scenes of lily pads to progressively modern abstractions, and their wide influence. Ree...
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'TWICE BOMBED, TWICE SURVIVED' FILM TO BE SCREEN JANUARY 21
2012年01月18日
The gripping documentary, "Twice Bombed, Twice Survived: The Doubly Atomic Bombed of Hiroshima and Nagasaki", will be screened by the Japanese Americans National Museum on Saturday, January 21, beginning at 2 p.m. This program is sponsored by the Atsuhiko & Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Foundation in partnership with the Japanese American National Museum. Hideo Nakamura’s film reveals a little known story connected to the ...
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'REMEMBERING MANZANAR' DOCUMENTARY TO BE SCREENED JAN. 30
2010年01月14日
The documentary, "Remembering Manzanar", a compilation of rare historic footage, photographs and personal recollections from former inmates of the most famous World War II government-run domestic concentration camps, will be screened on Saturday, Jan. 30, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. Created for use at the Interpretive Center at the Manzanar National Historic Site, ...