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Discover Nikkei Volunteer Open House

2021年09月25日

Interested in helping us grow Discover Nikkei? Become a project volunteer! Discover Nikkei is JANM’s community-based web project sharing stories and the experiences of Nikkei around the world. Volunteers help with all aspects of the site as well as related virtual programs and promotion. Language support is needed in English, Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese. Volunteer opportunities include: Writing T...

EPFC Filmcicle Presents Race and Space in Los Angeles VI

2017年08月10日

FREE The latest installment of Echo Park Film Center’s Race and Space in Los Angeles screening series focuses on the city’s Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) community. The evening will begin with a USC student-made production, The Challenge (1957, Claude Bache), which examines the unlawful incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II from an assimilationist perspective put forth by the Japanes...

Outdoor Concert and Movie Night—"Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country"

2017年07月27日

FREE Join us for a set by Tim Russ Crew, a pop-rock band led by Star Trek actor Tim Russ, followed by a screening of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), the last of the Star Trek films to feature the entire original cast from the television series, including George Takei as Hikaru Sulu, now commander of the USS Excelsior. Welcome remarks by George Takei (subject to availability). Supported by Los Ang...

Author Discussion and Activist Panel—"Serve the People" by Karen L. Ishizuka

2016年06月18日

If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties tells the story of the social and cultural movement that knit disparate communities of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans into a political identity. Drawing on more than 120 interviews and illustrated with striking images from guerrilla publications, the book...

Members Only Meet and Greet with S. Floyd Mori

2016年01月23日

Come meet S. Floyd Mori—author, member of JANM’s Board of Governors, and President and CEO of the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS)—at this intimate pre-event reception prior to the public discussion about his book, The Japanese American Story. Space is limited. RSVP by January 18 to memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646.

American Tapestry

2010年11月13日 - 2011年04月17日

A set of marbles found in the barren desert. The candid diary of a 19-year-old soldier. A haunting memento from the World Trade Center on 9/11. The Japanese American National Museum has a treasure of ordinary, yet extraordinary stories in its unique and innovative collection. Celebrating its 25th Anniversary year, the Museum is pleased to present AMERICAN TAPESTRY: 25 Stories from the Collection, a selection of...

Songs for a New World

2009年10月23日 - 2009年10月25日

October 23-25 8 PM shows on Friday/Saturday, 2 PM on Sunday $25 general admission $20 seniors, students and groups of 10 or more YES AND…PRODUCTIONS proudly presents Jason Robert Brown’s SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD. With a small, passionate cast and a driving, exquisitely crafted score, SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD is about one moment---or rather, isolated moments in the lives of many characters---in a variety of eras. ...

CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION RETROSPECTIVE ART EXHIBIT OPENS AT MUSEUM OCT. 4

2008年10月02日

The California Community Foundation (CCF), the Getty Foundation and the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, Oct. 4, launched a three-month retrospective featuring the works of 33 recipients of the foundation’s Fellowships for Visual Artists from the past 20 years. Co-sponsored by the Getty Foundation, the exhibit is entitled "Twenty Years Ago Today: Supporting Individual Artists in L.A,’" and runs throu...

kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa EXHIBITION SET FOR NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MARCH 10-MAY 30

2008年03月07日

The widely-acclaimed traveling photographic exhibition, kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa, organized by the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, with the support, in part, by the James Irvine Foundation, will be installed at New York University’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute from March 10 to May 30. The original exhibition, which opened in 2006 at the National Museum, featured 80 photographic por...

George Nakashima Furniture and Designs to be Presented in Major Exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum

2004年07月26日

The largest exhibition of works in over a decade by furniture designer and architect George Nakashima will be on view at the Japanese American National Museum from September 12, 2004 through January 2, 2005. George Nakashima: Nature, Form & Spirit features rare examples of Nakashima’s furniture and designs created from 1943 until his death in 1990. Approximately 50 Nakashima pieces, including benches, tables, chair...