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8th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest: A Virtual Celebration

2021年05月23日

Marvel at the amazing and creative ways that writers can imagine Little Tokyo and expand the fictional boundaries of the Japanese American experience. Each year, the Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest heightens awareness of Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo by challenging both new and experienced writers to write a story that captures the spirit and essence of Little Tokyo and the people in it. Noted theatre a...

Members Only Exhibition Tour: "Instructions to All Persons"

2017年06月10日

Join exhibition curator Clement Hanami, JANM’s Vice President of Operations/Art Director, for an in-depth gallery tour of Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066. Limited to 25 members. RSVP to memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646.

Two-Day Craft Workshop—Indigo and Shibori in the 21st Century

2015年11月21日 - 2015年11月22日

Saturday, November 21–Sunday, November 22 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Back by popular demand! Enjoy two days of indigo dyeing with a focus on learning how the dye takes to different textiles. Shibori techniques to be explored include arashi, itajime, and nui, as well as combined and invented techniques. Material kits will include handouts, threads, and many types of vintage kimono silks as well as some cottons, bambo...

Author Discussion—"The Inker’s Shadow" by Allen Say

2015年10月10日

FREE Allen Say is the award-winning author and illustrator of many acclaimed children’s books, including Drawing from Memory, an autobiographical volume that explored his love of comic books through a collection of his own photographs and drawings. Say now offers a companion to that book in The Inker’s Shadow, a graphic novel that tells the story of his own coming-of-age. As a teenager in Southern Califor...

Fighting for Democracy

2011年05月28日 - 2011年08月28日

Through the diverse perspectives of seven ordinary citizens whose lives and communities were forever changed by World War II, this exhibition asks visitors to think critically about freedom, history, and, ultimately, the ongoing struggle to live democratically in a diverse America. Fighting For Democracy: Who is the “We” in “We, the People”? is presented by the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, an...

Introduction to Blue-Indigo Dyeing with Shibori Girl

2011年03月19日 - 2011年03月16日

This workshop is a hands-on experience of dyeing with indigo on various natural textiles—cotton, silk, linen, bamboo, and hemp. Various types of vats and their preparation will be discussed as well as many indigo samples will be on hand to inspect. Come dressed in studio attire, bring rubber gloves, and a love of the color blue! $35 members; $45 non-members, an additional $25 materials fee (cash only) will be coll...

Picture Brides

2010年05月30日

Dr. Michiko Midge Ayukawa will shed light on the lives and histories of picture brides—Issei women who came to North America to marry husbands they knew only from photographs— and how they affected the community. Michiko Midge Ayukawa was born in Vancouver, B.C. During World War II, she was incarcerated for four years at Lemon Creek, in the Slocan Valley, Canada. Her family resettled in Hamilton, Ontario. After ob...

Unfinished Business by Steven Okazaki

2008年01月19日

REDRESS REMEMBERED (Part 1 of 2) Screening of the Academy Award nominated documentary about the World War II coram nobis cases. Special tour of the exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community with Professor Mitch Maki to follow. Click here for more information about this program >>

"Barbed Wire and Hip-Hop" CD Release Launch

2004年10月14日

In order to increase teens' awareness of the injustices Japanese Americans faced as a result of racism and wartime hysteria during World War II, the group Project J, Justice designed a booklet of historical photos and text accompanied by a fusion of music. Barbed Wire and Hip-Hop incorporates audio excerpts from the Los Angeles Hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) with ...

The View From Within

1992年10月13日 - 1992年12月06日

The largest of its kind, this exhibition features 135 works of fine art created by internees of the American internment camps during World War II. Co-organized by the Japanese American National Museum, the UCLA Wight Art Gallery and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and curated by Karin M. Higa, the exhibition is part of the national commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 wh...