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Members Only Exhibition Tour: "Before They Were Heroes"

2015年07月25日

Join JANM Curator of History Lily Anne Yumi Welty Tamai, PhD, for an in-depth tour of the exhibition Before They Were Heroes: Sus Ito’s World War II Images. Limited to 25 participants. RSVP to memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646.

Asian Pacific Islander Festival: "Conscience and the Constitution"

2012年05月12日

Award-winning film by Frank Abe that provoked controversy nationwide for documenting the untold story of the largest organized resistance to the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans, and the suppression of that resistance by Japanese American leaders. Screening includes new featurette, “The JACL Apologizes.” Q&A with the filmmaker and DVD signing will follow the screening. Purchase the DVD from the Museu...

Night & the City: L.A. Noir in Poetry, Fiction, & Film

2011年10月29日

As part of the citywide event produced by The Los Angeles Poetry Festival and Beyond Baroque, the National Museum presents Naomi Hirahara, author of Snakeskin Shamisen and other books featuring gardener and sleuth Masuo Arai, and poet Carol Lem, author of Gathering the Pieces and other collections, whose recent poems investigate family secrets and shady activities.

Bringing the Circle Together: Juchitan Queer Paradise

2010年03月18日

A free screening of Juchitan Queer Paradise, with a special short film entitled Two-Spirit People in the Modern World In collaboration with Bringing The Circle Together, the Red Circle Project at AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) will be hosting a free night of documentary films: 'Two-Spirit People in the Modern World', a short film by Mike Garrido and Tarek Tohme and 'Juchitan Queer Paradise' by Patricio Henriq...

Six Taste's Little Tokyo Food Tour

2010年02月20日

Little Tokyo is home to several restaurants, bakeries, and other historical eating establishments. Its 100-plus years of history provide some fascinating stories. Six Taste's Little Tokyo Tour will take you throughout Little Tokyo, from Fugetsu-Do, a confectionary shop and the oldest building in Little Tokyo to Chado Tea Room, where you'll get to taste some authentic Japanese tea, to several other restaurants and oth...

Fighting for Democracy Pre-visit Workshop

2009年11月12日

Sign-up for a FREE Pre-Visit Workshop Thursday, November 12, 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM (Dinner provided) WHAT IS FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY? For hundreds of years people have sought a home and future in the United States of America. They came, and still come, in pursuit of freedom and democracy. Yet, the dream of democracy is not without its struggle. Against the backdrop of World War II, a segregated America, and the C...

Letters to A Student Revolutionary

2009年03月01日

Sunday, March 1 @ 3:00PM & 7:30 PM In commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. Written by Elizabeth Wong, and directed by Peter J. Kuo, Letters is about a decade-long correspondence between two pen pals and their search for true democracy. $15 members/Student/Seniors/Groups (10+); $20 for non-members. PANEL DISCUSSION immediately following 3:00 PM matinee show with: Play...

Writing Your Life Story with Loren Stephens

2007年04月28日

Each one of us has unique stories to tell. Loren Stephens, president of Write Wisdom, Inc. and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker, is an expert at helping both first time and experienced writers transform memories into memoirs. $20 for National Museum members and $30 for non-members, includes Museum admission. Space is limited. Early registration with payment recommended. Made possible, in part, by the Depart...

NATIONAL JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE, OLDEST ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION, DONATES ARCHIVES TO JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

2000年01月01日

LOS ANGELES—The National Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), the oldest and largest Asian American civil rights and human rights organization in the country, announced that its National Board voted to donate its archives to the Japanese American National Museum, whose collection of material culture documenting the Japanese American experience is the largest in the world. The JACL was founded in 1929, partly ...

Transpacific Borderlands: The Art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo - Press

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