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Members Only Learning at Lunch: Veterans Day

2018年10月20日

Bring a brown bag lunch and join JANM Collections staff as they showcase a selection of JANM artifacts focused on those who have served in the Armed Forces. Learn more about veteran artifacts—including personal letters, uniforms, and service awards—and the stories they tell. Space is limited. RSVP by October 16 using the link below. You can also contact memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646. Photo:...

"Transpacific Borderlands" Art Workshop—Paper Flowers from the Camp Archives

2017年12月02日

Japanese Americans living in the World War II American concentration camps did not have access to fresh cut flowers. Instead, they used patterns from sources like the Woolworth’s catalog to make paper flowers. Camp excavations have revealed that these makeshift flowers, with wires for stems, were placed in glass jars and laid on top of caskets at funerals. Join Transpacific Borderlands artist Shizu Saldamando ...

Members Only Meet and Greet with Lon Kurashige

2017年03月25日

Members are invited to an exclusive pre-event reception with author Lon Kurashige prior to the public discussion about his book, Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States. Space is limited. RSVP by March 22 to memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646.

"Issei: The First Generation"

2014年01月25日

FREE Digitally restored after 30 years, this documentary features the candid stories of the Japanese men and women who immigrated to the West Coast of the United States at the turn of the century. Directed by Toshi Washizu. Introduction by Dr. Lane Ryo Hirabayashi. Q&A with Washizu and Hirabayashi to follow screening. This program is co-sponsored by the Aratani Endowed Chair, UCLA Asian American Studies.

"Hito Hata: Raise the Banner" (1980)

2012年01月07日

Location: David Henry Hwang Theater, Union Center for the Arts, 120 Judge John Aiso Street, Los Angeles Admission is free! Screening of a new 16mm print of this cinematic landmark, the first feature film produced by and about Asian Americans. Oda, an elderly bachelor living in Little Tokyo, chronicles the stories of the Japanese American community from the turn of the century to the 1970s. A Q&A with Director R...

Fighting for Democracy Pre-visit Workshop

2011年04月07日

Sign-up for a FREE Pre-Visit Workshop Thursday, April 7, 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 Civil...

"Mendez Vs. Westminster: For All the Children" by Sandra Robbie

2011年02月26日

Seven years before Brown v. Board of Education, Mendez vs. Westminster began the unraveling of school segregation in the U.S. Among many surprises, two key persons played important roles in both cases: NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall, who later argued and won Brown v. Board of Education; and then-Governor Earl Warren who signed the World War II internment order that sent 120,000 Japanese Americans to U.S. concentrat...

Fighting For Democracy at Bishop Museum (Honolulu, HI)

2010年10月16日 - 2011年01月23日

TRAVELING EXHIBITION Bishop Museum Honolulu, HI About the Exhibition 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, th...

About Face: Artists Discuss Portraiture, Portrait-Making, and Identity

2006年10月29日

Closing of the exhibition kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa How are contemporary artists using portraiture and portrait-making processes to examine, reflect, and/or challenge constructions of identity? Kip Fulbeck and Los Angeles-based artists Shizu Saldamando and Jessica Shokrian gather to discuss the role of ethnicity, race, class, age, gender, and sexuality in shaping their work. The conversation promises t...

From Tokyo Rose to the Patriot Act: Propaganda and its Impact on Civil Liberties

2005年04月09日

In this third of five sessions, we continue our examination of selected propaganda artifacts displayed in the exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community featuring Dr. Mitchell T. Maki, Acting Dean, College of Health and Human Services at California State University, Los Angeles to reflect on propaganda prevalent during the resettlement era post-World War II. He will consider what lessons we can learn from the p...