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Comedy InvAsian 2.0

2021年08月28日 - 2021年08月29日

$10 General Admission / FREE for Members Comedy InvAsian is a television series and live-taping featuring the nation’s top and most unique Asian American comedians. This season will feature queer Korean-American comedian Aidan Park, up and coming Indian-American comedian Vinayak Pal, rising star Thai-America comedian Eli Nicolas, former Chinese beauty queen Jiaoying Summers, comedian of Cambodian descent who juggl...

" Voices From the Canefields: Folksongs from Japanese Immigrant Workers in Hawai'i" by Dr. Franklin Odo

2013年10月13日

Japanese immigrant laborers comprised the majority of Hawaiian sugar plantation workers after their large-scale importation as contract workers in 1885. They composed unique folk songs called holehole bushi which merged melodies with lyrics about work, life, and the global connection which they clearly perceived after arriving. While many are songs of lamentation, others reflect a rapid adaptation to a new socie...

Hong Zhang Gallery Talk

2013年07月28日

Artist Hong Zhang will conduct a gallery discussion of her work featured in the Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter.

Giant Robot Artists’ Entourage Workshop with Albert Reyes and Saelee Oh

2012年12月15日

Come make art with Albert Reyes and Saelee Oh from Giant Robot Biennale 3 in this hands-on workshop. Immerse yourself in a variety of techniques and styles. These workshops are designed to foster dialogue and enhance digital networks between professional artists and the local community. Saelee Oh: Open Love Letter to the Universe: We will be creating lots of artwork together! You can make portraits of your spirit ...

The Freedom Rides 50th Anniversary National Youth Summit and Town Halls

2011年02月09日

Birmingham, Cincinnati, Detroit, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Washington, D.C. JANM will be one of five sites across the nation hosting the National Youth Summit on the Freedom Rides at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. On-site seating has reached capacity but everybody may register to view the program on-line. Presented by the National Museum of American History, the National Museum of African Ameri...

Six Taste's Little Tokyo Food Tour

2010年08月08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...

Member Holiday Shopping Days!

2006年12月03日

FREE ADMISSION AND 20% OFF AT 20 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTIONS The Japanese American National Museum, in partnership with 19 Southland institutions, hosts special holiday shopping days for members only! For one day only, National Museum Members will receive 20% off* at the award-winning Museum Store and online at www.janmstore.com. There will also be complimentary gift-wrapping and light holiday refreshments. ...

1st & Central Summer Concerts: Riffat Sultana & Party

2006年08月24日

FREE 6:30 PM - Opening Act 7:00 PM - Featured Artists Daughter of legendary Pakistani singer, Salamat Ali Khan, vocalist Riffat Sultana channels the musical wisdom of 500 years and eleven generations of master musicians. The first woman in her family to sing in public, the musical maverick brings ecstatic Sufi singing that will move your heart and soul as well as your feet. Free. Reservations are not needed....

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

2005年03月12日

In this second of a five-part seminar features Dr. Mitchell T. Maki, Acting Dean, College of Health and Human Services, California State University, Los Angeles, and author of Achieving the Impossible Dream: How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress, in conversation with noted scholars, activists, and artists as they respond to propaganda artifacts displayed in the exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community. This...

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 ...