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Mottainai Yoga with traci

2016年05月21日

May 7, 14, and 21 Roughly translated, mottainai means "don’t be wasteful" in Japanese. In this three-session yoga and meditation workshop for all levels, certified yoga instructor traci ishigo invites participants to harness their own inner energy to prevent body, mind, and spirit from going to waste. Participants can expect each one-hour class to be both restorative and invigorating, with opportunities to pra...

Mottainai Yoga with traci

2016年05月14日

May 7, 14, and 21 Roughly translated, mottainai means "don’t be wasteful" in Japanese. In this three-session yoga and meditation workshop for all levels, certified yoga instructor traci ishigo invites participants to harness their own inner energy to prevent body, mind, and spirit from going to waste. Participants can expect each one-hour class to be both restorative and invigorating, with opportunities to pra...

Mottainai Yoga with traci

2016年05月07日

May 7, 14, and 21 Roughly translated, mottainai means "don’t be wasteful" in Japanese. In this three-session yoga and meditation workshop for all levels, certified yoga instructor traci ishigo invites participants to harness their own inner energy to prevent body, mind, and spirit from going to waste. Participants can expect each one-hour class to be both restorative and invigorating, with opportunities to pra...

Voices from Okinawa

2007年04月05日

A Staged Reading by East West Players' Writers Gallery Kama Hutchins, an American graduate student of one quarter Okinawan descent, teaches English in Okinawa and receives an unexpected education in Okinawan-American relations. From the author of Leilani's Hibiscus and Lucky Go Hawaii. Developing new work and introducing new talent is vital to the creative process at East West Players. Promising new scripts are p...

"Outspeaks a Rhapsody" by Albert Saijo

1997年11月06日

Thursday Evenings at the Museum Albert Saijo of the Beat Generation joins us from Hawai‘i for an evening of selected readings from his works. Saijo, author of Trip Trap with Jack Kerouac and Lew Welch, offers us Outspeaks a Rhapsody and slips anonymously "thru crowd unnoticed old fart in zoris gravy on shirt front—say whatever you want it doesn’t matter to me—love to you all with mucho thanx for your lov...

Doubles: Japan and America's Intercultural Children

1997年10月05日

Community Issues Series Video screening & panel discussion Growing up in today’s society can be challenging, especially if one of your parents is from Japan and the other from America. How do these two cultures blend together? What is your identity? Where do you fit in culturally? These are some of the questions raised in Regge Life’s video, Doubles. Join us for the screening of this video followed by a thought-p...

Yasuo Kuniyoshi: Japanese American Artist

1997年07月13日

Lecture Featuring: Tom Wolf, Ph.D. Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889–1953) began life in America like many other Issei (first generation of immigrant Japanese Americans). Following his arrival in 1906, he took on odd jobs in a Spokane railroad yard, a Seattle office building, and as an Imperial Valley farm worker. By the 1930s, he was a well-known, well-respected New York artist. How did this Issei become one of the most ...

Cold Tofu Improv: Occult Tofu

1997年03月20日

Thursday Evening at the Museum Performance Cold Tofu provides a monthly evening of laughs and entertainment at the Museum. This talented, energetic, multicultural improvisational group has an amazing assortment of entertainment techniques that will keep you laughing all night. This evening, Cold Tofu explores the dark side of tofu by examining myths, rituals and folklore.

Big Drum Articles—All in the Drum

All in the Drum: Building Taiko in America By Sojin Kim, Ph.D. There’s a whole universe inside this drum. —Mark Miyoshi, taiko maker, Mt. Shasta, California Mark Miyoshi is the first and most renowned professional taiko maker in the United States, and his clientele is international in scope. His endeavors and achievements are closely tied to the development of taiko drumming in this country—a mov...

Crossroads: Boyle Heights

Boyle Heights is a Los Angeles neighborhood, located just east of downtown between the Los Angeles River and the city boundary. It has been home to people who have come to Los Angeles from different cities, states, and countries and who brought with them their diverse beliefs, traditions and languages. Through the stories of past and present neighborhood residents, this film explores how the experiences and memories ...