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"Common Ground" Exhibition Tour
2016年11月05日
Tour the ongoing exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community with JANM’s knowledgeable docents. Free with museum admission.
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Mottainai Yoga with traci
2016年09月10日
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 practice deep stretches as...
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Big Trouble in Little Tokyo presents "The Joy Luck Club" (1993)
2015年02月11日
6 p.m.: Light reception 7 p.m.: Screening 9:30 p.m.: Q&A In this 1993 film adaptation of Amy Tan’s bestselling novel, a Chinese American daughter is asked to take her late mother’s place at a weekly mahjong game, where a group of immigrant women have been gathering to share their stories since immigrating to the United States following World War II. Having only a passing interest in her heritage at first...
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"Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp" by Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey
2015年02月07日
In this creative memoir, Havey combines vintage photographs with her own paintings and writings to tell the story of how she grew from a ten-year-old girl into a teenager while living in Santa Anita Assembly Center and Amache Relocation Center during World War II. Havey will read from and discuss her book. Audience Q&A to follow. Free with general museum admission. The book is available at the JANM Store....
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"MIS: Human Secret Weapon"
2013年05月25日
Screenings to be held at 12PM and 2PM. Composed of Japanese American soldiers who were trained as linguists, the MIS were essential in helping the U.S. achieve victory in the Pacific Theater during WWII. Many of the soldiers fighting and translating on the frontlines were Nisei who had previously been incarcerated with their families in U.S. concentration camps. Q&A with MIS veteran Hitoshi Sameshima to f...
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Hibakusha: Voices for Humanity
2011年02月06日
Come watch a special screening of Hibakusha: Our Life to Live, a film about the survivors of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by David Rothauser. After the screening, there will be a panel discussion and a light reception. Presented in partnership with artist Sandy Bleifer’s Hiroshima/Nagasaski Memorial Project at the USC IGM Art Gallery through February. For more information about the exhibition,...
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Obon and Bon Odori
1997年07月06日
Lecture and Demonstration Featuring Rev. Shuichi T. Kurai Obons (Buddhist temples’ observance for the deceased) and the festive bon odori (the dancing that follows) are observed in nearly every Japanese American community but do we truly understand the meaning behind these rituals? Reverend Shuichi Thomas Kurai of the Sozenji Buddhist Temple of Montebello will shed some light upon these important community traditi...
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Transcendients - Heroes
Listed below are the names of the heroes featured in the Transcendients: Heroes at Borders exhibition. Click on their names to learn more about each hero. Kim Abeles Artist and professor Manal J. Aboeleta Public health advocate The Accomplices—Mike Sonksen, Peter Woods, Chiwan Choi Independent Publishing Collective Bernice Akamine Artist, community activist, and ancestral historian Susan B....
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Under a Mushroom Cloud - Videos
Seeds: A Message from Kaz Seeds: A Message from Kaz is a short documentary that follows Kazuye Suyeishi (aka Kaz-mama), a Hiroshima A-bomb survivor and life-long peace activist. Born in the United States, Kaz-mama moved to Hiroshima as a child and survived the A-bomb blast when she was 18 years old. After the war, she returned to the United States and later dedicated her life to advocating for peace by talking abo...
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BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration—Artist
Masaki Fujihata is a world-renowned new media artist. Among the first to explore the potential of computers as an artistic medium and a pioneering figure in “interactive art,” he is the recipient of numerous honors including the Ars Electronica Golden NIKA Award in 1996 for Global Interior Project. His career until 2015 is detailed in the Augmented Reality-enhanced book Anarchive 6: Masaki Fujihata. In fall 2019, he ...