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Making Waves: A Changing Tides Mental Health Conference

2019年09月28日

This day-long conference will offer a safe space for the API community to address, examine, and understand mental health in its various forms. Conference plenaries will be interspersed with workshops and small group discussions that focus on specific topics related to mental health. The conversation around mental health within the API community is one that has been and continues to be highly stigmatized due t...

Dan Kwong: "What? No Ping Pong Balls"

2018年06月03日

Performance artist Dan Kwong teams up with taiko artist Kenny Endo for this moving and hilarious tribute to Kwong’s rebellious late mother, Momo Nagano. Kwong traces Nagano’s journey from her all-American girlhood in Los Angeles to World War II incarceration camp, her life as a single mother raising four kids, and her transformation from housewife to Venice Beach artist. By including video interviews with other Ja...

Reconstructing Memories: An Art Workshop with Mike Saijo

2017年05月20日

In conjunction with Instructions to All Persons, exhibiting artist Mike Saijo will lead this daylong drop-in workshop exploring our connections to history and current events. Photographs of participants will be printed onto pages that they choose from local newspapers and then mounted on wood panels for them to take home. Guests may come and go as they please, but limit is 16 at any given time. No reservation...

Organza Ikebana Design

2014年08月23日

In this one-of-a-kind class, genzai (present) is merged with tradition. Learn a little about ikebana, the artistry of Japanese flower arranging, and its history in combination with some modern craft techniques. Those techniques will then be used to learn how to make beautiful organza fabric flowers and arrange them into ikebana designs, a hair piece and brooch that will last forever. Appropriate for ages 12+....

Asian American Lesbian and Gay Pioneers in Los Angeles

2012年09月15日

Although their stories are not well-known, Asian Americans participated actively in the nascent LGBT civil rights movement in Southern California. API Equality-LA honors two such pioneers with short films featuring Tak Yamamoto and June Lagmay, who in 1980 were founders of Asian Pacific Lesbians and Gays, the first gay Asian organization in Los Angeles. A discussion with these two ground-breaking activists will fo...

Manzanar Pilgrimage

2009年04月25日

Join us for the 40th annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, an emotional and cathartic experience remembering the past by honoring the sacrifices of those gone before us and a look toward the future. $20 members; $25 for non-members includes bus transportation. Advance reservations required. Box lunch available upon prior request. To make reservations please call 213.625.0414 at ext.2313. For more information about the Pilgr...

Japan's Hidden Treasures

2008年05月22日

Join us for a slide presentation and Q & A about Japan's Hidden Treasures. Reservations required: 213.830.5676. NEW! Smithsonian Journeys Travel Program open to all National Museum members Japan’s Hidden Treasures • November 6–18, 2008 Travel to Japan with Smithsonian guest lecturers and fellow National Museum members. For an itinerary, pricing, and Reservations, call 213.830.5676. For a complete itinera...

Keep it Going...Pass it On: Poetry Inspired by the Manzanar Pilgrimage

2004年09月18日

An afternoon of poetry published in an anthology by the Manzanar Committee, an organization whose goal is to educate the public about the Japanese American internment experience. Poets featured in this anthology will talk about their experience writing and their participation in Manzanar After Dark, a program that began in 1997 to teach young people about the Manzanar camp experience.

Ansel Adams at Manzanar—Events

Public programs that were presented in conjunction with the “Ansel Adams at Manzanar” exhibition.

2020 Virtual Gala and Auction - About

JANM GALA GOING VIRTUAL JANM’s annual Gala is its largest fundraising event of the year and raises critical funds to support the institution. Due to the continually evolving COVID-19 situation, we’ve made the decision to turn our 2020 Gala Dinner and Auction into a virtual gala. We are planning an online program during which the winner of the 2020 Lexus Opportunity Drawing will be announced, an online auction, and...