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East West Players: Counter Culture Series reading—"Cocks Crow"

2019年03月12日

FREE JANM is pleased to host the East West Players’ reading of Cocks Crow by Alice Tuan, directed by Jennifer Chang. Cocks Crow is what happens when Americans try to do business with China: is it a bad internet connection or are we being surveilled? Compelled by ambition, anxiety, and diminishing options at home, two Americans, Bill Peck and Shelly Larkin, pursue wealth on capitalism’s wild new frontier. ...

Summer Classic Anime Film Series (Part 1)

2011年07月21日

Pay-What-You-Can! For four exciting nights, the Tateuchi Democracy Forum will screen vintage anime titles from the 1920s and 1930s, the Golden Age of Japanese silent film. The anime classics we will be screening: Mighty Taro's Reckless Training (1928) Momotaro the Undefeated (1928) Benshi narration: Midori Sawato The Tiny One Makes It Big (1929) The Black Cat (1929) The Stolen Lump (1929) Taro’s Toy Train...

Black & White. Directed by Frederick E.O. Toye. Written by Sigrid B. Toye

2011年05月28日

Tears well in the mother’s eyes as the child asks for her father. She learns from her mother that ‘some men’ had come to the door, searched the entire house, and taken her father away. This is a typical story in the Japanese American community but it also happened to thousands of German and Italian Americans as well. Come watch the short film about one German American family and stay for the Q&A with the filmmake...

THERE OR HERE by Jennifer Maisel

2010年03月04日

Writers Gallery Play Reading Presented by EWP: THERE OR HERE by Jennifer Maisel directed by Chil Kong A dark comedy about a mixed race American couple who outsources their pregnancy to India. Tomorrow Robyn and Ajay meet the woman who will have her egg and his sperm implanted inside her. Tonight they won't have sex even though they want to. Past and present, America and India - connected by the tenuous threads ...

Little Tokyo Walking Tour

2004年02月15日

The Little Tokyo community in Los Angeles was once a thriving residential, business, and cultural center of the largest Japanese American community in the United Sates until World War II. Relive history and learn about present day Little Tokyo with National Museum volunteers on this historical walking tour through the National Museum's neighborhood. Fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, inc...

Little Tokyo Walking Tour

2003年02月15日

The Little Tokyo community in Los Angeles was once a thriving residential, business, and cultural center of the largest Japanese American community in the United States until World War II. Relive history and learn about present day Little Tokyo with Museum Volunteers, Bill Shishima, Eddy Kurushima, and Hitoshi Sameshima on this historical walking tour through the Museum's neighborhood. Comfortable clothes and shoes a...

Little Tokyo Walking Tour

2002年11月03日

Historic Tour Series The Little Tokyo community in Los Angeles was once a thriving residential, business, and cultural center of the largest Japanese American community in the United States until World War II. Relive history and learn about present day Little Tokyo with Museum volunteers, Bill Shishima, Mas Matsumoto, Hal Keimi, and Eddy Kurushima on this historical walking tour through the Museum's neighborhood. Co...

Little Tokyo Walking Tour

2001年08月25日

The Little Tokyo community in Los Angeles was once the residential, business, and cultural center of the largest Japanese American community in the United States until World War II. Join National Museum docents, Bill Shishima, Harold Keimi, Eddy Kurushima, Masao Matsumoto, and Hitoshi Sameshima on this historical walking tour. Relive history and learn about present day Little Tokyo. Comfortable clothes and shoes are ...

Beliz Brother, Mei-ling Hom, and Kim Yasuda

2001年05月11日 - 2001年09月02日

This exhibition features new work by three recent recipients of the prestigious artists exchange fellowship program jointly administered by the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Since 1979, over 100 American artists have received fellowships to live and work in Japan. The sculptural and installation art on view by Brother, Hom, and Yasuda explores the subtle an...

Mori Shimada Collection

(92.10.2). This collection, originally in scrapbook form, features 108 photographs of friends, family, and social and sporting events in Heart Mountain concentration camp taken by Mori Shimada between 1942 and 1945. Shimada was twenty-two years old when he and his family were forcibly removed from their home in Santa Clara, California to Heart Mountain. EXPLORE THE COLLECTION