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Members Thank You Reception

2024年11月23日

Celebrate our Members’ impact and contributions to JANM through the decades! Learn about the Museum’s engagement plans during the renovation with JANM on the Go and join us for a toast as we mark a historic moment in JANM’s history.The reception will be followed by natsukashii (nostalgic) music, a souvenir photo booth, docent-led tours of Common Ground: The Heart of Community, and a chance for visitors to contribute ...

Members Only Curator Tour: “Contested Histories”

2024年11月02日

JANM Members are invited to join exhibition curator Clement Hanami, JANM’s Vice President of Exhibitions and Art Director, for a walkthrough of JANM’s exhibition, Contested Histories: Preserving and Sharing a Community Collection. The exhibition consists of the Eaton Collection, some 400 objects made by Japanese American incarcerees that were saved from the auction block by the incredible efforts of community organiz...

JANM AWARDED TWO CCLPEP EDUCATION GRANTS THAT SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF HAYAMI DIARY, CAMP YOUTH CLUBS EXHIBITIONS

2020年06月10日

Los Angeles, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announced that it is the recipient of two grants from the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program (CCLPEP) that will support the development of exhibitions on the diary and letters of Nisei Stanley Hayami and on the Japanese American youth clubs that were organized in the World War II concentration camps. The Hayami project was awarded $100,00...

NATIONAL MUSEUM PRODUCES DVDS OF CLASSIC MADE-FOR-TV FILM 'FAREWELL TO MANZANAR'

2011年11月10日

The Japanese American National Museum announced that it has obtained the licensing rights through the NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products Group to the classic made-for-TV 1976 movie, "Farewell to Manzanar," and has produced DVD copies for sale this fall for the first time ever. Based on the autobiographical book, Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston, the film is a rare Hollywood...

Wellness as a Global Solution: A Look at Keiro's Future & 50 Years of Enhancing the Quality of Senior Life in our Community

2011年09月18日

With one in five individuals over 65, the Japanese American community foreshadows what the rest of the nation will experience in 2050. Learn about how Keiro Senior HealthCare serves as a model of care for a healthy community and how this affects you now, whatever your age! 2011 is the 50th anniversary of Keiro Senior HealthCare, a not-for-profit organization providing culturally-sensitive and person-centered senior ...

A Reading of My Man Kono by Philip W. Chung

2009年03月19日

FREE! East West Players presents a reading of My Man Kono which explores the extraordinary life of Toraichi Kono from a Japanese immigrant to movie star Charlie Chaplin’s assistant to his arrest in 1941 as a Japanese spy.

Closing of the exhibition "From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i"

2002年11月24日

Closing of the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i

"Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray"

2001年10月04日

Elegant and penetrating, Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray positions this immigrant photographer within the canon of American art. In Los Angeles, Miyatake is renowned as a studio photographer. To others he is known for having smuggled a lens and film holder into one of America's WWII concentration camps. Yet it was his little-known artistic pursuits before the war that honed his discerning eye. Join filmmaker B...

Captured Moments: A View of Family

1998年03月29日

Family Art Workshop at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Join California Indian artist L. Frank Manriquez in creating dioramas, collages, or treasure chests using family photos and other mini-memorabilia from your personal collection. Free with Museum admission. Reservations required. Class limited to 30 participants. For reservations and further information please call 805.682.4711 ext. 312.

Mizuhiki - Art of paper string

1997年10月18日

Instructor: Ryoko Shibata You can do more with paper than just origami. Shibata Sensei will teach you how to create fantastic things with paper string. Free with Museum admission. Reservations required by October 15. This program is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs Department.