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Community Screening—Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement

2024年10月04日

Experience this new sweeping documentary from JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center and PBS SoCal that follows the life of visionary artist-activist Nobuko Miyamoto and her work that changed Asian America forever. This screening will be followed by a conversation and Q&A with co-directors, Tadashi Nakamura and Quyên Nguyen-Le.Featuring rare archival footage, Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement tells the story of a...

2024 JACSC Education Conference

2024年10月04日 - 2024年10月06日

Echoes of Resilience: Imagining the Possible in Preserving Japanese American Heritage2024 Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium Education ConferenceThis annual event brings together scholars, activists, and community members dedicated to preserving and educating about the history of Japanese American incarceration during WWII. Highlights include a panel on the Irei: National Monument, programmed in collabora...

JANM Volunteers Host Kokoro Craft Show on October 20, 2024

2024年10月04日

LOS ANGELES, CA (October 4, 2024)– Volunteers of the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will host the 2024 Kokoro Craft Show with over sixty vendors at the Museum on Sunday, October 20, 2022 from 10 a.m.–4 p.m.Kokoro is a Japanese word meaning heart, mind, and spirit. The first craft show was a volunteer-led fundraising event for JANM during a national economic downturn in 2009. Now in its sixteenth year, this ...

JANM Mourns the Passing of Chef Akira Hirose

2024年10月03日

LOS ANGELES, CA (October 3, 2024) – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of Chef Akira Hirose. Born and raised in Kyoto, Japan, Hirose trained in Azay-le-Rideau, France, as well as Maxim’s de Paris and under Joël Robuchon at the Nikko hotel. He first came to Los Angeles to work at the noted restaurant L’Orangerie. He and his wife Jo Ann Hirose opened a French restaurant in Kyoto, before ope...

Breakfast & Ballots (Cal Matters)

2024年10月01日

Do you have questions about the election? How does Prop 5 make it easier for local governments to borrow money? Why would Prop 36 partly roll back another proposition that voters approved in 2014? Join Dan Hu and CalMatters as they analyze and answer your burning questions about this year’s ballot propositions in a conversation around the latest edition of their Voter Guide. This event is free and open to all. Contin...

JANM Announces October 2024 Programs

2024年09月24日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announces its schedule of October 2024 programs. Tickets are $16 ($9 for seniors and students, free for JANM Members) unless otherwise noted and will be available at janm.org/events. Upcoming dates for public programs and events are:Tuesday, October 1, 2024Breakfast and Ballots9 a.m.–10:30 a.m.FreeDo you have questions about the election? How does Prop 5 ...

Musician June Kuramoto to be Celebrated in Program of Music at JANM on October 19

2024年09月23日

LOS ANGELES, CA – In Japanese, Ichigo Ichie translates to “One chance, one opportunity.” This is the theme of the Arigato event, a program celebrating the noted koto musician and 2024 NEA National Heritage Fellow June Kuramoto on Saturday, October 19, 2024, at 2 p.m. in the Tateuchi Democracy Forum at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM). Tickets are $50 ($40 for JANM Members) and are available at janm.org/ev...

Asobi at JANM: Paint by Numbers Flat Plants with Scout Regalia

2024年09月19日

Join Makoto Mizutani and Benjamin Luddy of Scout Regalia to create “paint by numbers” SR Flat Plants! Participants will create a flat plant made of intersecting plywood and easy-to-paint guidelines for the ultimate no-maintenance houseplant. Enjoy specially crafted cocktails and mocktails from our neighbors at Wolf & Crane and beer from Brewyard Beer Company. We will also have drinks from Sanzo and light refreshme...

NEH Awards $190,000 Education Grant to JANM

2024年09月20日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) a $190,000 Landmarks of American History and Culture for K–12 Educators Grant for the project, Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations 2025. JANM has been the recipient of this grant for the third year in a row. The project will support two five-day, residential workshops for ...

JANM Decries False Statements about Haitian Immigrants in Ohio

2024年09月17日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) decries the false statements spread on social media and recently amplified by national influencers and politicians that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were taking over the city and abducting and eating pets. JANM expresses support for the Haitian community and the many residents of Springfield who have been impacted by threats of violence result...