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Introduction to Soba Making with Sonoko Sakai

2012年06月30日

Make your own soba entirely by hand, using fresh, stone-milled artisanal soba flour from Japan and authentic soba tools. The soba will be served in the classic way: cold with fresh soy-based dipping sauce, toppings, and spices. Wear closed-toe shoes with soft soles. Bring an apron and a tupperware container to take home your soba. $75 members; $85 non-members. Includes admission and supplies. RSVP early, 12 parti...

Little Tokyo Walking Tour

2012年06月30日

Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with National Museum docents. $9 Members; $14 non-members, includes Museum admission. Comfortable walking shoes and clothes recommended. Weather permitting.

"Prisons and Patriots: Japanese American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory "by Cherstin M. Lyon

2012年06月23日

Prisons and Patriots provides a detailed account of 41 Nisei who were imprisoned for resisting the draft during WWII. Lyon parallels their courage as resisters with that of the late civil rights hero Gordon Hirabayashi. Purchase the book from the Museum Store >> Related stories on our DiscoverNikkei.org site: Interview with Dr. Cherstin Lyon >> Book review of Prisons and Patriots by Art Hansen >>

Craft Class with Ruthie Kitagawa: Summer Cards

2012年06月23日

Make floral cards for that someone special. $9 members; $14 non-members, includes admission and supplies.

5th Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival

2012年06月15日 - 2012年06月17日

The Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival, a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, will celebrate storytelling of the Mixed racial and cultural experience, from interracial and intercultural relationships, to transracial and transcultural adoptions, and anyone who identifies as having a Hapa, biracial, multiracial, or Mixed identity on June 15, 16, and 17, 2012. Featured in the New Y...

CAPE presents An Evening With Carrie Ann Inaba

2012年06月07日 - 2012年07月07日

An intimate evening with Dancer, Choreographer, Producer, Television Host, and Judge on "Dancing With The Stars", Carrie Ann Inaba, one of the most admired artists, who happens to be of Asian American Pacific Islander descent, where she will share her path to success from Fly Girl to her role as a prime time television star! This exclusive intimate evening is special to CAPE and is intended to offer perspective and i...

"Folding Paper" Exhibition Tour

2012年06月02日

Walkthrough of Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami with curator Meher McArthur. PLEASE NOTE We are limiting this tour to 25 people total. If you are interested in joining the tour, please RSVP. When making a reservation, e-mail rsvp@janm.org or call 213.625.0414 at least 48 hours prior to the event. Include the name, date, and time of the program, as well as your name and the total in your party.

From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Modern Science of Origami. A Lecture by Robert Lang

2012年05月26日

This program is FREE! The last decade of this past century has been witness to a revolution in the development and application of mathematical techniques to origami, the centuries-old Japanese art of paper-folding. The techniques used in mathematical origami design range from the abstruse to the highly approachable. In this talk, I will describe how geometric concepts led to the solution of a broad class of origami...

Smithsonian's Franklin Odo To Read From Book 'No Sword To Bury'

2004年03月26日

Franklin Odo, Director of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program and curator at the National Museum of American History, will read from his latest book, No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawaii during WWII, at a program set for the Japanese American National Museum on Sunday, April 4, beginning at 2 p.m. The event is co-sponsored by the National Museum and the Go For Broke Educational Foundation. ...

Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in WWII Arkansas

2003年07月18日

The overall project, entitled "Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in WWII Arkansas", includes the use of four National Museum traveling exhibitions and the creation and development of three other exhibitions to open in Little Rock in September of 2004. It also includes an all-day conference (a follow-up to the successful All-Camps Summit organized by the National Museum in November of 2002), optiona...