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Target Free Family Saturday: Take It to the Streets

2011年06月11日

FREE ALL DAY! Celebrate the exciting world of street art with fun activities and workshops for the whole family! Generously sponsored by Target, these special Saturdays are filled with fun activities giving families unique ways to learn, play, and grow together. ALL DAY CRAFT ACTIVITIES: Stencil and pencils and markers… oh my! Express yourself with a colorful poster that’s all about you! Design stickers ...

4th Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival

2011年06月11日

The Mixed Roots Festival is an annual event dedicated to sharing and nurturing storytelling of the Mixed and hapa experience. The Festival includes film screenings, readings, workshops, live performance and a special family event and the largest West Coast Loving Day celebration - all free and open to all! For schedule information, visit mxroots.org. The festival is free and is and open to the public!

COLD TOFU Presents The Hiroshi Show!

2011年06月09日

COLD TOFU returns to the Tateuchi Democracy Forum with The Hiroshi Show. Starting with one suggestion from the audience, COLD TOFU creates a long form improv show full of comedy and hijinks based on the personal stories of its special guest hosts. Tonight's special guest host is ABC7 Eyewitness News David Ono. Admission is $10 and a portion of the proceeds from both evenings will go to the National Museum...

kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa at ONLC (Portland, OR)

2011年06月10日 - 2011年12月31日

TRAVELING EXHIBITION Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center Portland, OR kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa is an exhibition of portraits by artist Kip Fulbeck, who traveled the country photographing more than 1,000 Hapa of all ages and walks of life. Originally a derogatory label derived from the Hawaiian word for half, the word Hapa has been embraced as a term of pride by many whose mixed-race heritage includ...

Mottainai

2011年06月05日

The Japanese American National Museum and Great Leap present MOTTAINAI, a fun-filled, informative day of performance, video screenings and participatory workshops celebrating World Environment Day. "Mottainai" is a Japanese word that loosely means “it’s a shame to waste nature." The day opens and ends with “ORDER TO GO”, a performance by members of Collaboratory, Great Leap's artist mentorship program. Directed by Da...

A Reading of "All That Remains." Written by Mona Z. Smith and Directed by Traci Mariano

2011年06月04日

In the autumn of 1969, a young Japanese American man makes a pilgrimage to an ancient forest on a mountain in France where his father was killed in action under mysterious circumstances 25 years earlier, in World War II. As the traveler enters this eerie forest, he is startled to encounter seven men who fought with his father in a celebrated battalion of Nisei soldiers. When the traveler begs to know the true story o...

"Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

2011年06月04日

Tour our ongoing exhibition Common Ground: Heart of a Community with experienced docents.

COLD TOFU Presents The Hiroshi Show!

2011年06月02日

COLD TOFU returns to the Tateuchi Democracy Forum with The Hiroshi Show. Starting with one suggestion from the audience, COLD TOFU creates a long form improv show full of comedy and hijinks based on the personal stories of its special guest hosts. Tonight's special guest host is actor and museum volunteer Rodney Kageyama. Admission is $10 and a portion of the proceeds from both evenings will go to the Nationa...

Young Professionals Invited to Asian Jewish Initiative Comedy and Cocktails Evening at JANM

2011年06月02日

Young Professionals are invited to a special evening of “Comedy and Cocktails” and to see the nation’s premier Asian American comedy improvisation group, “Cold Tofu,” on Thursday, June 2, at the Japanese American National Museum. Cocktail reception is 6:30 p.m., followed by the 8 p.m. performance. The evening is sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League Asian Jewish Initiative. Admission is $15, which includes hors ...

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...