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Giant Robot: Opening Reception

2009年10月24日

Join us to celebrate the opening of the exhibition with live music by Goh Nakamura and attendance by many of the participating artists. Special merchandise and surprises planned!

CONVERSATIONS with Norman Mineta & George Takei

2009年10月24日

CONVERSATIONS is a new National Museum public program series featuring intimate conversations with prominent individuals about their personal and professional inspirations, discoveries, and influences. The program series is an ideal opportunity for our younger generation to develop a deeper understanding and connection with the Japanese American story and community. The series' first program is an exclusive opport...

" A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America " by Greg Robinson

2009年10月24日

The confinement of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, often called the Japanese American internment, has been described as the worst official civil rights violation of modern U. S. history. Greg Robinson not only offers a bold new understanding of these events but also studies them within a larger time frame and from a transnational perspective. Drawing on newly discovered material, Robinson pr...

Kidding Around in the Kitchen Family Cooking Class: Fall into the JANM Comfort Foods

2009年10月24日

Please note that this class has been canceled. In this hands on class we will make some family friendly comfort foods celebrating the change of season and weather (we hope). Come with an empty stomach and an appreciation of seasonal cooking. We will tackle soups and chowders, fall sandwiches and some quick but delicious desserts. $25 members (for one child & one adult); $35 non-members, includes Museum admissio...

Giant Robot Biennale 2

2009年10月24日 - 2010年01月24日

Curated by Giant Robot co-founder and co-editor Eric Nakamura, this expanded follow-up to the 2007 exhibition Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues highlights artists associated with the magazine over the past 15 years. David Choe • James Jean • Souther Salazar • Theo Ellsworth • kozyndan • Stella Lai • Jack Long • Albert Reyes • Jeff Soto • Rob Sato • Deth P. Sun Providing an overview of the Giant Robot aesthetic, t...

Songs for a New World

2009年10月23日 - 2009年10月25日

October 23-25 8 PM shows on Friday/Saturday, 2 PM on Sunday $25 general admission $20 seniors, students and groups of 10 or more YES AND…PRODUCTIONS proudly presents Jason Robert Brown’s SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD. With a small, passionate cast and a driving, exquisitely crafted score, SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD is about one moment---or rather, isolated moments in the lives of many characters---in a variety of eras. ...

Songs for a New World

2009年10月16日

October 16-18 8 PM shows on Friday/Saturday, 2 PM on Sunday Opening Night (Friday, October 16): $35 (includes post show reception); no special rates for this evening ALL OTHER NIGHTS: $25 general admission $20 seniors, students and groups of 10 or more YES AND…PRODUCTIONS proudly presents Jason Robert Brown’s SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD. With a small, passionate cast and a driving, exquisitely crafted score, SO...

Bringing the Circle Together: Looking Toward Home

2009年10月15日

Free Screening of Looking Toward Home Looking Toward Home explains how government relocation programs in the 1950s enticed significant numbers of Native Americans to leave the reservation for life in major cities such as, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and the San Francisco Bay Area. The life and times of urban Indians is shown primarily through the eyes of these individuals and subsequent generations as they mai...

Smithsonian’s “Japan After Perry” Woodblock Prints Exhibition Provides Japan’s 1st Impressions Of West

2004年12月29日

A collection of Japanese woodblock prints created in the aftermath of Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s historic visits to Japan in the 1850s provides a remarkable look at the Japanese’s first impressions of Westerners in the traveling exhibition Japan After Perry: Views of Yokohama and Meiji Japan, organized by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, and set to open at the Japanese American National Museu...

"A Jive Bomber'S Christmas" Returns With New Cast At Japanese American National Museum In December

2000年12月01日

The Japanese American National Museum is proud to announce the return of the popular musical show A Jive Bomber’s Christmas with an all-new cast set for seven performances in early December at the National Museum’s facility, 369 E. First Street, in Little Tokyo. Since its debut in 1993, the original musical co-written and co-directed by Saachiko and Dom Magwili received critical plaudits and has already become...