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kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa at UNC (Chapel Hill, NC)

2009年07月01日 - 2009年10月31日

TRAVELING EXHIBITION The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill FedEx Global Education Center Chapel Hill, North Carolina 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 em...

Film Screening: "On Paper Wings"

2009年06月27日

On Paper Wings is the story of four Japanese women who worked on balloon bombs, the families of those killed in the U.S., and the man whose actions brought them all together forty years after WWII, and the balloon bomb project. During WWII, the Japanese military developed a new weapon intended to strike directly at the American continent – the balloon bomb. Thousands of hydrogen-filled balloons were attached to ...

Craft Class with Ruthie Kitagawa: Origami snail Garden Greeting Cards & Decorative Balls

2009年06月27日

Create fun garden greeting cards and decorative balls for your friends and family. $9 for National Museum members; $14 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies.

Little Tokyo Walking Tour

2009年06月27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.

Happy Tenth: Celebrate the Pavilion

2009年06月20日

You’re invited to a special Open House birthday celebration on June 20! Join us for FREE all day. Don't miss this day filled with family fun activities, performances, and the Members' Coffee & Tours. It's time to visit our magnificent Pavilion and Museum and show it off to your friends and family. All are welcome! Celebrate all that has been presented within and beyond our walls with your fellow members, donors, a...

Bringing the Circle Together: Quest of the Carib Canoe

2009年06月18日

Free Screening of Quest of the Carib Canoe Carib Indian artist and activist Jacob Frederick, and others from his community, sail nearly 1000 miles in a hand built canoe from their home on the island of Dominica in the British West Indies to South America in a voyage to rediscover their ancestral heritage. Director Eugene Jarecki generously donated this extremely rare film for presentation. Kantuta will begin the e...

Summer Film Festival: "Harsh Canvas: The Art and Life of Henry Sugimoto"

2009年06月18日 - 2009年06月28日

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, the National Museum will continuously screen Harsh Canvas: The Art and Life of Henry Sugimoto. From Japan to California, on to Paris, then to concentration camps in Arkansas that transformed his art forever and finally to New York, Henry Sugimoto (1900-1990) pursued what he called, “the path of an artist.” Sugimoto’s recently translat...

Target Free Family Saturday: Try This On For Size!

2009年06月13日

FREE ALL DAY Delight in a day of family fun that explores clothing and costumes within the Asian American community. 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: Fun and flat! Make a paper doll of yourself and design clothes to go along with it! Show your style by making a w...

Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival

2009年06月12日 - 2009年06月13日

The largest west coast Loving Day celebration kicks off the 2nd Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival on June 12, 2009. The Festival celebrates storytelling of the Mixed racial and cultural experience and brings together innovative artists, film and book lovers, and families for two days of writing and film workshops, readings, film screenings, a special family event and live performance by talented comedians,...

An Evening Exploring Shifting Attitudes on Multicultural Families and Intermarriage

2009年06月11日

The Asian Jewish Initiative was founded by the Anti-Defamation League in December 2006 as a partnership with Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Japanese American National Museum, Korean American Coalition, Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics and Search to Involve Pilipino Americans to advance alliances and partnerships between Asian and Jewish communities through constructive dialogue, exploration of common gro...