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A “Jive Bomber’s Christmas” Returns!

2006年12月08日 - 2006年12月17日

This musical play will once again bring that unique mixture of laughter, tears, and song to the National Museum. Set in 1943 as World War II is raging and some 120,000 Japanese Americans have unconstitutionally been placed in concentration camps. This critically acclaimed musical is the story of a group of inmates who attempt to celebrate the Christmas holidays despite being behind barbed wire. Opening Night ...

Fighting for Democracy Pre-Visit Workshop

2006年12月07日

Sign-up for a FREE Pre-Visit Workshop Thursday, December 7, 4:30-7:30 PM (Dinner provided) WHAT IS FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY? For hundreds of years people have sought a home and future in the United States of America. They came, and still come, in pursuit of freedom and democracy. Yet, the dream of democracy is not without its struggle. Against the backdrop of World War II, a segregated America, and the Civil R...

Member Holiday Shopping Days!

2006年12月03日

FREE ADMISSION AND 20% OFF AT 20 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTIONS The Japanese American National Museum, in partnership with 19 Southland institutions, hosts special holiday shopping days for members only! For one day only, National Museum Members will receive 20% off* at the award-winning Museum Store and online at www.janmstore.com. There will also be complimentary gift-wrapping and light holiday refreshments. ...

LA Freewaves 2006 presents Screening and speak out: Media that Matters and other youth videos

2006年11月18日

Community Connections at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy In collaboration with Media That Matters, the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, and other Los Angeles nonprofit groups*, Freewaves will screen contemporary works by youth that address political, economic, and social issues. The program is based around the Sixth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival, a showcase for ...

Craft Class with Ryosen Shibata: Sumi-e

2006年11月18日

Bring vivid richness of autumn to life in this sumi-e class with Master Teacher, Ryosen Shibata. $8 for National Museum members and $13 for non-members, includes supplies and Museum admission. Reservations required.

Cornerstone Theater Company’s Adaptation of “Farewell to Manzanar”

2006年11月16日 - 2006年12月03日

Award-winning Cornerstone Theater Company actors Page Leong and Leslie Ishii perform an adaptation of the landmark 1972 memoir. The piece captures the novel’s finely crafted prose and elegant imagery and offers a child’s-eye view of the 120,000 West Coast Japanese Americans robbed of their civil rights and incarcerated for the length of World War II in government prison camps. Sponsored, in part, by East-West Eye ...

Fighting for Democracy Pre-Visit Workshop

2006年11月16日

Sign-up for a FREE Pre-Visit Workshop Thursday, November 16, 4:30-7:30 PM (Dinner provided) WHAT IS FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY? For hundreds of years people have sought a home and future in the United States of America. They came, and still come, in pursuit of freedom and democracy. Yet, the dream of democracy is not without its struggle. Against the backdrop of World War II, a segregated America, and the Civil ...

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A “Jive Bomber’s Christmas” Returns!

Fighting for Democracy Pre-Visit Workshop

Member Holiday Shopping Days!

LA Freewaves 2006 presents Screening and speak out: Media that Matters and other youth videos

Craft Class with Ryosen Shibata: Sumi-e

Cornerstone Theater Company’s Adaptation of “Farewell to Manzanar”

Fighting for Democracy Pre-Visit Workshop

Members Dessert Reception for opening of Ansel Adams at Manzanar

A Conversation with Dr. Anne Hammond: "Why Ansel Adams Went to Manzanar"

Annual Giving Circle Members Reception for opening of Ansel Adams at Manzanar