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8th Annual Courtyard Kids Festival: Every Day is Children's Day

2006年08月12日

Join Courtyard Kaeru in celebrating the spirit of youth. Holidays honoring children are held around the globe throughout the year. In Japan, Children's Day is May 5th, but the National Museum is celebrating it in the summer along with other communities. Dance, sing, create, and play with us as we, together, experience festive cultural customs of our neighbors around the world. Lively music, arts and crafts, and st...

REEL Hapa

2006年08月09日

Every second and fourth Wednesday through July and August, the National Museum will host screenings of film shorts that explore issues of identity. Following the films, community leaders, artists, activists, and others will share their own perspectives on identity and build upon issues discussed in each film.

1st & Central Summer Concerts: Lenine and DJ Sergio Mielniczenko

2006年08月03日

FREE 6:30 PM - DJ Sergio Mielniczenko 7:00 PM - Lenine Singer, composer, arranger, musician and producer, Recife-born Lenine has become one of the stars of Brazilian popular music. He is acclaimed by the public, the press, his fellow artists and tastemakers alike and is considered one of the standard bearers of the Brazilian scene for the 21st century for his brilliant talent at combining original music with the rhy...

Craft Class with Ryosen Shibata: Origami Pop-Up Cards

2006年07月29日

Add your personal touch to lively pop-up cards featuring the art of origami. $8 for National Museum members and $13 for non-members, includes supplies and Museum admission. Reservations are required.

REEL Hapa

2006年07月26日

Every second and fourth Wednesday through July and August, the National Museum will host screenings of film shorts that explore issues of identity. Following the films, community leaders, artists, activists, and others will share their own perspectives on identity and build upon issues discussed in each film.

15th Annual National Invitational Golf Tournament

2006年07月24日

National Invitational Golf Tournament at the Wilshire Country Club, Los Angeles, California. For more information, please contact Special Events at 213.830.5688 or specialevents@janm.org.

A New Perspective on U.S.-Japan Relations: The Japanese American and Japanese Partnership

2006年07月21日

The Japanese American National Museum has increasingly explored the relationship between Japanese Americans and Japan. While the bilateral relationship between the U.S. and Japan is considered among the most important in the world, the connection between Japanese and Japanese Americans is more complex and perhaps atypical to that of other Americans with the people and land of their ancestry. While World War II pla...

Premiere Screening of "Life Interrupted: A Special Arkansas Reunion" - Private Invitation Only

2006年07月20日

Did you attend the Camp Connections conference in Little Rock, Arkansas? Join the National Museum for a special reunion and release of the new video documentary Life Interrupted: A Special Arkansas Reunion, produced by the award-winning Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center. Relive and reflect on this remarkable trip to Arkansas. Light reception to follow. Visit www.janm.org/media/lifeinterrupted to learn more about t...

1st & Central Summer Concerts: Okinawan Folk / Hawaiian / Taiko

2006年07月20日

FREE 6:30 PM 1st & Central Summer Concerts at the Japanese American National Museum presents Haruo Ishihara Okinawan Folk Ensemble Hawaii Music by Moana Zenshuji Zendeko Taiko The Japanese American National Museum's summer outdoor series continues with music from Okinawa, Hawaii, and the Continental United States. This free concert promises to be a great evening for families of all ages under the stars in Litt...

Whispered Silences: Japanese American Detention Camps, Fifty Years Later Photographs Document Remains Of Wartime Experience

1997年05月03日

Whispered Silences: Japanese American Detention Camps, Fifty Years Later, opens Saturday, May 3, 1997 at the Japanese American National Museum. Part of the Shithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition Service (SITES), the Museum is one stop in the exhibit’s North American tour. Fourty-four contemporary platinum-palladium prints were taken by photographer Joan Myers and evoke the wartime experiences of Japanese ...