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About Face: Artists Discuss Portraiture, Portrait-Making, and Identity

2006年10月29日

Closing of the exhibition kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa How are contemporary artists using portraiture and portrait-making processes to examine, reflect, and/or challenge constructions of identity? Kip Fulbeck and Los Angeles-based artists Shizu Saldamando and Jessica Shokrian gather to discuss the role of ethnicity, race, class, age, gender, and sexuality in shaping their work. The conversation promises t...

Chasing Daybreak: A Film about Mixed Race in America

2006年10月28日

In 2005, the MAVIN Foundation, the nation's largest mixed race organization, sponsored the Generation MIX National Awareness Tour to shed light on America's growing number of mixed heritage youth and families. Chasing Daybreak follows five of the tour crewmembers as they travel across the country and initiate a national dialogue about mixed race people, families, and diversity. Throughout the process, they share thei...

Craft Class with Ryosen Shibata: Origami Pop-Up Cards

2006年10月28日

Welcome the change in season by creating pop-up cards depicting fall's rich beauty. $8 for National Museum members and $13 for non-members, includes supplies and Museum admission. Reservations required.

Cold Tofu's Halloween Show

2006年10月26日

Our favorite improvisational comedy troupe returns with more ghoulishly delicious sketches that leave you screaming with delight. Bring a friend and join us for an evening of howls from this world...and beyond! Free with National Museum admission. Cold Tofu is dedicated to promoting diverse images of Asian Pacific Americans through comedy and to developing multiethnic talent through education and performance. Fin...

Fighting for Democracy Pre-Visit Workshop

2006年10月26日

Sign-up for a FREE Pre-Visit Workshop Saturday, October 26, 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...

Collaboratory III: Migration and Democracy

2006年10月22日

Created by artists Nobuko Miyamoto, Dan Kwong, and others, the Collaboratory is a multidisciplinary initiative that trains emerging artists in the creation and presentation of cross-cultural collaborative performance and community-based residency skills. The work of this year's cohort will be showcased in three performances co-sponsored by the National Museum and National Center for the Preservation of Democracy. ...

Collaboratory III: Migration and Democracy

2006年10月21日

Created by artists Nobuko Miyamoto, Dan Kwong, and others, the Collaboratory is a multidisciplinary initiative that trains emerging artists in the creation and presentation of cross-cultural collaborative performance and community-based residency skills. The work of this year's cohort will be showcased in three performances co-sponsored by the National Museum and National Center for the Preservation of Democracy. For...

Collaboratory III: Migration and Democracy

2006年10月21日

Created by artists Nobuko Miyamoto, Dan Kwong, and others, the Collaboratory is a multidisciplinary initiative that trains emerging artists in the creation and presentation of cross-cultural collaborative performance and community-based residency skills. The work of this year's cohort will be showcased in three performances co-sponsored by the National Museum and National Center for the Preservation of Democracy. For...

Little Tokyo Walking Tour

2006年10月21日

Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with National Museum docents on this historic walking tour. $8 for National Museum members and $13 for non-members, includes Museum admission. Reservations along with comfortable walking shoes and clothes are recommended. Weather permitting.

Sumo U.S.A.: Wrestling the Grand Tradition Opens at the Japanese American National Museum

1997年07月01日

Sumo U.S.A.: Wrestling the Grand Tradition opens at the Japanese American National Museum, Thursday, July 3, 1997. Adapted and expanded from an exhibition initially mounted by the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, Sumo U.S.A. focuses on how Japan’s national sport came to the United States along with thousands of immigrants at the turn of the Century and the important role it played in the Japanese American c...