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The Art of Movement and Coalition Building: Learning from Yuri Kochiyama

2020年07月23日

FREE This discussion centers on the inspiring force of activist Yuri Kochiyama (1921–2014), whose work to build community and solidarity across racial and generational lines in the decades after World War II is a timely model for today’s movement building and efforts toward meaningful allyship. In the 1960s, the Harlem apartment of Yuri and Bill Kochiyama was a hub of community service and social justice mo...

‘MASTERS OF MODERN DESIGN: THE ART OF THE JAPANESE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE’ DOCUMENTARY WINS LOS ANGELES AREA EMMY FOR THE ARTS

2020年07月20日

Los Angeles, CA – The Japanese American National Museum is pleased to announce that its documentary, Masters of Modern Design: The Art of the Japanese American Experience, was awarded the Los Angeles Area Emmy for the Arts in an online presentation on Saturday, July 18. The film was a co-production of KCET’s Artbound series and JANM’s Watase Media Arts Center in 2019. Masters of Modern Design focuses on five Japan...

Steeping History: Tea Across Generations

2020年07月19日

Tea has a long history of bringing families together, providing comfort after a long, hard day of work, or grounding traditional ceremonies and practices. Come learn from Maria Kwong, JANM’s Director of Retail Enterprises, about Japanese American tea culture and the unique JANM Generations Teas, created in collaboration with Chado Tea Room. Each of the teas in this collection was created with a specific generation...

Healthy Japanese Home Cooking Workshop with Azusa Oda

2020年07月18日

$25 general, $20 member Learn how to cook a basic Japanese menu! In this virtual workshop, cookbook author, food blogger, and designer Azusa Oda will teach you how to cut down food waste and make full use of all the ingredients to make a basic, healthy, and delicious meal. Participants will start with making dashi (soup stock) then use the leftovers to make katsuo denbu (bonito rice topping). They will then mak...

JANM Digital Film Festival: "Big Drum: Taiko in the United States"

2020年07月17日

Fifteen years after its initial release as part of the groundbreaking exhibition at JANM, Big Drum: Taiko in the United States will be available online as part of the JANM Digital Film Festival! Featuring America’s pioneering taiko figures, this film documents the development of American taiko and includes interviews and footage of drum-making and performances that reflect the ongoing transformation and diversificati...

JANM Digital Film Festival: Dodgers: Brotherhood of the Game Q&A

2020年07月10日

FREE From their original roots in Brooklyn to today’s home in Los Angeles, the Dodgers are trailblazers in the world of sports, on and off the field. The franchise is dedicated to supporting a culture of winning baseball, providing a first-class, family-friendly experience at Dodger Stadium and maintaining strong partnerships in the community. In 2014, JANM collaborated with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Pete...

ONLINE Tea & Letter Writing: Letters for Black Lives

2020年07月08日

FREE During this national uprising for Black liberation, we know part of the struggle happens within our own families or homes. Inspired by the Letters for Black Lives campaign, we will be taking the time to reflect on the anti-Blackness in ourselves, our families, and our communities and writing letters to begin the difficult conversation with those we love about why we must say Black Lives Matter. We will also h...

On the Passing of Lawson Iichiro Sakai

2020年07月01日

Los Angeles, CA – It is with great sadness that the Japanese American National Museum acknowledges the passing of Lawson Iichiro Sakai, 96. He was a decorated member of the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the founder of the Friends and Family Nisei Veterans (FFNV) group that organized annual get-togethers in Las Vegas and trips abroad for the Japanese American World War II veterans and their families. Lawso...

JANM Digital Film Festival: Madame Fujima Kansuma Q&A

2020年06月26日

FREE Madame Fujima Kansuma shares the life of the celebrated Japanese American kabuki dancer and teacher with a career beginning in the early 1940s and spanning decades. Join filmmaker Yuka Murakami for a discussion around the legacy of Madame Kansuma with Madame Kansuma’s daughter, Miyako Tachibana, and longtime student, June Berk, who were both featured in the film produced for a celebration of Kansuma’s ...

Japanese American National Museum to Host Smithsonian’s National Youth Summit on Japanese American Incarceration in World War II

2016年05月05日

The Japanese American National Museum will host the "National Youth Summit on Japanese American Incarceration in World War II," an online outreach program organized by the museum in partnership with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The event will take place at JANM, a Smithsonian Affiliate, on Tuesday, May 17, 2016, at 10 a.m. (PDT) and will link middle and high schools students from across th...