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JANM Presents Free 2025 Natsumatsuri Family Festival on Saturday, August 16
Aug 11, 2025
Editors please note: JANM’s Pavilion is closed for renovation; programs will continue on the JANM campus and at other locations at janm.org/OnTheGo. LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) presents the 2025 Natsumatsuri Family Festival on Saturday, August 16, 2025 from 12 p.m.–5 p.m. The free family festival celebrates the summer at JANM’s Democracy Center and the Norman Y. Mineta Democracy Pla...
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Los Angeles Premiere of Third Act at the 41st LA Asian Pacific Film Festival
May 03, 2025
JANM is proud to present the Los Angeles premiere of Third Act at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival on May 3. Generations of artists call Robert A. Nakamura “the godfather of Asian American media,” but his son and the director of JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, Tadashi Nakamura, calls him Dad. As Parkinson’s disease clouds Robert’s memory, Tad sets out to retrieve his story—and in the process discovers his...
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Two-Day Workshop: Wonderful World of Washi
Jun 22, 2024
Two-Day Workshop: Wonderful World of Washi Saturday, June 22: 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Saturday, June 29: 9 a.m.–3 p.m. Explore the wonderful world of washi in this two-part workshop. Learn how to cover a variety of wooden beads with delicate washi (traditional Japanese paper) and create original jewelry by arranging them on beading wire alongside commercial beads. Bring a willingness to learn and leave with a stun...
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JANM to Relaunch the Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy on December 1, 2023
Nov 15, 2023
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will relaunch the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy as the Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Democracy Center) on Friday, December 1, 2023. The relaunch will include remarks by James E. Herr, director of the Democracy Center, and Bill T Fujioka, chair of the JANM Board of Trustees. Musical performances wil...
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Target Free Family Saturday: Say Cheese!
Mar 14, 2009
FREE ALL DAY! Come enjoy picture taking workshop and craft activities for the whole family. Keeping checking back for program schedule! 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: Look carefully and see what you discover in the Museum’s galleries by going on a photo scaven...
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America's Concentration Camps Exhibition Set For Ellis Island Immigration Museum In March 1998
Jul 10, 1997
The award-winning exhibition, America’s Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience, which drew record crowds to the Japanese American National Museum in 1994 and 1995, will be a featured exhibit at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum in New York City beginning on March 30, 1998. The exhibition provides the broad outline of the experience of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry who were...
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Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo—Artists
Learn about these trailblazing Japanese American artists whose artwork illuminates the beauty, connections, turmoil, and resilience of their remarkable lives through the exhibition and accompanying catalog.
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Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo—Resources
Explore additional JANM resources about Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo. We will be adding more, so please keep checking back!
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Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo—Press
Press For press inquiries, email mediarelations@janm.org or call 213.625.0414. Press Image Gallery (Password Access Only—contact mediarelations@janm.org for access.)