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  • Manzanar Baseball Project Comes to JANM on August 24, 2024

    Aug 05, 2024

    PSAWHAT: During World War II, baseball was a way for Japanese Americans in America’s concentration camps to find a sense of normalcy, uplift their spirits, and claim a connection to American culture. Today, the Manzanar Baseball Project is rebuilding and bringing to life the baseball diamond at Manzanar National Historic Site. WHEN: Saturday, August 24, 2024 from 11 a.m.–1 p.m.DETAILS: This special event will...

  • Discover Nikkei’s Nima Voices: Episode 16—Stan Kirk

    Jun 25, 2024

    Discover Nikkei is JANM’s community-based web project sharing stories and the experiences of Nikkei around the world. “Nima” are members of the Discover Nikkei online community. Hailing from all around the world, they each bring unique experiences and perspectives to the site’s rich archive of stories.Nima Voices is an interview series where we uplift our Nima through brief and enlightening interviews. In the sixtee...

  • Film Screening and Discussion—"Our Man in Tokyo (The Ballad of Shin Miyata)"

    Feb 24, 2018

    If you missed the program, you can watch the post-screening discussion and performance online on JANM’s YouTube channel. Join us for the premiere screening of a new documentary film exploring the struggles and obsessions of Shin Miyata, a Tokyo–based record label owner, music promoter, and cultural ambassador who has been distributing Chicano music and bringing East Los Angeles bands to Japan fo...

  • STORY OF ANGEL ISLAND IMMIGRATION STATION TO BE TOLD ON SUNDAY, SEPT. 19

    Sep 10, 2010

    Authors Erica Lee and Judy Yung will provide the historic framework to the story of Angel Island, which was the gateway for immigrants from Asia to enter the United States before World War II in a public program set for Sunday, September 19, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. Lee and Yung wrote the book, Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America. Their research revealed ...

  • Dirty Hands: The Art and Crimes of David Choe

    Nov 12, 2009

    Director, Harry Kim goes through eight haphazard years filled with mayhem to follow and deliver a portrait of David Choe, a young street artist that devises numerous schemes that afford him to hitchhike across the globe. A discussion will immediately follow this presentation providing an insider perspective on the life of artist David Choe.

  • Community Day of Remembrance - Claiming History: Justice Along Color Lines

    Feb 18, 2006

    FREE GENERAL ADMISSION Admission to the special exhibition, Isamu Noguchi - Sculptural Design - $4 The Day of Remembrance annually marks President Roosevelt's infamous signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, which authorized the unconstitutional forced removal of 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast and Hawai`i during World War II. More than forty years later, the United States government ap...

  • "Circles of Grace": A Family Concert for Peace

    Jul 18, 2004

    Bring your family and friends to hear music of compassion and hope. This concert features the MASS ENSEMBLE creators of large-scale, architecturally-inspired stringed instruments such as the Peace and Wing Harps, the celebrated AGAPE INTERNATIONAL CHOIR, and acclaimed singer/songwriter, PERLA BATALLA. Hosted by YATRIKA SHAH-RAIS, Wednesday host of the Global Village on KPFK/90.7 FM. Co-produced by Community Arts Reso...

  • The Art of Injustice: Messages Behind the Images

    Jul 07, 2001

    Featuring: Kristine Kim, co-curator of the exhibition, Rick Moss, curator at the California African American Museum, Nelly Toll, contemporary artist and author of When Memory Speaks: The Holocaust in Art and moderated by Nancy Berman, Director Emeritus and curator at the Skirball Cultural Center.

  • "Tropic of Orange" by Karen Tei Yamashita

    Jan 11, 1998

    A bizarre set of circumstances are set in motion by an orange brought to Los Angeles from Mexico. Join us for an afternoon reading from Karen’s latest work. Her writing captures the essence of the incongruity of our modern lives and offers a tumultuous look at the diversity of American society. Free with Museum admission. Reservations suggested by January 7.

  • Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami - Artists

    John Blackman (b.1955, American) John Blackman’s interest in origami originated as a child and has grown into a passion. His other pursuits are gardening, nature, and Ikebana (the Japanese art of flower arranging), all of which he merges with origami. Today Blackman mainly folds plant and flower forms, often turning them into Japanese-style arrangements. His works have been exhibited at several Origami USA nati...