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  • Asobi at JANM: Paint by Numbers Flat Plants with Scout Regalia

    Sep 19, 2024

    Join Makoto Mizutani and Benjamin Luddy of Scout Regalia to create “paint by numbers” SR Flat Plants! Participants will create a flat plant made of intersecting plywood and easy-to-paint guidelines for the ultimate no-maintenance houseplant. Enjoy specially crafted cocktails and mocktails from our neighbors at Wolf & Crane and beer from Brewyard Beer Company. We will also have drinks from Sanzo and light refreshme...

  • JANM Book Club: Cold Tofu, The Early Years 1981-1998

    Sep 07, 2024

    Join former members of Cold Tofu Improv for a hilarious and thought provoking celebration of their book, Cold Tofu, The Early Years 1981-1998: The World's First Asian American Improv Comedy Group. Hosted by Dom Magwili, authors Denice Kumagai-Hoy and Marilyn Tokuda will be joined in conversation by performers Amy Hill, Geoff Rivas, and Joey Miyashima. About the bookCold Tofu is the country's oldest Asian American com...

  • East West Players: A Writers’s Gallery Reading of "Washer/Dryer"

    Oct 16, 2014

    FREE! JANM is pleased to host the East West Players’ reading of Washer/Dryer, an exciting new play by Nandita Shenoy.

  • "Dodgers: Brotherhood of the Game" Upper Level Members' Preview Reception

    Mar 28, 2014

    Upper Level Members are invited to join us to celebrate the opening of the Dodgers: Brotherhood of the Game exhibition.

  • AKEMI KIKUMURA YANO DECIDES TO STEP DOWN AS PRESIDENT/CEO OF JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

    Jul 01, 2011

    The Board of Trustees of the Japanese American National Museum announced today that the Museum's President and Chief Executive Officer Akemi Kikumura Yano, Ph.D., has decided to step down from her current position. The Board also announced it will conduct a national search for her successor. Dr. Yano has been in discussions with the Board of Trustees of the Japanese American National Museum about her desire to ste...

  • "Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority " a film by Kimberlee Bassford

    Oct 30, 2010

    Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority is a one-hour documentary by Kimberlee Bassford that explores the remarkable political story of Patsy Mink, an Asian American woman who, battling racism and sexism, redefined American politics. Small in stature but a giant in vision, she began her life on a Maui sugar plantation and rose to become the first Asian American woman and woman of color in the United States Congress. A...

  • Asian American Music Festival's Movement 3: Stars of the Islands

    Oct 16, 2010

    Asian American Music Festival's Movement 3 is Hawaiian music night with international pop superstar Jake Shimabukuro headlining. Abe Lagrimas, Jr. and Noel Okimoto open in their vibraphone and drums quartet. The AAMF is the world’s leading festival celebrating Asian American music: jazz, world, hip-hop and beyond. AAMF celebrates the artistic and creative achievements of Asian American, Asian, and Asian Pacific Is...

  • Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment

    Jan 21, 2007

    This indelible work of visual and social history confirms Dorothea Lange's stature as one of the twentieth century's greatest American photographers. Presenting 119 images originally censored by the United States Army -- the majority of which have never been published -- Impounded evokes the horror of a community uprooted in the early 1940s and the stark reality of the internment camps. Colin Westerbeck, distinguishe...

  • Author Discussion—"Blossoms in the Desert: Topaz High School Class of 1945", presented by alumni of the Utah concentration camp high school

    Nov 01, 2003

    Blossoms in the Desert features 60 oral histories that bring to life the bittersweet memories of a limited education in a makeshift school and the lifetime friendships forged during three years. Editor Darrell Hamamoto, professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis, along with members of the graduating class of 1945 will discuss the project and their personal experiences.

  • Cold Tofu Improv: Attack of the Killer Tofus

    Jan 30, 1997

    Thursday Evening at the Museum Performance Cold Tofu provides a monthly evening of laughs and entertainment at the Museum. This talented, energetic, multicultural improvisational group has an amazing assortment of entertainment techniques that will keep you laughing all night. This year Cold Tofu will present themed shows collaborating with guest artists and musicians. This evening, Cold Tofu parodies that hig...