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2024 Benefit & Online Auction
Apr 06, 2024
We joined together on April 6, 2024 at the Vibiana for a transcendent evening of exquisite dining, musical performances, Lexus Opportunity Drawing, and our special program that weaves poignant lessons of the Japanese American community with vibrant promises of the future to light our path forward.
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Community Day of Remembrance—Is It 1942 Again? Overcoming Our Fears and Upholding Constitutional Rights for All
Feb 20, 2016
PAY WHAT YOU WISH On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, making it possible for the U.S. military to forcibly remove and incarcerate 120,000 Japanese Americans solely on the basis of race. Each year, communities across the country hold Day of Remembrance programs to recall this shameful chapter in U.S. history and honor the courage and perseverance of the Japanese A...
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Exhibition and Performance: Visual artist Mineko Grimmer and music of composer John Cage
Mar 03, 2012 - Mar 04, 2012
Saturday, March 3 at 8 PM Sunday, March 4 at 5 PM Each of the works, entitled One6 and One10, is an extended composition for solo violin. Written to be performed with a specific kinetic sound sculpture created by the visual artist. Part of Southwest Chamber Music’s Cage 2012, a three-year centennial celebration of the work of this seminal Los Angeles-born composer, whose music and thought were highly influential i...
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Special Screening of "Hogoz" by John Powers
Apr 03, 2011
Hogoz (pronounced “hoe-goes”) is an online comedy series that debuted on September 20, 2010. The series is a satiric view (think South Park) of life in a fictional citizen isolation center (think Leupp). Scenes from the first five episodes will be screened with the series’ creator.
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JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM SETS 2009 PROGRAM THEME CELEBRATING 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF PAVILION OPENING
Feb 13, 2009
The Japanese American National Museum announced its 2009 program theme celebrating the opening of its Pavilion with year-long slate of public programs and special events that will review the work by the National Museum in the last decade. The first of these themed-programs is the National Museum’s 2009 Annual Gala Dinner, "The Pavilion: Home, Community, History—Celebrating Ten Years of Building a Legacy", which will ...
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No-No Boys, Draft Resistors & the Legacy of the internment: David Mura's New Novel
Oct 11, 2008
David Mura, author of Turning Japanese, will read from and discuss his new novel Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire. The novel explores the fate of a Japanese American family whose father was a No-No Boy during World War II. The narrator, Ben Ohara, is a sansei who grows up knowing little of his father's past. Mura will talk about the continued relevance of the internment in the current debates on national sec...
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Toshiko Takaezu: The Art of Clay - Events
Programs are free for museum members and included with admission for visitors, unless otherwise noted. To see a complete listing of JANM’s upcoming programs, check out our Events Calendar.
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Drifting: Nakahama Manjiro's Tale of Discovery - Events
Programs are free for museum members and included with admission for visitors, unless otherwise noted. To see a complete listing of JANM’s upcoming programs, check out our Events Calendar.
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Jidai: Timeless Works of Samurai Art - Events
Programs are free for museum members and included with admission for visitors, unless otherwise noted. To see a complete listing of JANM’s upcoming programs, check out our Events Calendar.
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Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit - Events
Public programs presented in conjunction with the “Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit” exhibition.