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Nima Voices: Episode 15—Lee A. Tonouchi
Feb 27, 2024
FREE 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...
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Giant Robot Biennale Returns to JANM on March 2, 2024
Dec 06, 2023
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) and Eric Nakamura, founder of Giant Robot, will present Giant Robot Biennale 5 from March 2 – September 1, 2024. The popular group show, last seen at JANM in 2016, showcases diverse creative works that celebrate the ethos of Giant Robot, a staple of Asian American alternative pop culture. Three decades after its founding as a hand-assembled zine, Giant Ro...
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"A Principled Stand: The Story of Hirabayashi v. United States" by Gordon K. Hirabayashi with James A. Hirabayashi and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
Sep 21, 2013
In 1942, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned. In A Principled Stand, Gordon's brother James and nephew Lane have brought together his prison diaries and wartime correspondence to tell the story of Hirabayashi v. United States. A Principled Stand tells Gordon's story in his own word...
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"Twice Heroes: America’s Nisei Veterans of WWII and Korea" by Tom Graves
May 04, 2013
Writer and photographer Tom Graves will discuss and read from his new book, Twice Heroes: America's Nisei Veterans of WWII and Korea. Graves spent over a decade interviewing and photographing men and women who served to prove their loyalty to America. The veterans shared their own histories with the author, many revealing their experiences for the first time. Q&A with author to follow. Purchase the book from t...
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"From Minidoka to Minnesota: A Carleton College Story of the Japanese American Internment" by Fred Hagstrom
Jul 23, 2011
This talk focuses on an artist’s book recently completed by Fred Hagstrom, Rae Schupak Nathan Professor of Art at Carleton College in Minnesota. The artist’s book is titled deeply honored and tells the story of Frank Shigemura, who came to Carleton College in 1943. Carleton participated in the student relocation project, a program that allowed Japanese American students to leave internment camps and continue th...
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Poetry Reading and Slides of Art Quilts: What Remains: "Japanese Americans in Internment Camps"
Sep 11, 2010
Margaret Chula and Cathy Erickson make the concentration camp experience come alive in their seven-year collaborative project joining poetry and quilts. Margaret's original poems, diaries, and letters in the voices of people in the camps describe the hardships and emotions they experienced. Cathy has transformed personal stories into quilts through fabric, design, and color. Their presentation shows how two art forms...
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Closing of the Henry Fukuhara Manzanar Watercolor Workshop display in the National Museum Pavilion
Aug 18, 2002
Closing of the Henry Fukuhara Manzanar Watercolor Workshop display in the National Museum Pavilion
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Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Tsumami Zaiku (traditional Japanese hair ornaments made of silk)
Sep 22, 2001
Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Tsumami Zaiku (traditional Japanese hair ornaments made of silk)
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Textured Lives: Japanese Immigrant Clothing from the Plantations of Hawai`i - 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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Don’t Fence Me In: Coming of Age in America’s Concentration Camps—Audio Tour
Hear from Emily Anderson, JANM’s curator for Don’t Fence Me In, and incarcerees from the War Relocation Authority camps as they share how Japanese American youth asserted their place as young Americans confronting the injustice of imprisonment in concentration camps. From joining scout troops to sports, social dancing to music, patriotism and life after camp, discover how these Americans used their resilience and...