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  • Members Thank You Reception

    Nov 23, 2024

    Celebrate our Members’ impact and contributions to JANM through the decades! Learn about the Museum’s engagement plans during the renovation with JANM on the Go and join us for a toast as we mark a historic moment in JANM’s history.The reception will be followed by natsukashii (nostalgic) music, a souvenir photo booth, docent-led tours of Common Ground: The Heart of Community, and a chance for visitors to contribute ...

  • NUNO Textiles and Sherry Remez Trunk Show

    Nov 16, 2024 - Nov 17, 2024

    Shop this season’s essentials during this special textile celebration featuring clothing and accessories from NUNO Textiles and handmade jewelry by Sherry Remez.Saturday, November 16: NUNO Textiles and Sherry RemezSunday, November 17: NUNO TextilesHours: 11 a.m.–4:30 p.m. (both days)NUNO combines traditional weaving technologies with state-of-the-art materials to produce unique fabric and apparel that reflect centuri...

  • Author Discussion—"Nisei Naysayer: The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura" by James Matsumoto Omura; edited by Arthur A. Hansen

    Aug 25, 2018

    If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. The late journalist James "Jimmie" Omura was among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. In his sharply written columns, Omura called out leaders in the Nikkei community for what he saw as their complicity with the US government’s unjust and unconstitutional policie...

  • "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...

  • "Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn " a film by Nancy Kapitanoff and Sharon Yamato, narrated by Sandra Oh

    Nov 07, 2010

    Michi Nishiura Weglyn gave up a successful career as costume designer to write the landmark book, Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps, that set the record straight about the World War II incarceration. This short film paints a portrait of her dynamic personality and gives a stunning human face to the struggle for civil justice. The film recently received a Special Jury Mention at thi...

  • 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...

  • Party on the Plaza: Celebrating the Opening of "kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa"

    Jun 10, 2006

    Join us for a Party on the Plaza! In celebration of the opening of kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa, enjoy a lively evening of DJ sets and spoken-word artists. Special evening book signing with Kip Fulbeck (Museum Store open until 8PM). Food vendors and no host bar. Spoken word artists include: Armando Alvarez Austin Cho Alison De La Cruz Melanie Hensch Jenille Narvaez Daniela Schonberger Mike T Micha...

  • 2006 Day of Remembrance Theme ‘Claiming History: Justice Along Color Lines’ to Focus on 1930’s Mexican ‘Repatriation’, Current Campaign for Official Apology

    Jan 31, 2006

    At the 2006 Day of Remembrance, marking the anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 in 1942 which led to the unconstitutional incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry, the program will focus on the historic events surrounding the so-called Mexican "repatriation" of the 1930s in which federal, state and local governments conspired to remove over one million individuals of Mexican descent from...

  • 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.

  • 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...