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Upper Level Members Wine Tasting and History with Mikami Vineyards
May 18, 2024
Join us for a unique wine tasting with Mikami Vineyards. Sample three award-winning wines and learn about winemaking, grape growing, and the Mikami family’s journey from Japan to America. Since 1896, the Mikami family has developed a passion for grape growing. Now in their second century and third generation of farming, Mikami Vineyards produces single vineyard, handcrafted wines from the premier blocks of the fam...
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ASOBI at JANM: Collaborative Art Making with Giorgiko
Apr 11, 2024
Join Giant Robot Biennale 5 artists Darren and Trisha Inouye, the duo known as Giorgiko, for a workshop that explores individual creativity and the surprising nature of collaboration. Participants will start prompt-based drawings and pass them around to each other, engaging in the fun experiment of enhancing someone else’s artwork with one’s unique touch, and concluding with reflection and a group discussion. Enjo...
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JANM Now Accepting Applications for Summer 2024 NEH Workshops for Educators
Feb 15, 2024
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is accepting applications for Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations, a Landmarks of American History and Culture educator workshop funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The workshop will be held twice on June 24–28, 2024 and July 15–19, 2024 and includes a stipend of $1,300. Applications are being accepted un...
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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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Youth Workshop: Contemporary Origami with Robert J. Lang and Glenn Kaino
Dec 02, 2023
Join world-renowned physicist and origami artist, Robert J. Lang, for a workshop on the art of paper folding. Robert Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami—using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful. All youth are welcome to join for a unique hands-on lesson with Glenn Kaino Studio and learn about how art can tell special stor...
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The Chinese American Museum, JANM, and LA Plaza de Culturas y Artes present Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past in Los Angeles in December 2023
Nov 20, 2023
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Chinese American Museum (CAM), Japanese American National Museum (JANM), and LA Plaza de Culturas y Artes (LA Plaza)—will present the Smithsonian’s Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past in Los Angeles initiative, a collaborative series of public programs from December 1–17, 2023. With programs that range from symposia and panel discussions to films and family activities, Our Shar...
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Dodgers: Brotherhood of the Game - Store
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Boyle Heights: The Power of Place—Press
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