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Two Day Workshop: Shibori and Indigo Explorations
Nov 09, 2024 - Nov 10, 2024
Unleash your creativity with indigo and shibori! Taught by Glennis Dolce, this workshop will explore traditional Japanese fabric dyeing techniques, including stitching, clamping, binding, and pole wrapping. Various shibori techniques will be presented and practiced—arashi, nui, itajime, yanagi, tekumo, and more!This workshop is limited to fifteen participants and is open to all levels of knowledge. All tools and a ma...
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May 2024 Member Appreciation Days
May 10, 2024 - May 12, 2024
Come shop at the JANM Store during Member Appreciation Days and receive a 20% discount on qualified store purchases as an appreciation of thanks for all of your support and patronage! Not a current JANM Member? Join Now Order Online! JANM will honor the 20% discount for online orders placed by current JANM Members at janmstore.com from May 10–12, 2024. To receive the special discount, enter the code MADNE...
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Book Launch—Corky Lee’s Asian America
Apr 20, 2024
Editor Mae Ngai will be in conversation with contributor and filmmaker Renée Tajima-Peña about Corky Lee’s Asian America, a new book that presents an iconic photographer’s work and a sweeping, rich visual account of the Asian American Pacific Islander social justice movement. About the Book Corky Lee’s Asian America traces Lee’s decades-long quest for photographic justice, following Asian American social m...
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Giant Robot Biennale 5—Opening Celebration
Mar 01, 2024
Join the artists of Giant Robot for first access to Giant Robot Biennale 5 with free admission, engaging art, music, activities, and more that celebrate a staple of Asian American alternative pop culture and an influential brand encompassing pop art, skateboard, comic book, graphic arts, and vinyl toy culture! SCHEDULE 6 p.m.–9 p.m.: Explore the exhibitions, cash bar, and Kogi BBQ and MANEATINGPLANT food tru...
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JANM Denounces Attack on the Wing Luke Museum
Sep 18, 2023
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) denounces the recent vandalism that occurred at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience. On September 14, 2023, a man smashed nine of the museum’s windows with a sledgehammer—an estimated $100,000 in damages—while yelling racist insults, interrupting an after-hours tour with Tsuru for Solidarity for community leaders and residents. W...
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Teacher Workshop: Santa Anita during World War II
Jul 20, 2023
Teacher Workshop: Santa Anita Race Track and Temporary Detention Centers during World War II Join us for this special teacher workshop focused on the temporary detention centers many Japanese Americans were first sent to upon being forcibly removed from their home in 1942. These so-called “Assembly Centers” served as temporary prisons while America’s more permanent concentration camps were constructed. This wo...
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Sansei Rocker: Behind the Curtain—June 11
Jun 11, 2023
Available tickets are sold out. Please click the following link to sign up for the waitlist and we will notify you if space becomes available. Waitlist Travel back in time to the Sansei Dance Party Era in Los Angeles during the ’60s and ’70s through live music and storytelling! Written and produced by Harry Manaka, author of Chronicles of a Sansei Rocker, former owner of the Baby Lion Supper Club, and leader ...
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Sansei Rocker: Behind the Curtain—June 4
Jun 04, 2023
Available tickets are sold out. Please click the following link to sign up for the waitlist and we will notify you if space becomes available. Waitlist Travel back in time to the Sansei Dance Party Era in Los Angeles during the ’60s and ’70s through live music and storytelling! Written and produced by Harry Manaka, author of Chronicles of a Sansei Rocker, former owner of the Baby Lion Supper Club, and leader ...
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Sansei Rocker: Behind the Curtain—June 3
Jun 03, 2023
Travel back in time to the Sansei Dance Party Era in Los Angeles during the ’60s and ’70s through live music and storytelling! Written and produced by Harry Manaka, author of Chronicles of a Sansei Rocker, former owner of the Baby Lion Supper Club, and leader of Somethin’ Else, this immersive performance combines the classic tunes of the Sansei Dance Party Era with illuminating stories of the times. A love letter to ...