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Two Day Workshop: Shibori and Indigo Explorations (Shibori On!)
Apr 20, 2024 - Apr 21, 2024
Learn and enjoy all the creativity that indigo and shibori have to offer! Taught by Glennis Dolce, this workshop will explore a variety of traditional Japanese fabric dyeing techniques, including stitching, clamping, binding, pole wrapping, and yanagi (willow) shibori. This workshop is limited to fifteen participants and is open to all levels of knowledge. All tools, supplies, and materials are included with payme...
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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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Film Screening—Backstreet to the American Dream
Dec 08, 2023
Join Director and Producer Patricia Nazario for a conversation on the American Dream through food trucks. Nazario will be joined by Dr. Alvaro Huerta, Religion and Public Life Organizing Fellow at Harvard Divinity School and Associate Professor at Cal Poly Pomona, and June Berk, JANM Volunteer and World War II US concentration camp survivor for a lively conversation around food, race, and Los Angeles. Enjoy food f...
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Nima Voices: Episode 14—Michael Kenji Abe
Oct 04, 2023
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, but enlightening, interviews....
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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 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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Member Appreciation Days—May 2023
May 12, 2023 - May 14, 2023
We appreciate the support of JANM members and are thankful for your patronage! This year, eight museums and institutions, including JANM, are offering reciprocal 20% discount and free museum admission from May 12 through May 14!* Participating museums and institutions: Autry Museum of the American West, California Science Center, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Japanese American National Museum, The Library Store at Centra...
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JANM Book Club: Secret Harvests with David Mas Masumoto and Patricia Wakida
Mar 18, 2023
Tickets to this program include admission to JANM for Saturday, March 18, 2023. Pricing reflects general museum admission pricing. Learn more about visiting JANM at janm.org/visit. Join author David Mas Masumoto and artist Patricia Wakida for the launch of their new book Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation, Silence, Shame, and the Resilience of a Family Farm. They will be joined in reading, reflectio...