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  • JANM Skate Park Pop-Up

    Feb 11, 2024

    Bring your board and join us for a pop-up skate park on JANM’s plaza to celebrate the special edition skateboard deck designed by the artist in collaboration with The Berrics. Once an “off-brand skateboard kid,” Kaino’s experiences on the board helped shape his art career and worldview. Combining the artist’s childhood love for skateboarding with the influential imagery of Katsuhiro Otomo’s animated film Akira, th...

  • Members Only Meet and Greet with Daniel James Brown

    May 14, 2022

    FREE for members In Person RSVP Virtual RSVP Join for an exclusive conversation for JANM members with New York Times bestselling author of The Boys on the Boat, Daniel James Brown, and the Executive Director of Densho, Tom Ikeda. This program is FREE for all members, but RSVPs are required in advance at the link below, by email to memberevents@janm.org, or phone at 213.830.5646 by Friday, May 13th. Spac...

  • JANM Digital Film Festival Q&A: Words, Weavings & Songs

    Sep 18, 2020

    FREE Join us for a Q&A with the grandchildren of Wakako Yamauchi, Momo Nagano, and Mary Nomura, the subjects of Words, Weavings & Songs (2002). Alyctra Matsushita, Hana van der Steur, and Erin Nomura Marquez will talk about their grandmothers and their impacts on the Japanese American community and beyond. They will also be joined by Mary Kageyama Nomura, the Songbird of Manzanar herself, in a special appearan...

  • ONLINE Book Talk: From Japanese American Incarceration to COVID-19: The Fight for Justice

    May 05, 2020

    FREE While times of global crisis can bring out the best in this country, they also have a history of surfacing deeply rooted xenophobia and bigotry. At a moment where many are fearful, we are once again seeing efforts to scapegoat a group of Americans based on their identity. On May 5, the Pacific Council and Japanese American National Museum (JANM), in partnership with Skylight Books, will host a conversation...

  • Film Screening and Q&A—"Sophie and the Rising Sun"

    Nov 16, 2019

    Set in the autumn of 1941 in Salty Creek, a fishing village in South Carolina, this film tells the dramatic story of interracial lovers swept up in the tides of history. As World War II rages, a wounded stranger, Mr. Ohta, appears in town under mysterious circumstances. Sophie, a native of Salty Creek, quickly becomes transfixed by Mr. Ohta and a forbidden courtship blossoms. When Pearl Harbor is bombed, a sur...

  • Contested Histories at Midwest Buddhist Temple (Chicago, IL)

    May 17, 2019

    TRAVELING DISPLAY Midwest Buddhist Temple Chicago, IL 10:45 a.m.–5 p.m. Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects created by persons of Japanese descent while wrongfully incarcerated in the World War II American concentration camps. It was one of the first books to examine any aspect of...

  • Contested Histories at Nihon Matsuri (Salt Lake City, UT)

    Apr 27, 2019

    TRAVELING DISPLAY Nihon Matsuri Salt Lake City, UT 10 a.m.–5 p.m Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects created by persons of Japanese descent while wrongfully incarcerated in the World War II American concentration camps. It was one of the first books to examine any aspect of the li...

  • Contested Histories at 2019 Jerome/Rohwer Pilgrimage (Little Rock, AR)

    Apr 12, 2019

    TRAVELING DISPLAY 2019 Jerome/Rohwer Pilgrimage Little Rock, AR 9 a.m.–6 p.m. Workshop: 10–10:30 a.m. (Pilgrimage dates: April 11–13) Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects created by persons of Japanese descent while wrongfully incarcerated in the World War II American concentrati...

  • ZÓCALO—Is the Digital Age Making Museums Obsolete?

    Feb 28, 2019

    A Zócalo/Natural History Museum of Los Angeles Event at JANM’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy Moderated by Gregory Rodriguez, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Zócalo Public Square Before the digital age, museums were places where people went to acquire knowledge. But now most of the information and images contained in museums are available on your smartphone. So how can ...

  • Members Only Meet-and-Greet with Velina Hasu Houston

    Dec 15, 2018

    All members are invited to an exclusive pre-event reception with Velina Hasu Houston, playwright of Little Women (A Multicultural Transposition), prior to the performance of her play at 5 p.m. Houston is a distinguished professor, director of MFA dramatic writing, head of undergraduate playwriting, associate dean of faculty, and resident playwright at the USC School of Dramatic Arts. Space is limited. RS...