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  • Art Break: Drawing Life! with Rob Sato

    Jun 22, 2021

    Rob Sato is an artist, illustrator, and writer living and working in Los Angeles. Known for his watercolors and extensive drawing practice, he traverses a wide range of expression exploring the spaces between pictorial narrative and abstraction. Weaving autobiographical, historical, and fantastical imagery together, he mixes humor and beauty to create a wild, lush, and enigmatic dimension that overlays our own. He ha...

  • Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry reading

    May 13, 2021

    Join us for our second annual virtual poetry reading with a powerful lineup of poets previously featured in Discover Nikkei’s Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column, hosted by author, poet, and performer traci kato-kiriyama. This year, we reached out to pairs of poets who will be reading works in conversation with each other. Each pair has their own unique relationship that will bring depth of conversation and in...

  • JANM Digital Film Festival: Big Drum: Taiko in the United States Q&A

    Jul 24, 2020

    FREE Tune in for a 15th anniversary celebration of the film, Big Drum: Taiko in the United States, and conversation with curator Sojin Kim and featured performers Kenny Endo (Kenny Endo Taiko Ensemble), Kay Fukumoto (Maui Taiko), Teddy Yoshikami (Soh Daiko), PJ Hirabayashi (Artistic Director Emeritus, San Jose Taiko), and more! Featuring America’s pioneering taiko figures, this film documents the developmen...

  • Healthy Japanese Home Cooking Workshop with Azusa Oda

    Jul 18, 2020

    $25 general, $20 member Learn how to cook a basic Japanese menu! In this virtual workshop, cookbook author, food blogger, and designer Azusa Oda will teach you how to cut down food waste and make full use of all the ingredients to make a basic, healthy, and delicious meal. Participants will start with making dashi (soup stock) then use the leftovers to make katsuo denbu (bonito rice topping). They will then mak...

  • JANM Digital Film Festival: "Big Drum: Taiko in the United States"

    Jul 17, 2020

    Fifteen years after its initial release as part of the groundbreaking exhibition at JANM, Big Drum: Taiko in the United States will be available online as part of the JANM Digital Film Festival! Featuring America’s pioneering taiko figures, this film documents the development of American taiko and includes interviews and footage of drum-making and performances that reflect the ongoing transformation and diversificati...

  • Passing the Legacy: Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Nov 09, 2019

    In conjunction with the opening of Under the Mushroom Cloud: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Atomic Bomb, join us for a special presentation by Takuo Takigawa, Director of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and testimonies followed by Q&A with Howard Kakita and Junji Sarashina, Japanese Americans who were in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped. The program will be moderated by JANM Vice President of Operations/Ar...

  • Tanabata Kokeshi Workshop

    Jun 29, 2019

    SOLD OUT Tanabata commemorates the legend of star-crossed lovers Orihime and Hikoboshi, separated on opposite ends of the Milky Way. They were allowed to meet only once a year, on the seventh day of the seventh month. Celebrate Tanabata this year by painting your own kokeshi doll versions of Orihime and Hikoboshi in a workshop led by renowned artist Mari Inukai. Limited to 15 participants or participant ...

  • Contested Histories at History Colorado Center (Denver, CO)

    Feb 15, 2019 - Feb 17, 2019

    TRAVELING DISPLAY History Colorado Center Denver, CO 10 a.m.–5 p.m FREE and open to the public* 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...

  • ZOCALO—How Can Americans Defend the 14th Amendment When the Government Won't?

    Jul 31, 2018

    A Zócalo/Daniel K. Inouye Institute Event at JANM’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy Introduction by Irene Hirano Inouye, reading from U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye’s keynote address to the 1968 Democratic National Convention Moderated by Madeleine Brand, Host, KCRW’s "Press Play" Since its adoption in 1868, the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution has inspired advances i...

  • Jewelry Workshop—Continuing to Work with "Washi"

    Jan 27, 2018 - Jan 28, 2018

    Saturday–Sunday, January 27–28 11 a.m.–4 p.m. (both days) Designed for students who have completed one of our introductory washi classes, this two-day workshop will continue examining the unique properties of washi paper and various methods of working with it to create jewelry. Explore the challenges of applying washi onto various wooden beads, and experience the excitement of integrating commercial ...