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  • Together: A Community Conference on Mental Health and Well Being

    Sep 16, 2023

    Little Tokyo Service Center’s Social Services Department, in partnership with JANM, is hosting a day-long conference to offer a welcoming space for the Asian American community to come TOGETHER to address, examine, and understand mental health in its various forms. Conference plenaries will be interspersed with workshops and small group discussions that focus on specific topics related to mental health. Conference...

  • Almond—Author Discussion and Signing with Allen Say

    Mar 07, 2020

    SOLD OUT FREE Join Caldecott Medalist Allen Say as he discusses the making of his new children’s book, Almond. Through beautiful artwork and a powerful story, Almond explores the story of Almond Biggs as she discovers what it means to have her own unique gifts and talents. The book will be released on March 3, which is Girls’ Day or Hinamatsuri in Japan, and is a celebration of girl empowerment. After the sh...

  • East West Players: Counter Culture Series reading—"God Said This"

    Jun 25, 2019

    A New Play by Leah Nanako Winkler Directed by Deena Selenow FREE Set in Kentucky, this compelling drama centers around a Japanese American family reuniting as their matriarch undergoes cancer treatment. James, the father, is a recovering alcoholic seeking redemption. His two daughters are struggling to overcome their differences; Sophie is an ardent born-again Christian while Hiro lives the single li...

  • Author Discussion—"The Great Unknown: Japanese American Sketches" by Greg Robinson

    Feb 25, 2017

    If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. The Great Unknown: Japanese American Sketches is a collection of biographical portraits of extraordinary but unheralded figures in Japanese American history—men and women who made remarkable contributions in the arts, literature, law, sports, and other fields. Recovering and celebrating the stories of noteworthy ...

  • Comedy InvAsian Live Tapings—Kevin Yee

    Feb 12, 2017

    JANM is pleased to host Comedy InvAsian, a new series of one-hour standup comedy performances that will be filmed in front of live audiences in our Tateuchi Democracy Forum. Come be a part of the audience as six of the nation’s most exciting Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) comedians take the stage. Kevin Yee’s original satirical songs have made people laugh across America and beyond. A former membe...

  • Comedy InvAsian Live Tapings—Atsuko Okatsuka

    Feb 11, 2017

    JANM is pleased to host Comedy InvAsian, a new series of one-hour standup comedy performances that will be filmed in front of live audiences in our Tateuchi Democracy Forum. Come be a part of the audience as six of the nation’s most exciting Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) comedians take the stage. Atsuko Okatsuka is a co-founder of Disoriented Comedy, the first-ever all Asian, mostly female standu...

  • Comedy InvAsian Live Tapings—Paul "PK" Kim

    Feb 10, 2017

    JANM is pleased to host Comedy InvAsian, a new series of one-hour standup comedy performances that will be filmed in front of live audiences in our Tateuchi Democracy Forum. Come be a part of the audience as six of the nation’s most exciting Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) comedians take the stage. Paul "PK" (stands for Paul Kim/Preachers Kid) Kim, winner of the Clyde’s Cup at Uncle Clyde’s Comedy ...

  • Talk by “Kawaii” Artist Sebastian Masuda

    Jan 08, 2017

    FREE As part of our Oshogatsu Family Festival, artist Sebastian Masuda, creator of the Time After Time Capsules, will talk about his work. Masuda is organizing a total of 10 translucent time capsules as part of a long-term art project that will culminate in Tokyo in 2020. The capsules will all be returned to the cities where they were filled and reopened in 2035. Two of the capsules—one shaped like Hello Kitty ...

  • East West Players: A Writers' Gallery Reading

    Nov 01, 2016

    FREE East West Players presents a reading of Mutt: Let’s All Talk About Race!, written by Christopher Chen and directed by Rodney To. The Republican Party finally realizes it has a problem with race, so it decides its best chance for success in the 2016 presidential election is to back a candidate who is a mixture of every race on earth. A one-night performance produced as part of the company’s Politics ...

  • Sugar/Islands

    Jul 11, 2015 - Sep 06, 2015

    Incorporating paintings by Laura Kina and photographs by Emily Hanako Momohara, Sugar/Islands: Finding Okinawa in Hawai‘i is a unique examination of worker migration and settlement from the islands of Okinawa to the islands of Hawai‘i, prompted by opportunities afforded by the latter’s sugar plantations and pineapple farms during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Kina’s Sugar and Momohara’s Islands series ar...