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  • Taiji Terasaki: Transcendients

    Feb 01, 2020 - May 16, 2021

    “Transcendients” combines two words, “transcend” and “transient.” To me the word speaks to those individuals who have honed their inner beings to find a core of strength—a power they use to muster the support and solidarity needed to make a difference. I think of these “Transcendients” as elegant and spiritual examples of the human spirit who will move us forward to the brilliance of humankind.” —Taiji Terasaki ...

  • Past Present: Conversations with the Future

    Aug 28, 2019 - Aug 30, 2019

    FREE, open to the public on the JANM Plaza Wednesday–Friday, August 28–30 • 7:30 p.m.–10 p.m. Pulling together the moving parts of her +LAB residency experience, traci kato-kiriyama—with home base JANM—presents a performance-installation utilizing large-scale projections and sound scapes of letters of the past in conversation with the present. From sunset to 10 p.m. each night, the public can enjoy a loop o...

  • 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 ...

  • East West Players: A Writers' Gallery Reading—"The Piano"

    Mar 24, 2016

    FREE In this edition of A Writer’s Gallery, East West Players presents a reading of The Piano, written by Robert Kuang. An Asian-Jewish-American family collides with music, food, and identity crises, as the death of a Chinese patriarch forces three generations of Asian American women to live under the same roof for the first time. A powerful multigenerational drama about the complexities of the Asian Amer...

  • Members Only Exhibition Tour: "Making Waves"

    Mar 12, 2016

    Join exhibition curator Dennis Reed for an exclusive gallery tour entitled "Tender Views, Modern Expressions." Reed will provide an overview of Making Waves while focusing on the photographers who worked in Los Angeles, several of whom he knew personally. He will discuss the character of their work, which ranged from gentle scenes of lily pads to progressively modern abstractions, and their wide influence. Ree...

  • 'TWICE BOMBED, TWICE SURVIVED' FILM TO BE SCREEN JANUARY 21

    Jan 18, 2012

    The gripping documentary, "Twice Bombed, Twice Survived: The Doubly Atomic Bombed of Hiroshima and Nagasaki", will be screened by the Japanese Americans National Museum on Saturday, January 21, beginning at 2 p.m. This program is sponsored by the Atsuhiko & Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Foundation in partnership with the Japanese American National Museum. Hideo Nakamura’s film reveals a little known story connected to the ...

  • 'REMEMBERING MANZANAR' DOCUMENTARY TO BE SCREENED JAN. 30

    Jan 14, 2010

    The documentary, "Remembering Manzanar", a compilation of rare historic footage, photographs and personal recollections from former inmates of the most famous World War II government-run domestic concentration camps, will be screened on Saturday, Jan. 30, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. Created for use at the Interpretive Center at the Manzanar National Historic Site, ...

  • NATIONAL MUSEUM SETS SUMMER FESTIVAL AUG. 15, 2ND SHINODA, GIANT ROBOT EXHIBITS

    Jul 28, 2009

    The Japanese American National Museum continues to mark its 10 years of work since it opened its Pavilion in 1999 with a free summer festival and the second shows by musician/artist Mike Shinoda and the magazine Giant Robot. The National Museum, which was founded in 1985 and opened to the public in a renovated historic building in 1992, expanded into its 85,000-square-foot Pavilion in January of 1999. The structur...