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  • 2021 Natsumatsuri Virtual Family Festival

    Aug 14, 2021

    Celebrate the summer with us in this virtual festival featuring Japanese and Japanese American crafts and activities for all ages.

  • Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day

    Sep 21, 2019

    Free admission to JANM all day! In the spirit of the Smithsonian Museums, which offer free admission every day, JANM is offering FREE admission all day as part of the annual Museum Day event.

  • Health Care—A Conversation Determined by You (SoCal Solutions)

    Jun 19, 2019

    FREE What would it take to create a universal access health system in terms of money, time, and a sufficient number of health care providers? This is a question KPCC’s health reporters field often. It’s clear that many share the goal of moving the United States to universal coverage. Less clear: just how this would happen. Is “Medicare for all” the answer? What about a “single-payer” system? Join KPCC In Person...

  • Kollaboration EMPOWER Creative Leadership Conference

    Mar 23, 2019 - Mar 24, 2019

    Saturday–Sunday, March 23–24 The Kollaboration EMPOWER Conference is an event where aspiring Asian Americans of all ages and professions gather to learn directly from some of the community’s most inspirational professionals. At EMPOWER, attendees will be able to explore a variety of creative career paths, industries, and best practices to apply to making their dreams a reality. This unique experience will brid...

  • Speak Out for Justice: Screening, Panel Discussions, and Audience Q&A

    Dec 02, 2017

    FREE In 1981, the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) heard the testimonies of Japanese Americans across the country who spoke out for the first time about their incarceration during World War II. Recognizing the historic nature of these hearings, Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress (NCRR, then known as the National Coalition for Redress/ Reparations) and Visual Communications ...

  • Film Screening and Discussion—"K-TOWN ’92 Reporters: Who Gets to Tell the Story?"

    May 11, 2017

    K-TOWN ’92 Reporters was produced by Peabody award-winning filmmaker Grace Lee as part of ktown92.com, an interactive web archive that explores the 1992 Los Angeles Riots through the lens of greater Koreatown. With a mix of archival news footage, new interviews, and other media, ktown92.com invites users to create their own unique documentary experience and to hear poignant stories that were overlooked by the media c...

  • Before They Were Heroes at Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA)

    May 03, 2017 - Jun 26, 2017

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION Harvard Medical School Boston, MA Susumu “Sus” Ito’s WWII photographs were taken while on a tour of duty through Europe as a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team’s 522nd Field Artillery Battalion. While Ito participated in such dramatic events as the rescue of the Lost Battalion, these rare and breathtaking images capture the humble daily lives of a group of young Japanese A...

  • East West Players: A Writers' Gallery Reading

    Mar 23, 2017

    FREE East West Players presents a reading of June is the First Fall, written by Yilong Liu and directed by Jeff Liu. After a painful breakup, a Chinese American gay man returns home to Hawaii, where he must confront his sister, his father, and himself about an unspeakable past that separated them, and a tender family history that held them together. Inspired by a portrait of Afong Moy, the first Chinese ...

  • Sadako’s Crane

    May 31, 2016 - Aug 31, 2019

    Born in Hiroshima, Japan, Sadako Sasaki was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city. When she was twelve, she contracted leukemia and was hospitalized. One of her roommates at the hospital told her about the Japanese belief that anyone who folds one thousand cranes would be granted a wish, so Sadako began folding cranes with the hope of recovering from her disease. Sadly, although she folded 1,300 ...

  • K-12 Teachers’ Workshop—Legacy Voices: The World War II Japanese American Experience

    Sep 19, 2015

    FREE for K-12 teachers This unique professional development opportunity will explore the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II through local and national stories. The training will focus on national civil rights hero Fred T. Korematsu, the “assembly centers” of California, and the personal accounts of those affected by the incarceration experience. The workshop will also inc...