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  • Transcendients Community Celebration: Challenging Borders

    Mar 07, 2020

    FREE ALL DAY! Immerse yourself in this free one-day celebration of the Transcendients “heroes” and their work. This day of discussion, conversation, music, dance, art, and interactive activities will allow you to learn, to celebrate, to challenge, and to grow. New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen to deliver keynote speech. Tabling On the JANM Plaza Get involved! Register t...

  • Craft Class with Ruthie Kitagawa: Origami Holiday Ornaments

    Nov 30, 2019

    Make origami holiday ornaments for your friends and family. $5 members; $10 non-members, includes supplies. Does not include museum admission. Limited to 10 participants. Supported by City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs. In the Koichi & Toyo Nerio Education Center

  • Detained in America: Children Speak

    Sep 21, 2019

    FREE and open to the public JANM Plaza: 1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Screenings (17 min each): 12:30 p.m. • 3:40 p.m. • 4:10 p.m. Conceived and created by Amy Cohen and Claudia Sobral, “Detained in America: Children Speak” is a program of child voices describing the trauma inflicted by US government policies on the young and innocent. Hosted by the Japanese American National Museum, the program’s organizers include Th...

  • Origami with Ruthie Kitagawa: Holiday Wreaths and Cards

    Dec 01, 2018

    Get ready for the holidays and learn from JANM’s resident origami expert Ruthie Kitagawa how to make a holiday-themed origami card and a wreath. Space is limited to 15 participants. Advance purchase of a ticket is required. $12 non-members, free for JANM members. Museum admission included. This workshop is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affair...

  • Origami with Ruthie Kitagawa: Floral Cards

    Sep 29, 2018

    Learn from JANM’s resident origami expert Ruthie Kitagawa how to make a card adorned with cheerful origami flowers. Space is limited to 15 participants. Advance purchase of a ticket is required. $12 non-members, free for JANM members. Museum admission included. This workshop is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs. In the Nancy K. A...

  • Memorial for Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings

    Aug 04, 2018 - Aug 09, 2018

    Saturday–Thursday, August 4–9 Admission on Saturday, August 4: Pay What You Wish In commemoration of the World War II atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which occurred on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, we will feature Yoko Ono’s Imagine Peace Wish Tree. Participants can write down their personal wishes for peace on a piece of paper that they tie to the tree. At the end of the commemoration, the ...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM STATEMENT REGARDING GORDON HIRABAYASHI CASE AS PRECEDENT FOR GUANTANAMO POLICY

    Jun 20, 2018

    Los Angeles, CA—The Japanese American National Museum is shocked and outraged that attorneys for the Department of Defense have cited the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II as a precedent for the administration’s current policies. In this instance, the Supreme Court’s 1943 ruling in Hirabayashi v. United States has been presented as a rationale for the Defense Department’s efforts to prevent a pr...

  • Comedy InvAsian Live Tapings—Amy Hill

    Feb 26, 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. Actress/comedian Amy Hill’s numerous television and film credits include Seinfeld, All-American Girl,...

  • Comedy InvAsian Live Tapings—Robin Tran

    Feb 25, 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. Robin Tran came out as a transgender woman in 2015 and has been writing about her experiences ever si...

  • National Conversation on Immigration: Barriers and Access

    Nov 19, 2016

    FREE On the 225th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, the National Archives is hosting a series of conversations across the country to explore the complex issues around human and civil rights in the modern era. JANM is proud to host this free daylong conversation on immigration. 10 a.m.: David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, and Ann Burroughs, Interim President and CEO of JANM, will open the N...