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  • Members Only Meet-and-Greet with Taiji Terasaki

    Jun 20, 2020

    All members are invited to meet artist Taiji Terasaki before our COVID-19 Community Heroes program at 2 p.m. for a virtual Members Only Meet-and-Greet. Hear more from Terasaki about his process of developing the Transcendients: Heroes at Borders exhibition for JANM and how he is staying creative in this time. This program is FREE for all members, but RSVPs are required at the link, by email to memberevents@janm.or...

  • 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...

  • JANM Free Family Days: Celebrate Japanese American History

    Apr 08, 2017

    FREE ALL DAY Learn about Japanese American history and actor/activist George Takei with crafts and activities inspired by our exhibitions, Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066 and New Frontiers: The Many Worlds of George Takei. Presented in collaboration with Kizuna. ALL DAY ACTIVITIES: Kizuna Craft Stations Get a head start on Kodomo no hi (Children’s Day, May 5) wi...

  • Remember, Educate, and Inspire: Learning from Our Past to Improve Our Future

    Oct 22, 2016

    Members of Go For Broke’s exhibitions and archives staff will speak about the inspiration that they draw from working with the history of the Nisei veteran experience. Gavin Do, Assistant Director of Archives and Special Collections, will share his experiences of discovery while working with the Hiroshi Sugiyama collection. Erin Sato will speak about how her life, work, and passions all intersect through her job a...

  • "Blossoms and Thorns: A Community Uprooted" by Kenneth Kokka

    Feb 02, 2013

    Blossoms and Thorns, a short documentary commissioned and funded by the Contra Costa Japanese American Citizens League, depicts the story of Richmond's Nikkei flower growing community. Japanese immigrants began arriving in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1800s and quickly discovered that they could make a living growing cut flowers. The moderate climate was conducive to growing flowers, and they found afford...

  • MUSEUM TRUSTEES NAME INTERIM CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

    Aug 31, 2011

    The Board of Trustees of the Japanese American National Museum announced today the appointment of two interim co-executive directors to oversee and direct Museum matters while the Board seeks a new head of the institution. To handle the day-to-day operations, Nancy Araki, Director of Community Affairs, and Miyoko Oshima, Chief Operating Officer, will share responsibilities for running the institution until a new CEO ...

  • FOUNDING PRESIDENT BRUCE KAJI TO SPEAK AT VENICE JCC OCT. 31

    Oct 22, 2010

    Bruce Kaji, the Founding President of the Japanese American National Museum, will relate stories from his autobiography, Jive Bomber: A Sentimental Journey, as part of the National Museum’s Members’ Appreciation Event set for the Venice Japanese Community Center on Sunday, October 31, beginning at 2 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Kaji, who was born in Boyle Heights, was attending Roosevelt High Sch...

  • NORMAN MINETA, GEORGE TAKEI TO CONVERSE ON GROWING UP JA

    Sep 22, 2009

    Two of the most distinguished and widely-recognized Japanese Americans, Norman Y. Mineta and George Takei, will have a frank, behind-the-scenes discussion about growing up before and after World War II, the challenges of entering careers in the public eye, and what it took to arrive at difficult decisions in their personal and professional lives in a special fundraising event at the Japanese American National Museum ...

  • LINKIN PARK'S MIKE SHINODA OPENS EXHIBIT AT JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

    Jul 10, 2008

    Musician/producer/artist Mike Shinoda will premiere Glorious Excess, his most ambitious and powerful series of paintings and digital works to date, on July 12. The special engagement features large-scale pieces that blend Shinoda’s experiences in the spotlight with pop commentary and classical vanitas influences. The first in a two-part series, the exhibition will be displayed in the George and Sakaye Aratani Central...