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  • The American War Experience Through California Voices: World War II

    Nov 14, 2019

    FREE JANM is pleased to partner with the Cal Poly Pomona Veterans Resource Center to present the second of two discussions about World War II as part of their special series, The American War Experience through California Voices. (Click on the RSVP link for details about the first discussion at Cal Poly Pomona on October 30.) These will be reading-based discussions based on Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D....

  • Two-Day Craft Workshop—Indigo and Shibori in the 21st Century

    Nov 21, 2015 - Nov 22, 2015

    Saturday, November 21–Sunday, November 22 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Back by popular demand! Enjoy two days of indigo dyeing with a focus on learning how the dye takes to different textiles. Shibori techniques to be explored include arashi, itajime, and nui, as well as combined and invented techniques. Material kits will include handouts, threads, and many types of vintage kimono silks as well as some cottons, bambo...

  • Author Discussion—"The Inker’s Shadow" by Allen Say

    Oct 10, 2015

    FREE Allen Say is the award-winning author and illustrator of many acclaimed children’s books, including Drawing from Memory, an autobiographical volume that explored his love of comic books through a collection of his own photographs and drawings. Say now offers a companion to that book in The Inker’s Shadow, a graphic novel that tells the story of his own coming-of-age. As a teenager in Southern Califor...

  • Traditions and Craft in Japanese "Moku-hanga"

    May 31, 2014

    Master printer Paul Mullowney will lead a hands-on workshop on creating woodblock prints, including an introduction to the history of its connection to ukiyo-e prints, Japanese tattoo imagery, and the 20th century sosaku hanga (creative prints) of leading figures like Shikoh Munakata. In the spirit of the exhibition, Perseverance, the workshop will focus on the crossover shared between the traditions of tattooing ...

  • Carlos Bulosan: The Writer Is Also a Citizen

    Oct 27, 2013

    FREE Poet, novelist, essayist, fiction writer, and labor organizer Carlos Bulosan (1913-1956) left the Philippines at age 17 to look for work in the United States. What he found was racism, low-paying jobs, and a brilliant and unexpected literary career. In conjunction with the closing of the banner exhibition I Want the Wide American Earth: An Asian Pacific American Story, whose title is taken from one of Bulosan...

  • "Valor With Honor" by Burt Takeuchi

    Feb 05, 2011

    Valor with Honor is an independent documentary film based on over 35 interviews of Japanese American veterans who served in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II. This small segregated unit of 3500 men is the most decorated American unit for its size and length of service. By the end of WW2, the 442nd would be awarded with seven Presidential Unit Citations, 21 Medals of Honor (upgraded from DSC), ov...

  • BOOK PARTY FOR 'IWAO TAKAMOTO: MY LIFE WITH A THOUSAND CHARACTERS' NOV. 8

    Oct 28, 2009

    Co-authors Mike Mallory and Barbara Takamoto will discuss their work on the autobiography, Iwao Takamoto: My Life With A Thousand Characters, and their remembrances of the late pioneer animator Iwao Takamoto at a presentation set for Sunday, Nov. 8, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum. Takamoto, who began his career in animation at the Walt Disney Studios, had become famous as the designer...

  • Bringing the Circle Together: Looking Toward Home

    Oct 15, 2009

    Free Screening of Looking Toward Home Looking Toward Home explains how government relocation programs in the 1950s enticed significant numbers of Native Americans to leave the reservation for life in major cities such as, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and the San Francisco Bay Area. The life and times of urban Indians is shown primarily through the eyes of these individuals and subsequent generations as they mai...

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM’S ‘BIG DRUM’ EXHIBITION SET FOR OREGON NIKKEI LEGACY CENTER JUNE 16 TO AUGUST 27

    Jun 01, 2006

    Los Angeles, CA—A traveling version of the Japanese American National Museum’s landmark exhibition, Big Drum: Taiko in the United States, will be installed at the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center (ONLC) in Portland, Oregon, beginning Friday, June 16, and running through August 27. Big Drum premiered in Los Angeles last year at the National Museum, coinciding with the 2005 North American Taiko Conference in July. Throug...

  • Witnessing History: A Conversation With Stan Honda

    Sep 13, 2003

    A panel discussion with photojournalist Stan Honda and author Sharon Yamato examines the experiences of Arab Americans following September 11, 2001 and of Japanese Americans following December 7, 1941. Stan Honda, who captured some of the moving and unforgettable images of September 11, embodies the link between the two experiences. His parents, American citizens of Japanese descent, were incarcerated during World ...