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  • Members Only Learning at Lunch: Hinamatsuri

    Mar 03, 2018

    Bring a brown bag lunch and join JANM collections staff as they look at a selection of artifacts focused on the history and traditions of Hinamatsuri (Girls’s Day). Space is limited. RSVP by February 27 using the link below. You can also contact memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646. In the Nancy K. Araki Community Education Center

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

    Aug 08, 2015 - Aug 09, 2015

    This program is sold out. Saturday–Sunday, August 8–9 11 a.m.–4 p.m. on both days 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...

  • Family Education Tour

    Jul 19, 2014

    All Members are invited to accompany their child(ren) or grandchild(ren) on a guided tour of Common Ground: The Heart of Community. This interactive and intergenerational tour will prompt discussion of what it was really like to be in America’s concentration camps. It will conclude with an activity and a visit to the Hirasaki National Resource Center, so that you can look up your family’s camp and immigration records...

  • Family Education Tour

    Jul 18, 2014

    All Members are invited to accompany their child(ren) or grandchild(ren) on a guided tour of Common Ground: The Heart of Community. This interactive and intergenerational tour will prompt discussion of what it was really like to be in America’s concentration camps. It will conclude with an activity and a visit to the Hirasaki National Resource Center, so that you can look up your family’s camp and immigration records...

  • Target Free Family Saturday: Marvelous Masks

    Oct 13, 2012

    FREE ALL DAY! Enjoy a day of family fun and crafts. October’s theme is masks! Generously sponsored by Target, these special Saturdays are filled with fun activities giving families unique ways to learn, play, and grow together. ALL DAY CRAFTS AND ACTIVITIES: Make a mask marvelous by adding your own fun and flair Use your imagination to create some props for dress-up and disguise! Ruthie’s Origami Corner:...

  • KRISTI YAMAGUCHI TO READ LATEST CHILDREN'S BOOK AT MUSEUM MARCH 18

    Mar 08, 2012

    Kristi Yamaguchi, Olympic figure skating Gold Medalist and 2008 "Dancing with the Stars" Champion, will read from her latest children’s book, It’s a Big World, Little Pig! on Sunday, March 18, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum. The book will be available for sale at the Museum and Yamaguchi will sign books after the program. Yamaguchi came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s as an ice s...

  • AUTHOR WAKAKO YAMAUCHI TO DISCUSS LATEST WORK, 'ROSEBUD AND OTHER STORIES'

    Apr 23, 2011

    Author Wakako Yamauchi, known for her groundbreaking short story, "And the Soul Shall Dance" which was turned into an award-winning play, will discuss her collection of short fiction in the anthology, Rosebud and Other Stories, at a program set at the Japanese American National Museum on Sunday, May 1, beginning at 2 p.m. Yamauchi, who was born in California Imperial Valley in the 1920s, attended night school at t...

  • Summer Film Festival: "Crossroads: Boyle Heights"

    Aug 13, 2009 - Aug 23, 2009

    To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, the National Museum will continuously screen Crossroads: Boyle Heights. This documentary was compiled from life histories of past and present neighborhood residents of Boyle Heights. It was originally produced for exhibition, BOYLE HEIGHTS: The Power of Place (2002), at the Japanese American National Museum. 55 min. [Purchase a cop...

  • Holiday Ornament Making

    Dec 18, 2004

    This program will begin with a reading of Allen Say's children's book Tree of Cranes, a story about two cultures which joyously combine as a mother shares a glimpse of her American childhood with her young son in Japan on his very first Christmas. Say's glowing watercolors and affecting words paint a story rich with the holiday spirit—a story of a family, of giving, of goodwill, and the hope for peace. Children will ...

  • The Kona Coffee Story

    Feb 09, 1997 - Jun 09, 1997

    The Kona Coffee Story tells the story of the coffee growing industry of Kona on the Big Island of Hawai‘i, from the arrival of the first coffee plants in 1828 to the poignant stories of the Japanese American coffee pioneers living today. A joint production of the Japanese American National Museum and the Kona Japanese Civic Association, this exhibition recently was awarded a Certificate of Commendation by the Amer...