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  • Two-Day Workshop: Shibori Mandalas

    Jan 18, 2020 - Jan 19, 2020

    Explore the endless possibilities of mandalas in this contemporary shibori workshop, in which you’ll use colorful dyes to create eye-catching patterns for pillows, quilts, and other projects. Bring scissors and a seam ripper. All fabrics, dyes, and other materials are supplied. Please wear workshop attire. $72 members, $90 non-members, plus $40 materials fee due to instructor at beginning of class (cash only). ...

  • 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...

  • "The Karate Kid" 30th Anniversary Celebration

    Sep 09, 2014

    If you missed the program, you can watch the post-screening discussion online on JANM’s YouTube channel. 6 p.m.: Reception with Light Refreshments 7 p.m.: Screening 9 p.m.: Panel Discussion Join us as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the beloved film The Karate Kid, starring Pat Morita as the wise Mr. Miyagi and Ralph Macchio as his devoted karate student. JANM’s special guests this...

  • "Convergence" with Kenny Endo and Kaoru Watanabe

    May 23, 2014

    Japanese American National Museum and Kodo Arts Sphere America present Kenny Endo and Kaoru Watanabe, both considered leading practitioners of the Japanese taiko drums and flutes, combine Japanese theater and folk traditions with jazz and other improvisational genres to create a sound that is ancient with a modern edge. KENNY ENDO One of the leading personas in contemporary percussion and rhythm, Kenny Endo i...

  • Hapa Hoops: Japanese American Basketball and Community with Rex Walters

    Jun 22, 2013

    Join us as we explore the experiences of Hapa Japanese Americans and their experiences in Japanese American basketball leagues. Hapa Hoops will feature a screening of JANM’s basketball documentary Crossover and will be followed by a conversation by Rex Walters, a veteran of both Japanese American basketball leagues and the NBA.

  • RARE MINE OKUBO DRAWINGS AVAILABLE ON JANM.ORG

    Nov 07, 2012

    The Japanese American National Museum announced today that it has completed the conservation, cataloguing, and digitization of 197 pen and ink drawings by artist Mine Okubo, which now may be viewed on the JANM’s website. Okubo was an artist, writer, and social activist who created drawings and sketches of her life while at Tanforan assembly center in San Bruno, California and Topaz concentration camp in Utah durin...

  • 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...

  • No More Cherry Blossoms: Sisters Matsumoto and Other Plays by Philip Kan Gotanda

    Mar 26, 2006

    In recognition of Women's History Month, the National Museum presents acclaimed playwright Philip Kan Gotanda's anthology of four plays exploring the choices and challenges Japanese American women face. Set in different decades of the 20th century, the plays are all absolutely modern in the human struggles they depict. Gotanda will speak about his journey in writing and bringing to stage stories of Asian Americans...

  • Taiko Recital

    Jul 29, 2001

    Students of the Taiko class held at the National Museum, joined by special guest artists, will give a recital of traditional and contemporary Taiko pieces. The class is taught by Tom Kurai, Director of the Taiko Center of Los Angeles. Bring the family for an afternoon of exciting Taiko music.

  • Japanese American National Museum Opens New Hawai'i Exhibition

    Mar 10, 1998

    The Japanese American National Museum opens their new exhibit, From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i, Saturday, March 14, 1998. The exhibition tells the story of Americans of Japanese ancestry (AJAs) in Hawai'i from immigration to the present. When they arrived in the Islands as laborers, Japanese immigrants carried their lunches, called bento to work in the field...