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  • Target Free Family Saturdays: Hello Valentine!

    Feb 14, 2015

    FREE* ALL DAY! Will you be my valentine? Join Hello Kitty at JANM for a heart-filled day of family fun! *Admission to all activities and to Common Ground: The Heart of Community is FREE ALL DAY. Admission to the special exhibition, Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty, requires a separate purchase. All Hello! Admissions are based on timed entry; obtaining tickets in advance is strongly recommende...

  • "Infinity & Chashu Ramen" by Kerwin Berk

    Jan 18, 2014

    Showtimes: 4PM & 7PM The universe unfolds a little differently in Japantown. It operates in a way you couldn’t possibly comprehend. But there is a method to its madness and for the most part it runs as smoothly as a Tokyo train station. However, every once in a great while, it needs a little help. Meet Tenshi. He’s an obnoxious 400-year-old spirit from old Japan who has a foul mouth and a propensity for pett...

  • "American Tapestry" Member Preview & Reception

    Nov 12, 2010

    In celebration of the Japanese American National Museum’s 25th anniversary of incorporation, we invite our members to a Members’ Preview & Reception for American Tapestry: 25 Stories from the Collection. As part of the event, we will be introducing our new line of Generation Teas! Produced especially for the Museum by Chado Tea Room, come sample six special blends—Issei, Nisei, Sansei, Yonsei, Gosei, and a Museum ...

  • kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa at The Field Museum (Chicago, IL)

    Apr 02, 2010 - Sep 12, 2010

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION The Field Museum Chicago, IL EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 12! kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa is an exhibition of portraits by artist Kip Fulbeck, who traveled the country photographing more than 1,000 Hapa of all ages and walks of life. Originally a derogatory label derived from the Hawaiian word for half, the word Hapa has been embraced as a term of pride by many whose mixed-rac...

  • 'BRILLIANT BEATS' THEME FOR TARGET FREE FAMILY SATURDAY NOV. 8

    Oct 31, 2008

    The Japanese American National Museum continues its highly successful public program series, Target Free Family Saturday, with the theme of "Brilliant Beats" for November 8, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The program, which is free to the general public, thanks to Target, will include fun family activities, including hands-on arts and crafts and drumming. Highlighting the day of activities will be two opportunities to be ...

  • 1st & Central Summer Concerts: Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico

    Sep 18, 2008

    Internationally acclaimed Greek vocalist, Savina Yannatou, is a force of nature. This extraordinary evening of traditional and original sacred music from throughout the Mediterranean is presented as part of the 2008 World Festival of Sacred Music—Los Angeles. For festival details, visit www.festivalofsacredmusic.org. 2008 1st & Central Summer Concerts schedule September 25 - Chicha Libre and Etran Finatawa

  • Fresh Words and Actions

    Sep 26, 2002

    Performance Arts Series Held Every Fourth Thursday Big Head is Denise Uyehara's latest work which links the memory of the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans with the present-day treatment of those suspected of being "the enemy". This interdisciplinary performance is inspired by letters her great uncle composed in 1942 on his twentieth birthday while incarcerated at Rohwer concentration camp in Arkansas...

  • Re-Visioning Manzanar

    Sep 24, 1999 - Oct 07, 2001

    Manzanar, one of the ten War Relocation Authority concentration camps, has been the subject of multiple interpretations over the last fifty years. Culled from the permanent collection of the Japanese American National Museum, this exhibition also features work by Ansel Adams, Robert Hasuike, and Masumi Hayashi. New additions to this exhibition include the recent acquisition of American Families, a weaving by Nisei...

  • "Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945" by Gordon Chang

    Nov 22, 1997

    Yamato Ichihashi was one of the first academics of Japanese ancestry in the United States. Gordon Chang, Associate Professor of History at Stanford University, will discuss the writings of Yamato Ichihashi writings from concentration camps during World War II. These wartime writings offer the first complete first-hand account of internment. Please join us for this book party in celebration of the Japanese American ...

  • "Something Strong Within" Documentary To Be Screened On KCET's "California's Gold" On May 17

    Apr 24, 1997

    The award-winning documentary, Something Strong Within, which features home movie footage taken by the Japanese American inmates of several of the U.S. concentration camps during World War II, will be featured on the KCET series California’s Gold with producer/host Huell Howser on Saturday, May 17, at 6 p.m. The series is screened on 13 PBS affiliates in California as well as stations in Hawai‘i and Utah. Viewers sho...