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  • Summer "Soboro" Chicken Rice Supper Workshop with Sonoko Sakai

    Aug 24, 2013

    Soboro is a delicious Japanese dish that uses rice as the centerpiece of a meal. The menu will consist of rice made in a donabe clay pot, and served with a variety of toppings. There will be vegetable side dishes to enhance the rice dish and a refreshing fruit dessert. $70 members, $80 non-members. RSVP early, 16 students max.

  • Fighting For Democracy at National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, TN)

    May 29, 2010 - Aug 29, 2010

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION National Civil Rights Museum Memphis, TN About the Exhibition Through the diverse perspectives of seven ordinary citizens whose lives and communities were forever changed by World War II, this exhibition asks visitors to think critically about freedom, history, and, ultimately, the ongoing struggle to live democratically in a diverse America. Fighting For Democracy: Who is the “...

  • Asian Pacific Film Festival

    May 06, 2009

    The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, set for April 30 through May 7, 2009, is an annual production of Visual Communications, the nation’s premier Asian Pacific American media arts center. The National Museum and the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy are honored to support their efforts by hosting programs that explores the diversity of the Asian American experience. The Film Festival...

  • Fighting for Democracy Pre-visit Workshop

    Jul 10, 2008

    Sign-up for a FREE Pre-Visit Workshop Thursday, November 6, 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM (Dinner provided) WHAT IS FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY? For hundreds of years people have sought a home and future in the United States of America. They came, and still come, in pursuit of freedom and democracy. Yet, the dream of democracy is not without its struggle. Against the backdrop of World War II, a segregated America, and the Ci...

  • Film Screening: Passing Poston

    Jun 28, 2008

    For The Thousands of Japanese Americans Forcibly Interned During World War II, The Scars Have Never Healed. Passing Poston, tells the moving and haunting story of four former internees of the Poston Relocation Center. Each person shadowed by a tragic past, each struggling in their own painful way to reconcile the trauma of their youth, each still searching and yearning during the last chapter of their lives, to ...

  • dj Cheb i Sabbah and Friends

    Aug 04, 2005

    Spinning ragas and electronica with equal grace, Algerian-born dj Cheb i Sabbah is a pilgrim of the spirit, creating peaceful meditations that give new meaning to "trance music." His latest project, La Kahena, took him back to the Maghreb where he drank from an endless well of gorgeous melodies and rolling drumbeats. For this concert, Chebiji will be joined by some of LA's finest Maghrebi musicians and dancers. ...

  • O-Maya

    Jul 07, 2005

    Brewing a spicy concoction of urban hip-hop, soul, and Afro Latin grooves, O-Maya features some of the finest young talent from the Bay Area. This 10-piece band creates poetic lyrics that carry messages of positivity and social change -- all carried by a fierce beat. This series is presented in association with the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy and is sponsored, in part, by the City of Los Ange...

  • Former Camp Educators to be Recognized at Japanese American National Museum Gala Dinner Feb. 5

    Jan 07, 2005

    Over 20 former teachers who were instrumental in the lives of young Japanese Americans when they and their families were unconstitutionally incarcerated in U.S. government-run domestic concentration camps during World War II are expected to attend the Japanese American National Museum’s Annual Gala Dinner and Silent Auction on February 5, 2005, at the Century Plaza Hotel & Spa. The dinner’s theme is "Teaching from t...

  • Fresh Words & Actions: "Two in LA" by Rhiana Yazzie

    Nov 20, 2003

    A staged reading of a play about a young Navajo woman’s shocking discovery of real life in Los Angeles. In her hometown of Cuba, New Mexico, others could not see past Nita’s ethnicity, but in LA she could be anyone she wanted to be. Thrown into the middle of post-9/11 immigration decrees and their inherent biased nature, Nita is forced to experience a physical and emotional displacement of her own. A dram-edy...

  • Three California Museums to Collaborate in Arts Partnership

    Aug 01, 1997

    The Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles; Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, announced they will collaborate in the third year of the Japanese American National Museum’s arts partnership project, Finding Family Stories, funded in part by the James Irvine Foundation. This is the third year of the three-year collaboration between the Ja...