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  • Members Only Exhibition Tour: "Instructions to All Persons"

    May 18, 2017

    Join John Esaki, Director of JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, for an in-depth gallery tour of Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066. Limited to 25 members. RSVP to memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646. Members are encouraged to stay after the tour for the Moving Day program.

  • Author Discussion—"Sayonara Slam" by Naomi Hirahara

    May 21, 2016

    Sayonara Slam is the highly anticipated sixth book in the award-winning Mas Arai mystery series. Set at Dodger Stadium during the Japan vs. Korea World Baseball Classic, the novel challenges its stoic protagonist—an aging, widowed Japanese American gardener from Altadena—with yet another multi-layered whodunit. Who is that strange woman throwing knuckleball pitches to warm up the Japanese team? Who sent thugs ...

  • 'TAKING IT TO THE STREETS' THEME FOR TARGET FREE FAMILY SATURDAY EVENT AT NATIONAL MUSEUM JUNE 11

    Jun 08, 2011

    The Japanese American National Museum will hold another free event as part of its popular series, Target Free Family Saturday, with the theme, "Taking It to the Streets", on Saturday, June 11, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the National Museum’s facility in Little Tokyo. The event is free and open to the public. Target Free Family Saturday events include presentations by different performers and experts and hands-on ar...

  • 'WILD THINGS' THEME FOR MUSEUM'S TARGET FREE FAMILY SATURDAY EVENT ON MAY 14

    May 07, 2011

    The Japanese American National Museum continues its popular series, Target Free Family Saturday, with the theme, "Wild Things", for Saturday, May 14, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Museum’s Pavilion in Little Tokyo. The event is free and open to the public. Target Free Family Saturday events include presentations by different performers and experts and hands-on arts and crafts for family members. Generously sponsor...

  • Fighting for Democracy Pre-visit Workshop

    Apr 07, 2011

    Sign-up for a FREE Pre-Visit Workshop Thursday, April 7, 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 Civil...

  • "Mendez Vs. Westminster: For All the Children" by Sandra Robbie

    Feb 26, 2011

    Seven years before Brown v. Board of Education, Mendez vs. Westminster began the unraveling of school segregation in the U.S. Among many surprises, two key persons played important roles in both cases: NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall, who later argued and won Brown v. Board of Education; and then-Governor Earl Warren who signed the World War II internment order that sent 120,000 Japanese Americans to U.S. concentrat...

  • Fighting For Democracy at Bishop Museum (Honolulu, HI)

    Oct 16, 2010 - Jan 23, 2011

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION Bishop Museum Honolulu, HI 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 “We” in “We, th...

  • Neglected Legacies: Japanese American Women and Redress: Organizing the Community

    Apr 05, 2008

    REDRESS REMEMBERED (Part 2 of 3) This program will feature first-hand accounts from participants in the major Redress/ Reparations organizations that held pride of place during the 1980s. The current list of speakers include: Chizu Omori, Seattle, on JACL/ Pacific Northwest region; Aiko Herzig on her work with NCJAR, CWRIC, and Coram Nobis; Lillian Nakano, on her work in NCRR Susan Nakaoka (Calif...

  • About Face: Artists Discuss Portraiture, Portrait-Making, and Identity

    Oct 29, 2006

    Closing of the exhibition kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa How are contemporary artists using portraiture and portrait-making processes to examine, reflect, and/or challenge constructions of identity? Kip Fulbeck and Los Angeles-based artists Shizu Saldamando and Jessica Shokrian gather to discuss the role of ethnicity, race, class, age, gender, and sexuality in shaping their work. The conversation promises t...

  • Life Interrupted: Reunion & Remembrance in Arkansas

    Jul 21, 2005

    The National Museum presents a preview screening of excerpts from Life Interrupted: Reunion & Remembrance in Arkansas, a new production from the National Museum's award-winning Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center. This documentary captures the journey of more than 1,300 nationwide participants to Little Rock for a historic conference that examined the experiences of Japanese Americans incarcerated at Jerome and Rohw...