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  • Target Free Family Saturdays: Print-astic!

    Jul 12, 2014

    FREE ALL DAY! Celebrate JANM’s groundbreaking exhibition Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World with tattoo and printmaking-inspired activities for the whole family! ALL DAY ACTIVITIES: Kids’ Print Shop: Etch fun designs into plastic foam and make prints out of them. Kids’ Tattoo Parlor: Use our special paper to create temporary press-on tattoos. Ruthie’s Origami Cor...

  • Asian Pacific Islander Festival: "Conscience and the Constitution"

    May 12, 2012

    Award-winning film by Frank Abe that provoked controversy nationwide for documenting the untold story of the largest organized resistance to the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans, and the suppression of that resistance by Japanese American leaders. Screening includes new featurette, “The JACL Apologizes.” Q&A with the filmmaker and DVD signing will follow the screening. Purchase the DVD from the Museu...

  • Night & the City: L.A. Noir in Poetry, Fiction, & Film

    Oct 29, 2011

    As part of the citywide event produced by The Los Angeles Poetry Festival and Beyond Baroque, the National Museum presents Naomi Hirahara, author of Snakeskin Shamisen and other books featuring gardener and sleuth Masuo Arai, and poet Carol Lem, author of Gathering the Pieces and other collections, whose recent poems investigate family secrets and shady activities.

  • Six Taste's Little Tokyo Food Tour

    Apr 17, 2010

    Little Tokyo is home to several restaurants, bakeries, and other historical eating establishments. Its 100-plus years of history provide some fascinating stories. Six Taste's Little Tokyo Tour will take you throughout Little Tokyo, from Fugetsu-Do, a confectionary shop and the oldest building in Little Tokyo to Chado Tea Room, where you'll get to taste some authentic Japanese tea, to several other restaurants and oth...

  • Fighting for Democracy Pre-visit Workshop

    Jan 16, 2010

    Sign-up for a FREE Pre-Visit Workshop Saturday, January 16, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM (Lunch 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...

  • Artist Roundtable

    Jan 08, 2009

    Join a roundtable discussion moderated by one of the curators and Eve Fowler, Lari Pittman, and Erika Rothenberg from the exhibition. These distinguished artists will be discussing visual art in LA over the last 20 years -- relationships of art to the city, changes that have taken place in LA Art since the late 80s, what's it like to be an artist in LA, changing landscape of support (funding, galleries, institut...

  • Living Flowers

    Jun 15, 2008 - Sep 07, 2008

    Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art is an innovative exhibition that showcases the traditional Japanese art of ikebana alongside cutting-edge contemporary art. For centuries, ikebana has been displayed in conjunction with traditional Asian art. In Living Flowers, arrangements by masters of the Ikenobo, Ohara, and Sogetsu schools of ikebana will be juxtaposed with the works of international artists. The exhib...

  • Member Holiday Shopping Days!

    Dec 03, 2006

    FREE ADMISSION AND 20% OFF AT 20 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTIONS The Japanese American National Museum, in partnership with 19 Southland institutions, hosts special holiday shopping days for members only! For one day only, National Museum Members will receive 20% off* at the award-winning Museum Store and online at www.janmstore.com. There will also be complimentary gift-wrapping and light holiday refreshments. ...

  • "From Tokyo Rose to the Patriot Act: Propaganda and its Impact on Civil Liberties"

    Mar 12, 2005

    In this second of a five-part seminar features Dr. Mitchell T. Maki, Acting Dean, College of Health and Human Services, California State University, Los Angeles, and author of Achieving the Impossible Dream: How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress, in conversation with noted scholars, activists, and artists as they respond to propaganda artifacts displayed in the exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community. This...

  • Facing L.A.: A Conversation with its Writers and Poets

    Mar 14, 2002

    Join us for an evening of conversation and readings with some of Los Angeles' most provocative writers. They give voice to living in Los Angeles ten years after the riots and six months after the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. The program will also include a special reading of Angel Island (considered the "Ellis Island of the West") immigration poetry. An evening that fuses past, present, and the future thr...