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  • Two-Day Shibori Mandalas Workshop

    Feb 03, 2018 - Feb 04, 2018

    Saturday–Sunday, February 3–4 11 a.m.–4 p.m. 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. Please wear studio clothing and bring rubber gloves, scissors, and a seam ripper. All other materials will be provided. $72 members, $90 non-members, plus $40 m...

  • “Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings”

    Dec 21, 2014

    Celebrate the holidays with a screening of Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings, an inspiring portrait of an inventive musician whose virtuoso ukulele skills have transformed all previous notions of the instrument’s potential. Through intimate conversations with Shimabukuro, the film reveals the cultural and personal influences that have shaped the man and the musician. Screening will be followed by a special ho...

  • The Japanese Pantry and Koji with Myoho Asari and Sonoko Sakai

    May 25, 2013

    Free! The Japanese American National Museum is pleased to welcome Sonoko Sakai, founder of Common Grains in Los Angeles, and Myoho Asari, owner of Saiki Kojiya in Oita, Japan. This seminar will celebrate Koji, the fermented medium that creates much of the unique flavor and umami in Japanese cooking. Myoho and her family have vested generations in selling and promoting this incredible food. The seminar will showcas...

  • Bringing the Circle Together: Kaho'olawe Aloha 'Aina

    Jan 15, 2009

    Free Screening of Kaho'olawe Aloha 'Aina Produced by the Protect Kaho'olawe 'Ohana, this documentary traces the history and activism on Kaho’olawe island, from ancient times through the years of ranching, U.S. military bombardment, and the modern-day struggle to stop the bombing and reclaim the island. A very special performance to follow the screening by Hawaiian guitar extraordinaire Makana. Kalani Queypo (Bla...

  • Dr. Gordon Sato: The Manzanar Project

    Oct 19, 2008

    Come hear Dr. Gordon Sato from The Manzanar Project speak about his work fighting global poverty around the world. The Manzanar Project is named after the concentration camp Dr. Sato was in during World War II and is dedicated to the eradication of poverty and hunger and to relieving global warming. The approach adapted comes from my long experience as a scientific researcher and my experience in the Manzanar Dese...

  • Bringing the Circle Together: A Native American Film Series -- In Whose Honor?

    Aug 14, 2008

    In Whose Honor? Filmmaker Jay Rosenstein focuses on the story of Charlene Teters (Spokane) whose campaign against Chief Illiniwek, mascot of University of Illinois, forced many to rethink the larger issue of culture and identity and their representation in the media, and effects on both Native Americans and non-Natives. Poetry by Los Angeles artist Tschetan to start the screening! Bringing the Circle Together: A ...

  • J-Town/Bronzeville Suite Premiere

    May 13, 2006

    A three-part composition created by Dave Iwataki, J-Town/Bronzeville Suite explores a fascinating and seldom told chapter of Los Angeles' history. While Japanese Americans were incarcerated, newly arrived African Americans from the South settled in Little Tokyo, where they remained until the War's end. Known as "Bronzeville," it became a community hub with restaurants and clubs featuring some of the most recognized ...

  • Snakeskin Shamisen by Naomi Hirahara

    May 06, 2006

    Naomi Hirahara's new novel is the third in a series featuring one of mystery fiction's most unique heroes: Mas Arai, a curmudgeonly Los Angeles gardener and Hiroshima survivor. In Snakeskin Shamisen, Mas hates to stick his nose in other people's business, but a favor to a friend soon has him caught up in a mystery that reaches from the islands of Okinawa to the streets of Los Angeles--a world of heartbreaking memori...

  • Finding Family Stories (2003)

    Mar 14, 2003 - Jul 06, 2003

    In March 2003, the sixth year of finding family stories culminates with an exhibition at four partner institutions of the works of eight artists chosen by representatives from these institutions: the Japanese American National Museum (the organizing institution), the California African American Museum, the Chinese American Museum and Self-Help Graphics & Art, Inc. finding family stories brings together living arti...

  • Bruce and Norman Yonemoto

    Jan 23, 1999 - Jul 04, 1999

    This provocative exhibition surveys the film, video, and video installation art of Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, Los Angeles-based, Sansei (third generation Japanese American) brothers who have worked collaboratively since 1976. The first comprehensive exhibition of their career, it includes a newly commissioned piece, Silicon Valley, which combines dramatic projection of archival film footage of the atomic bomb blas...