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  • Make Your Own "Toshikoshi Soba" with Sonoko Sakai

    Dec 07, 2019

    Make soba using fresh, stone-milled artisanal flour from Japan and authentic soba tools. This soba will be served in the classic way: cold with fresh soy-based dipping sauce, toppings, and spices. Soba is a type of noodle traditionally made from buckwheat flour, or a combination of buckwheat and wheat flours. In Japan, many people celebrate special occasions by eating soba. For example, many celebrate New Year’s E...

  • Building the Asian American Movement: Then and Now

    Jul 12, 2019

    SOLD OUT FREE Take a cross-generational look at the challenges and opportunities Asian American communities face as they continue to grow and engage in political action. Hear from a panel of Asian American activists who span the 1970s to the present. Learn about what motivated them to become politically charged and find what out what they believe it means to be an activist in today’s world and what issues c...

  • Edible Adventures: Little Tokyo Sushi Graze

    Dec 05, 2015

    Take a stroll through Little Tokyo and sample some of the many different ways to experience sushi—maki, inari, chirashi, kaiten. On this guided tour, sushi masters will tell stories that evoke the 130-year history of the neighborhood. Comfortable walking shoes recommended. $64 members; $80 non-members. Food and museum admission included. Reserve early; limited to 12 participants.

  • "Yokohama Yankee: My Family's Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan" by Leslie Helm

    Feb 01, 2014

    Leslie Helm’s decision to adopt Japanese children launches him on a personal journey through his family’s 140 years in Japan, beginning with his German great-grandfather, who worked as a military adviser in 1870 and defied custom to marry his Japanese mistress. The family’s poignant experiences of love and war help Helm learn to embrace his Japanese and American heritage. Yokohama Yankee is the first book to l...

  • Target Free Family Saturday: Planet Power

    Nov 12, 2011

    FREE ALL DAY! Enjoy a day of fun for the whole family. This month’s theme is green living. Keep checking back for more information! Generously sponsored by Target, these special Saturdays are filled with fun activities giving families unique ways to learn, play, and grow together. ALL DAY CRAFT ACTIVITIES: Go green by decorating a re-usable shopping bag Ruthie’s Origami Corner: Using reused paper, fold an o...

  • TARGET FREE FAMILY DAY 'ON THE GO!' SET FOR SATURDAY, JULY 17

    Jul 10, 2010

    The Japanese American National Museum continues its popular on-going series, Target Free Family Saturdays, with its latest presentation, "On The Go!", with an emphasis on travel and transportation set for Saturday, July 17, beginning at 11 a.m. in Little Tokyo. The event is free to everyone. Generously sponsored by Target, these special Saturdays are filled with fun activities giving families unique ways to learn,...

  • Bringing the Circle Together: Trespassing

    Nov 19, 2009

    Free Screening of Trespassing This compelling documentary shows the risks indigenous people and other environmentalists take to protect sacred Native American lands, the air, and the water from desecration by nuclear waste. It examines the deadly controversy around land rights, uranium mining, nuclear testing, and the disposal of nuclear waste in the Four Corners area, Nevada's Yucca Mountain, and California's Moj...

  • Ruth Asawa and the Tamarind Lithography Workshop

    May 05, 2007

    In 1965, Ruth Asawa's friend and teacher, Josef Albers, recommended her for a fellowship at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop. Based in Los Angeles at the time, the Workshop, funded by the Ford Foundation, was the most recognized printmaking workshop in the country. Join June Wayne, artist and co-founder of the Workshop, and Ernest de Soto, artist and one of Asawa's printers at Tamarind, as they share their fond memo...

  • Memento Mori: Memory and Monuments in American Public Spaces

    Jul 15, 2004

    Moderated by KPCC's KITTY FELDE, this lively panel discussion includes, architect Greg Lynn of Greg Lynn FORM, who led the United Architects team's entry in the World Trade Center design competition; author EDWARD T. LINENTHAL, who has written eloquently about the Oklahoma City National Memorial; and Curator KARIN HIGA, Director of the Curatorial and Exhibitions Department and Senior Curator of Art at the Japanese Am...

  • Hot Off The Press

    Sep 24, 2000

    Author Reading Series At the Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library Fifth and Flower streets in Downtown Los Angeles Parking, 524 S. Flower, adjacent to Library. $5.65 flat rate after 5 p.m. Free, Reservations suggested. 213.228.7025 Two Novelists: Kyoko Mori, reading and discussing Stone Field, True Arrow Anchee Min, reading and discussing Becoming Madame Mao Kyoko Mori is the author of two novels f...