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  • Edible Adventures: Little Tokyo Sushi Graze

    Sep 13, 2014

    SOLD OUT Take a stroll through Little Tokyo and sample the many different varieties of sushi available—inari, maki, kaiten, chirashi. On this guided tour, sushi masters will tell stories that evoke the 130-year history of the neighborhood. $64 members, $80 non-members. Food and museum admission included. Limited to 12 participants.

  • Nobuko Miyamoto "What Can a Song Do? "

    Jan 24, 2012

    Location: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 6522 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, 90028. Admission: General admission $10.00 / students $5.00 / FREE for LACE or JANM members. Tickets available at the door. Together with a group of guest musicians and activists from the 1960s/‘70s and the present, Miyamoto brings alive the dynamic moment when her 1973 album “A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle of Asians...

  • Kimono: From Past To Present

    Apr 24, 2010

    Come join us for a beautiful and educational kimono show and lecture, featuring men and women's kimono for all different occasions, by the International Beauty Association Yamanoryu Kisou. The show will feature furisode (a long sleeve kimono worn by unmarried women for ceremonies), homongi (a regular sleeved kimono worn by men and women for ceremonies), montsuki hakama (formal Japanese attire for men), and tom...

  • Cherry Blossom Festival Southern CA

    Apr 04, 2009 - Apr 05, 2009

    Saturday 4/4/08 – 10:30 am – 6:30 pm Sunday 4/5/08 – 10:30 am- 5:00 pm *Entrance on 1st Street in front of the Japanese American National Museum & Lot 7. The Cherry Blossom Festival Southern CA is a free admission event to the public produced by a Volunteer Team and located in the Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles. Main Stage - Live entertainment of Japanese Dancing, Taiko, Kimono Fashion Sho...

  • Bringing the Circle Together: Finding Dawn

    Mar 26, 2009

    Free Screening of Finding Dawn An estimated 500 Aboriginal women have gone missing or been murdered in Canada over the past 30 years. Acclaimed Metis filmmaker Christine Welsh embarks on an epic journey to shed light on these murders and disappearances that remain unresolved to this day. She begins at Vancouver's skid row where more than 60 poor women disappeared and travels to the 'Highway of Tears' in northern B...

  • Studio Lab Project

    Jan 31, 2009

    East West Actor's Conservatory in association with the National Museum presents a culmination of work performed by the students of the Musical Theatre Studio Lab Project.

  • Mums on Parade

    Nov 03, 2007

    75th Annual Chrysanthemum Show and Sale At the Descanso Gardens Learn how to successfully grow these fall flowers. Purchase plants and flowers on the last afternoon. Japanese Garden Festival The grace of traditional music and dance, and the beauty of ikebana and chrysanthemums reflect the indelible mark of Japanese-American culture. FREE to National Museum members (valid membership card must be presented)...

  • 1st & Central Summer Concerts 2007 Series Prelude: Enzo Avitabile & Bottari

    Jun 28, 2007

    Presented in collaboration with the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center Plaza, Japanese American Cultural and Community Center* 244 South San Pedro Street (between 2nd & 3rd Streets) Los Angeles (Little Tokyo), CA 90012 Information: 213.680.3700 Enzo Avitabile is the spirit of Italian soul. For more than twenty years, the Naples-born saxophonist and flutist has been a star on the Italian jazz scene, pe...

  • Picture Bride

    Aug 31, 1998

    "Two thumbs up!" —Siskel & Ebert NAATA and PIC present the first feature film written, produced and directed by Asian American women on public television September 1998 The National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA) and Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC) proudly present the critically-acclaimed feature film PICTURE BRIDE, by Kayo Hatta, on public television stations September 19...

  • J.T. Sata: Immigrant Modernist—Artist

    James Tadanao Sata (1896–1975) came to the United States in 1918. Despite his good education and the elevated social status of his samurai heritage, he was unable to inherit because he was not the eldest son. When he felt that his best opportunities would be in America, he boarded the Tenyo Maru at Yokohama and departed for the US. In his belongings was a sketchbook filled with depictions of Kagoshima, a keepsake of ...