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  • Reading and Signing—"Ninja Mom and Tengonis in the Tiki"

    May 11, 2019

    It’s the first day of young Kimi’s ninja training when a group of monsters is accidentally unleashed. She’ll need help from her ninja mom, inventor dad, and grandmother warrior bachan to get through her first ninja lesson! Author Ren Hanami and illustrator Don Schmidt will be at JANM to read from their book, Ninja Mom and Tengonis in the Tiki. They will also provide a short martial arts demonstration for child...

  • Visual Communications: Uprooted from the Scenes

    Jul 28, 2016

    In the Tateuchi Democracy Forum Join Visual Communications for the tenth edition of their popular summertime community extravaganza, organized and hosted by VC’s stable of summer interns. Screenings will include highlights from the 2016 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, works from VC’s Armed with a Camera Fellowship and Digital Histories senior media workshop, and select premieres by local APIA filmmakers. ...

  • Asians on Film Festival

    Mar 10, 2016 - Mar 13, 2016

    Thursday, March 10–Sunday, March 13 The Asians on Film Festival grew out of the website asiansonfilm.com, now a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting under-recognized Asians and Asian Americans working in the film industry. The annual festival, hosted by JANM, showcases nearly 100 of the best short films submitted to the website over the past year. Visit asiansonfilm.com for more inform...

  • "Strawberry Yellow" by Naomi Hirahara

    Mar 30, 2013

    Mas Arai is a taciturn, sometimes even curmudgeonly retired gardener with a past. Born in Watsonville in California’s strawberry country, he was raised in Hiroshima, Japan, and as a teenager survived the 1945 A-bomb. After the war, he returned to Watsonville to start over, finding shelter with cousins and work in the strawberry fields. Now, after moving to Altadena and spending a lifetime as a gardener, Mas re...

  • CAPE presents An Evening With Carrie Ann Inaba

    Jun 07, 2012 - Jul 07, 2012

    An intimate evening with Dancer, Choreographer, Producer, Television Host, and Judge on "Dancing With The Stars", Carrie Ann Inaba, one of the most admired artists, who happens to be of Asian American Pacific Islander descent, where she will share her path to success from Fly Girl to her role as a prime time television star! This exclusive intimate evening is special to CAPE and is intended to offer perspective and i...

  • Urban Gardens for Small Spaces: A Container Gardening Demonstration

    Sep 09, 2007

    In conjunction with the exhibition Landscaping America: Beyond the Japanese Garden, the National Museum presents a four-part series of gardening demonstrations led by horticultural experts. PART 4 Horticultural consultant and LA Times garden writer Lili Singer shows you how you can improve your green thumb -- even in small spaces -- through container gardening. Single demonstration price: $8 National Museum membe...

  • Big Drum

    Jul 14, 2005 - Jan 08, 2006

    Big Drum: Taiko in the United States explores the growing phenomenon of taiko (Japanese drum) ensemble performances through the use of several media presentations, historic photographs, artifacts, and even interactive opportunities for the whole family. Group taiko performance only developed in post-war Japan and the United States and Japanese Americans played a major role in its growing popularity. With few models t...

  • Japanese American National Museum Annual Dinner March 29th

    Mar 29, 2003

    The Japanese American National Museum will hold its 2003 Gala Dinner with the theme, "Honoring the Family Business: Building the American Dream", on Saturday, March 29, at the Century Plaza Hotel, with 71 Nikkei three-generation family businesses representing seven different states set for recognition. Family businesses have proven to be the backbone of Japanese American communities throughout the United State...

  • Passports to Friendship

    Jul 27, 2002 - Oct 13, 2002

    In 1927, millions of American and Japanese children participated in an exchange program aimed at promoting peace, goodwill and understanding between their two nations. American children sent 12,739 dolls to coincide with the traditional Japanese Girl's Day festival known as Hina Matsuri. Later that year, Japanese children reciprocated by sending 58 dolls to the U.S. in time for Christmas celebrations. Each doll ca...

  • Kokeshi: From Folk Art to Art Toy - Contemporary

    Marvel at the work of eleven contemporary artists whose works demonstrate some of the ways the iconic image of the kokeshi has been reinterpreted.