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  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    Jun 02, 2018

    Tour the ongoing exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community with JANM’s knowledgeable docents. Included with museum admission.

  • Indigo Dyed and "Boro" Stitched "Shibori" with Shibori Girl

    Feb 01, 2014 - Feb 02, 2014

    This two-day workshop explores recycling vintage Japanese boro (tattered) textiles through indigo ombre dying techniques to create new scarves. Feel free to bring your own natural and lightweight fabric bits to use and share. $70 members, $90 non-members, an additional $40 materials fee (cash only) required at the beginning of class. Bring a pair of rubber gloves, sewing pins, and scissors. RSVP early; 24 partici...

  • Beginners Wagashi Workshop

    Nov 19, 2011

    This is a hands-on wagashi making class. Chikara Mizukami will demonstrate two classics: Nerikiri and Kuzukiri. Nerikiri are hand molded bean cakes made with azuki bean paste and natural vegetable dyes for coloring. You will learn about the seasonal themes in Wagashi and the varieties of wagashi shapes - the abstract and impressionistic designs of Kyoto and the realistic designs of Edo (old Tokyo). We will also ma...

  • Kidding Around the Kitchen Family Cooking Workshop: Spring Rolls into JANM!

    Mar 26, 2011

    This workshop celebrates the coming of spring and the creation of an assortment of Asian foods, including sweet and savory spring and egg rolls, noodle soups and salads. All workshops are $25 for members (one child & one adult); $35 for non-members (one child & one adult), an additional $20 materials fee (cash only) will be collected at the beginning of the workshop, admission is included. RSVP early, 25 participa...

  • Ian Buruma’s The China Lover

    Oct 21, 2008

    FREE! In conversation with John Nathan, Takashima Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies, UCSB In his enthralling new novel, Buruma—an expert on modern Asia—uses the life of the starlet Yamaguchi Yoshiko as a lens through which to understand the contradictions and complexities of modern Japanese history. This program will take place at the Mark Taper Auditorium at the downtown Central Library. To make reserv...

  • Isamu Noguchi

    Feb 05, 2006 - May 14, 2006

    In a career that spanned six decades, Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) produced a groundbreaking body of work that encompassed multiple disciplines to break down the barriers between sculptural art and functional design. Isamu Noguchi - Sculptural Design celebrates this legacy by integrating over 75 of Noguchi's works into a series of dramatic installations conceptualized by renowned theater designe...

  • Struggle and Success: The African American Experience in Japan

    Sep 16, 2001

    Join award-winning filmmaker Regge Life in a screening and discussion of Struggle and Success: The African American Experience in Japan, which is the first documentary to thoroughly examine the complex relationship of African Americans and Japanese. Mr. Life first went to Japan as an Artist Fellow with the U.S. Japan Friendship Commission in 1990. At the end of his six-month fellowship, he began planning this docu...

  • Exhibition Opening: "From Bento to Mixed Plate" at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, HI

    Oct 25, 1997

    Opening of exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Hawai‘i at the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

  • Little Tokyo Guided Tour

    Sep 06, 1997

    Historic Tour Series PART A: Walking Tour 9:30 a.m.– 11:30 a.m. Once a thriving residential, business and cultural center, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles was one of the largest Japanese American communities in the United States until World War II. Take a walking tour, relive history, and learn about present day Little Tokyo with Museum docents at this very popular program. PART B: The Historic Nishi Bui...

  • Clara Breed Collection

    (93.75.31) The online collection of Clara Breed, or “Miss Breed” as she was known by her young library patrons, includes over 300 letters and cards received by Breed from Japanese American children and young adults during their World War II incarceration.Miss Breed was the children’s librarian at San Diego Public Library from 1929 to 1945. When her young Japanese American patrons were forced into concentration camps ...