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  • Cooking Demonstration and Book Signing with Sonoko Sakai

    Dec 07, 2019

    Author and instructor Sonoko Sakai will do a cooking demonstration, with a small tasting, based on a recipe from her newest book, Japanese Home Cooking: Simple Meals, Authentic Flavors. Following the demonstration, she will sign copies of Japanese Home Cooking as well as her previous work, Rice Craft. Included with museum admission. Space is limited so RSVPs are strongly recommended using the link below. Tic...

  • Members Only Preview Day: "Above the Fold"

    May 28, 2016

    All JANM members are invited to preview the exhibition Above the Fold: New Expressions in Origami before it opens to the public on Sunday, May 29. Photo: Erik DeMaine and Martin DeMaine, Destructors III, 2013. Photo courtesy of the artists.

  • Giant Robot artist Stella Lai

    Dec 12, 2009

    Join Giant Robot artist Stella Lai as she leads an art-making workshop for kids of all ages!

  • Pink Dress Puppet Show

    Dec 06, 2008

    The Pink Dress is based on an actual episode from the Maruyama family's history in the Amache Concentration Camp. Faced with wearing the required drab uniform, Tsuki decides to wear her sister's pink dress to her junior high school graduation to prove she is not "an ant," but an individual. This poignant puppet theater piece, currently touring to LA County schools under the auspices of the Music Center, addresses com...

  • Exhibition Tour: Common Ground

    Nov 01, 2008

    Tour our ongoing exhibition Common Ground: Heart of a Community with our experienced and knowledgeable docents.

  • Exhibition Tour: Common Ground

    Oct 04, 2008

    Tour our ongoing exhibition Common Ground: Heart of a Community with our experienced and knowledgeable docents.

  • Exhibition Tour: Common Ground

    Sep 06, 2008

    Tour our ongoing exhibition Common Ground: Heart of a Community with our experienced and knowledgeable docents.

  • Horticulture in Southern California

    Sep 12, 1997

    Join Bruce Asakawa, host of the San Diego radio talk show West Coast Gardenline as he speaks about Southern California geography, climate, and soil conditions. Mr. Asakawa is a landscape architect who has worked in California’s retail nursery and landscape industry for over 40 years and whose popular radio program reaches more than 1.2 million listeners each weekend. A definite treat for all gardener enthusiasts and ...

  • Asian Pacific Tales

    Mar 08, 1997

    Kona Coffee Story Exhibit Series Family Performance Featuring: East West Players’ Theater for Youth With goals of stimulating children to discover other people and cultures and promoting racial understanding and tolerance, the East West Players present Asian Pacific Tales. This performance includes two tales from Hawai'i and one from the Philippines. East West Players Theater for Youth is one of the most enter...

  • Transcendients - Videos

    Videos of the public programs and artist talks presented in conjunction with the exhibition. Transcendients: Heroes at Borders Walkthrough Artist Taiji Terasaki leads you through his exhibition. Artist Talks with Taiji Terasaki A series of artist talks by Taiji Terasaki from his studio in Hawaii. He shares updates from the heroes that were honored in the exhibition. Many of the Transcendient...