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  • Asian American Music Festival's Movement 1: Urbanisms

    Oct 15, 2010 - Oct 17, 2010

    The Asian American Music Festival (AAMF) 2010 kicks off with west coast hip-hop star, Kero One, opening for Dana Leong's Milk & Jade project which fuses electronica and hip-hop. Movement 1's headliner is Japanese rapping sensation, Shing02. The AAMF is the world’s leading festival celebrating Asian American music: jazz, world, hip-hop and beyond. AAMF celebrates the artistic and creative achievements of Asian Amer...

  • Exhibition Walkthrough

    Mar 09, 2008

    Karin Higa, exhibition co-curator, will lead gallery tours of One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now.

  • "Gasa-Gasa Girl: A Mas Arai Mystery" by Naomi Hirahara

    Apr 14, 2005

    Naomi Hirahara follows up her acclaimed first mystery novel Summer of the Big Bachi with another Mas Arai adventure. The story follows Mas Arai's daughter, Mari, who from the time she was a child was completely gasa-gasa (never sitting still, always on the go). Mas, a gardener and Hiroshima survivor haunted by his past, never had much time for his family. Now, Mari is asking for his help and Mas finds himself in New ...

  • Flower Drum Song Theater Night

    Nov 27, 2001

    ANNUAL GIVING CIRCLES EVENT Annual Giving Circle members are invited to attend a new production of the beloved musical Flower Drum Song, in its first major revival since being produced on Broadway in 1958. This production, running at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, features a "substantially rewritten" book by acclaimed playwright David Henry Hwang and a performance by Lea Salonga in the role of Mei-Li. The pe...

  • Flo Oy Wong

    Sep 27, 2001 - Mar 31, 2002

    Artist Flo Oy Wong is known for her provocative explorations of family and community history through her work. The exhibition includes Wong’s most recent installation, made in usa: Angel Island Shhh, that exposes the conditions and experiences of Chinese immigrants incarcerated at Angel Island Immigration Station between 1910 and 1940. Premiering as a work-in-progress, Kindred Spirit #1 reflects on Wen Ho Lee’s 27...

  • VC Filmfest 2001 presents: Once Upon A Camp

    May 19, 2001

    Video screening, panel discussion and reception Join the National Museum and CABE in the world premiere of three unique multi-lingual, educational videos that teach students about the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Videos include: The Bracelet (elementary school), Dear Miss Breed (middle school), and Interactions (high school), followed by panel discussions with the producers, dire...

  • Conversations with the Artists

    Mar 13, 1998

    Panel discussion at Self-Help Graphics Featuring: Joyce Dallal, Aaron Glass, Eddy Kurushima, Frank LaPena, Judith Lowry, and Kim Yasuda. Finding Family Stories artists explore personal and private stories in their art. How does an artist make a private story the subject for public viewing? How does one engage an audience while maintaining the integrity of personal experiences? Join the FFS artists as they di...

  • Excerpts from Old Man River

    Feb 07, 1998

    Storytelling, multi-media performance featuring: Cynthia Gates Fujikawa Cyndy joins us from New York to perform excerpts from her one-woman show, Old Man River, currently playing at Theatre West in Hollywood from January 23 through March 1 (for information, call 213.851.7977). Old Man River chronicles the misadventures of her father, Nisei actor Jerry Fujikawa, and Cyndy’s revelations about him as a parent. Fr...

  • Planned Giving

    What will your legacy be? Share your legacy with future generations and be a part of JANM’s mission by including the Museum in your estate plans.

  • Artifact Donation

    Contributing to JANM’s Permanent Collection The over 150,000 objects that comprise the JANM permanent collection chronicle the Japanese American experience in its entirety from early immigration to the present. Artifacts related to early immigration to the United States at the turn of the 20th century, early life in Japanese American communities, and the World War II incarceration experience and military service a...