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  • Mottainai Spirit: Yoga with traci ishigo

    Jan 23, 2016

    January 9, 16, and 23—JUST ADDED! Single session options. Roughly translated, mottainai means "Don’t be wasteful" in Japanese. In this three-session yoga and meditation workshop for all levels, certified yoga instructor traci ishigo invites participants to harness their own inner energy to prevent body, mind, and spirit from going to waste. Participants can expect each one-hour class to be both resto...

  • Mottainai Spirit: Yoga with traci ishigo

    Jan 16, 2016

    January 9, 16, and 23—JUST ADDED! Single session options. Roughly translated, mottainai means "Don’t be wasteful" in Japanese. In this three-session yoga and meditation workshop for all levels, certified yoga instructor traci ishigo invites participants to harness their own inner energy to prevent body, mind, and spirit from going to waste. Participants can expect each one-hour class to be both resto...

  • "Giant Robot Biennale 4" Opening Party

    Oct 10, 2015

    FREE The public is invited to celebrate the opening of Giant Robot Biennale 4 with a party! • First 500 guests will receive a limited edition Giant Robot pin. Limit one pin per person; guests must be present to receive a pin. • Special souvenir buttons will be available for customizing with a design started by a Giant Robot artist and completed by you. • Take a GRB4 commemorative photo on a sp...

  • Common Ground: A Screening & Dialogue On "New Muslim Cool"

    Jan 28, 2010

    FREE! Take a trip through urban life in the post-9/11 United States with Hamza Perez, who defies the definition of "America’s worst nightmare." This thought-provoking documentary follows Hamza's journey from the recording studio to the mosque, from single fatherhood to married life, from street life to community activism. Join him on his spiritual quest for interfaith friendships and struggles as a prison chaplain...

  • Open House for Educators

    Oct 01, 2009

    FREE! Drop by and join us as we celebrate the beginning of a new school year. View exhibitions and get updates and information about the Museum’s programs. We welcome returning teachers as well as educators who have never visited the Museum before to come see what we have to offer! Special opportunity: Bring a completed group visit reservation form (available at janm.org) for guaranteed on-site tour booki...

  • "Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants" by Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain

    Mar 25, 2007

    Pure Beauty shows how racial and gendered meanings are enacted through the pageants, and reveals their impact on Japanese American men, women, and children. Now based in Ireland, King-O'Riain concludes that the mixed-race challenge to racial understandings of Japanese American-ness does not necessarily mean an end to race as we know it and asserts that race is work -- created and re-created in a social context. Book...

  • "21st Century Manzanar", by Perry Miyake

    May 23, 2004

    When the economy goes sour, World War III turns into an economic war with Japan. All Japanese products, investments, and people are banned. The propaganda/advertising machine gets cranked up and old prejudices resurface against Americans of Japanese ancestry. Executive Order 9066 is reinstated and all Japanese Americans are ordered to abandon their jobs, homes, schools, and their country and report to the resurrec...

  • "Reds, Whites, & Blues"

    Aug 01, 2003

    Reds, Whites, & Blues is a provocative play about race, class distinctions, and society's expectations. Two former classmates meet again in an exclusive hotel—one is a privileged guest, the other a dissatisfied maid. Their encounter strips away masks to reveal choices, delusions, and the damaging limits that may come as an American with an Asian face. Tickets are $15 per person and includes National Museum admissi...

  • "Reds, Whites, & Blues"

    Jul 31, 2003

    Reds, Whites, & Blues is a provocative play about race, class distinctions, and society's expectations. Two former classmates meet again in an exclusive hotel—one is a privileged guest, the other a dissatisfied maid. Their encounter strips away masks to reveal choices, delusions, and the damaging limits that may come as an American with an Asian face. Tickets are $15 per person and includes National Museum admissi...

  • Fresh Words and Actions: "99 Histories" by Julia Cho

    Apr 24, 2003

    Performing Arts Series Held Every Fourth Thursday What is remembered is made up. The only homelands that exist are imaginary. Love is nothing; there is only Chung. Eunice comes home to decide what to do with the baby that has unexpectedly taken root inside her. But first she has to confront the lessons of a difficult past. A cellist, a missionary, a mysterious aunt, who knew a Los Angeles suburban home could hold ...