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  • Mottainai Spirit: Yoga with traci ishigo

    Apr 16, 2016

    April 2, 9, and 16—JUST ADDED! New dates have been added due to popular demand! Roughly translated, mottainai means "Don't be wasteful" in Japanese. In this 3-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 ...

  • Mottainai Spirit: Yoga with traci ishigo

    Apr 09, 2016

    April 2, 9, and 16—JUST ADDED! New dates have been added due to popular demand! Roughly translated, mottainai means "Don't be wasteful" in Japanese. In this 3-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 ...

  • Mottainai Spirit: Yoga with traci ishigo

    Apr 02, 2016

    April 2, 9, and 16—JUST ADDED! New dates have been added due to popular demand! Roughly translated, mottainai means "Don't be wasteful" in Japanese. In this 3-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 ...

  • "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...

  • Cold Tofu presents The Armando Show!

    Oct 21, 2010

    The Armando Show is a long-form improv performance inspired by an audience suggestion. A special guest host (or “Armando”) interprets that suggestion through a personal and truthful improvised monologue. Inspired by that monologue, COLD TOFU performs scenes that, in turn, inspire a response from our Armando. This propels hilarious interchanges between the Armando’s monologues and the company’s scenes. "Pay-Wha...

  • "BEST FRIENDS FOREVER: A WWII Scrapbook " by Beverly Patt

    Oct 02, 2010

    Award winning author Beverly Patt will read from this moving and powerful fictional scrapbook which features a friendship that even war could not tear apart. In April of 1942, 14-year-old Louise Krueger starts a scrapbook when her best friend, Dottie Masuoka, must move to a concentration camp for Japanese Americans in Washington state. The elaborate scrapbook design includes historical photographs and recreated p...

  • Tofu Festival

    Aug 18, 2007

    The 12th Annual Los Angeles Tofu Festival will be held in Little Tokyo and it will feature over 100 imaginative and delicious tofu dishes served by L.A.'s hottest restaurants; artisanal soy products and a wide array of Pan-Asian and non-vegetarian specialties; a beer, wine, and sake garden; and performances throughout the day. The LA Tofu Festival is a fundraiser for the Little Tokyo Service Center, a non-profit comm...

  • Planned Giving Seminar in Honolulu, Hawai'i

    Jan 23, 2002

    Preserve Your Family Treasures This workshop will teach you the basics of how to care for your family papers, photographs, books, etc. to protect them from unnecessary deterioration and damage. All About Archives: An Introduction to Organizing Your Records This workshop will provide practical information on handling items such as immigration records, birth certificates, diaries, and other important documents alo...

  • Traditions in Transition - Asian American Creative Music

    Feb 15, 1998

    Saxophonist Francis Wong and tuba virtuoso William Roper will join artist in residence Glenn Horiuchi on shamisen along with members of the Museum’s Shamisen Ensemble in a special collaborative concert. Both Wong and Horiuchi are key figures in the Asian American creative music movement in which artists are creating distinct, individual languages which draw upon materials from traditional Asian music and the jazz ...

  • An Evening with Saachiko and Dom Magwili and Friends

    Nov 13, 1997

    Thursday Evenings at the Museum Long-time East West Players artists, Saachiko and Dom Magwili will present a selection of music and drama performances along with their friends. Saachiko is a noted film and television actress, writer, and director. Dom Magwili was recently seen in the television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dangerous Minds, and L.A. Heat. Together, this husband and wife team presented ...