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  • A Life in Pieces

    Jul 09, 2021 - Jan 09, 2022

    A Los Angeles native, Stanley Hayami is an ordinary American teenager from Mark Keppel High School in Alhambra writing in his journal about school and his dreams of becoming an artist or writer. But this is 1942, and his Japanese American family is imprisoned at Heart Mountain concentration camp in Wyoming. The young teen’s words and sketches are a window into his everyday life and feelings. Stanley opens up about hi...

  • Two-Day Craft Workshop—Shibori Fusion: Techniques of Yesterday and Today

    Apr 23, 2016 - Apr 24, 2016

    Saturday, April 23–Sunday, April 24 11 a.m.–4 p.m. In this two-day workshop led by Shibori Girl Glennis Dolce, participants will use various resist dyeing techniques on silks, including recycled kimono silks, to create a fabric collection and a scarf. Stitching, wrapping, clamping, and binding will be covered. Samples and books will be on hand for inspiration. New and returning shibori practitioners welco...

  • "Hiro: A Story of Japanese Internment" by Keiko Wright

    Jul 27, 2013

    A Gold Medal winner at the 38th Annual Student Academy Awards, Hiro is a short documentary explores the life of Hiroshi ‘Hiro’ Hoshizaki. A retired grandfather of six, Hiro was incarcerated at the Heart Mountain Relocation during his adolescence. As we follow him on his own journey to confront the events and memories of his past, we learn of his incarceration and the traumatic repercussions this experience has had on...

  • NATIONAL MUSEUM PRODUCES DVDS OF CLASSIC MADE-FOR-TV FILM 'FAREWELL TO MANZANAR'

    Nov 10, 2011

    The Japanese American National Museum announced that it has obtained the licensing rights through the NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products Group to the classic made-for-TV 1976 movie, "Farewell to Manzanar," and has produced DVD copies for sale this fall for the first time ever. Based on the autobiographical book, Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston, the film is a rare Hollywood...

  • ORIGINS OF FORTUNE COOKIE TO BE DISCUSSED AT PROGRAM SEPT. 20

    Sep 18, 2008

    While no one denies that the Chinese fortune cookie is not from China, its actual origins remain a subject of discussion which will be at the heart of the program, "The All-American Fortune Cookie. . .from Japan?", set for Saturday, Sept. 20, at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. Featured in the discussion will be writer Jennifer 8. Lee, author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, filmmaker Derek ...

  • Closing of the exhibition "From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i"

    Nov 24, 2002

    Closing of the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i

  • "Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray"

    Oct 04, 2001

    Elegant and penetrating, Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray positions this immigrant photographer within the canon of American art. In Los Angeles, Miyatake is renowned as a studio photographer. To others he is known for having smuggled a lens and film holder into one of America's WWII concentration camps. Yet it was his little-known artistic pursuits before the war that honed his discerning eye. Join filmmaker B...

  • Captured Moments: A View of Family

    Mar 29, 1998

    Family Art Workshop at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Join California Indian artist L. Frank Manriquez in creating dioramas, collages, or treasure chests using family photos and other mini-memorabilia from your personal collection. Free with Museum admission. Reservations required. Class limited to 30 participants. For reservations and further information please call 805.682.4711 ext. 312.

  • Cold Tofu Improv: Wide World of Tofu

    Jul 31, 1997

    See the world through the eyes of tofu lovers. This talented, energetic, multicultural comedy improv group has an amazing assortment of entertainment techniques that will keep you laughing all night. Free. Reservations suggested. Limited seating.

  • Reflections: Memoirs of Japanese American Women in Minnesota

    Mar 01, 1997

    Book Reading and Signing John N. Tsuchida, editor of Reflections: Memoirs of Japanese Women in Minnesota, joins the Museum to sign and read from this extraordinary book. This rich anthology of memoirs includes works by fourteen Japanese American women in Minnesota which tells of their experiences and effects of World War II, racism, discrimination, and their endurance, strength, and personal success. Free with...