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  • Discover Your Japanese American Roots

    Mar 26, 2016

    Explore your roots in this comprehensive workshop led by genealogy buff Chester Hashizume. Identify your ancestral Japanese hometown, uncover the meanings behind family crests and surnames, and learn about conducting research in Japan. $44 members, $55 non-members. Supplies and museum admission included. Limited to 16 participants.

  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    Mar 26, 2016

    Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with JANM docents. $12 members, $15 non-members. Museum admission included. Comfortable walking shoes recommended. Weather permitting.

  • Mottainai Spirit: Yoga with traci ishigo

    Mar 26, 2016

    March 12, 19, and 26—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-hou...

  • East West Players: A Writers' Gallery Reading—"The Piano"

    Mar 24, 2016

    FREE In this edition of A Writer’s Gallery, East West Players presents a reading of The Piano, written by Robert Kuang. An Asian-Jewish-American family collides with music, food, and identity crises, as the death of a Chinese patriarch forces three generations of Asian American women to live under the same roof for the first time. A powerful multigenerational drama about the complexities of the Asian Amer...

  • Mottainai Spirit: Yoga with traci ishigo

    Mar 19, 2016

    March 12, 19, and 26—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-hou...

  • 2016 Gala Dinner, Silent Auction, and After Party

    Mar 19, 2016

    Moving Images, Telling Stories Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites, Los Angeles (Please note new venue.) Film and video are powerful tools used for generations to document, reflect, and influence people and culture. The Japanese American National Museum’s 2016 Gala Dinner will focus on the museum’s significant collection of moving images and how these compelling first-person resources have helped portray...

  • Members Only Exhibition Tour: "Making Waves"

    Mar 12, 2016

    Join exhibition curator Dennis Reed for an exclusive gallery tour entitled "Tender Views, Modern Expressions." Reed will provide an overview of Making Waves while focusing on the photographers who worked in Los Angeles, several of whom he knew personally. He will discuss the character of their work, which ranged from gentle scenes of lily pads to progressively modern abstractions, and their wide influence. Ree...

  • Mottainai Spirit: Yoga with traci ishigo

    Mar 12, 2016

    March 12, 19, and 26—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-hou...

  • ITSKE STERN TO DISCUSS HISTORY OF KOKESHI ON JULY 25

    Jul 21, 2009

    Itske Stern, author of several authoritative articles on the history of the traditional Japanese kokeshi, will discuss this subject and the remarkable collection she and her husband Anthony have collected over the years at a public program, "Kokeshi: Not Just a Toy!", set for Saturday, July 25, at 2 pm. at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. This presentation is part of the new exhibition, Kokes...

  • FILMMAKERS NAKAMURA, ISHIZUKA, LIN, ESAKI TO DISCUSS WATASE MEDIA ARTS CENTER ON SATURDAY, AUG. 1

    Jul 17, 2009

    Filmmakers and documentarians Robert Nakamura, Karen Ishizuka, Justin Lin and John Esaki will all comment on the past, present and future of Asian American film in a special public program set for Saturday, August, 1, beginning at 1 p.m., that marks the 10 years of work created by the Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center of the Japanese American National Museum. The National Museum has been celebrating the 10 years sinc...