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  • Transit Equity Day

    Feb 04, 2024

    Celebrate Transit Equity Day on February 4, 2024 with Metro and SoCal Museums to embark on a cultural journey through LA County’s vibrant museums and receive perks with your TAP card! Transit Equity Day highlights the right of all people to affordable public transportation and honors the birthday of Rosa Parks, who took a stand to create a more equitable transportation system for everyone, by offering free rides ...

  • JANM to Present J. T. Sata: Immigrant Modernist on March 15, 2024

    Feb 01, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will present J. T. Sata: Immigrant Modernist from March 15–September 1, 2024. Curated by Dennis Reed, the exhibition comprises sixty photographs by Sata, along with family artifacts from his time in America’s concentration camps and reproductions of his paintings and drawings. Sata was a charter member of the Japanese Camera Pictorialists of California, a...

  • Two-Day Workshop—Shibori and Indigo Explorations

    Jan 27, 2024 - Jan 28, 2024

    Come and join this workshop to practice, learn, and enjoy all the creativity shibori has to offer! Taught by Glennis Dolce, this two-day class will explore a variety of traditional Japanese fabric dyeing techniques, including stitching, clamping, binding, and pole wrapping. This workshop (limited to fifteen participants) is open to all levels of knowledge. All tools, supplies, and materials are included with payme...

  • Inaugural Norman Y. Mineta Distinguished Lecture

    Jan 26, 2024

    The Democracy Center presents the inaugural lecture in the Norman Y. Mineta Distinguished Lecture Series. Our special guest speaker will be Mitch Landrieu, former Senior Advisor to the President and former Mayor of New Orleans. The Norman Y. Mineta Distinguished Lecture Series is a Democracy Center signature series centered on the leadership values and principles inspired by Secretary Mineta (1931–2022), includin...

  • Closing Celebration: Aki’s Market

    Jan 20, 2024

    Join Glenn Kaino, family, and friends to say goodbye to Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market with hand casting workshops, conversations with Kaino and his family, and a special skate park pop-up! See below for schedule. This event is FREE with pre-registration by January 19, 2024; general admission for walk-ins (General: $16, Students/Seniors: $9, Members: FREE). Please note that you must reserve your spots for the h...

  • Democracy Center Announces the Second Annual Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship for Emerging Arts Writers of Color

    Jan 19, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Democracy Center) at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announces the second annual Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship (Yamamoto Fellowship) with a focus on theater, dance, and performance art. The fellowship encourages emerging arts writers of color to write about works from their own cultural and political perspe...

  • Aki’s Market Extended Through February 11, 2024

    Jan 17, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has extended the exhibition, Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market, through Sunday, February 11, 2024. Aki’s Market is inspired by Akira and Sachiye Shiraishi’s small neighborhood market (1957–1970) in East Los Angeles. Created by artist Glenn Akira Kaino (Akira’s grandson and namesake), the exhibition explores the transgenerational trauma from the World War II J...

  • Imagine Little Tokyo Writing Workshop with Susan Ito and Naomi Hirahara

    Jan 13, 2024

    Participants were able to join award-winning authors Susan Kiyo Ito and Naomi Hirahara for an interactive writing workshop! Participants learned tips and got advice for writing short stories that they can submit to the eleventh annual Imagine Little Tokyo short story contest. Participants were also welcomed to sign up for a Little Tokyo walking tour with Little Tokyo Historical Society members, preceding the ...

  • The Japanese American National Museum and Asian American Pacific Islander Arts Network Present a Program on the Legacy of Former Curator, Karin Higa

    Oct 28, 2022

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) and the Asian American Pacific Islander Arts Network (AAPIAN) present Karin Higa: Hidden in Plain Sight on Saturday, November 5, 2022 from 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m. PDT in the Tateuchi Democracy Forum. This free in-person and virtual program is the first in a two-part series that highlights the legacy of the late curator, writer, and cultural activist Karin Hig...

  • The Japanese American National Museum Launches An American Vocabulary: Words to Action in Response to Increased Anti-Asian Violence

    Sep 27, 2022

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will launch a new, collaborative project, An American Vocabulary: Words to Action, on Saturday, October 8, 2022, from 3 p.m.–6 p.m. on the JANM Plaza. The event will include live music with rapper jason chu, percussionist Gingee, and DJ Grace Ktown. Visual artist, Audrey Chan, will facilitate an art demonstration connected to the project that encourages p...