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  • Los Angeles Tea Festival by Chado

    Aug 13, 2011 - Aug 14, 2011

    Tea lovers will experience a world of teas and tea cultures as they enjoy focused tastings of teas from many origins, meet new and established authors and tea company exhibitors inside the National Museum. Featured guest speaker will be James Norwood Pratt: Tea Author, Historian & Story Teller. The Tea Festival will be opened on August 13 & 14, 2011 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily. Admission to the tea festi...

  • Exhibition Tour: Common Ground

    Aug 06, 2011

    Tour our ongoing exhibition Common Ground: Heart of a Community with experienced docents.

  • Anime Mini-Film Festival: POW! WHIZ! BAM!

    Aug 06, 2011

    Visual Communications in association with the Japanese American National Museum will present its first annual animation film festival.The day-long event titled POW! WHIZ! BAM! offers a gourmet set-menu of animation works.Screenings will include an intimate showcase with local animators; ICE, a sci-fi post-apocalyptic lesbian Romeo and Juliet; and TRIGUN: BADLANDS RUMBLE, the classic Japanese shoot-em-up caper now re-...

  • Summer Classic Anime Film Series (Part 3)

    Aug 04, 2011

    Pay-What-You-Can! For four exciting nights, the Tateuchi Democracy Forum will screen vintage anime titles from the 1920s and 1930s, the Golden Age of Japanese silent film. Please note: This screening is part of an on-going four part series. However, each program stands on its own and does not require you have seen the previous film(s). The anime classics we will be screening: Corporal Norakuro (1934) Dekobo t...

  • "The Shifting Grounds of Race" by Scott Kurashige

    Jul 30, 2011

    Los Angeles has attracted intense attention as a "world city" characterized by multiculturalism and globalization. Yet, little is known about the historical transformation of a place whose leaders proudly proclaimed themselves white supremacists less than a century ago. In The Shifting Grounds of Race, Scott Kurashige highlights the role African Americans and Japanese Americans played in the social and political stru...

  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    Jul 30, 2011

    Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with National Museum docents. $9 Members; $14 non-members, includes Museum admission. Comfortable walking shoes and clothes recommended. Weather permitting.

  • Summer Classic Anime Film Series (Part 2)

    Jul 28, 2011

    Pay-What-You-Can! For four exciting nights, the Tateuchi Democracy Forum will screen vintage anime titles from the 1920s and 1930s, the Golden Age of Japanese silent film. Please note: This screening is part of an on-going four part series. However, each program stands on its own and does not require you have seen the previous film(s). The anime classics we will be screening: Animal Sumo (1931) Momotaro's...

  • "From Minidoka to Minnesota: A Carleton College Story of the Japanese American Internment" by Fred Hagstrom

    Jul 23, 2011

    This talk focuses on an artist’s book recently completed by Fred Hagstrom, Rae Schupak Nathan Professor of Art at Carleton College in Minnesota. The artist’s book is titled deeply honored and tells the story of Frank Shigemura, who came to Carleton College in 1943. Carleton participated in the student relocation project, a program that allowed Japanese American students to leave internment camps and continue th...

  • Craft Class with Ruthie Kitagawa: Kusudama

    Jul 23, 2011

    Make kusudama (paper balls) inspired crafts for your friends and family. $9 members; $14 non-members, includes admission and supplies.

  • Finding Family Stories Arts Partnership Project To Unveil Works Of 8 Southern California Artists At Four Cultural Sites Beginning March 14, 2003

    Feb 28, 2003

    Finding Family Stories, a three-year arts partnership project that brings together cultural institutions representing Southern California’s diverse communities, will highlight the works of eight emerging and established local artists working in a variety of media, including photography, sculpture, video, and painting, at four sites beginning on Saturday, March 15, 2003, at the Japanese American National Museum in L...