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  • Members' Appreciation Days

    Dec 06, 2008 - Dec 07, 2008

    FREE ADMISSION AND 20% OFF AT 21 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ORGANIZATIONS Need a reason to become a National Museum Member? We’ll give you 21! The Japanese American National Museum, in partnership with 20 Southland institutions, hosts special holiday shopping days for members only! On selected days, your National Museum membership card entitles you to free admission (excluding special ticketed events) and 20% off* at ...

  • Our Spirits Don’t Speak English

    Dec 04, 2008

    Bringing the Circle Together: A Native American Film Series -- Screening of 'Our Spirits Don’t Speak English: Indian Boarding School' On June 10, 2008, the government of Canada formally apologized to the world for its treatment of American Indians in the last century. This story examines the harrowing story of young Native American and First Nation’s children who were taken away from their families and sent to boa...

  • Dreams to Dreams

    Dec 02, 2008 - Jan 25, 2009

    SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTThe Japanese American National Museum in association with Dacosta of Chocolate Soop bring you the first custom vinyl toy show in a museum. 39 artists have customized Chocolate Soop’s DCTO (Dream Come True Object), a futuristic vinyl version of a traditional Japanese New Year’s folk toy.DCTO (pronounced dik-toe) is an urban vinyl version of a daruma, symbol of the 5th century Buddhist monk who medita...

  • Craft Class with Ruthie Kitagawa: Holiday Cards

    Nov 29, 2008

    Create beautiful Christmas and New Year’s cards for everyone on your list. $8 Museum members; $13 non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies.

  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    Nov 29, 2008

    Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with National Museum docents. $8 Members; $13 non-members, includes Museum admission. Comfortable walking shoes and clothes recommended. Weather permitting.

  • Alcatraz Is Not An Island

    Nov 20, 2008

    Bringing the Circle Together: A Native American Film Series -- Screening of 'Alcatraz Is Not An Island' When a small group of Native American students and “Urban Indians” began the occupation of Alcatraz Island in November 1969, they sparked a movement joined by thousands, retaking “Indian land” for the first time since the 1880s. This historic event altered U.S. Government Indian policy and programs, and how it f...

  • Stanley Hayami, Nisei Son: His Diary, Letters & Story

    Nov 15, 2008

    From American Concentration Camp to Battlefield 1942-1945 During World War II, Stanley Hayami, a 16 year-old Heart Mountain prisoner, aspiring artist-writer, dedicated Nisei son, and later a 442nd RCT veteran, began a diary chronicling his thoughts and optimistic hopes for a “United Nations of Earth.” Joanne Oppenheim, author of Dear Miss Breed, will share her interviews with Hayami's family and friends and her...

  • Vaudeville Night

    Nov 14, 2008

    FREE! A night of performances and videos by a selection of CCF fellowship recipients in one of LA's historic theaters, now converted into an arts center that is home to CCF fellow Sara Velas' recently completed panoramic painting installation, The Efflugence of the North. Please note, Vaudeville Night will take place at The Velaslavasay Panorama, which is located at: 1122 W. 24th St. Los Angeles, CA 90007. ...

  • Gallery Talk: 20 Years Ago Today

    Nov 13, 2008

    Come join us for an exciting gallery talk with a curator and artists Dominique Moody and Haruko Tanaka.

  • An American Diary: Paintings by Roger Shimomura Opens at Japanese American National Museum October 8

    Oct 01, 1999

    LOS ANGELES—An American Diary, a traveling exhibition of paintings and prints by sansei (third generation Japanese American) artist Roger Shimomura, inspired by the World War II diary entries of his grandmother written during her incarceration in the Minidoka concentration camp, will be on display from October 8, 1999 to January 16, 2000 at the Japanese American National Museum. “An American Diary is a small part ...