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  • Fighting for Democracy Pre-visit Workshop

    Apr 10, 2008

    Sign-up for a FREE Pre-Visit Workshop Thursday, April 10, 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM (Dinner provided) WHAT IS FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY? For hundreds of years people have sought a home and future in the United States of America. They came, and still come, in pursuit of freedom and democracy. Yet, the dream of democracy is not without its struggle. Against the backdrop of World War II, a segregated America, and the Civil ...

  • MOCA Talk: Allan Kaprow -- Art as Life

    Apr 06, 2008

    In conjunction with Allan Kaprow -- Art as Life, art historian and writer Jeffy Kelly will discuss his close friend Allan Kaprow and the artist's work in a talk entitled, Memory of Happenings. For more information, please call 213-621-1745 or education@moca.org This program is in conjunction with the Museum of Contemporary Art.

  • Exhibition Walkthrough

    Apr 06, 2008

    Walkthrough of One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now.

  • Neglected Legacies: Japanese American Women and Redress: Organizing the Community

    Apr 05, 2008

    REDRESS REMEMBERED (Part 2 of 3) This program will feature first-hand accounts from participants in the major Redress/ Reparations organizations that held pride of place during the 1980s. The current list of speakers include: Chizu Omori, Seattle, on JACL/ Pacific Northwest region; Aiko Herzig on her work with NCJAR, CWRIC, and Coram Nobis; Lillian Nakano, on her work in NCRR Susan Nakaoka (Calif...

  • Southwest Chamber Music: Music Unwrapped

    Mar 29, 2008

    FREE! Enjoy new quartet music from Southeast Asia juxtaposed with the exciting Mozart Hunt Quartet. Part of a three-year cultural exchange project between Southwest Chamber Music Music and the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and the Hanoi National Conservatory in Vietnam. Visit their website

  • One Way or Another - Gallery Talk

    Mar 29, 2008

    Gallery talk with curator Karin Higa and artists Kaz Oshiro and Glenn Kaino. Left: Glenn Kaino Graft (salmon) 2006 Shark skin, thread, salmon skin, plastic 36 x 12 x 4 in. Collection of the artist Photograph SJK, courtesy of The Project, New York

  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    Mar 29, 2008

    Relive history, 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.

  • Exhibition Walkthrough

    Mar 23, 2008

    Walkthrough of One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now.

  • Resettlement to Redress: Rebirth of the Japanese American Community

    Mar 22, 2008

    REDRESS REMEMBERED (Part 2 of 2) Our second Redress Remembered program will begin with a special screening of Resettlement to Redress. Following the screening, there will be a discussion with Adam Schrager, the author of The Principled Politician: The Ralph Carr Story. The film and book are currently available in our Museum Store. Schrager will be signing copies following the program. In addition, there will ...

  • Japanese American National Museum and National Coalition for Redress/Reparations Present 'Day of Remembrance' Programs on Feb. 19 and 20

    Feb 01, 1999

    In annual remembrance of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the unconstitutional incarceration of more than 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II, the Japanese American National Museum and the National Coalition for Redress/Reparations (NCRR) are featuring a weekend of programs and events at the Japanese American National Museum on Friday, Februa...