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  • Museums Free-For-All

    Oct 05, 2008

    ADMISSION: Free In a joint effort to welcome diverse communities across Southern California, the Museum Marketing Roundtable announces the fourth annual "Museums Free-For-All" during the weekend of Saturday, October 4, and Sunday, October 5, 2008. The twenty-four institutions listed below—exploring art, cultural heritage, natural history and science—will offer free admission to all visitors on one or both dates....

  • 20 Years Ago Today Exhibition Opening Celebration!

    Oct 04, 2008

    FREE to the public Enjoy a special exhibition opening of California Community Foundation Presents 20 Years Ago Today: Supporting Individual Artists in L.A. All are invited to view some of L.A.’s most exciting and innovative visual works of art from the past twenty years. No RSVPs required.

  • Exhibition Tour: Common Ground

    Oct 04, 2008

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

  • Asian American Poetry & Writing Presents: Creative Writing Classes

    Oct 04, 2008 - Nov 08, 2008

    This Fall 2008 Asian American Poetry and Writing (AAPW) and the Japanese American National Museum are proud and excited to offer community-based creative writing workshops for aspiring and emerging writers. Our goal is to create affordable and culturally sensitive classes that allows writers the space to explore craft and theme in their work. When: October 4, 2008 - November 8, 2008 (Saturday mornings and af...

  • 20 Years Ago Today

    Oct 04, 2008 - Jan 11, 2009

    Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the California Community Foundation’s Fellowships for Visual Artists, this exhibition illustrates the cultural emergence of Los Angeles as seen through the development of visual artists. Since the fellowships were first awarded in 1988, L.A.’s arts landscape has changed considerably. Today, the milieu of the city’s art is receiving increased global recognition. This exhibition f...

  • Multiple Feeds

    Oct 02, 2008

    FREE! Los Angeles Art Association is proud to partner with Otis College of Art and Design on an essential screening of Otis’ time-based and new media artists. Part of Otis’ 90th Anniversary celebration, this screening will acknowledge and commemorate the many important video artists fostered at Otis. Curated by Erika Suderburg. For more information, visit: www.laaa.org.

  • 2008 Imprint Culture Lab

    Oct 01, 2008

    In collaboration with the Imprint Culture Lab, the National Museum hosts this annual one-day conference on the CULT in Pop CULTure. For more information, visit imprintlab.com.

  • ID Film Festival: NON/FICTION

    Sep 28, 2008

    A new festival dedicated to contemporary digital films that explore and celebrate identity crisis in our diverse Asian/Pacific Islander community. NON/FICTION: Brings together four shorts that tread the boundary of fiction and non fiction. Free for Japanese American National Museum members; $5 for non-members for each program. We recommend purchasing tickets in advance by calling 213-625-0414 or vis...

  • ID Film Festival: GONE SHOPPING

    Sep 27, 2008

    A new festival dedicated to contemporary digital films that explore and celebrate identity crisis in our diverse Asian/Pacific Islander community. GONE SHOPPING: The Los Angeles premiere of Gone Shopping -- a satirical Singaporean feature film about the unique world of Singaporean shopping malls. Free for Japanese American National Museum members; $5 for non-members for each program. We recommend pu...

  • International Scholars discuss U.S. History: "Thrust into the Mainstream: American Assimilation Policies" at Japanese American National Museum July 24

    Jul 24, 1999

    The Japanese American National Museum will host an afternoon of engaging lectures comparing two strikingly similar instances of the United States government implementing racial policies: Japanese American "resettlement" after World War II and Native American "relocation" in the 1950s, on Saturday, July 24 at 1 p.m. The discussion will revolve around Dillon S. Myer, director of the War Relocation Authority (WRA), an...