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  • "What Are We?" Two-Part Photography and Art Workshop with Kip Fulbeck - Part 1

    Aug 19, 2006

    Artist Kip Fulbeck leads a two-part photography class especially for youth (ages 8 to 13), exploring images of the self, family, and community. Learn the basics of photography and how to approach and examine subjects to photograph. Photographs will be developed by the National Museum and participants will select final shots for a special display at the September 9 Target Free Family Saturday. Attendance is requ...

  • CANCELLED - Hapa Comedy Showcase

    Aug 17, 2006

    Stand-up comedians from throughout the Southland will have you laughing 'til it hurts as they tackle their own identity politics and family dynamics. * * * * Please note that this program has been cancelled. * * * *

  • 8th Annual Courtyard Kids Festival: Every Day is Children's Day

    Aug 12, 2006

    Join Courtyard Kaeru in celebrating the spirit of youth. Holidays honoring children are held around the globe throughout the year. In Japan, Children's Day is May 5th, but the National Museum is celebrating it in the summer along with other communities. Dance, sing, create, and play with us as we, together, experience festive cultural customs of our neighbors around the world. Lively music, arts and crafts, and st...

  • REEL Hapa

    Aug 09, 2006

    Every second and fourth Wednesday through July and August, the National Museum will host screenings of film shorts that explore issues of identity. Following the films, community leaders, artists, activists, and others will share their own perspectives on identity and build upon issues discussed in each film.

  • 1st & Central Summer Concerts: Lenine and DJ Sergio Mielniczenko

    Aug 03, 2006

    FREE 6:30 PM - DJ Sergio Mielniczenko 7:00 PM - Lenine Singer, composer, arranger, musician and producer, Recife-born Lenine has become one of the stars of Brazilian popular music. He is acclaimed by the public, the press, his fellow artists and tastemakers alike and is considered one of the standard bearers of the Brazilian scene for the 21st century for his brilliant talent at combining original music with the rhy...

  • Craft Class with Ryosen Shibata: Origami Pop-Up Cards

    Jul 29, 2006

    Add your personal touch to lively pop-up cards featuring the art of origami. $8 for National Museum members and $13 for non-members, includes supplies and Museum admission. Reservations are required.

  • REEL Hapa

    Jul 26, 2006

    Every second and fourth Wednesday through July and August, the National Museum will host screenings of film shorts that explore issues of identity. Following the films, community leaders, artists, activists, and others will share their own perspectives on identity and build upon issues discussed in each film.

  • 15th Annual National Invitational Golf Tournament

    Jul 24, 2006

    National Invitational Golf Tournament at the Wilshire Country Club, Los Angeles, California. For more information, please contact Special Events at 213.830.5688 or specialevents@janm.org.

  • A New Perspective on U.S.-Japan Relations: The Japanese American and Japanese Partnership

    Jul 21, 2006

    The Japanese American National Museum has increasingly explored the relationship between Japanese Americans and Japan. While the bilateral relationship between the U.S. and Japan is considered among the most important in the world, the connection between Japanese and Japanese Americans is more complex and perhaps atypical to that of other Americans with the people and land of their ancestry. While World War II pla...

  • Premiere Screening of "Life Interrupted: A Special Arkansas Reunion" - Private Invitation Only

    Jul 20, 2006

    Did you attend the Camp Connections conference in Little Rock, Arkansas? Join the National Museum for a special reunion and release of the new video documentary Life Interrupted: A Special Arkansas Reunion, produced by the award-winning Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center. Relive and reflect on this remarkable trip to Arkansas. Light reception to follow. Visit www.janm.org/media/lifeinterrupted to learn more about t...