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  • LA Freewaves 2006 presents Screening and speak out: Media that Matters and other youth videos

    Nov 18, 2006

    Community Connections at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy In collaboration with Media That Matters, the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, and other Los Angeles nonprofit groups*, Freewaves will screen contemporary works by youth that address political, economic, and social issues. The program is based around the Sixth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival, a showcase for ...

  • Craft Class with Ryosen Shibata: Sumi-e

    Nov 18, 2006

    Bring vivid richness of autumn to life in this sumi-e class with Master Teacher, Ryosen Shibata. $8 for National Museum members and $13 for non-members, includes supplies and Museum admission. Reservations required.

  • Cornerstone Theater Company’s Adaptation of “Farewell to Manzanar”

    Nov 16, 2006 - Dec 03, 2006

    Award-winning Cornerstone Theater Company actors Page Leong and Leslie Ishii perform an adaptation of the landmark 1972 memoir. The piece captures the novel’s finely crafted prose and elegant imagery and offers a child’s-eye view of the 120,000 West Coast Japanese Americans robbed of their civil rights and incarcerated for the length of World War II in government prison camps. Sponsored, in part, by East-West Eye ...

  • Fighting for Democracy Pre-Visit Workshop

    Nov 16, 2006

    Sign-up for a FREE Pre-Visit Workshop Thursday, November 16, 4:30-7:30 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 ...

  • Members Dessert Reception for opening of Ansel Adams at Manzanar

    Nov 12, 2006

    A dessert reception for current National Museum Members celebrating the opening of Ansel Adams at Manzanar. Will begin following the Opening Public Program with Dr. Anne Hammond. Become a member!

  • A Conversation with Dr. Anne Hammond: "Why Ansel Adams Went to Manzanar"

    Nov 12, 2006

    Conversation features stories shared by Archie Miyatake, Bruce Kaji, and Joyce Nakamura Okazaki. Moderated by Dr. Art Hansen.

  • Annual Giving Circle Members Reception for opening of Ansel Adams at Manzanar

    Nov 12, 2006

    A special reception for Annual Giving Circle Members celebrating the opening of Ansel Adams at Manzanar. By invitation only. Learn more about Annual Giving Circle Membership

  • Pilgrimage: A Film by Tad Nakamura

    Nov 11, 2006

    Pilgrimage tells the inspiring story of how a small group of Japanese Americans in the late 1960s uncovered their lost history and created the Manzanar Pilgrimage, which transformed the once-abandoned WWII American concentration camp into a vibrant symbol of retrospection and solidarity for people of all ages, races, and nationalities. Pilgrimage is a timely and engaging film that brings new and much-needed insight t...

  • Ansel Adams at Manzanar

    Nov 11, 2006 - Feb 18, 2007

    Ansel Adams at Manzanar, organized by the Honolulu Academy of Arts, includes over 50 vintage prints from the collections of the Library of Congress, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and the Japanese American National Museum. From 1943 to 1944, Ansel Adams made a number of trips to Manzanar concentration camp, located in California's Inyo County to the east of th...

  • Sumo U.S.A.: Wrestling the Grand Tradition Opens at the Japanese American National Museum

    Jul 01, 1997

    Sumo U.S.A.: Wrestling the Grand Tradition opens at the Japanese American National Museum, Thursday, July 3, 1997. Adapted and expanded from an exhibition initially mounted by the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, Sumo U.S.A. focuses on how Japan’s national sport came to the United States along with thousands of immigrants at the turn of the Century and the important role it played in the Japanese American c...