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  • 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...

  • 1st & Central Summer Concerts: Okinawan Folk / Hawaiian / Taiko

    Jul 20, 2006

    FREE 6:30 PM 1st & Central Summer Concerts at the Japanese American National Museum presents Haruo Ishihara Okinawan Folk Ensemble Hawaii Music by Moana Zenshuji Zendeko Taiko The Japanese American National Museum's summer outdoor series continues with music from Okinawa, Hawaii, and the Continental United States. This free concert promises to be a great evening for families of all ages under the stars in Litt...

  • 2006-07 National Summer Institute for Educators: Making Diversity Work

    Jul 19, 2006

    July 19-22, 2006 By Invitation Only Thirty-five educators from seven states will begin their two-year commitment as participants in the National Summer Institute for Educators. Participants will learn more about the Japanese American experience and collaborate to write lesson plans that they will pilot in their classrooms during the next school year. In July 2007, they will reconvene to share their lesson plans a...

  • REEL Hapa

    Jul 12, 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. July 12 films What Are You Anyways? (2006) by Jeff Chiba Stearns (10:40 min) Sex, Love, & Kung Fu (20...

  • Target Free Family Saturdays: I am ... I can be ...

    Jul 08, 2006

    This summer the National Museum debuts four wonderful days created especially for families. Generously sponsored by Target, these special Saturdays are filled with fun activities giving families unique ways to learn, play, and grow together. I am ... I can be... How do you perceive yourself in your imagination? How do you communicate those perceptions to others? Drop-in and discover fun ways of drawing self-po...

  • 1st & Central Summer Concerts: MC Rai and DJ Nnamdi

    Jul 06, 2006

    FREE 6:30 PM - DJ Nnamdi 7:00 PM - MC Rai A dynamic live performer, Tunisian-born singer-songwriter MC Rai joins traditional North African rhythms and melodies with urban beats to create new compositions in which the ancient and modern converge. Shattering simplistic stereotypes, his music will delight longtime fans of North African music and captivates new listeners. KPFK 90.7 FM's DJ Nnamdi to open. Free. Spons...

  • Sogetsu Ikebana School Demonstration

    Jun 24, 2006

    Madame Yoshu Miyahara, Director of Sogetsu Ikebana School in Los Angeles, leads a special demonstration on how flower and plant materials can be transformed into sublime tributes to nature. Witness the creation of elaborate three-dimensional artistic expressions.