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  • "The Pink Dress" Puppet Show

    Jun 04, 2005

    The Pink Dress is based on an actual episode from the Maruyama family's history in the Amache Concentration Camp. Faced with wearing the required drab uniform, Tsuki decides to wear her sister's pink dress to her junior high school graduation to prove she is not "an ant," but an individual. This poignant puppet theater piece features original music and various forms of traditional and innovative puppetry, and addres...

  • Craft Class with Ryosen Shibata - Mizuhiki

    May 28, 2005

    Create your own harmonious string design to add a special touch to stationary and other crafts. Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes museum admission and supplies. Reservations are recommended.

  • David Mura and The Colors of Desire

    May 22, 2005

    Through performance monologues, poems, and prose, David Mura will explore the often neglected theme of Asian Americans and sexuality. His presentation will address subjects such as racial-sexual stereotypes, interracial relationships, and the effect of internment on Japanese American sexuality. The reading will be followed by a discussion and book signing.

  • Arkansas Student Mural

    May 21, 2005

    High School students in Little Rock, Arkansas created a temporary community mural in conjunction with the exhibition Lasting Beauty, which premiered in their hometown. That mural will be on display at the National Museum, and several of the students who participated will talk about the research and creation process. Also on display for this weekend only are murals completed by third grade elementary school students i...

  • Make Your Own Art Masterpiece

    May 21, 2005

    View award-winning artwork from California youth presented by McDonalds and portable murals created by elementary school students in Los Angeles. Then dabble in our art supply treasure chest to create your own art masterpiece.

  • Writing Workshop with David Mura

    May 21, 2005

    This workshop will focus on issues involving the writing process, from writer's block to revisions. There will be exercises and handouts from Mura's work-in-progress on creative writing. Fees are $20 for National Museum members and $30 for non-members, includes museum admission.

  • "Common Ground: The Japanese American National Museum and the Culture of Collaborations"

    May 15, 2005

    This collection of essays outlines how the National Museum operates in collaboration with other institutions, museums, researchers, audiences, and funders. Authors will speak on their case studies which explore collaboration with community-oriented partners in order to document, interpret, and present their histories and experiences and provide a new understanding of what museums can and should be in the United State...

  • From Tokyo Rose to the Patriot Act: Propaganda and its Impact on Civil Liberties

    May 14, 2005

    In this fourth of five sessions that examines ways propaganda has been used to perpetuate negative ethnic images and stereotypes, Dr. Mitchell Maki is joined by Johnn y Mori from the groundbreaking band Hiroshima. During the 1970s, the band impressed the music scene with jazz that effortlessly integrated East and West. Their music, as well as their commitment to the communities in which it was born, speak volumes abo...

  • Film Screening of "Taking Care of Their Own: The Story of Yellow Brotherhood"

    May 12, 2005

    Taking Care of Their Own chronicles the thirty-year evolution of Yellow Brotherhood, an Asian American self-help organization, through its founders who started the group in the 1960s, and their children who carry on its legacy through a youth basketball program. Coming to grips with their parents' unjust camp experience during World War II and overcoming their own struggles with drug abuse and gang violence, the orig...

  • Exhibition Family Day

    Apr 30, 2005

    Learn how to create woodblock prints through demonstrations and an activity where participants design and create their own simple prints using a variety of materials. Also, discover what it takes to develop a mural by lending a hand to paint our very own portable mural.