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  • September 11

    Jul 01, 2004 - Aug 15, 2004

    The Japanese American National Museum is honored to be the only California venue to present the Smithsonian Institution’s traveling exhibition, September 11: Bearing Witness to History. As a Smithsonian affiliate, the National Museum’s goal of “sharing the American experience” and emphasis on the first-person perspective meshes with this landmark exhibition. It evokes the memories and experiences of September 11 t...

  • Deadline for Early-bird signup for ''Life Interrupted: Camp Connections Conferen

    Jun 30, 2004

    Deadline for Early-bird signup for ''Life Interrupted: Camp Connections Conferen

  • 13th Annual National Invitational Golf Tournament

    Jun 28, 2004

    At the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California. For more information, please call 213.625.0414. Spaces are limited.

  • Discovering Your Family Tree Workshop (Instructor: Chester Hashizume)

    Jun 27, 2004

    This workshop will provide tips on creating your own family tree and will offer sources of information to help identify ancestors and relatives in Japan. You will also learn to access your family tree in the National Museum's Family Registry. Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission.

  • Taiko Jam Session with Hydaiko

    Jun 27, 2004

    Please refer to the May 2 calendar listing for further information.

  • Craft Class with Ryosen Shibata: Cut Paper Flower Pop-Up Cards

    Jun 26, 2004

    Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies. Reservations are recommended.

  • Family Day: "Journeys: The Issei Story"

    Jun 26, 2004

    Allen Say's touching tale of his grandfather's travels to America and his love for both America and Japan in Grandfather's Journey will serve as a basis for understanding the immigrant experience. Children and their families will have an opportunity to create a book recounting their own stories. Participants will also don period costumes and use their imagination to travel back in time to the early 1900s. Especially ...

  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    Jun 19, 2004

    Please refer to the April 17 calendar listing for further information.

  • Fresh Words & Actions: "Mixed Messages", by Cherylene Lee

    Jun 17, 2004

    When a physical anthropologist of mixed ethnicity (Chinese, Japanese, British) discovers that her skull proportions bear a remarkable similarity to La Brea Woman, a nine thousand-year-old fossil, she believes she has found an important clue that will revolutionize the accepted theory of when and how humans first arrived in North America. Her research is complicated when a mixed descendant of the Chumash tribe wants L...

  • Craft Class with Ryosen Shibata: Mizuhiki (Kumi-himo) Decorative Cards

    Jun 12, 2004

    Create unique crafts with thread, paper, and cords. Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies. Reservations are recommended.