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  • Fresh Words and Actions: "Prince of Dehli Palace" by Ravi Kapoor

    Feb 27, 2003

    Performing Arts Series Held Every Fourth Thursday The story of Hamlet set in a curry house. Following a father's demise by a poisoned pickle and a mother's remarriage to the father's twin, a son searches for one good memory of the dead man's worth amongst the turmeric stained dishes, the pungent losses, and the salted scars he left behind. But in the process, can he remain true to his own values or will he just be...

  • Discovering Your Family Tree Workshop

    Feb 23, 2003

    Instructor: Chester Hashizume Discover your long-lost relatives and create your own family tree. This workshop will also teach you how to enter your family tree in the Museum's National Family Registry. Fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission.

  • Manzanar Rites

    Feb 22, 2003

    Author William Hohri will read from his third book and his first novel, Manzanar Rites. He tells the story of different rites of passage for the inmates of the euphemized "Manzanar War Relocation Center." Nisei adolescents discover what sexual attraction is. They stumble from wishing to be white to defining what they can reasonably achieve. An older Nisei turns informant and is later beaten up. Issei organize to cont...

  • Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Shell Crafts

    Feb 22, 2003

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

  • Taiko Jam Session with Hydaiko Taiko

    Feb 16, 2003

    Participants will have an opportunity to play taiko and learn about the origins and traditions of the big drum.

  • Day of Remembrance

    Feb 15, 2003

    Day of Remembrance (DOR), the community's annual commemoration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's signing of Executive Order 9066 and the World War II exclusion and incarceration of Japanese Americans and Japanese Latin Americans. The 2003 DOR marks the 61st anniversary of the signing of the Executive Order. The National Museum, Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress (NCRR), the Pacific Southwest District JACL, and lo...

  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    Feb 15, 2003

    The Little Tokyo community in Los Angeles was once a thriving residential, business, and cultural center of the largest Japanese American community in the United States until World War II. Relive history and learn about present day Little Tokyo with Museum Volunteers, Bill Shishima, Eddy Kurushima, and Hitoshi Sameshima on this historical walking tour through the Museum's neighborhood. Comfortable clothes and shoes a...

  • Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Yarn Crafts

    Feb 08, 2003

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

  • Crafting History: Arts and Crafts from America's Concentration Camps Exhibition

    Jan 26, 2003

    Join us for a special exhibition tour of Crafting History: Arts and Crafts from America's Concentration Camps with curator Kristine Kim. Following the tour, artist Flora Ito will teach participants how to make bird pins out of alternative materials. Appropriate for children ages 10 and up. Fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies.

  • Members' Reception and International Nikkei Research Project Book Signing in Hon

    Jan 25, 2003

    Join the National Museum's Hawai'i Advisory Council for a 10th Anniversary Members' Reception in Honolulu, Hawai'i. The reception will also feature an update on the international travel and "homecoming" of the exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i, plans for Bento reunion activities on Maui in February 2004 when the exhibition ends its run at the Maui Arts & Cul...