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  • Discovering Your Family Tree Workshop

    Oct 28, 2001

    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. Cost: $5 for Museum members, $11 for non-members (includes Museum admission).

  • Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Mizuhiki (ceremonial paper cord) cards

    Oct 27, 2001

    Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Mizuhiki (ceremonial paper cord) cards

  • Conscience, the Constitution and the Japanese American Draft Resistance of World War II

    Oct 27, 2001

    The emotion surrounding the issue of the Japanese American draft resistance during World War II may be better understood and appreciated by joining us in confronting a controversy that time has not put to rest. A panel moderated by Professor Arthur Hansen that includes Frank Abe, producer of the film Conscience and the Constitution; Professor Eric Muller of the University of North Carolina School of Law, author of Fr...

  • Living in Color

    Oct 27, 2001 - Apr 07, 2002

    This exhibition of paintings is the first retrospective survey of the art of Issei painter Hideo Date (b. 1907). Trained in Tokyo and Los Angeles, Date was an influential member of avant-garde art circles in pre-World War II Los Angeles. He belonged to the Los Angeles Art Students League and founded the self-named “Los Angeles Oriental Artists Group.” The outbreak of war took Date from the dynamic and diverse Los ...

  • Cold Tofu Improv

    Oct 25, 2001

    Boo! Share some laughs with some scary Tofu improvisers at Cold Tofu's Annual Halloween Show.

  • 2ND SUNDAY FOR FAMILIES

    Oct 14, 2001

    Halloween SPOOKY Fun Get ready for Halloween! Join us for a ghoulishly delightful afternoon of storytelling and art-making. Then, join us for a pre-Halloween trick-or-treat in Little Tokyo. Boo! Storytelling - Enjoy a reading of goblin stories by actor Rodney Kageyama. Make Your Own Mask - See masks from Japan, Korea, Africa and other countries and learn how to make a fun mask yourself. Trick-or-T...

  • Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Oshie (pasted rag picture)

    Oct 13, 2001

    Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Oshie (pasted rag picture)

  • "Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray"

    Oct 04, 2001

    Elegant and penetrating, Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray positions this immigrant photographer within the canon of American art. In Los Angeles, Miyatake is renowned as a studio photographer. To others he is known for having smuggled a lens and film holder into one of America's WWII concentration camps. Yet it was his little-known artistic pursuits before the war that honed his discerning eye. Join filmmaker B...

  • "From Our Side of the Fence: Growing Up in America's Concentration Camp"

    Sep 29, 2001

    This new publication contains first-person accounts of eleven former inmates who recall their memories of youth in America's concentration camps. The collection of writings is the result of autobiographical writing workshops in which participants traced their personal journey through war, giving voice to history that has been silenced. The anthology, edited by Brian Komei Dempster, was produced by the Japanese Cultur...

  • Flo Oy Wong

    Sep 27, 2001 - Mar 31, 2002

    Artist Flo Oy Wong is known for her provocative explorations of family and community history through her work. The exhibition includes Wong’s most recent installation, made in usa: Angel Island Shhh, that exposes the conditions and experiences of Chinese immigrants incarcerated at Angel Island Immigration Station between 1910 and 1940. Premiering as a work-in-progress, Kindred Spirit #1 reflects on Wen Ho Lee’s 27...