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  • All About Archives: An Introduction to Organizing Your Records

    Feb 05, 2000

    This workshop will provide information on organizing and preserving important personal and family records such as immigration documents, birth certificates, diaries, and letters. Learn from a Museum staff member how to handle these items along with complete exercises in arranging and labeling archival records. Members $5, non-members $11 includes Museum admission

  • Discovering Your Family Tree

    Jan 30, 2000

    Instructor: Chester Hashizume Discover your long-lost relatives by creating your own family tree. This workshop will also teach you how to enter your family tree in the Museum’s National Family Registry. Members $5, non-members $11 includes Museum admission.

  • Personal Collections: Preserve Your Family History Workshop

    Jan 29, 2000

    Featuring: Grace Murakami, Collections Manager Learn to preserve family history through managing and caring for precious objects such as family papers, photographs, books, artwork, home movies, videotapes, and clothing. Led by Museum staff member Grace Murakami, this workshop will teach the basics in caring for these items by protecting them from unnecessary damage and ensuring their preservation for generatio...

  • Cold Tofu Improv

    Jan 27, 2000

    Cold Tofu presents millennium-strength tofu improv for the new year. This multi-talented, multicultural group promises laughs for the entire evening.

  • Glenn Horiuchi & Friends in Concert

    Jan 22, 2000

    At the Japan America Theatre, 244 S. San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Join musical artists Glenn Horiuchi, and friends Jon Jang, Lillian Nakano, William Roper, San-Mi Shamisen Ensemble, Francis Wond, and Fujima Ryusei for a lively afternoon concert. To order tickets, please call the Japan America Theatre Box Office at 213.680.3700 or for group sales, contact the Museum at 213.625.0414.

  • "Kiri-e" Card Making Craft Class

    Jan 22, 2000

    Instructor: Ryoko Shibata Participants will learn how to cut and shape layers of paper into beautiful kiri-e card designs. Members $5, non-members $11 includes Museum admission.

  • Behind the Camera: Meet Museum Filmmakers—Screening and Discussion

    Jan 20, 2000

    Featuring: Karen L. Ishizuka and Robert A. Nakamura The Museum kicks off the year 2000 with a new series on the third Thursday of each month. Join the award-winning filmmaking team of Karen L. Ishizuka and Robert A. Nakamura and view two of their films: Fools’ Dance is a dramatic comedy of life (and death) in a convalescent home which stars Mako and the late Esther Rolle, and Wataridori: Birds of Passage i...

  • East West Players Fresh Off the Page Series—Reading and Performance

    Jan 13, 2000

    Curated by Paula Cizmar Angry Haiku Trios Join the vicious cycle of modern haiku shared by an angry but fun-loving lineup of writers and performers.

  • Pop-Up Card Making Craft Class

    Jan 08, 2000

    Instructor: Ryoko Shibata Give that special someone a card that they will remember. Participants will learn how to make three-dimensional cards that pop up when opened. Members $5, non-members $11 includes Museum admission.

  • Saturday Storytime

    Jan 08, 2000

    Come visit the Museum to hear stories about the Japanese American experience read by a storyteller, author, or Museum staff. For children ages 3–5.