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Film Screenings

MOVING PICTURES: Toyo Miyatake

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Film Screenings

MOVING PICTURES: Toyo Miyatake

Little Tokyo's favorite son and legendary photographer Toyo Miyatake is the focus of this special program featuring the award-winning documentary, Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray, produced by the National Museum's Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, a screening of never-before-seen home movies taken by Miyatake and the opening of a new exhibit of Miyatake vintage prints.

2:00 pm: Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray and special screening of Miyatake's home movies
at Aratani Japan America Theater
$8 JACCC & National Museum members, $10 General Admission

3:00 pm: Panel discussion with Karin Higa, Senior Curator of Art & Director of Curatorial/Exhibitions, Japanese American National Museum; Hirokazu Kosaka, Artist & Visual Arts Director, Japanese American Community & Cultural Center; Archie Miyatake, Toyo Miyatake's eldest son; Robert A. Nakamura, Director, Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray and Dennis Reed, Dean of Arts, L.A. Valley College. Moderated by Karen L. Ishizuka, Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum.

4:00 pm: Reception & Exhibition Opening. Music from Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray performed live by composer David Iwataki. JACCC Garden Room. Free to the Public

Sunday, Nov 24, 2002

2:00 PM PST

George & Sakaye Aratani Japan America Theater, 244 S. San Pedro St. in Little Tokyo

Little Tokyo's favorite son and legendary photographer Toyo Miyatake is the focus of this special program featuring the award-winning documentary, Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray, produced by the National Museum's Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, a screening of never-before-seen home movies taken by Miyatake and the opening of a new exhibit of Miyatake vintage prints.

2:00 pm: Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray and special screening of Miyatake's home movies
at Aratani Japan America Theater
$8 JACCC & National Museum members, $10 General Admission

3:00 pm: Panel discussion with Karin Higa, Senior Curator of Art & Director of Curatorial/Exhibitions, Japanese American National Museum; Hirokazu Kosaka, Artist & Visual Arts Director, Japanese American Community & Cultural Center; Archie Miyatake, Toyo Miyatake's eldest son; Robert A. Nakamura, Director, Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray and Dennis Reed, Dean of Arts, L.A. Valley College. Moderated by Karen L. Ishizuka, Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum.

4:00 pm: Reception & Exhibition Opening. Music from Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray performed live by composer David Iwataki. JACCC Garden Room. Free to the Public

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