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Workshops & Classes

Intergenerational Workshop: Telling Our Family Stories

yamashita family in front of their car

Workshops & Classes

Intergenerational Workshop: Telling Our Family Stories

$20 per group, includes museum admission / $5 per group for members
(Recommended: 2–4 people)

Discover how to uncover and record your personal and familial histories with traci kato-kiriyama and Naomi Hirahara. Participants will learn tips and exercises for oral history interviews and have the chance to discuss or record their own stories. Sign up in intergenerational pairings or groupings and explore stories relating to coming of age across generations.

traci kato-kiriyama is the author of Navigating Without Instruments, and is an award-winning multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary artist, recognized for their work as a writer/performer, theatre deviser, cultural producer, community organizer, and audiobook narrator. Naomi Hirahara is an Edgar Award-winning author of multiple traditional mystery series and noir short stories. Her work includes the Mas Arai mysteries, which have been published in Japanese, Korean and French, Clark and Division, and 1001 Cranes.

This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Don’t Fence Me In: Coming of Age in America’s Concentration Camps.

$20 per group, includes museum admission / $5 per group for members (Recommended: 2-4 people)

Saturday, Jul 15, 2023

12:00 PM - 2:30 PM PDT

Nerio Education Center

Japanese American National Museum

100 N Central Ave

Los Angeles, CA 90012

$20 per group, includes museum admission / $5 per group for members
(Recommended: 2–4 people)

Discover how to uncover and record your personal and familial histories with traci kato-kiriyama and Naomi Hirahara. Participants will learn tips and exercises for oral history interviews and have the chance to discuss or record their own stories. Sign up in intergenerational pairings or groupings and explore stories relating to coming of age across generations.

traci kato-kiriyama is the author of Navigating Without Instruments, and is an award-winning multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary artist, recognized for their work as a writer/performer, theatre deviser, cultural producer, community organizer, and audiobook narrator. Naomi Hirahara is an Edgar Award-winning author of multiple traditional mystery series and noir short stories. Her work includes the Mas Arai mysteries, which have been published in Japanese, Korean and French, Clark and Division, and 1001 Cranes.

This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Don’t Fence Me In: Coming of Age in America’s Concentration Camps.

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