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  • JANM to Present J. T. Sata: Immigrant Modernist on March 15, 2024

    2024年02月01日

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will present J. T. Sata: Immigrant Modernist from March 15–September 1, 2024. Curated by Dennis Reed, the exhibition comprises sixty photographs by Sata, along with family artifacts from his time in America’s concentration camps and reproductions of his paintings and drawings. Sata was a charter member of the Japanese Camera Pictorialists of California, a...

  • LITTLE TOKYO-ALIGNED GROUPS UNITE IN OPPOSITION TO USE OF FORT SILL AS DETENTION CENTER

    2019年06月21日

    Los Angeles, CA—Representatives of several community organizations located in or aligned with Little Tokyo will protest the White House’s plans to use Fort Sill in Oklahoma as a detention center for immigrant children and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detention practices in general on June 27, 2019, at 7 p.m., on the plaza of the Japanese American National Museum. The groups are demanding an end to the inhuma...

  • Members Only Exhibition Tour: "hapa.me – 15 years of the hapa project"

    2018年09月08日

    Join exhibition creator Kip Fulbeck for a gallery tour of hapa.me. Space is limited to 25 participants. RSVP by September 4 using the link below. You can also contact memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646.

  • East West Players: A Writers’ Gallery Reading of "Iyakan Blues (The Criers)"

    2015年03月19日

    FREE JANM is pleased to host the East West Players’ reading of Iyakan Blues (The Criers), written by Giovanni Ortega and directed by Tim Dang. Aurora, Remedios, and Eugenia are three of the most sought-after professional criers (individuals paid to cry at funerals) in Monterey Park. They are eager to welcome Aurora’s 14-year-old daughter Ligaya (nicknamed Gaya) from the Philippines into their world and te...

  • AUTHOR OF 'BEST FRIENDS FOREVER' CREATED BOOK AFTER INTERVIEWING LONG-TIME NATIONAL MUSEUM VOLUNTEERS

    2010年09月29日

    Best Friends Forever: A World War II Scrapbook author Beverly Patt will read from her book and talk about her research to create a work of fiction based on historical events at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, October 2, beginning at 2 p.m. The story concerns two young girls, Louise Krueger and Dottie Masuoka, who find themselves separated by the government’s unconstitutional forced removal of Ja...

  • The Pavilion: Home, Community, History— Celebrating Ten Years of Building a Legacy

    2009年04月25日

    The Japanese American National Museum announced its 2009 program theme celebrating the opening of its Pavilion with year-long slate of public programs and special events that will review the work by the National Museum in the last decade. The first of these themed-programs is the National Museum’s 2009 Annual Gala Dinner, "The Pavilion: Home, Community, History—Celebrating Ten Years of Building a Legacy", which wil...

  • Shades of Meaning: Photographs, Family, and Memory with Deborah Willis, Ph.D.

    2005年12月10日

    Deborah Willis, Professor of Photography and Imaging at NYU, is an internationally respected authority on photographs and family history. A recipient of the MacArthur? Foundation "Genius" award, Willis brings fresh and accessible perspectives on the role of photographs in the making and carrying of meaning among families.

  • Ikebana Presentation with the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, Los Angeles Chapter

    2004年04月24日

    Isamu Noguchi was a friend and colleague of Sofu Teshigahara, founder of the Sogetsu Ikebana School. In this program, students from the Los Angeles-based school will give a demonstration and speak about the art of flower arranging. Members of the school will also create various arrangements for display at the National Museum throughout the run of the show.

  • "From Our Side Of The Fence" Presents Writings Of Former World War II Camp Inmates At Reading At Japanese American National Museum Sept. 29

    2001年09月29日

    Although comparisons have recently been made between the September 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. and the consequences of Pearl Harbor, many voices from Japanese and Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II have yet to be heard on the subject. Eleven first-person accounts of what it was like to live in a World War II U.S. concentration camp where thousands of Americans of Japanese ancestry wer...

  • Cold Tofu Improv: More Soy of Sex

    1997年08月28日

    Cold Tofu looks at love & relationships, the expanded version! This talented, energetic, multicultural comedy improv group has an amazing assortment of entertainment techniques that will keep you laughing all night. Free. Reservations suggested. Limited seating.