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JANM Hosts Manzanar Baseball Project Program December 7

2024年11月15日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) will host a program and panel discussion about the Manzanar Baseball Project, on Saturday, December 7, 2024, from 2 p.m.–4 p.m. Admission is $16 ($9 seniors, students, and youth, free for JANM Members) and includes entry to the Museum. Tickets are available at janm.org/events.During the 1940s, baseball was the national pastime of the US, including in Amer...

JANM Announces October 2024 Programs

2024年09月24日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announces its schedule of October 2024 programs. Tickets are $16 ($9 for seniors and students, free for JANM Members) unless otherwise noted and will be available at janm.org/events. Upcoming dates for public programs and events are:Tuesday, October 1, 2024Breakfast and Ballots9 a.m.–10:30 a.m.FreeDo you have questions about the election? How does Prop 5 ...

NEH Awards $190,000 Education Grant to JANM

2024年09月20日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) a $190,000 Landmarks of American History and Culture for K–12 Educators Grant for the project, Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations 2025. JANM has been the recipient of this grant for the third year in a row. The project will support two five-day, residential workshops for ...

JANM and JACCC Awarded $894,293 in Grants for New Core Exhibition and Foodways Programs

2024年08月07日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) and the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC) have received $894,293 in two grants from the National Park Service’s Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) grant program. The funds will support JANM’s new core exhibition, In the Future We Call Now: Realities of Racism, Dreams of Democracy, and the JACCC’s project, “Ask the Mountain for ...

"A Principled Stand: The Story of Hirabayashi v. United States" by Gordon K. Hirabayashi with James A. Hirabayashi and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

2013年09月21日

In 1942, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned. In A Principled Stand, Gordon's brother James and nephew Lane have brought together his prison diaries and wartime correspondence to tell the story of Hirabayashi v. United States. A Principled Stand tells Gordon's story in his own word...

"From Minidoka to Minnesota: A Carleton College Story of the Japanese American Internment" by Fred Hagstrom

2011年07月23日

This talk focuses on an artist’s book recently completed by Fred Hagstrom, Rae Schupak Nathan Professor of Art at Carleton College in Minnesota. The artist’s book is titled deeply honored and tells the story of Frank Shigemura, who came to Carleton College in 1943. Carleton participated in the student relocation project, a program that allowed Japanese American students to leave internment camps and continue th...

Poetry Reading and Slides of Art Quilts: What Remains: "Japanese Americans in Internment Camps"

2010年09月11日

Margaret Chula and Cathy Erickson make the concentration camp experience come alive in their seven-year collaborative project joining poetry and quilts. Margaret's original poems, diaries, and letters in the voices of people in the camps describe the hardships and emotions they experienced. Cathy has transformed personal stories into quilts through fabric, design, and color. Their presentation shows how two art forms...

Closing of the Henry Fukuhara Manzanar Watercolor Workshop display in the National Museum Pavilion

2002年08月18日

Closing of the Henry Fukuhara Manzanar Watercolor Workshop display in the National Museum Pavilion

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Tsumami Zaiku (traditional Japanese hair ornaments made of silk)

2001年09月22日

Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Tsumami Zaiku (traditional Japanese hair ornaments made of silk)

Don’t Fence Me In: Coming of Age in America’s Concentration Camps—Audio Tour

Hear from Emily Anderson, JANM’s curator for Don’t Fence Me In, and incarcerees from the War Relocation Authority camps as they share how Japanese American youth asserted their place as young Americans confronting the injustice of imprisonment in concentration camps. From joining scout troops to sports, social dancing to music, patriotism and life after camp, discover how these Americans used their resilience and...