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Honoring Common Ground is on November 23

2024年11月18日

Media Advisory WHAT: Honoring Common Ground celebrates JANM’s longtime core exhibition, Common Ground: The Heart of Community, with an afternoon of festivities that highlight over 140 years of Japanese American history.WHEN: Saturday, November 23, 2024 from 12 p.m.–5 p.m.DETAILS: This special event will feature:Docent-led tours from 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m.A special performance by the JANM Ukulele Band from 12 p.m.–12...

Members Only Curator Tour: “Contested Histories”

2024年11月02日

JANM Members are invited to join exhibition curator Clement Hanami, JANM’s Vice President of Exhibitions and Art Director, for a walkthrough of JANM’s exhibition, Contested Histories: Preserving and Sharing a Community Collection. The exhibition consists of the Eaton Collection, some 400 objects made by Japanese American incarcerees that were saved from the auction block by the incredible efforts of community organiz...

Author Discussion—"Nisei Naysayer: The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura" by James Matsumoto Omura; edited by Arthur A. Hansen

2018年08月25日

If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. The late journalist James "Jimmie" Omura was among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. In his sharply written columns, Omura called out leaders in the Nikkei community for what he saw as their complicity with the US government’s unjust and unconstitutional policie...

SMITHSONIAN TOUR OF CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL AWARDED TO JAPANESE AMERICAN WORLD WAR II VETERANS MAKES NEXT STOP AT THE JANM

2013年04月25日

LOS ANGELES—The Congressional Gold Medal awarded in 2011 to Japanese American, or Nisei, World War II veterans in recognition of their extraordinary accomplishments will be on view at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, CA, May 4–June 9, 2013. The medal is on a national tour that will visit seven cities in 2013. The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) has partnered with the...

"Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn " a film by Nancy Kapitanoff and Sharon Yamato, narrated by Sandra Oh

2010年11月07日

Michi Nishiura Weglyn gave up a successful career as costume designer to write the landmark book, Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps, that set the record straight about the World War II incarceration. This short film paints a portrait of her dynamic personality and gives a stunning human face to the struggle for civil justice. The film recently received a Special Jury Mention at thi...

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...

Party on the Plaza: Celebrating the Opening of "kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa"

2006年06月10日

Join us for a Party on the Plaza! In celebration of the opening of kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa, enjoy a lively evening of DJ sets and spoken-word artists. Special evening book signing with Kip Fulbeck (Museum Store open until 8PM). Food vendors and no host bar. Spoken word artists include: Armando Alvarez Austin Cho Alison De La Cruz Melanie Hensch Jenille Narvaez Daniela Schonberger Mike T Micha...

2006 Day of Remembrance Theme ‘Claiming History: Justice Along Color Lines’ to Focus on 1930’s Mexican ‘Repatriation’, Current Campaign for Official Apology

2006年01月31日

At the 2006 Day of Remembrance, marking the anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 in 1942 which led to the unconstitutional incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry, the program will focus on the historic events surrounding the so-called Mexican "repatriation" of the 1930s in which federal, state and local governments conspired to remove over one million individuals of Mexican descent from...

Evening of Poetry

2005年04月28日

Poetry Month continues with readings by poets Hiroshi Kashiwagi and Juliet Kono.

Textured Lives: Japanese Immigrant Clothing from the Plantations of Hawai`i - Events

Programs are free for museum members and included with admission for visitors, unless otherwise noted. To see a complete listing of JANM’s upcoming programs, check out our Events Calendar.