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2023 Natsumatsuri Family Festival

2023年08月12日

FREE ALL DAY Join us for our 2023 Natsumatsuri Family Festival, an annual summer celebration featuring free cultural performances, crafts, and activities for families and kids of all ages! Performances by TAIKOPROJECT and Yu-ki Project Interactive storytimes Souvenir photos by Cre8tive Outlets Fun summer-themed crafts and origami Scavenger hunt for prizes Free admission all day to see our exhibit...

Members Meet-and-Greet: David Mas Masumoto and Patricia Wakida

2023年03月18日

Join for an exclusive conversation for JANM members with renowned author David Mas Masumoto and artist Patricia Wakida about their new book, Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation, Silence, Shame, and the Resilience of a Family Farm. Members who attend will also receive early access to seating for the 2:00pm JANM Book Club event. RSVP for that program here.

JANM Book Club: ac•tiv•ist with Warren Furutani

2023年02月25日

Tickets to this program include admission to JANM for Saturday, February 25, 2023. Pricing reflects general museum admission pricing. Learn more about visiting JANM at janm.org/visit. Join longtime activist, elected official, and community member Warren T. Furutani for the launch of his new memoir, ac•tiv•ist, noun: a person who works to bring about political or social change. In his book, Furutani explor...

The Japanese American National Museum Condemns the Increasing Violence Against the Los Angeles Jewish Community

2023年02月23日

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) condemns the increasing violence against the Jewish community in Los Angeles. Recently, a man shot two Jewish men outside two different synagogues in Los Angeles’s Pico-Robertson neighborhood. The suspect, who had a history of making antisemitic statements, was taken into custody and charged with federal hate crimes. “The increase of violence against t...

Premiere Screening and Discussion—“Giant Robot: Asian Pop Culture and Beyond” (ARTBOUND)

2022年10月21日

FREE Join us for the premiere of the new episode of KCET’s award-winning arts and culture series ARTBOUND focused around the influence of Asian American pop culture magazine Giant Robot. A panel discussion with Eric Nakamura, Martin Wong, Renee Tajima-Peña, Dylan Robertson, and James Jean, moderated by Clement Hanami, will follow the screening. Tickets to this program are sold out.

JANM 30th Anniversary Digital Film Festival—Barbara Kawakami: A Textured Life

2022年07月29日

FREE The 2010 JANM exhibition, Textured Lives: Japanese Immigrant Clothing from the Plantations of Hawai`i, was born from a gift by Barbara Kawakami to JANM’s permanent collection of beautiful plantation-era clothing. Kawakami started her formal studies of these textiles and clothing at the age of 53. Now at 100, she is still a noted author, historian, and storyteller who has dedicated much of her life to ...

Screening and Q&A—Who Killed Vincent Chin?

2022年07月14日

FREE Join us for a special anniversary screening of the groundbreaking 1988 Academy Award®-nominated documentary and POV legacy title, Who Killed Vincent Chin? The film relentlessly probes the 1982 murder of Chinese American Vincent Chin while chronicling Helen Zia and a generation of Asian American activists who came together to demand justice. A panel discussion about the implications of Chin’s murder on current...

38th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

2022年05月10日 - 2022年05月13日

The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF), presented annually by Visual Communications (VC), Southern California’s leading showcase for new Asian Pacific American and Asian international cinema, announced today the program for the 38th edition of the festival. The festival returns May 5–13 in Los Angeles and will feature an exciting lineup of in-person programming, along with virtual programming for our au...

Virtual Educator Workshop—Teaching the Japanese American WWII Experience Through Art

2022年04月28日

Free Join the JANM Education Unit for this free virtual educator workshop on using art to teach the Japanese American WWII incarceration experience. JANM’s collection of art includes thousands of individual pieces as well as large bodies of work by artists such as Miné Okubo, Henry Sugimoto, Hisako Hibi, and others. Join educators from across the country to learn about the lived experience of forced removal and in...

Kalief Browder: The Box

2022年02月11日 - 2022年05月25日

The National Center for the Preservation of Democracy at the Japanese American National Museum (NCPD@JANM) is proud to host Coby Kennedy’s Kalief Browder: The Box to commemorate Black History Month in Los Angeles. By replicating the dimensions of a solitary confinement cell, this steel and glass work critiques the abuses of civil liberties in American incarceration systems, introduces viewers to the impacts of mass i...