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Transit Equity Day

2024年02月04日

Celebrate Transit Equity Day on February 4, 2024 with Metro and SoCal Museums to embark on a cultural journey through LA County’s vibrant museums and receive perks with your TAP card! Transit Equity Day highlights the right of all people to affordable public transportation and honors the birthday of Rosa Parks, who took a stand to create a more equitable transportation system for everyone, by offering free rides ...

Inaugural Norman Y. Mineta Distinguished Lecture

2024年01月26日

The Democracy Center presents the inaugural lecture in the Norman Y. Mineta Distinguished Lecture Series. Our special guest speaker will be Mitch Landrieu, former Senior Advisor to the President and former Mayor of New Orleans. The Norman Y. Mineta Distinguished Lecture Series is a Democracy Center signature series centered on the leadership values and principles inspired by Secretary Mineta (1931–2022), includin...

Sincerely Miné Okubo at the Chicago Asian American Showcase

2023年05月20日

Sincerely Miné Okubo will be screening at the Chicago Asian American Showcase on Saturday, May 20 at 3:30 p.m. (CDT). The 15-minute documentary about the iconic Japanese American artist Miné Okubo will precede the Sundance hit, NAM JUNE PAIK: MOON IS THE OLDEST TV. This film focuses on the artistic span and career of Miné Okubo, a Japanese American artist known for her graphic memoir Citizen 13660 that chronicled ...

All Camps Swing Dance at the Japanese American National Museum is on June 17, 2023

2023年05月18日

WHAT: Explore the impact of swing music and dance on youth in America’s concentration camps in the public program “From Barbed Wire to Boogie Woogie: All Camps Swing Dance with The Fabulous Esquires Big Band.” This program is offered in conjunction with the exhibition Don’t Fence Me In: Coming of Age in America’s Concentration Camps. This program is the second part of the public program “From Barbed Wire to Boogi...

Film Screening: Before They Take Us Away

2023年04月15日

Tickets to this program include admission to JANM for Saturday, April 15, 2023. Pricing reflects general museum admission pricing. Learn more about visiting JANM at janm.org/visit. Join us for a screening of the new film, Before They Take Us Away, which captures the lesser known stories of Japanese Americans who voluntarily removed themselves from the West Coast in the wake of Executive Order 9066 during ...

Bringing An American Vocabulary: Words to Action into the Classroom

2023年01月21日

FREE Join visual artist Audrey Chan, rapper jason chu, and the JANM Education Unit for this free, in-person educator workshop on bringing An American Vocabulary: Words to Action into the classroom. Chan and chu’s collaborative project An American Vocabulary: Words to Action consists of twenty-one multilingual flash cards that illustrate the four themes of ancestor, voice, persistence, and care through the port...

Nikkei Uncovered III: a poetry reading

2022年09月15日

FREE Join us for our third annual virtual poetry reading with a powerful lineup of poets previously featured in Discover Nikkei’s Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column, hosted by traci kato-kiriyama (author of Navigating With(out) Instruments). This year, the poets were chosen to reflect on the theme of gathering. What does it mean to gather in a time of physical and social separation? How can poetry bring us...

Author Discussion—Facing the Mountain with Daniel James Brown

2022年05月14日

Join New York Times bestselling author of The Boys on the Boat, Daniel James Brown, in conversation with Tom Ikeda, Executive Director of Densho, to celebrate the release of the paperback edition of his newest book Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II. About the book: They came from across the continent and Hawaii. Their parents taught them to embrace both their...

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...

Uprising: Reflections on ’92

2022年04月21日

FREE In Person RSVP Virtual RSVP On April 29, 1992, the day of the planned opening of the Japanese American National Museum, the four officers accused of violently beating Rodney King on video were acquitted leading to city-wide civil unrest. The museum’s opening in this moment of racial reckoning has shaped its history forever, much as the uprisings changed the story of all of Los Angeles. Josie Hua...