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The Japanese American National Museum Receives $503,877 from Two Japanese American Confinement Sites Grants
2022年12月02日
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has received $327,974 for Preserving America’s Community Treasures (PACT): The Toyo Miyatake Collection and $175,903 for Eating Together: Food in Japanese America, two grants from the Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) Grant Program. The $327,974 JACS grant for Preserving America’s Community Treasures (PACT): The Toyo Miyatake Collection will ...
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The Japanese American National Museum Received a $2.55 Million Multi-Year Operating Support Grant from the Perenchio Foundation
2022年11月11日
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has received a $2.55 million Multi-Year Operating Support Grant from the Perenchio Foundation. This grant will support the Museum’s general operations, including programming, community engagement, fundraising, and accessibility, over three years. “We are immensely grateful to the Perenchio Foundation for this extraordinary investment in JANM to amplify...
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Little Tokyo Drift: Nisei Week Car Culture
2021年08月21日
EVENT UPDATE Due to limited in person capacity, we are now only offering virtual attendance. Please email publicprograms@janm.org to be added to the wait list for in person tickets. FREE Little Tokyo Drift brings together veterans of the Nisei Week cruises and organizers of the Showoff to discuss the history and legacy of nikkei car culture in Los Angeles in a conversation moderated by Oliv...
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Japanese American in New York: Nikkei Trans-regional Dialogue
2020年12月05日
Telling the lesser-known history of Nikkei on the East Coast—a community vastly different from West Coast Japanese Americans—author-historian, consultant, and attorney Daniel H. Inouye explores the unique stories of a divided community of Japanese New Yorkers before World War II. Through a wealth of primary sources, including oral histories, memoirs, newspapers, government documents, photographs, and more, h...
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2020 JACSC Education Conference: Connecting, Empowering, & Transforming Our Communities
2020年10月17日 - 2020年10月18日
FREE Please join the Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium (JACSC) for the first virtual JACSC education conference. Founded on the idea that we are stronger together than on our own, JACSC aims to bring together practitioners in preservation, education, and advocacy related to the Japanese American experience. This free opportunity includes educational sessions and inspiring conversations with our nat...
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Anti-Asian Racism Past & Present / Our Hopes for the Future
2020年05月28日
FREE During this global pandemic, we hear reports of attacks on Asians and Asian Americans across the country. We are confronted by cycles of blame and fear on those who are perceived to be from China. Asian Americans young and old fear leaving their houses while masked. We also see Asians and Asian Americans speaking out against hate and violence, as well as communities of color rising up with mutual aid effo...
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VIRTUAL TALK: Contested Histories on the Road with Clement Hanami
2020年04月30日
Dive into the experience of traveling across the country with the Contested Histories: Art and Artifacts from the Allen Hendershott Eaton Collection special display, from program developer and curator Clement Hanami in this live presentation and Q&A! Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects crea...
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Memory Crafting: How Do We Remember the Unspeakable, A Yonsei Perspective
2020年03月07日
SOLD OUT FREE Our community and cultural institutions, researchers, family members, artists, and many others have created priceless archives of Japanese American history. The effort to preserve, with tremendous contributions from many generations in our community, have given Yonsei, Gosei, and future generations important resources to learn and understand our community history, especially surrounding incarcerat...
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Tatau at the Immigration Museum (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
2019年05月24日 - 2019年10月06日
TRAVELING EXHIBITION Immigration Museum Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Web: museumsvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum Phone: 13 11 02 Outside Australia: +61 3 8341 7777 Tatau: Marks of Polynesia explores the beauty of Samoan tattoos as well as the key role they play in the preservation and propagation of Samoan culture. Through photographs taken in the studio and on location in Samoa and elsewhere...
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ZÓCALO—Can Individuals Be Happy in an Unhappy Time?
2018年12月12日
A Zócalo/UCLA Anderson Event at JANM’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy Moderated by Warren Olney, Host, KCRW’s "To the Point" The pursuit of happiness is foundational to the United States, and happiness has become an international obsession as nations seek to measure happiness and enact policies to increase it. But this is also an era of disruption, dislocation, and great unhappiness...