Search Results For

  • Film Screening and Discussion—"Moving Walls: American Nightmare to American Dream"

    2017年12月09日

    Join us for the LA premiere of a new documentary about what became of the barracks built to house 11,000 Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain concentration camp. The film features interviews with former prisoners as well as the people who live in and use the structures today. Filmmaker Sharon Yamato is also the author of the recently updated book, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps, wh...

  • Film Screening and Discussion—And Then They Came For Us

    2017年11月27日

    Join us for the Los Angeles premiere of a new documentary film grappling with the legacy of the World War II mass incarceration of Japanese Americans. Featuring Takei and many others who were incarcerated, as well as newly rediscovered photographs by Dorothea Lange, And Then They Came For Us brings history into the present, retelling this difficult story and following Japanese American activists as they speak out aga...

  • Santa Anita Assembly Center Reunion

    2017年04月15日

    If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. On the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Santa Anita Assembly Center, JANM and the Santa Anita Assembly Center Committee present a reunion and a public remembrance. Following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 and President Roosevelt’s issuance of Executive Order 9066, which paved the way for the mass incar...

  • Film Screening—"There is a New World Somewhere"

    2016年07月31日

    In the Tateuchi Democracy Forum JANM is pleased to partner with Visual Communications to present an encore screening of Li Lu’s There is a New World Somewhere, a Special Jury Award winner at the 2015 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. A down-on-her luck aspiring artist returns home to Austin to attend the wedding party of a close childhood friend, only to join a handsome, mysterious stranger for a ...

  • Members Only Learning at Lunch: Japanese American Photographers

    2016年03月11日

    In this special edition of Learning at Lunch, bring a brown bag lunch and enjoy an intimate hour with Frank Sata, son of J.T. Sata, a featured artist in our current exhibition, Making Waves. Frank will present and discuss photographs from JANM’s collection that are not on display in the exhibition. RSVPs recommended to memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646. Photo: J.T. Sata, Untitled (Man Walking Out of ...

  • Big Trouble in Little Tokyo presents "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" (2006)

    2016年02月04日

    Join us for a 10th anniversary screening of the third film in the blockbuster Fast and Furious franchise. A bit of an outlier in the Fast and Furious series, Tokyo Drift follows a different set of characters from the previous films. High school student Sean Boswell, who has a penchant for street racing, is sent to live with his father in Tokyo. He quickly gets involved with a local gang of racers, who practice...

  • Target Free Family Saturdays: Giving Thanks

    2014年11月08日

    FREE* ALL DAY Bring the whole family to JANM for a celebration of Veterans Day weekend and Thanksgiving season! Our kid-friendly activities will revolve around giving thanks to veterans, family, and friends. *Admission to all activities and to Common Ground: The Heart of Community is FREE ALL DAY. Admission to the special exhibition, Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty, requires a separate...

  • FILMMAKER FRIEDA LEE MOCK TO DISCUSS DOCUMENTARY 'LT. WATADA' ON MARCH 26

    2011年03月23日

    Academy Award-winning filmmaker Frieda Lee Mock will be on hand to answer questions after a screening of her documentary, "Lt. Watada: A Matter of Conscience", set for Saturday, March 26, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum. In 2006, Lt. Ehren Watada of Hawai`i was a promising young officer who had walked away from a possible career in finance after 9/11 to fight terrorism for his country....

  • GIANT ROBOT, JANM TO UNVEIL ZEN GARAGE CONCEPT SHOW DEC. 30 FROM 5 TO 9 P.M.

    2010年12月24日

    As part of its continuing "Salon Pop" series, Giant Robot and the Japanese American National Museum will unveil the concept exhibition, Zen Garage, developed in collaboration between the National Museum and Eric Nakamura of Giant Robot, on December 30, 2010 and running through February 13, 2011. The display will open from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on December 30 at the National Museum in Little Tokyo in downtown Los Ang...

  • OCTOBER PROGRAMS FOCUS ON 'KOKESHI' CLOSING, TARGET FREE FAMILY SATURDAY OCT. 10

    2009年10月01日

    The Japanese American National Museum is featuring a variety of programs that are family-friendly in October, beginning with a sushi making workshop on Saturday, Oct. 3, a lecture discussing the meaning of the dolls used for Girls’ Day on Sunday, Oct. 4, and the popular Target Free Family Saturday program set for Saturday, Oct. 10, with the theme of "Toy Shoppe!" On Saturday, Oct. 3, the Sushi Chef Institute will ...