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SoCal Museums Free-For-All 2023

2023年02月05日

SoCal Museums announces the Museums Free-for-All on Sunday, February 5, 2023, in-person for the first time since 2020. Over thirty museums—presenting art, cultural heritage, film, natural history, and science—will open their doors and offer free general admission. The Free-for-All also serves as a reminder that free visitor days are available year-round at museums across Southern California. A calendar of free da...

Two-Day Workshop: Shibori Plant Dye ("Kusakizome")

2019年09月21日 - 2019年09月22日

Saturday–Sunday, September 21–22 11 a.m.–4 p.m. (both days) Learn about Kusakizome, which translates to "plant dyeing," in a two-day workshop led by Glennis Dolce. Kusakizome has a long tradition in Japan with in-season plant materials collected regionally and used for different purposes. For this workshop, you will use a variety of locally sourced plant materials on a variety of silks with simple m...

Two-Day Workshop: "Shibori" On! Continuing Explorations in "Shibori" and Indigo

2018年08月04日 - 2018年08月05日

SOLD OUT Saturday–Sunday, August 4–5 11 a.m.–4 p.m. (both days) In this two-day workshop, participants will continue working with indigo and shibori dyeing using a broad selection of beautiful vintage and one-of-a-kind fabrics. Shibori techniques of itajime, arashi, nui, and more will be practiced with both new and continuing students. Bring scissors and a seam ripper. $72 members, $90 non-membe...

Author Discussion and Activist Panel—"Serve the People" by Karen L. Ishizuka

2016年06月18日

If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties tells the story of the social and cultural movement that knit disparate communities of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans into a political identity. Drawing on more than 120 interviews and illustrated with striking images from guerrilla publications, the book...

Members Only Meet and Greet with S. Floyd Mori

2016年01月23日

Come meet S. Floyd Mori—author, member of JANM’s Board of Governors, and President and CEO of the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS)—at this intimate pre-event reception prior to the public discussion about his book, The Japanese American Story. Space is limited. RSVP by January 18 to memberevents@janm.org or 213.830.5646.

Double (Book) Header: "How to Be An American Housewife" by Margaret Dilloway & "Wingshooters" by Nina Revoyr

2012年02月25日

How to Be An American Housewife crosses continents, cultures, decades, and generations to tell the story of a Japanese woman who marries an American soldier at the end of World War II, her thorny relationship with her American daughter, and the trip to contemporary Japan that changes both of their lives in dramatic and unexpected ways. Purchase How to Be an American Housewife >> Wingshooters, set in the 1970...

"Airborne Dreams: “Nisei” Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways " by Christine R. Yano

2012年01月28日

On October 13, 1955, Pan American World Airways stunned the commercial aviation industry by ordering the largest fleet of jet aircraft in the world, officially ushering in the Jet Age. In that same year, the airline embarked on a new personnel program, hiring Japanese American women to serve its Tokyo-bound and famed round-the-world flights. Although the airline claimed to hire these women to speak Japanese, in o...

Remembering Michi Weglyn and Walter Weglyn

2009年01月31日

In honor of the 10th anniversary of the passing of Michi Nishiura Weglyn, a panel of distinguished educators, friends, artists and biographers will come together to remember and share memories of both Michi and Walter Weglyn. Phil Nash, Esp., Writer, lawyer, professor, and close friend of Michi Weglyn Dr. Bob Suzuki, President emeritus Cal Poly Pomona Sharon Yamato, Writer, biographer, and filmmaker Nancy Kapi...

The Japanese American Political Experience: Past, Present, Future

2008年07月23日

Join the Symposium at the Japan Information and Cultural Center in Washington D.C. for a special presentation by Dr. Mitch Maki. Reception to follow. Presented by The Japanese American Network of Greater Washington (JANOGW), the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Washington D.C. (JCAW) and facilitated by the Japanese American National Museum (JANM). Dr. Maki will discuss the Japanese American political experie...

Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in WWII Arkansas

2003年07月18日

The overall project, entitled "Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in WWII Arkansas", includes the use of four National Museum traveling exhibitions and the creation and development of three other exhibitions to open in Little Rock in September of 2004. It also includes an all-day conference (a follow-up to the successful All-Camps Summit organized by the National Museum in November of 2002), optiona...