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Target Free Family Saturdays: Hello Valentine!

2015年02月14日

FREE* ALL DAY! Will you be my valentine? Join Hello Kitty at JANM for a heart-filled day of family fun! *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 purchase. All Hello! Admissions are based on timed entry; obtaining tickets in advance is strongly recommende...

"Infinity & Chashu Ramen" by Kerwin Berk

2014年01月18日

Showtimes: 4PM & 7PM The universe unfolds a little differently in Japantown. It operates in a way you couldn’t possibly comprehend. But there is a method to its madness and for the most part it runs as smoothly as a Tokyo train station. However, every once in a great while, it needs a little help. Meet Tenshi. He’s an obnoxious 400-year-old spirit from old Japan who has a foul mouth and a propensity for pett...

kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa at The Field Museum (Chicago, IL)

2010年04月02日 - 2010年09月12日

TRAVELING EXHIBITION The Field Museum Chicago, IL EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 12! kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa is an exhibition of portraits by artist Kip Fulbeck, who traveled the country photographing more than 1,000 Hapa of all ages and walks of life. Originally a derogatory label derived from the Hawaiian word for half, the word Hapa has been embraced as a term of pride by many whose mixed-rac...

'BRILLIANT BEATS' THEME FOR TARGET FREE FAMILY SATURDAY NOV. 8

2008年10月31日

The Japanese American National Museum continues its highly successful public program series, Target Free Family Saturday, with the theme of "Brilliant Beats" for November 8, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The program, which is free to the general public, thanks to Target, will include fun family activities, including hands-on arts and crafts and drumming. Highlighting the day of activities will be two opportunities to be ...

1st & Central Summer Concerts: Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico

2008年09月18日

Internationally acclaimed Greek vocalist, Savina Yannatou, is a force of nature. This extraordinary evening of traditional and original sacred music from throughout the Mediterranean is presented as part of the 2008 World Festival of Sacred Music—Los Angeles. For festival details, visit www.festivalofsacredmusic.org. 2008 1st & Central Summer Concerts schedule September 25 - Chicha Libre and Etran Finatawa

Akio Morita

2007年07月13日 - 2007年09月09日

The Japanese American National Museum will present the exhibition, Akio Morita, this summer from July 13 - September 9, 2007. Developed by members of the Morita family, this exhibit commemorates the remarkable life and achievements of Mr. Akio Morita (1921-1999), co-founder of Sony Corporation. As one of Sony's principal figures, Morita was known as an electronic innovator who changed the way the world sees, hears...

Fresh Words and Actions

2002年09月26日

Performance Arts Series Held Every Fourth Thursday Big Head is Denise Uyehara's latest work which links the memory of the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans with the present-day treatment of those suspected of being "the enemy". This interdisciplinary performance is inspired by letters her great uncle composed in 1942 on his twentieth birthday while incarcerated at Rohwer concentration camp in Arkansas...

Re-Visioning Manzanar

1999年09月24日 - 2001年10月07日

Manzanar, one of the ten War Relocation Authority concentration camps, has been the subject of multiple interpretations over the last fifty years. Culled from the permanent collection of the Japanese American National Museum, this exhibition also features work by Ansel Adams, Robert Hasuike, and Masumi Hayashi. New additions to this exhibition include the recent acquisition of American Families, a weaving by Nisei...

Japanese American National Museum Opens New Hawai'i Exhibition

1998年03月10日

The Japanese American National Museum opens their new exhibit, From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai'i, Saturday, March 14, 1998. The exhibition tells the story of Americans of Japanese ancestry (AJAs) in Hawai'i from immigration to the present. When they arrived in the Islands as laborers, Japanese immigrants carried their lunches, called bento to work in the field...

"Something Strong Within" Documentary To Be Screened On KCET's "California's Gold" On May 17

1997年04月24日

The award-winning documentary, Something Strong Within, which features home movie footage taken by the Japanese American inmates of several of the U.S. concentration camps during World War II, will be featured on the KCET series California’s Gold with producer/host Huell Howser on Saturday, May 17, at 6 p.m. The series is screened on 13 PBS affiliates in California as well as stations in Hawai‘i and Utah. Viewers sho...