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FREE ADMISSION ALL DAY

2020年01月11日

JANM will provide free admission on Saturday, January 11 to celebrate MOCA’s new free admission launch. ON VIEW: Under a Mushroom Cloud: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Atomic Bomb Common Ground: The Heart of Community

From Japan to Mexico: A Nikkei Story from Veracruz

2018年09月29日

Julio Mizzumi Guerrero Kojima and Belen Torres Morales are descendants of immigrants who left Japan to work in the sugar plantations in Veracruz, Mexico, in the early 1900s. They are musicians with expertise in the Fandango, a tradition specific to Veracruz that is rooted in community convening and participation. They also are part of an environmental/community gardening project in Veracruz called Jardin Kojima. ...

JANM Summer Night Concerts

2015年07月30日

FREE JANM presents a new series of summer evening concerts with Asian American performers. Tonight’s featured artists are musical collaborators Magnetic North and Taiyo Na, who have achieved enormous popularity in Japan with their politically conscious brand of hip hop. Also appearing are Irish-Japanese American singer-songwriter Marié Digby, who vaulted to fame after her acoustic cover version of...

"Strawberry Yellow" by Naomi Hirahara

2013年03月30日

Mas Arai is a taciturn, sometimes even curmudgeonly retired gardener with a past. Born in Watsonville in California’s strawberry country, he was raised in Hiroshima, Japan, and as a teenager survived the 1945 A-bomb. After the war, he returned to Watsonville to start over, finding shelter with cousins and work in the strawberry fields. Now, after moving to Altadena and spending a lifetime as a gardener, Mas re...

"Imprisoned in Paradise: Japanese Internee Road Workers at the World War II Kooskia Internment Camp "by Priscilla Wegars

2011年07月16日 - 2011年06月16日

Come find out about the Kooskia Internment Camp, an obscure and virtually forgotten World War II detention facility that was located in a remote area of north central Idaho. Kooskia held men of Japanese ancestry who were termed "enemy aliens," even though most of them were long-time U.S. residents, denied naturalization by racist U.S. laws. For more information on the Kooskia Internment Camp and on Imprisoned in ...

Lecture: The Japanese American Family Today

2010年12月04日

Professor Arthur Sakamoto from the University of Texas, Austin will lead an informative talk on the sociology of the modern Japanese American family versus Japanese American families from the early 20th century.

Asian American Music Festival's Movement 2: Generations

2010年10月16日

Asian American Music Festival's Movement 2 is a direct tribute to the Asian American jazz legacy and the API consciousness movement with performances by two generations of leading Asian American pianists, Gary Fukushima and Jon Jang. Movement 2 closes with the world premiere of "Concerto for Jazz Orchestra and Taiko" composed by Jon Jang, performed by The New Asian American Jazz Orchestra directed by Gary Fukushima. ...

Ruth Asawa and the Alvarado Art Workshop

2007年04月14日

Ruth Asawa started an art program at Alvarado Elementary School, the public school her children attended. Co-founded by Sally Woodbridge in 1968, the program included classes in sculpture, ceramics, drawing, mosaic, and painting, and was integrated into the school's curricula. Teachers and parents are invited to learn innovative ways of teaching art to children in an enlightening afternoon that includes a screening o...

Marta Gómez

2005年09月01日

Colombian singer, songwriter, and rising star, Marta Gomez, effortlessly melds American jazz idioms with rhythms from throughout South America. Her work embraces traditional rhythms and pays homage to iconic composers from Simon Diaz to Joan Manuel Serrat, creating a style that one critic called a beautiful "mix but not a fusion." Come early for a 6:30 DJ set of music from around the world by some of the city's be...

Picture Bride

1998年08月31日

"Two thumbs up!" —Siskel & Ebert NAATA and PIC present the first feature film written, produced and directed by Asian American women on public television September 1998 The National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA) and Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC) proudly present the critically-acclaimed feature film PICTURE BRIDE, by Kayo Hatta, on public television stations September 19...