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  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    2017年04月01日

    Tour the ongoing exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community with JANM’s knowledgeable docents. Free with museum admission.

  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    2017年03月04日

    Tour the ongoing exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community with JANM’s knowledgeable docents. Free with museum admission.

  • Mottainai Yoga with traci

    2017年02月11日

    Roughly translated, mottainai means "don’t be wasteful" in Japanese. In this yoga and meditation workshop for all levels, certified yoga instructor traci ishigo invites participants to harness their own inner energy to prevent body, mind, and spirit from going to waste. Participants can expect the one-hour class to be both restorative and invigorating, with opportunities to practice deep stretches as well as ...

  • Mottainai Yoga with traci

    2017年01月28日

    Roughly translated, mottainai means "don’t be wasteful" in Japanese. In this yoga and meditation workshop for all levels, certified yoga instructor traci ishigo invites participants to harness their own inner energy to prevent body, mind, and spirit from going to waste. Participants can expect the one-hour class to be both restorative and invigorating, with opportunities to practice deep stretches as well as ...

  • Southwest Chamber Music: Music Unwrapped

    2008年03月29日

    FREE! Enjoy new quartet music from Southeast Asia juxtaposed with the exciting Mozart Hunt Quartet. Part of a three-year cultural exchange project between Southwest Chamber Music Music and the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and the Hanoi National Conservatory in Vietnam. Visit their website

  • 'LANDSCAPING AMERICA: BEYOND THE JAPANESE GARDEN' EXTENDS RUN UNTIL JANUARY 6, 2008

    2007年10月17日

    The Japanese American National Museum announced that it has extended the exhibition run for Landscaping American: Beyond the Japanese Garden through January 6, 2008. The exhibition, which opened June 17, was originally set to close on October 21, 2007. Landscaping America explores the history and influence of Japanese-style gardens and Japanese American gardeners on the American landscape. It also describes how Ja...

  • Holiday Bowl History Project

    2004年10月02日

    In 1958, five Japanese Americans founded the Holiday Bowl in the Crenshaw area of Los Angeles. Serving a multi-racial clientele, this bowling alley played an important role in the desegregation of the city and served as an integral part in rebuilding the Nikkei community after World War II. It was demolished in 2003 despite efforts to save or re-purpose the site. On this weekend the Holiday Bowl History Project see...

  • Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Japanese Girl's Oshi-e

    2002年07月13日

    Shibata Sensei will lead a series of hands-on workshops to explore traditional Japanese and American doll making. Participants will learn how to make Japanese traditional dolls out of rice paper in this session.

  • Spotlight on Four Angelenos: Illuminating History Through Ordinary Lives

    1997年07月19日

    Performance and Discussion At the California African American Museum 600 State Drive at Exposition Park, Los Angeles (213) 744-7432 Second in a three-part series co-sponsored by the Playrights Project, the Angeles Plaza, California Afro American Museum, and the Japanese American National Museum. This project features professional theatre artists who will perform monologues based on the lives of Los Ange...

  • Big Drum: Taiko in the United States - DVD

    JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center produced a documentary DVD under the same name as the exhibition, Big Drum: Taiko in the United States. Featuring America’s pioneering taiko figures, this DVD documents the development of American taiko and includes interviews and footage of drum-making and performances that reflect the ongoing transformation and diversification of this exciting performing art. Among the ma...