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  • Gallery Talk: Drawing the Line

    2012年02月11日

    Gallery talks with several of the artists featured in Drawing the Line: Japanese American Art, Design and Activism in Post-War Los Angeles.

  • Target Free Family Saturday: Ready, Set, Go!

    2012年02月11日

    FREE ALL DAY! Learning, crafts, and fun for the entire family! February’s theme is healthy living. Generously sponsored by Target, these special Saturdays are filled with fun activities giving families unique ways to learn, play, and grow together. ALL DAY CRAFT ACTIVITIES: Hop, skip, and jump on over to the Museum to embellish a jump rope. Make a recipe holder for your favorite healthy recipes. We’ll have s...

  • "Mountains That Take Wing – Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama "Co-directed by C.A. Griffith & H.L.T. Quan

    2012年02月04日

    Mountains That Take Wing – Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama is an award-winning, inspiring, historically rich and unique documentary featuring conversations that span thirteen years between two formidable women who share a profound passion for justice. Through conversations that are intimate and profound, we learn about Davis, an internationally renowned scholar-activist and 88-year-old Kochiyama, a revered grassroots ...

  • Exhibition Tour: Common Ground

    2012年02月04日

    Tour our ongoing exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community with experienced docents.

  • Fighting For Democracy at Arab American National Museum (Dearborn, MI)

    2012年02月02日 - 2012年08月12日

    TRAVELING EXHIBITION Arab American National Museum Dearborn, MI Extended to August 12! About the Exhibition Through the diverse perspectives of seven ordinary citizens whose lives and communities were forever changed by World War II, this exhibition asks visitors to think critically about freedom, history, and, ultimately, the ongoing struggle to live democratically in a diverse America. Fighting...

  • "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...

  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    2012年01月28日

    Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with National Museum docents. $9 Members; $14 non-members, includes Museum admission. Comfortable walking shoes and clothes recommended. Weather permitting.

  • Nobuko Miyamoto "What Can a Song Do? "

    2012年01月24日

    Location: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 6522 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, 90028. Admission: General admission $10.00 / students $5.00 / FREE for LACE or JANM members. Tickets available at the door. Together with a group of guest musicians and activists from the 1960s/‘70s and the present, Miyamoto brings alive the dynamic moment when her 1973 album “A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle of Asians...

  • SPECIAL SCREENING: The California State University: Sharing and Celebrating Stories from Nisei Honorary Degree Recipients

    2012年01月22日

    Cal State honors Nisei with honorary degrees – see the video with their stories. 11 honorees/family members interviewed. George Takei provides the introduction, Bob Suzuki the narration. After the screening, there will be a panel discussion with: Kazunori Katayama, one of the honorees (from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo) Bob Suzuki, president emeritus, Cal Poly Pomona and the video’s narrator Mitch Maki, provost at...

  • "Twice Bombed"

    2012年01月21日

    'The bottom line is, there shouldn't be nuclear in our world'. On his 91st birthday, Tsutomu Yamaguchi said when asked about current nuclear power. He is a survivor of not one, but two atomic blasts at both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While he has no physical scars from the attacks, his emotional scars run deep, as he lost his sons and his wife from the after-effects. The picture of the human Jigoku (hell) burned in the ...