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  • Voices from Okinawa

    2007年04月05日

    A Staged Reading by East West Players' Writers Gallery Kama Hutchins, an American graduate student of one quarter Okinawan descent, teaches English in Okinawa and receives an unexpected education in Okinawan-American relations. From the author of Leilani's Hibiscus and Lucky Go Hawaii. Developing new work and introducing new talent is vital to the creative process at East West Players. Promising new scripts are p...

  • "Roar of the Tiger: The Legend of Tokyo Rose" by Glenn Conner-Johnson

    2007年03月31日

    With a story far more complex than that conveyed by the headlines, Iva Toguri D'Aguino (1916-2006) was maligned and imprisoned only to be exonerated and pardoned later in life. In a new play written by Glenn Conner-Johnson, acclaimed actress, Momo Yashima, portrays the erroneously identified "Tokyo Rose" whose actions still resonate in this time of "unlawful enemy combatants" and heated debates about habeas corpus. F...

  • "Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants" by Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain

    2007年03月25日

    Pure Beauty shows how racial and gendered meanings are enacted through the pageants, and reveals their impact on Japanese American men, women, and children. Now based in Ireland, King-O'Riain concludes that the mixed-race challenge to racial understandings of Japanese American-ness does not necessarily mean an end to race as we know it and asserts that race is work -- created and re-created in a social context. Book...

  • Craft Class with Ryosen Shibata

    2007年03月24日

    Punch Art Note Cards Why buy generic note cards when you can create your own? Design note cards with recycled hole punch confetti. $8 for National Museum members and $13 for non-members, includes supplies and Museum admission.

  • Barbara Kawakami on Issei Women and Textiles from the Plantation

    2007年03月18日

    Groundbreaking researcher, Barbara Kawakami, makes a rare visit to the National Museum for a conversation about the critical role Issei women played in shaping the socio-cultural life of pre-World War II Hawai`i. By "talking story" about women both remarkable and ordinary, Kawakami uses the treasure trove of textiles and oral histories found in her collection to shed light on the legacy of the Issei pioneers. Light r...

  • "Transforming the Commonplace": Curator Daniell Cornell talks about the life and legacy of Ruth Asawa

    2007年03月11日

    Organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air is a brilliant retrospective of the artist's richly varied career. A Nisei who was incarcerated in Rohwer Concentration Camp, Asawa went on to become a highly influential figure in the history of American modernism and is recognized nationally for her activism in arts education. Daniell Cornell, Associate Curator of ...

  • The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa

    2007年03月10日 - 2007年05月27日

    This exhibition represents a retrospective of this Nisei artist's enduring and richly varied career. Born on a truck farm in Southern California, Asawa was incarcerated at Rohwer concentration camp in Arkansas during World War II. In the 1940s, she attended Black Mountain College, the famous experimental art school in North Carolina. The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa begins with her earliest sculptures, drawings, and pa...

  • Fighting for Democracy Pre-Visit Workshop

    2007年03月08日

    Sign-up for a FREE Pre-Visit Workshop Thursday, March 8, 4:30-7:30 PM (Dinner provided) WHAT IS FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY? For hundreds of years people have sought a home and future in the United States of America. They came, and still come, in pursuit of freedom and democracy. Yet, the dream of democracy is not without its struggle. Against the backdrop of World War II, a segregated America, and the Civil Righ...

  • A Role Most Vital: A Conversation with Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga

    2007年03月03日

    Critics have called her a "destructive force." However, history has revealed Aiko Yoshinaga-Herzig as playing a role most vital in the movement for Japanese American redress. Like her beloved husband, the late John "Jack" Herzig, this highly principled woman is an inspiration for all those who stand for justice and civil liberties. A thoughtful and meaningful program for Hinamatsuri or "Girl's Day." Light reception ...

  • "Finding Family Stories" Arts Partnership Project Exhibit to Open in Three California Museums

    1998年01月18日

    The Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles; Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles; and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, present Finding Family Stories, (FFS) Arts Partnership Project, opening Thursday, January 22, 1998; Friday, January 30, 1998; and Friday, February 6, 1998, respectively. Initiated by the Japanese American National Museum in 1995 and funded in part by The James Ir...