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2007 Oshogatsu: New Year Family Festival
2007年01月07日
FREE ADMISSION Ring in the New Year with fun arts and crafts, whimsical tales, and exciting performances at the National Museum. 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM Arts and crafts for children of all ages Bird Pins: Allowed to bring only what they could carry, Japanese American World War II inmates created beauty under daunting circumstances by making bird pins. Learn the fascinating story behind the pins and design your own...
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Craft Class with Ryosen Shibata: Holiday Cards
2006年12月16日
Make the season bright by making your very own holiday card to share with family and friends. $8 for National Museum members and $13 for non-members, includes supplies and Museum admission. Reservations required.
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A “Jive Bomber’s Christmas” Returns!
2006年12月08日 - 2006年12月17日
This musical play will once again bring that unique mixture of laughter, tears, and song to the National Museum. Set in 1943 as World War II is raging and some 120,000 Japanese Americans have unconstitutionally been placed in concentration camps. This critically acclaimed musical is the story of a group of inmates who attempt to celebrate the Christmas holidays despite being behind barbed wire. Opening Night ...
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Fighting for Democracy Pre-Visit Workshop
2006年12月07日
Sign-up for a FREE Pre-Visit Workshop Thursday, December 7, 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 R...
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Member Holiday Shopping Days!
2006年12月03日
FREE ADMISSION AND 20% OFF AT 20 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTIONS The Japanese American National Museum, in partnership with 19 Southland institutions, hosts special holiday shopping days for members only! For one day only, National Museum Members will receive 20% off* at the award-winning Museum Store and online at www.janmstore.com. There will also be complimentary gift-wrapping and light holiday refreshments. ...
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LA Freewaves 2006 presents Screening and speak out: Media that Matters and other youth videos
2006年11月18日
Community Connections at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy In collaboration with Media That Matters, the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, and other Los Angeles nonprofit groups*, Freewaves will screen contemporary works by youth that address political, economic, and social issues. The program is based around the Sixth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival, a showcase for ...
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Jon Nakamatsu, Surprise Van Cliburn Winner, to be Honored at Japanese American National Museum Dinner
1997年11月04日
Even his piano teacher, Marina Derryberry, was surprised when Jon Nakamatsu earned the Gold Medal at the 10th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition earlier this year in Fort Worth, Texas. And Derryberry has been instructing Nakamatsu since he was six years old. Nakamatsu and NBC-TV’s Today News Anchor Ann Curry will become the first recipients of the Japanese American National Museum’s Awards for Excelle...
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From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai`i
1997年10月28日
The exhibition explores the evolution of Japanese American identity in Hawai`i from the first to the present generation. Through personal artifacts, family photographs and first-person accounts, the role of Japanese Americans in sports, labor, education, religion, politics, and business is explored as arenas of sharing and adaptation in our Island society. When Japanese immigrants first worked on Hawai`i’s sug...
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"Kenjiro Nomura: An Artist's View of the Japanese American Internment" exhibition opens October 4, 1997
1997年09月25日
The Japanese American National Museum opens a new exhibit, Saturday, October 4, 1997. Kenjiro Nomura: An Artist’s View of the Japanese American Internment highlights the images created by artist Kenjiro Nomura while he was incarcerated in the Minidoka concentration camp in Hunt, Idaho. Already an established and prolific artist when he and his family were forcibly removed from their home in Seattle and placed in Mi...