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  • O-Maya

    2005年07月07日

    Brewing a spicy concoction of urban hip-hop, soul, and Afro Latin grooves, O-Maya features some of the finest young talent from the Bay Area. This 10-piece band creates poetic lyrics that carry messages of positivity and social change -- all carried by a fierce beat. This series is presented in association with the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy and is sponsored, in part, by the City of Los Ange...

  • BIG DRUM EXHIBITION REVEALS GROWING POPULARITY OF ENSEMBLE TAIKO GROUPS THROUGHOUT NORTH AMERICA PERFORMING ON JAPANESE DRUMS IN U.S. BEGAN WITH ONLY 3 JAPANESE AMERICAN GROUPS, NOW NUMBERS OVER 200

    2005年07月01日

    Los Angeles, CA — The Japanese American National Museum will premiere Big Drum: Taiko in the United States on Thursday, July 14, the first major museum exhibition about the phenomenal growth of taiko (Japanese drum) performance in the United States and North America, beginning with three grassroots groups in California and ballooning to an estimated 200 performing ensembles in 24 states and throughout Canada. Thro...

  • National Invitational Golf Tournament

    2005年06月27日

    At the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California. For more information, call 213.625.0414.

  • From Tokyo Rose to the Patriot Act: Propaganda and its Impact on Civil Liberties

    2005年06月25日

    The last session in this seminar reflects on propaganda post-September 11 using select objects in the exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community. Guest speaker to be announced.

  • Craft Class with Ryosen Shibata - Tsuru Sumi-e

    2005年06月25日

    Learn how to draw beautiful cranes with a brush. Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes museum admission and supplies. Reservations are recommended.

  • Katia Moraes and Pure Samba

    2005年06月23日

    Celebrate the beginning of summer with a performance by one of the most versatile and successful Brazilian artists in Los Angeles. Singer-songwriter, Katia Moraes, and her latest project, Pure Samba, will fill the National Museum with the sound of sambas and marchinhas straight from the heart of Rio.

  • Make Your Own Puppet

    2005年06月18日

    Drop in and create your own puppet before viewing The Pink Dress puppet show. For more information, please refer to the box below.

  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    2005年06月18日

    Relive history and learn about present day Little Tokyo with National Museum volunteers on this historical walking tour. Fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes museum admission. Reservations and comfortable shoes and clothes are recommended. Weather permitting.

  • The Pink Dress Puppet Show

    2005年06月18日

    For more information, please see June 4. 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM

  • East West Player's "GOT LAUGHS!"

    2005年06月16日

    A staged reading of one of the winners of the East West Players Writer's Gallery GOT LAUGHS! playwriting contest, a nationwide competition to find the funniest voice in Asian Pacific America. The contest was the result of a yearlong search for comedic full-length plays, musicals, or solo pieces with predominantly Asian Pacific casts and/or themes, and part of a three-year, $200,000 grant from The James Irvine Foundat...