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Democracy Center and entertwine Present The Grand Event on July 28, 2024
Jul 16, 2024
PSAWHAT:Enjoy performances of the top ten short plays from the 2024 APIDA 24-Hour Playwriting Contest, which amplifies the voices of diverse and underrepresented Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Desi American writers. WHEN: Sunday, July 28, 2024 from 2 p.m.–4 p.m. PDTWHERE:Tateuchi Democracy ForumJapanese American National Museum100 North Central AvenueLos Angeles, CA 90012RSVP:RSVP at janm.org/events.###About t...
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Benkyodo: The Last Manju Shop in J-Town at the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon
Mar 10, 2024
Benkyodo: The Last Manju Shop in J-Town will be screening at the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon, which will be held in-person March 8–10; virtually March 11–17. This short documentary film is being presented as part of the Shorts Program: Family. Food. Love. ABOUT THE FILM Ricky and Bobby Okamura, the current owners of Benkyodo mochi shop, make a difficult decision to close their family ...
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Climates of Inequality Symposium
Sep 30, 2023
Join us for a lively conversation with environmental justice leaders from Southern California as they discuss how their communities mobilize storytelling for change and to save lives. The daylong symposium includes the following speakers, as well as a screening and discussion of the documentary, Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust (2021). Spanish/English interpreters will be available throughout the day. S...
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Climates of Inequality Pop-Up Exhibition
Sep 23, 2023 - Sep 30, 2023
Visit Climates of Inequality, a week-long pop-up exhibition featuring stories of environmental justice from the US, Mexico, and Colombia. Interactive displays bring you to the frontlines of community organizing in twenty-two localities, where the majority of residents are immigrants, low-income, Native American, and people of color. Though they have contributed the least to the climate crisis, these communities bear ...
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America's Concentration Camps Exhibition Set For Ellis Island Immigration Museum In March 1998
Jul 10, 1997
The award-winning exhibition, America’s Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience, which drew record crowds to the Japanese American National Museum in 1994 and 1995, will be a featured exhibit at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum in New York City beginning on March 30, 1998. The exhibition provides the broad outline of the experience of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry who were...
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Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo—Press
Press For press inquiries, email mediarelations@janm.org or call 213.625.0414. Press Image Gallery (Password Access Only—contact mediarelations@janm.org for access.)
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Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo—Resources
Explore additional JANM resources about Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo. We will be adding more, so please keep checking back!
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What We Carried - Artist’s Statement
In 2007, I began interviewing returning soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. I expected to hear chest thumping and Fox News-like talking points like “We are fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here.” I heard none of that from the soldiers. I heard profound remorse and anger about their participation in U.S. interventions in the Middle East. Many of the vets have become radicals and an...