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  • Nobuko Miyamoto and Benkyodo Documentaries at HAAPIFEST in Houston, TX

    Jun 09, 2024

    Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement will have its Houston Premiere at the HAAPIFEST on Sunday, June 9. Join Co-Director/Producer Tadashi Nakamura and subject Nobuko Miyamoto for a Q&A and performance. Experience this new sweeping documentary from JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center and PBS SoCal that follows the life of visionary artist-activist Nobuko Miyamoto and her work that changed Asian America forever....

  • Rising from the Ashes with Paula Yoo & Philip Chung

    May 18, 2024

    Join author Paula Yoo and writer Philip Chung for a conversation around the legacy of Vincent Chin on the 6th Annual National Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Day Against Bullying and Hate. Yoo will discuss and sign her newest book, Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles 1992, and her 2021 book, From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry, which tells the story of the Vincent Chin murder and trial. May 18 is the birthd...

  • Giant Robot Workshop: Wooden Worlds with Yoskay Yamamoto

    May 11, 2024

    Join Giant Robot Biennale 5 exhibition artist, Yoskay Yamamoto, as he guides you through the process of designing and decorating your own recycled wood creations. Born and raised in Toba, Japan, Yoskay Yamamoto moved to the United States at the age of fifteen. A self-trained illustrator, Yamamoto blends pop iconic characters from his new Western home with traditional and mythical Japanese elements and balances his...

  • JANM’s “Our Promise” Comprehensive Campaign Virtual Briefing

    Mar 25, 2024

    The Japanese American National Museum is amplifying its powerful voice. Our campus and programs showcase how Japanese Americans’ lives, experiences, and culture intersect and resonate with the experiences of marginalized communities in the United States. Our story is an American story. Our founders promised that the Museum would stand as a beacon of civil rights to ensure that what happened to Japanese Americans i...

  • Discover Nikkei Presents a Multilingual Virtual Program on Okinawan Drumming

    Feb 29, 2024

    LOS ANGELES, CA – Discover Nikkei, a web project of the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), will present the free virtual program Yeisaa nu Chimu-Don-Don: Exploring Cultural Identity through Okinawan Drumming on Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 3 p.m. PST. The program will be simultaneously translated in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. The registration deadline is Friday, March 8 at 10 a.m. PST. Registration is req...

  • Giant Robot Biennale Returns to JANM on March 2, 2024

    Dec 06, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) and Eric Nakamura, founder of Giant Robot, will present Giant Robot Biennale 5 from March 2 – September 1, 2024. The popular group show, last seen at JANM in 2016, showcases diverse creative works that celebrate the ethos of Giant Robot, a staple of Asian American alternative pop culture. Three decades after its founding as a hand-assembled zine, Giant Ro...

  • Youth Workshop: Contemporary Origami with Robert J. Lang and Glenn Kaino

    Dec 02, 2023

    Join world-renowned physicist and origami artist, Robert J. Lang, for a workshop on the art of paper folding. Robert Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami—using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful. All youth are welcome to join for a unique hands-on lesson with Glenn Kaino Studio and learn about how art can tell special stor...

  • The Chinese American Museum, JANM, and LA Plaza de Culturas y Artes present Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past in Los Angeles in December 2023

    Nov 20, 2023

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The Chinese American Museum (CAM), Japanese American National Museum (JANM), and LA Plaza de Culturas y Artes (LA Plaza)—will present the Smithsonian’s Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past in Los Angeles initiative, a collaborative series of public programs from December 1–17, 2023. With programs that range from symposia and panel discussions to films and family activities, Our Shar...

  • Professional Volunteers of the Japanese American Community

    Mar 03, 2012

    PLEASE NOTE: This event has been canceled. Learn how you can use your skills to help benefit Japanese Americans originations and keep the community strong. Hear from professionals and how they've done it.

  • The Queen of the Remote Control

    Jan 31, 2002

    Play Reading Presented by East West Players Written by Sujata Bhatt A seriocomic look at a South Asian American family in Calabasas, California, whose American dreams begin to unravel as their past begins to catch up with them.