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  • 2022 Kokoro Craft Show

    Oct 30, 2022

    The Friends of the Japanese American National Museum invite you to the 14th annual Kokoro Craft Show! Fifty-six vendors will be selling hand-painted apparel, apparel for babies, kids, and pets, framed art, bronze sculptures, ceramics, food, jewelry, gifts, glass art, shibori, stationery, embroidered towels, totes, origami, and MORE! Entrance to this in-person event is free (does not include Museum admission...

  • Tea & Letter Writing: reflections

    Aug 11, 2021

    Gather with us in the comfort of your own home to share tea and conversation and celebrate the second anniversary of our Tea & Letter Writing series! Join traci kato-kiriyama, former Little Tokyo +LAB Artist-in-Residence at JANM, and Mya Worrell, zine maker and writer, for reflective letter writing and zine creation. Make yourself a cup of tea, get comfortable, and join us online for this interactive bi-monthly progr...

  • Tea & Letter Writing: To Our Future Selves

    Apr 14, 2021

    $10 suggested donation Gather with us in the comfort of your own home to share tea and conversation! This month we're thrilled to have Mitsuko Brooks join us to share inspiration and practice with her mail art and inspire our own artistic mailings. traci kato-kiriyama, former Little Tokyo +LAB Artist-in-Residence at JANM, will host two rounds of creative writing in reflection of the past year and looking ahead to ...

  • PREMIERE and Q&A—ATOMIC CAFE: The Noisiest Corner in J-Town

    Sep 27, 2020

    FREE In the late 1970s, when L.A.’s punk rock scene was exploding, an unlikely family-owned restaurant in Little Tokyo started by Japanese Americans returning from America’s WWII concentration camps became one of its most popular hang-outs. That’s when Sansei “Atomic Nancy” with her “take-no-prisoners” punk make-up and demeanor took the café over from her parents and cranked up the jukebox. Infamous for its eclec...

  • JANM Digital Film Festival Q&A: Words, Weavings & Songs

    Sep 18, 2020

    FREE Join us for a Q&A with the grandchildren of Wakako Yamauchi, Momo Nagano, and Mary Nomura, the subjects of Words, Weavings & Songs (2002). Alyctra Matsushita, Hana van der Steur, and Erin Nomura Marquez will talk about their grandmothers and their impacts on the Japanese American community and beyond. They will also be joined by Mary Kageyama Nomura, the Songbird of Manzanar herself, in a special appearan...

  • ONLINE Book Talk: From Japanese American Incarceration to COVID-19: The Fight for Justice

    May 05, 2020

    FREE While times of global crisis can bring out the best in this country, they also have a history of surfacing deeply rooted xenophobia and bigotry. At a moment where many are fearful, we are once again seeing efforts to scapegoat a group of Americans based on their identity. On May 5, the Pacific Council and Japanese American National Museum (JANM), in partnership with Skylight Books, will host a conversation...

  • ZOCALO—How Can Americans Defend the 14th Amendment When the Government Won't?

    Jul 31, 2018

    A Zócalo/Daniel K. Inouye Institute Event at JANM’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy Introduction by Irene Hirano Inouye, reading from U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye’s keynote address to the 1968 Democratic National Convention Moderated by Madeleine Brand, Host, KCRW’s "Press Play" Since its adoption in 1868, the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution has inspired advances i...

  • Jewelry Workshop—Continuing to Work with "Washi"

    Jan 27, 2018 - Jan 28, 2018

    Saturday–Sunday, January 27–28 11 a.m.–4 p.m. (both days) Designed for students who have completed one of our introductory washi classes, this two-day workshop will continue examining the unique properties of washi paper and various methods of working with it to create jewelry. Explore the challenges of applying washi onto various wooden beads, and experience the excitement of integrating commercial ...

  • PLAY READING FOR 'ALL THAT REMAINS' SET FOR NATIONAL MUSEUM ON JUNE 4

    Jun 01, 2011

    A reading of Mona Z. Smith’s play "All That Remains", which tells the tale of a young Japanese American man uncovering the story of his late father, who fought as a member of the famed all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II, will be presented at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, June 4, beginning at 2 p.m. The play is set in October of 1969 in the Vosges forest on the French-Ge...

  • Rhythm and Rice

    A look at the longtime, ongoing New Year’s mochitsuki tradition in Livingston, CA. It features interviews conducted by JANM’s Director of Collections Management & Access Kristen Hayashi with Sherman Kishi, Dawn Nakashima, Aya Newman, and Harrison Uyematsu. Directed by Evan Kodani 8 minutes Created in conjunction with JANM’s A Taste of Home program series, supported by the Consulate General of Japan in Los...