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  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    Oct 06, 2018

    Take a tour of JANM’s core exhibition with our knowledgeable docents. This is a great opportunity for first-time visitors, long-time museum members, and everyone in between. Included with museum admission.

  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    Sep 02, 2017

    Tour the ongoing exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community with JANM’s knowledgeable docents. Included with museum admission.

  • 2015 Gala Dinner, Silent Auction, and After Party

    May 02, 2015

    To Boldly Go: Sharing Our Story Across the Generations Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel and X Bar Join us as we welcome the Japanese American community, sponsors, supporters, members, and new friends to JANM’s largest annual fundraising event. At the 2015 Gala Dinner, the museum will share its accomplishments of the past year, offer a glimpse into what the coming year holds in store, and remember those f...

  • Coming to America in the 1960s

    Mar 19, 2011

    Featuring: Immigrant Etsuko Wada and her Bi-racial Daughter Grace The Occupation of Japan in the post-World War II era brought about major changes, including marriages between Japanese and Americans and the birth of their bi-racial children. While the changing American immigration laws allowed Japanese to migrate in the 1960s to the U.S., Japanese parents and their hapa children faced many cultural challenges to f...

  • Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival

    Jun 12, 2010

    The Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival is a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and every year brings together film and book lovers, innovative and emerging artists, and Mixed families for two days of workshops, readings, film screenings, a children's event and a live performance. The Festival has showcased many talented filmmakers, writers, and performers including Rebecca Walk...

  • One Way or Another - Gallery Talk

    Mar 29, 2008

    Gallery talk with curator Karin Higa and artists Kaz Oshiro and Glenn Kaino. Left: Glenn Kaino Graft (salmon) 2006 Shark skin, thread, salmon skin, plastic 36 x 12 x 4 in. Collection of the artist Photograph SJK, courtesy of The Project, New York

  • 1st & Central Summer Concerts: MC Rai and DJ Nnamdi

    Jul 06, 2006

    FREE 6:30 PM - DJ Nnamdi 7:00 PM - MC Rai A dynamic live performer, Tunisian-born singer-songwriter MC Rai joins traditional North African rhythms and melodies with urban beats to create new compositions in which the ancient and modern converge. Shattering simplistic stereotypes, his music will delight longtime fans of North African music and captivates new listeners. KPFK 90.7 FM's DJ Nnamdi to open. Free. Spons...

  • Isamu Noguchi

    Feb 05, 2006 - May 14, 2006

    In a career that spanned six decades, Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) produced a groundbreaking body of work that encompassed multiple disciplines to break down the barriers between sculptural art and functional design. Isamu Noguchi - Sculptural Design celebrates this legacy by integrating over 75 of Noguchi's works into a series of dramatic installations conceptualized by renowned theater designe...

  • Struggle and Success: The African American Experience in Japan

    Sep 16, 2001

    Join award-winning filmmaker Regge Life in a screening and discussion of Struggle and Success: The African American Experience in Japan, which is the first documentary to thoroughly examine the complex relationship of African Americans and Japanese. Mr. Life first went to Japan as an Artist Fellow with the U.S. Japan Friendship Commission in 1990. At the end of his six-month fellowship, he began planning this docu...

  • Exhibition Opening: "From Bento to Mixed Plate" at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, HI

    Oct 25, 1997

    Opening of exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Hawai‘i at the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.