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  • JANM Book Club: Letters to Home with Okaeri

    Nov 02, 2024

    Celebrate with Okaeri and join them for the official launch of their new book, Letters to Home: Art and Writing by LGBTQ+ Nikkei and Allies! Featuring discussions with the editors and selected contributors, the book launch will showcase the diversity of impact and beauty across the pieces. Light refreshments will be served. About the BookLetters to Home asks contributors to reflect on the Japanese phrase, okaeri (お帰り...

  • The Enduring Power of Oral History: An Afternoon with Art Hansen & Friends

    Nov 04, 2023

    Noted Japanese American scholar and oral historian Arthur A. Hansen is guest of honor for an afternoon of reminiscences and oral histories from fellow scholars and friends. Bruce Embrey, executive director of the Manzanar Committee, will serve as moderator. Arthur A. Hansen is professor emeritus of History at California State University Fullerton, past director of the university’s Lawrence de Graaf Center for Oral...

  • The Enduring Power of Oral History Public Program is on November 4, 2023

    Nov 02, 2023

    Media Advisory WHAT: Japanese American scholar and oral historian Arthur A. Hansen is guest of honor during an afternoon of reminiscences and oral histories from fellow scholars and friends. WHEN: Saturday, November 4, 2023 from 2 p.m.–3:30 p.m. DETAILS: This special event will feature: Arthur A. Hansen, professor emeritus of History at California State University Fullerton, past di...

  • Two Day Workshop—Shibori Explorations

    Nov 05, 2022 - Nov 06, 2022

    $76 members, $95 non-members. Plus $40 materials fee due to the instructor at the beginning of class (cash only). Limited to 15 participants. One spot left! Come and join in this indigo and shibori workshop to practice, learn and enjoy all the creativity shibori has to offer! The class will explore a variety of traditional Japanese fabric dyeing techniques, including stitching, clamping, binding, and pole wrapp...

  • Contested Histories at The Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California (San Francisco, CA)

    Jun 23, 2018 - Jun 24, 2018

    TRAVELING DISPLAY The Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California San Francisco, CA Saturday: 9 a.m.–6:30 p.m.; workshop: 5:30 p.m.–6:15 p.m. Sunday: 9 a.m.–6 p.m.; workshop: 3:30 p.m.–4:15 p.m. Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects created by persons of Japanese ...

  • PROF. SCOTT KURASHIGE TO DISCUSS 'SHIFTING GROUNDS OF RACE' ON SATURDAY, JULY 30

    Jul 28, 2011

    Professor Scott Kurashige will provide insight into his book, Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles, at a public program set for the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, July 30, beginning at 2 p.m. Among Professor Kurashige’s insights is the fact that Los Angeles, now considered one of the most diverse metropolitan areas in the world, had the sma...

  • 'YEAR OF THE RABBIT: STAN SAKAI'S USAGI YOJIMBO' EXHIBITION TO OPEN JULY 9

    Jun 24, 2011

    The Japanese American National Museum will premiere its latest exhibition, Year of the Rabbit: Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo, on Saturday, July 9, featuring original art of the iconic comic book character and a new documentary on cartoonist Stan Sakai. Premiere Sponsor for the exhibition is Daruma. The show runs through October 30, 2011. Sakai’s samurai rabbit has become internationally famous since its inception 27 ...

  • AUTHOR JOHN CHRISTGAU TO DISCUSS TREATMENT OF 'ENEMY ALIENS' DURING WW II

    Aug 19, 2010

    Examination of the United States Government’s Enemy Alien Internment Program, which operated from 1941 to 1946, is the subject of a public program featuring author John Christgau on Saturday, August 28, beginning at 2 p.m., at the Japanese American National Museum. Christgau is the author of the book, Enemies: World War II Alien Internment, as well as a collaborator on the photo exhibit, "The Alien Enemy Files: Hi...

  • MIXED: PORTRAITS OF MULTIRACIAL KIDS BY KIP FULBECK TO PREMIERE MARCH 20

    Mar 12, 2010

    A new exhibition, Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids by Kip Fulbeck, featuring over 70 framed photographic images of children of multiple racial heritage and their statements or drawings, will premiere at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, March 20, with activities from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The exhibition runs through September 26, 2010. Organized by the National Museum and Kip Fulbeck, an award-win...

  • AUTHOR TO DISCUSS BOOK ON 'NURSE OF MANZANAR' ON JULY 18

    Jul 03, 2009

    The book, Nurse of Manzanar, based on a lost manuscript by Nisei Toshiko Eto Nakamura, who was a registered nurse when World War II broke out, will be the subject of a public program at the Japanese American National Museum on Saturday, July 18, beginning at 2 p.m. Samuel Nakamura, Toshiko’s only son, discovered the manuscript after his mother’s death in 1994. The manuscript was written shortly after the end of Wo...