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  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    Apr 01, 2017

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

  • Mottainai Yoga with traci

    Mar 25, 2017

    Roughly translated, mottainai means "don’t be wasteful" in Japanese. In this yoga and meditation workshop for all levels, certified yoga instructor traci ishigo invites participants to harness their own inner energy to prevent body, mind, and spirit from going to waste. Participants can expect the one-hour class to be both restorative and invigorating, with opportunities to practice deep stretches as well as ...

  • Mottainai Yoga with traci

    Mar 11, 2017

    Roughly translated, mottainai means "don’t be wasteful" in Japanese. In this yoga and meditation workshop for all levels, certified yoga instructor traci ishigo invites participants to harness their own inner energy to prevent body, mind, and spirit from going to waste. Participants can expect the one-hour class to be both restorative and invigorating, with opportunities to practice deep stretches as well as ...

  • Japanese American Trivia Challenge

    Aug 11, 2012

    Date & Time: August 11, 1-2pm Location: Tateuchi Democracy Forum On-Site Registration: 12:30-12:50pm Participate in the JA Trivia Challenge—a game show-style competition where contestants will compete for prizes based on their knowledge of Japanese Americans in sports. Our Discover Nikkei team has put together a fast-paced and highly interactive game with lots of audience participation and prizes! The game wi...

  • Southwest Chamber Music: Music Unwrapped

    Mar 29, 2008

    FREE! Enjoy new quartet music from Southeast Asia juxtaposed with the exciting Mozart Hunt Quartet. Part of a three-year cultural exchange project between Southwest Chamber Music Music and the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and the Hanoi National Conservatory in Vietnam. Visit their website

  • A Divided Community—A Staged Reading

    Mar 11, 2006

    Conceived by Frank Chin, this dramatic reading—based on Chin's book Born in the USA and by Greg Robinson's By Order of the President—focuses on the issues surrounding the U.S. government persecution of Japanese America based on challenges to civil liberties and the resistance to the draft by Americans behind barbed wire. Read by actual resisters, the presentation sheds light on gaps that have divided the Japanese ...

  • Holiday Bowl History Project

    Oct 02, 2004

    In 1958, five Japanese Americans founded the Holiday Bowl in the Crenshaw area of Los Angeles. Serving a multi-racial clientele, this bowling alley played an important role in the desegregation of the city and served as an integral part in rebuilding the Nikkei community after World War II. It was demolished in 2003 despite efforts to save or re-purpose the site. On this weekend the Holiday Bowl History Project see...

  • "No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawaii during WWII", by Franklin Odo

    Apr 04, 2004

    When bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese American college students were among many young men enrolled in ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps) called upon to defend the islands against invasion immediately after the attack. In a matter of weeks, however, the government questioned their loyalty and disarmed them. In No Sword to Bury, Franklin Odo places the largely untold story of these young men in t...

  • California Pacific Cooking with Jozu's Andy Nakano

    Feb 28, 1998

    Japanese American Cuisine Series Join us as we bring in 1998 with a cooking demonstration of gourmet Pacific California cooking with Andy Nakano, owner of the award-winning restaurant, Jozu in West Hollywood. At age 11, Andy started working in his family’s legendary restaurant, Imperial Gardens on Sunset Boulevard. Don’t miss this special gastronomic treat. Samples are served to all of the cuisine series progr...

  • Big Drum: Taiko in the United States - DVD

    JANM’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center produced a documentary DVD under the same name as the exhibition, Big Drum: Taiko in the United States. Featuring America’s pioneering taiko figures, this DVD documents the development of American taiko and includes interviews and footage of drum-making and performances that reflect the ongoing transformation and diversification of this exciting performing art. Among the ma...