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  • Author Discussion—"Life After Manzanar" by Naomi Hirahara and Heather C. Lindquist

    Jun 23, 2018

    If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. What happened to Japanese Americans when they were released from America’s concentration camps like Manzanar after World War II ended? Life after Manzanar seeks to answer this question by shedding light on the "Resettlement"—the relatively unexamined postwar period when ordinary people of Japanese ancestry were finally...

  • Mottainai Yoga with traci

    Dec 10, 2016

    —PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME— 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...

  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    Jun 04, 2016

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

  • Target Free Family Saturdays: I am ... I can be ...

    Jul 08, 2006

    This summer the National Museum debuts four wonderful days created especially for families. Generously sponsored by Target, these special Saturdays are filled with fun activities giving families unique ways to learn, play, and grow together. I am ... I can be... How do you perceive yourself in your imagination? How do you communicate those perceptions to others? Drop-in and discover fun ways of drawing self-po...

  • Taiko @ Noon

    Sep 07, 2005

    Enjoy your lunch as you listen to the energetic and compelling rhythms performed by our guest taiko drummers. Every other Wednesday throughout the summer a different master drummer will share the power and meaning of taiko, exploring the diversity of the art form as practiced by master artists from across the Southland.

  • Taiko @ Noon

    Aug 31, 2005

    Enjoy your lunch as you listen to the energetic and compelling rhythms performed by our guest taiko drummers. Every other Wednesday throughout the summer a different master drummer will share the power and meaning of taiko, exploring the diversity of the art form as practiced by master artists from across the Southland.

  • Taiko @ Noon

    Aug 17, 2005

    Enjoy your lunch as you listen to the energetic and compelling rhythms performed by our guest taiko drummers. Every other Wednesday throughout the summer a different master drummer will share the power and meaning of taiko, exploring the diversity of the art form as practiced by master artists from across the Southland.

  • AT&T East West Players New Voices Writers Gallery Series

    Aug 14, 1997

    Thursday Evening at the Museum New Play Reading This program features the winners of the New Voices Play writing Competition sponsored by East West Players. The plays of these talented young playwrights were selected from entries collected from throughout the country in a contest that EWP hopes to make international in scope in the near future. Follow the development of these plays that may someday progress t...

  • Hideo Date Collection

    (99.111) The online collection of New York City-based artist Hideo Date (1907-2004) dates from the 1930s to 2004 and includes 178 drawings, prints and paintings. Born in Osaka, Japan, Date immigrated to California in 1923. After graduating from high school he enrolled at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, but left after a year to pursue the study of traditional brush painting in Japan. Date returned to Los An...

  • Ireichō—Event

    On September 24, 2022, the Japanese American National Museum hosted a private event to consecrate and install the Ireichō, a sacred book that records the names of over 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who were unjustly imprisoned in US Army, Department of Justice, and War Relocation Authority camps during World War II. A procession of interfaith clergy, survivors, and descendants from seventy-five World War I...