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  • Citron Trunk Show

    May 12, 2018

    FREE ADMISSION Citron Clothing creates elegant, timeless apparel for all body types using the finest fabrics, artisanal techniques from around the world, and vintage motifs sourced from Asia and Europe. On the day before Mother’s Day, bring Mom in to peruse these wearable works of art! Member’s discount does not apply to Citron products. In the Nancy K. Araki Community Education Center

  • 2017 Gala Dinner and Silent Auction

    May 06, 2017

    Reconnecting with the Past, Forging Our Future Honoring: Irene Hirano Inouye, Lifetime Achievement Award Bruce T. Kaji, Legacy Award Tom Ikeda, Founders’ Award Join us for the 2017 Gala Dinner and Silent Auction at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites, Los Angeles on Saturday, May 6. Reconnecting with the Past, Forging Our Future will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Japanese Amer...

  • Members Only Exhibition Tour: "Before They Were Heroes"

    Jul 18, 2015

    Join Dr. Sus Ito and curator Lily Tamai, PhD, on this exclusive guided tour of the exhibition Before They Were Heroes: Sus Ito’s World War II Images. This event has reached capacity; no additional reservations can be accepted.

  • Asian American Music Festival's Movement 1: Urbanisms

    Oct 15, 2010 - Oct 17, 2010

    The Asian American Music Festival (AAMF) 2010 kicks off with west coast hip-hop star, Kero One, opening for Dana Leong's Milk & Jade project which fuses electronica and hip-hop. Movement 1's headliner is Japanese rapping sensation, Shing02. The AAMF is the world’s leading festival celebrating Asian American music: jazz, world, hip-hop and beyond. AAMF celebrates the artistic and creative achievements of Asian Amer...

  • part asian: 100% hapa by Kip Fulbeck

    Jun 10, 2006

    Join award-winning filmmaker and artist, Kip Fulbeck, as he discusses his new book part asian, 100% hapa. This book was created as a forum in word and image for Hapa to answer the question they're nearly always asked: "What are you?" Fulbeck's frank, head-on portraits are paired with the sitters' own statements of identity. A work of intimacy, beauty, and powerful self-expression, part asian, 100% hapa is the book...

  • Panel Discussion for the "Beliz Brother, Mei-ling Hom, and Kim Yasuda: Celebrating U.S. - Japan Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship Program" Exhibition

    May 12, 2001

    Featuring: Prof. Masako Notoji (Tokyo University), Dr. Carol Gluck (Columbia University), Dr. Richard Wood (Yale University), Professor Nagayo Homma (Seijyo University), and moderated by E. Barry Keehn, President of the Japan America Society. Panelists will examine the relationship between the US and Japan over the last 50 years, in particular, how each country impacts each other culturally, economically and socia...

  • Halloween SPOOKY Fun

    Oct 26, 1997

    Join us for a ghoulishly delightful day of storytelling and pumpkin-making. Enter our Museum Family Costume Contest and win a prize! Fun for the entire family. Invite your friends too! Spooky punch and Goblin cookies will be served. Free with Museum admission. Storytelling at 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.; reservations required for 1:30 p.m. pumpkin-making FUNshop by October 22; costume contest and snacks at 3 p.m. This...

  • Creative Writers Workshop Series presented by Asian American Writer's Workshop

    Oct 25, 1997

    Los Angeles based author, Sesshu Foster (City Terrace Field Manual) will hold a creative writing class to kick off this new series. The Museum, in collaboration with the Asian American Writer’s Workshop, a non-profit collective of writers based in New York City and Los Angeles, will present a series of creative writing workshops given by noted Asian American writers. Members $5, non-members, $9 includes Museum admi...

  • Asian American Writers' Workshop Readings

    Aug 07, 1997

    Thursday Evenings at the Museum Author Reading The second program in this series will feature readings by lesbian and bisexual Asian Pacific Islander women. Among those reading from their works will be Liz Bahn, Diep Tran, and Denise Uyehara. Asian American Writers’ Workshop is a non-profit organization based in New York City. Founded in 1991 by a collective of writers, its mission is to facilitate t...

  • Koto and Shakuhachi Concert

    May 03, 1997

    Special Performance Master musicians, Masakazu Yoshizawa on shakuhachi (bamboo flute) and Hiromi Hashibe on koto (stringed harp-like instrument), perform sokyoku (traditional classical) and contemporary music in this special concert. Woodwind specialist Masakazu Yoshizawa is a multifaceted musician, composer, and studio and concert performer who has played and recorded with Henry Mancini, John Williams, t...