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  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    Jun 26, 2010

    Relive history and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with National Museum docents. $9 Members; $14 non-members, includes Museum admission. Comfortable walking shoes and clothes recommended. Weather permitting.

  • Bringing the Circle Together: Waterbuster

    Jun 19, 2010

    Free Screening of Waterbuster Waterbuster is a documentary chronicling the dislocation and relocation of the Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara Nation of North Dakota due to a dam that inundated their homeland along the banks of the Missouri River. It is also the personal story of the director’s family, whose life choices were influenced by this powerful reshaping of the landscape. The film examines the events that led up to ...

  • Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival

    Jun 13, 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...

  • Conversations & Loving Prize Presentation with Kip Fulbeck & Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng

    Jun 12, 2010

    UPDATE: Please note that this program is now sold out. But we will be taking names for the waiting list. Please follow directions listed below. Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to hear directly from two notable individuals, artist/professor/writer/hapa activist Kip Fulbeck and President Obama’s sister/educator/author Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng, as they discuss identity, family, and what it means to be multiracial in...

  • Target Free Family Saturday: Uniquely You!

    Jun 12, 2010

    FREE ALL DAY! Enjoy a day of family fun where were we celebrate you! This month's Target Family Free Saturday is in conjunction with the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival. Generously sponsored by Target, these special Saturdays are filled with fun activities giving families unique ways to learn, play, and grow together. Media Sponsors: Los Angeles Downtown News, KSCI-TV LA-18, and The Rafu Shimpo ALL DAY C...

  • 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...

  • Six Taste's Little Tokyo Food Tour

    Jun 06, 2010

    Little Tokyo is home to several restaurants, bakeries, and other historical eating establishments. Its 100-plus years of history provide some fascinating stories. Six Taste's Little Tokyo Tour will take you throughout Little Tokyo, from Fugetsu-Do, a confectionary shop and the oldest building in Little Tokyo to Chado Tea Room, where you'll get to taste some authentic Japanese tea, to several other restaurants and oth...

  • Quakers: Friends of the Japanese American Community

    Jun 05, 2010

    FREE! The Society of Friends (Quakers) were one of the few groups to publicly defend and support the Japanese Americans during the Second World War. Learn more about their important social justice work and legacy that extends to today. Program:Remarks from Joe Franko, former AFSC Regional DirectorVideo clips of AFSC’s “Spirited Engagement”Keynote Speaker: Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Ph.D., George and Sakaye Aratani Profess...

  • Precious Metal Clay Jewelry Making Workshop

    Jun 05, 2010

    Rio Grande Certified Precious Metal Clay (PMC) Instructor, Lee Takasugi, will teach you how to mold, shape, stamp, texture, sand and polish soft PMC copper and bronze clay into unique and beautiful pieces of wearable jewelry. PMC is a clay invented by Japanese scientists from the Mitsubishi Corp., that when fired to a certain temperature, transforms from its soft, pliable form into 99.9% pure sterling silver, 23.5 k...

  • Picture Brides

    May 30, 2010

    Dr. Michiko Midge Ayukawa will shed light on the lives and histories of picture brides—Issei women who came to North America to marry husbands they knew only from photographs— and how they affected the community. Michiko Midge Ayukawa was born in Vancouver, B.C. During World War II, she was incarcerated for four years at Lemon Creek, in the Slocan Valley, Canada. Her family resettled in Hamilton, Ontario. After ob...