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  • Unique Flowers: A Workshop with Elizabeth Asawa

    Apr 19, 2009

    Learn how to transform plain plastic 6-pack rings into unique flowers. Limited to 15 participants, ages 12 and up. Advance reservations required. $8 members; $13 non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies.

  • Meet the Writer/Be the Writer Mixer

    Apr 18, 2009

    PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED Asian American Poetry Writing Presents an opportunity for writers, aspiring writers, and readers to gather and talk about their favorite books. Visit www.aapw-la.org for special guests.

  • Bringing the Circle Together: Killer's Paradise

    Apr 16, 2009

    Free Screening of Killer's Paradise In this powerful film, the award-winning team of Olenka Frenkiel and Giselle Portenier document the story of the brutal killings of women in Guatemala. Since 1999, more than 2,000 women have been murdered there, with the numbers rising every year. This evening's screening will bring together artists, activists and community organizers who will come together to remember and ensur...

  • Target Free Family Saturday: What's Cooking?

    Apr 11, 2009

    FREE ALL DAY! Celebrate shared traditions and family fun cooking demonstration, activities and workshops within the Asian American community. Generously sponsored by Target, these special Saturdays are filled with fun activities giving families unique ways to learn, play, and grow together. All day craft activities: Decorate your own apron for when things get messy. Roll a candle that looks like a...

  • Craft Class: Children’s Day and Easter Cards

    Apr 05, 2009

    Create fun Children’s Day and Easter cards for your friends and family with Ruthie Kitagawa. $8 for National Museum members; $13 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies.

  • Electric Cherry Blossom

    Apr 04, 2009 - Apr 05, 2009

    Japansterdam is proud to present the first annual "Electric Cherry Blossom" Event. It's all happening on Saturday April 4th at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. This event features up and coming bands such as Anime Expo Idol STEPHANIE YANEZ, San Fransisco's J-pop favorites AKAI SKY, and KAILA YU ('The Fast and the Furious') and NYLON PINK, performing their breakout hit from the 'G...

  • El Mexico Mas Cercano A Japon

    Apr 04, 2009

    The documentary directed and produced by Shinpei Takeda reveals rather unknown history of a Japanese community in Tijuana that has existed since the 1920s.

  • "Common Ground" Exhibition Tour

    Apr 04, 2009

    Tour our ongoing exhibition Common Ground: Heart of a Community with our experienced and knowledgeable docents.

  • America's Concentration Camps

    Mar 01, 2000

    The award-winning exhibition America’s Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience is the featured exhibit at the California Historical Society beginning March 21 and running through June 18, 2000. The exhibit drew record crowds to its premier at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles in 1994 and 1995, Ellis Island in 1998 and the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atl...

  • FAMILY CELEBRATION OPENS NATIONAL MUSEUM’S MORE THAN A GAME EXHIBITION March 4, 5

    Mar 01, 2000

    LOS ANGELES—More Than a Game: Sport in the Japanese American Community, the new exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum, opens with a sport-filled family festival on Saturday, March 4 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday, March 5 from 12 noon to 3 p.m. Paying tribute to the 70-year old history of Japanese American basketball leagues will be the National Museum’s first Intergenerational Basketball Free Thr...