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  • Craft Class with Ruthie Kitagawa: Girl's Day Cards

    Feb 24, 2008

    Create greeting cards for Girl's Day and St. Patrick's day. Class fees are $8 for National Museum members and $13 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies. Reservations are recommended.

  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    Feb 23, 2008

    Relive history, learn about present-day Little Tokyo with National Museum docents. $8 Members; $13 non-members, includes Museum admission. Comfortable walking shoes and clothes recommended. Weather permitting.

  • Ruby, Tragically Rotund by Boni B. Alvarez, Directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera

    Feb 21, 2008

    The story of Ruby Salazar, a full-figured Filipina American, whose battle with weight and self-image intensifies when her mother takes a refund on Ruby’s tuition in order to fund her sister’s blossoming beauty pageant career. Presented in collaboration with East West Players.

  • Exhibition Walkthrough

    Feb 17, 2008

    Walkthrough of One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now.

  • Community Day of Remembrance

    Feb 16, 2008

    REDRESS REMEMBERED FREE ALL DAY The Day of Remembrance marks President Roosevelt's signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, which authorized the unconstitutional forced removal of 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast and Hawai'i during World War II. On August 10, 1988 President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 which legislated monetary reparations and an offical apol...

  • Nikkei Album Workshop - Part 2

    Feb 16, 2008

    Part 1: Intro - February 9 Part 2: Hands-on Workshop - February 16 Location: DISKovery Center 353 E. First St in Little Tokyo Learn how to browse and contribute to Nikkei Album, a versatile tool on the award-winning DiscoverNikkei.org Web site. Share personal family stories, community histories, and more through photos, text, audio, and video. Free for members of the National Museum and DISKovery C...

  • Anime Day on the Plaza

    Feb 10, 2008

    FREE, no reservations required Join us for this special collaboration between MOCA and the National Museum with special screenings, discussions, and activities around the art form that has inspired the work of artists like Takashi Murakami.

  • One Way or Another

    Feb 10, 2008 - May 04, 2008

    One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, a traveling exhibition organized by the Asia Society, brings together seventeen artists from across the United States who challenge and extend the category of Asian American art. The title of the exhibition, drawn from the 1978 Blondie hit song, suggests a non-formulaic way of making or seeing art. The artists and their works characterize the freedom to choose, manipulate a...

  • Nikkei Album Workshop - Part 1

    Feb 09, 2008

    Part 1: Intro - February 9 Part 2: Hands-on Workshop - February 16 Location: DISKovery Center 353 E. First St in Little Tokyo Learn how to browse and contribute to Nikkei Album, a versatile tool on the award-winning DiscoverNikkei.org Web site. Share personal family stories, community histories, and more through photos, text, audio, and video. Free for members of the National Museum and DISKovery C...

  • Members' Opening for One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now

    Feb 09, 2008

    One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now brings together 17 artists from across the country who defy a definitive conception of Asian American art. Organized by the Asia Society, New York, and curated by Melissa Chiu, Director and Curator of Contemporary Asian Art, Asia Society Museum, New York, Karin Higa, Adjunct Senior Curator of Art, Japanese American National Museum, and Susette S. Min, Assistant Professor...