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  • Fresh Words & Actions: Cold Tofu's The Soy of Sex

    Feb 26, 2004

    Is there really a weaker sex? Why can't people commit to relationships? Why is dating and finding love so difficult? Join us as Cold Tofu searches for the answers to these questions and more at The Soy of Sex. It's the show where Cold Tofu explores love, relationships, and the opposite sex through improvisation. Cold Tofu is dedicated to promoting diverse images of Asian Pacific Americans through comedy and to dev...

  • Community Day of Remembrance

    Feb 21, 2004

    The Day of Remembrance commemorates the signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, which led to the incarceration of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans. The program will feature the premier screening of the film Stand Up For Justice, the story of 16-year-old Mexican American Ralph Lazo who voluntarily went to Manzanar to remain with his friends at a time when few stood up for Japanese Americans. The program...

  • "Question 27, Question 28"

    Feb 20, 2004

    Please refer to the February 19 calendar listing for further information.

  • "Question 27, Question 28"

    Feb 19, 2004

    A performance presented by the Mark Taper Forum's Asian Theater Workshop in association with East West Players Starring Tamlyn Tomita, Emily Kuroda, Shannon Holt, and Dian Kobayashi, Question 27, Question 28 tells the story of the struggles, plight, and courage of Japanese American female detainees of the American internment camps of World War II. Nationally recognized playwright Chay Yew created a documentary the...

  • Craft Class with Ryosen Shibata: Hinamatsuri Origami Dolls

    Feb 15, 2004

    Part two of this popular craft class. Please refer to the February 14 calendar listing for further information.

  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    Feb 15, 2004

    The Little Tokyo community in Los Angeles was once a thriving residential, business, and cultural center of the largest Japanese American community in the United Sates until World War II. Relive history and learn about present day Little Tokyo with National Museum volunteers on this historical walking tour through the National Museum's neighborhood. Fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, inc...

  • Craft Class with Ryosen Shibata: Hinamatsuri Origami Dolls

    Feb 14, 2004

    Just in time for Girls' Day, this two-day class will teach participants how to make these adorable dolls. Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies.

  • "Crawling Through Mud: Avant-Garde Ceramics in Postwar Japan".

    Feb 07, 2004

    Lecture by Louise Allison Cort Although Isamu Noguchi interacted with a wide range of artists during his episodes of making ceramics in Japan, his bold experiments with clay had the greatest impact on a group of young potters just starting their careers. Rather than relying on historical models, these artists looked outward across national traditions and boundaries in order to connect their own work to trends in i...

  • Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics

    Feb 07, 2004 - May 30, 2004

    Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics is the first major American exhibition of Noguchi’s postwar work in ceramics. The exhibition includes approximately 75 clay sculptures presented as a chronological account of Noguchi’s evolution as a sculptor along with the works of Japanese modern ceramicists. Noguchi’s explorations into a wide range of themes, from the abstract to the material, display his fearlessness ...

  • "Nisei Voices: Japanese American Students of the 1930s Then & Now"

    Feb 01, 2004

    by Joyce Hirohata and Paul T. Hirohata, ed. Foreword by Bill Hosokawa Nisei Voices celebrates the lives and documents the orations of Japanese American valedictorians of California public schools in the 1930s. First published by Paul T. Hirohata in his book Orations and Essays (1935), Joyce Hirohata has reprinted the anthology complete with photographs and interviews. The fifty oration manuscripts provide a rare gli...