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2003 New Year Family Celebration
Jan 01, 2003
Special Event Join us to welcome the New Year with family and friends Mochitsuki (Rice Cake Pounding) Performance and Demonstration Kodama Taiko will combine this age-old tradition of pounding mochi (sweet rice) with the sounds of taiko. Bring your friends and family to enjoy this uniquely energetic performance and taste the freshly pounded mochi. Koma Workshop In conjunction with the exhibition, Crafting Hi...
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Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: New Year's Cards
Dec 28, 2002
Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes National Museum admission and supplies.
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Enhancing Your Creativity: A Writing Workshop
Dec 14, 2002
Have you ever had the desire to write poetry, fiction or memoirs, but don't know where to begin? Then come to the National Museum's writing workshop, where instructor Cecilia Manguerra Brainard will teach participants how to enhance their creativity by learning how to tap into the right-brain. Specific exercises will be given and participants will have the chance to do some writing and sharing. Brainard has been t...
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Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Christmas Ornaments
Dec 14, 2002
Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes National Museum admission and supplies.
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A Jive Bomber's Christmas
Dec 05, 2002
Enjoy this musical Christmas performance about a young Japanese American woman imprisoned in an American concentration camp during World War II. When her brother goes off to fight for the United States military in the segregated all Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team, she promises to keep the peoples' spirits up for the holidays. $12 for National Museum members, $15 for non-members, $9 for seniors/student...
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An Afternoon of Holiday Songs and Jazz Music, Featuring Floral Harmony and Ark Sano
Dec 01, 2002
Join the Japanese choral group Floral Harmony and jazz pianist Ark Sano as they present holiday songs and energetic jazz harmony to evoke your holiday spirit. Floral Harmony, a Japanese ladies chorus, has performed widely throughout Los Angeles. Ark Sano is one of the top pianists to recently emerge on the American jazz scene. He is the pianist for the straight-ahead jazz band "Black/Note" which has released four ...
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Eyewitness: Stan Honda
Following the devastation of the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001, photojournalist Stan Honda’s extraordinary images of dazed, dust-enveloped victims riveted the public’s attention to the covers and pages of national magazines and newspapers. Honda relates the aftermath of 9/11 to the unconstitutional incarceration by the U.S. government of Japanese Americans during World War II. His photographs of cam...