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  • Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Pop-up cards

    Mar 23, 2002

    Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Pop-up cards

  • Facing L.A.: A Conversation with its Writers and Poets

    Mar 14, 2002

    Join us for an evening of conversation and readings with some of Los Angeles' most provocative writers. They give voice to living in Los Angeles ten years after the riots and six months after the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. The program will also include a special reading of Angel Island (considered the "Ellis Island of the West") immigration poetry. An evening that fuses past, present, and the future thr...

  • Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Oshi-E (Boys and Girls Day)

    Mar 09, 2002

    Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Oshi-E (Boys and Girls Day)

  • JANM's 10th Anniversary Celebration Gala Dinner and Silent Auction

    Mar 08, 2002

    The Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Hollywood, California For more information, please call 213.830.5631.

  • "Through a Diamond" by Kerry Yo Nakagawa

    Mar 02, 2002

    Through a Diamond chronicles the 100-year history of baseball in America and the role it played in fostering relationships between the U.S. and Japan. Author Kerry Yo Nakagawa also describes how the game of baseball remained in the lives of Japanese Americans who, even after being incarcerated in American concentration camps during World War II, were able to organize themselves into leagues and travel from state to ...

  • Cold Tofu Improv, "The Soy of Sex"

    Feb 27, 2002

    It's back! The show where Cold Tofu explores love, relationships, and the opposite sex through improv.

  • Discovering Your Family Tree Workshop

    Feb 24, 2002

    Workshop with Chester Hashizume Discover your long-lost relatives and create your own family tree. This workshop will also teach you how to enter your family tree in the Museum's National Family Registry. $5 for Museum members, $11 for non-members (includes Museum admission).

  • Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Hinamatsuri (Girls Day) Doll-Making Series, Part II

    Feb 23, 2002

    Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Hinamatsuri (Girls Day) Doll-Making Series, Part II

  • Little Tokyo Walking Tour

    Feb 23, 2002

    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 States until World War II. Relive history and learn about present day Little Tokyo with Museum volunteer Bill Shishima on this historical walking tour through the Museum's neighborhood. Comfortable clothes and shoes are recommended. $5 for Museum members, $1...

  • Day of Remembrance

    Feb 16, 2002

    Day of Remembrance (DOR) is the Japanese American community's annual commemoration of President Roosevelt's signing of Executive Order 9066 and the World War II exclusion and incarceration of Japanese Americans and Japanese Latin Americans. This year's observance is particularly noteworthy, as 2002 marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066. The National Museum, NCRR, the Pacific Southwest Dist...