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2ND SUNDAY FOR FAMILIES
Dec 09, 2001
Flavors from Home: Multicultural Holiday Foods and Recipes Enrich your holidays with culinary traditions that originated in other lands. Celebrate the rich diversity of the holidays through the foods that are passed from one generation to another here in the United States. Join us as we savor and learn about traditional holiday foods from around the world. Toshi Koshi Soba - For hundred of years, the Japane...
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Craft class with Ryoko Shibata: Christmas Cards
Dec 08, 2001
Craft class with R yoko Shibata: Christmas Cards
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"A Jive Bomber's Christmas"
Dec 08, 2001
Please see December 6 for more information. 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm.
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"A Jive Bomber's Christmas"
Dec 06, 2001
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. Cost: $12 for Museum members, $15 for non-members, $9 for Seniors/Students/G...
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Flower Drum Song Theater Night
Nov 27, 2001
ANNUAL GIVING CIRCLES EVENT Annual Giving Circle members are invited to attend a new production of the beloved musical Flower Drum Song, in its first major revival since being produced on Broadway in 1958. This production, running at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, features a "substantially rewritten" book by acclaimed playwright David Henry Hwang and a performance by Lea Salonga in the role of Mei-Li. The pe...
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Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Sumi-e (ink brush painting) cards
Nov 24, 2001
Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata: Sumi-e (ink brush painting) cards
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Youth Culture in Boyle Heights: Past and Present
Nov 18, 2001
This program will explore past and present youth culture in Boyle Heights, one of Los Angeles' most dynamic and historic neighborhoods. This program is being held in conjunction with the Boyle Heights Project, a multiethnic and collaborative approach to documenting a Los Angeles neighborhood. The project is an initiative of the Japanese American National Museum, the International Institute of Los Angeles, the Jewish ...
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"By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans"
Nov 17, 2001
On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which sparked the unconstitutional incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry in U.S. concentration camps. What led FDR to sign this executive order which forever changed the lives of the inmates and their community? Greg Robinson, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Quebec at Montreal, has detailed in his book Ro...