Daytime

Voices of the Diaspora with Charles Gaines, Gala Porras-Kim, & more

Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description

In an afternoon organized by the Asian American Pacific Islander Arts Network, ARTNOIR, and The Here And There Collective, artists, art historians, and curators discuss the ways that their identity shapes their lives and creative practices. Panelists address how artists of various diasporas navigate existing systems and band together for cultural code switching, when excluded from the art market.

Website Link
channel.hammer.ucla.edu/video/1879/voices-of-the-diaspora-2024-charles-gaines-gala-porras-kim-more
Event Date
Event Location

United States

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10364540
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Another Beautiful Country – AAPI Podcast Interview

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Curator Dr. Jenny Lin and artists of Another Beautiful Country discuss the exhibition.  Featured artworks portray nuanced interplays between Chinese American identities and representations, challenging conventional notions of nationhood. Through cinematic strategies, exhibited artists present transnational relations, familial dynamics, and intimate tales of migration. Resisting stereotypes and the dehumanizing aspects of globalization, Another Beautiful Country brings together artworks as scenes of cross-cultural sharing.    
Website Link
youtube.com/watch?v=CtymIYwauiI
Event Date
Event Location

Online with the Pacific Asia Museum
Pasadena, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.1477849, -118.1445155

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
626. 787.2680
Event ID
10380847
Event Main Image

Monica Youn reads

Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Monica Youn, an associate professor of English at UC Irvine and former constitutional lawyer, reads from her latest volume, FROM FROM, a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award.  The book’s poems tackle issues of racism faced by Asian Americans and other communities in the United States.
Website Link
channel.hammer.ucla.edu/video/1873/monica-youn-reads-january-2024
Event Date
Event Location

Online with the Hammer Museum
United States

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
(310) 443-7912
Event ID
10381996
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THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE HOSHIDA

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
This project honors the spirit and talent of George Hoshida, an incarcerated artist who documented life with pencil and brushwork in a series of notebooks he kept between 1942 and 1945. Through examples of Hoshida’s artwork and personal correspondence with his family, this site hopes to provide insight into one individual’s incarceration experience.
Website Link
janm.org/exhibits/hoshida
Event Date
Event Location

Streaming, – Japanese American National Museum
United States

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10382611
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WAKAJI MATSUMOTO – AN ARTIST IN TWO WORLDS: LOS ANGELES AND HIROSHIMA, 1917–1944

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
This exhibition highlights an artist’s photographs of the Japanese American community in Los Angeles before World War II and of urban life in Hiroshima before the 1945 atomic bombing of the city.
Website Link
janm.org/exhibits/wakaji-matsumoto
Event Date
Event Location

Streaming, – Japanese American National Museum
United States

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10382733
Event Main Image

Visual Communications Archives

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Film
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Visual Communication Archives is one of the largest photographic and moving image archives on Asian Pacific experiences in America.  Created by a group of artists and filmmakers to organize and empower communities through media, Visual Communications is the nation’s first media arts organization dedicated to the honest and accurate portrayal of Asian American and Pacific Islander peoples and communities.  The VC Archives is a story of people in motion, reflecting imagination and adventure, desperation and courage, minds and bodies leaping and struggling towards new possibilities and futures.

 

Website Link
archives.vcmedia.org/
Event Date
Event Location

Online with Visual Communications
120 Judge John Aiso Stree
Los Angeles, 90012
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0508062, -118.2403161

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Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10382672
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Nikkei Uncovered IV: a poetry reading

Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Discover Nikkei held our fourth virtual poetry reading, with a powerful lineup of poets previously featured in Discover Nikkei’s “Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column.” Hosted by traci kato-kiriyama, author of “Navigating With(out) Instruments,” this year’s reading featured Christine Kitano, Mia Ayumi Malholtra, and Matthew Mejia.
Website Link
youtube.com/watch?v=vctEwEY5n68
Event Date
Event Location

Streaming, – Japanese American National Museum
United States

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10382100
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A conversation —One Fighting Irishman: Wayne M. Collins and the Tule Lake Segregation Center

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The documentary, “One Fighting Irishman,” tells the story of attorney Wayne M. Collins whose uncompromising defense of the Constitution drove him to spend years representing over 5,000 of the most maligned Japanese Americans who renounced their American citizenship under duress while imprisoned at the Tule Lake Segregation Center during World War II.  A conversation with George Takei, Sharon Yamato, and Wayne Merrill Collins, attorney and son of Wayne M. Collins, moderated by Brian Niiya, followed the screening.
Website Link
youtube.com/watch?v=G43Fd-TPNkc
Event Date
Event Location

Online Event at Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA 90012
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0653347, -118.243891

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
213.625.0414
Event ID
10380689
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Certificate of Identity: What Now, Part 2

Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
From 1909 to 1928, the U.S. government required all Chinese individuals with legal status in the country to obtain identity certificates. Li Wei Yang, curator of Pacific Rim Collections, explains how this document can help us understand the current debates on immigration enforcement. This document is included in the exhibition What Now: Collecting for the Library in the 21st Century.
Website Link
youtube.com/watch?v=QHcIchqjyYU
Event Date
Event Location

The Huntington- Online
Pasadena, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0522342, -118.2436849

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
626.405.2100
Event ID
10380954
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Giant Robot Biennale 5—James Jean and Eric Nakamura

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
James Jean and Eric Nakamura came together in conversation around art and community regarding the Giant Robot Biennale, an art exhibition that highlighted diverse creative works celebrating the ethos of Giant Robot—a staple of Asian American alternative pop culture and an influential brand encompassing pop art, skateboard, comic book, graphic arts, and vinyl toy culture.
Website Link
youtube.com/watch?v=9DuWAyya_pc
Event Date
Event Location

Online Event at Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA 90012
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0653347, -118.243891

tags

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
213.625.0414
Event ID
10381064
Event Main Image
Daytime