COMING TO THE JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM.....

that you MUST see...

ANSEL ADAMS AT MANZANAR!!!!

Ansel Adams at Manzanar opens on NOVEMBER 11, 2006 and will run until February 18, 2007.

Spurred by a sense that democracy had failed during World War II with the U.S. government's unconstitutional incarceration of thousands of Japanese Americans, photographer Ansel Adams visited the Manzanar, California concentration camp in 1943 and 1944 to document the inmates efforts to build a community within a prison. Usually overshadowed by his iconic American landscapes, the Manzanar photographs allowed Adams "to show (that) these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and despair by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment."

This photographic exhibition, Ansel Adams at Manzanar, is organized by the Honolulu Academy of Arts and will feature more than fifty of Adams' vintage prints, including portraits and photgraphs of inmates working outdoors with the backdrop of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

DONT MISS OUT, BE SURE TO SEE ANSEL ADAMS AT MANZANAR!

In addition to the exhibition, we have some really great Exhibition-Related Public Programs:
(please visit our website at www.janm.org for more details!)

Sunday November 12, 2006 2PM:
A conversation with Curator Dr. Anne Hammond: "Why Ansel Adams Went to Manzanar"

November 16-December 3, 2006:
Award winning Cornerstone Theater Company's Adaptation of Farewell to Manzanar. Please see www.janm.org for performance dates and times, as well as information concerning tickets.

Saturday November 11, 2PM, 7:00PM, 8:30PM:
Pilgrimage: A Film by Tad Nakamura
Call the National Museum for tickets as soon as you can. The seats are filling up fast! 213.625.0414

December 8-16, 2006:
"A Jive Bomber's Christmas" Musical
Please see www.janm.org for performance dates and times, as well as information concerning tickets.

Sunday January 7, 2007 2PM:
Books and Conversations: "Lost and Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration"

Sunday January 21, 2007 2PM:
Books and Conversations: "Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment"

Sunday February 18, 2007, 2PM:
Film Screening: Farewell to Manzanar
(followed by a conversation with Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and participants of the original film)

Saturday February 17, 2007 2 PM:
Community Day of Remembrance
Day of Remembrance will explore the legacy of redress and considers its potential as a powerful tool for the many working to refute revisionist interpretations of history.

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU SOOOOOOOON :)