Series: Family Festivals
All programs are free for Museum members and free with admission for non-members, unless otherwise noted. Reservations are required for all programs. Seating is limited. Please call 213-625-0414 to make reservations. Events are subject to change.
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Family Festivals
Oshogatsu Family Festival & First Sundays are For Families
FREE, no reservations required Ring in the New Year with fun arts and crafts, whimsical tales, and exciting performances at the National Museum. This year's festival will feature a special activity created by Giant Robot. Visitors will also receive free admission to MOCA's ©Murakami exhibition as a part of their "First Sundays are For Families" program by checking in at the "For Families" table (1:00 – 3:30 PM). 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM 12:00 PM 1:00 PM & 3:00 PM 2:00 PM & 4:00 PM In conjunction with the exhibition Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues |
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TARGET FREE FAMILY SATURDAY
FREE ALL DAY Generously sponsored by Target, these special Saturdays are filled with fun activities giving families unique ways to learn, play, and grow together. |
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Target Free Family Saturday: Up, Up, and Away!
FREE ALL DAY!Enjoy a day of family fun with kite-making and exciting flying demonstrations. Generously sponsored by Target, these special Saturdays are filled with fun activities giving families unique ways to learn, play, and grow together. Daily Schedule: All day Activities: origami wind wheel, origami swan, and Fish Kites. As well as a special mother’s day craft. 11:00 – Doors open 12:00 – Workshop session 1: History of Kites / Kites Around the World / Asian-American Kites 1:00 – Story Time: “Henry and the Kite Dragon” with Mar Elepano 2:00 – Workshop session 2: Paper / Plastic kites - Students create kites of their choice after basic concepts are introduced 3:30 – Workshop/Demonstration: Flying of Asian - American Kite and Kites the students created 3:45 – Kite Contest The workshops will be taught by: Kelvin Chun, kite enthusiast http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kyschun/ Kelvin Chun is an award winning educator, magician, balloon sculptor and kite enthusiast. He is best known for his educational technology background, stage magic, inventive balloon sculptures and kites. Kelvin Chun, a technology specialist at Nu'uanu Elementary School, has been named one of three Ed Tech Leaders of the Year by Technology & Learning magazine, a trade publication. Kelvin has performed and presented at numerous conventions and conferences and provided staff development workshops and courses in the field of mathematics, magic, balloons, kites, and emerging technologies and their impact on learning at all ages. 2008 Target Free Family Saturday schedule |
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Target Free Family Day: Cooking Capers
FREE ALL DAY! Delight in a day of family fun that explores shared cooking traditions within the Asian American community. Generously sponsored by Target, these special Saturdays are filled with fun activities giving families unique ways to learn, play, and grow together. Schedule for the day About our Friends: Kidding Around The Kitchen, It is such a common problem in today's world that families rarely get to eat together anymore. Kidding around the Kitchen shows that families can make and eat food together without a lot of fuss or a huge time commitment. The family food demo helps families with tips on smarter shopping, fun recipe ideas, advice on how to incorporate healthier choices when possible and advice on how to delegate tasks in an age-appropriate way. This family food demo is a “how to” get everyone involved in the family meal. Kidding around the Kitchen is for families that have full plates in life as well as wanting a full plate of food to enjoy together. It's about time well spent. You'll see your kids get a we did it attitude!! This family food demo works on the try it premises all while empowering the kids and family. If we can do it, so can you!! Kidding around the Kitchen is an adventure in fun, food and family. We are not only making food, we are making memories. Drop in times are 12:00 to 3:00 pm. For more information on Kidding around the kitchen go to: http://www.kiddingaroundthekitchen.com Fugetsu-Do Sweet Shop, Fugetsu-Do has been a family owned and operated confectionery store in Little Tokyo since 1903. Japanese rice cakes, more commonly known as mochi (rice cake) and manju (sweet bean-filled rice cake), are the staple. The shop, which is currently operated by Brian Kito, is located on East First Street, in the heart of the Historic District of Little Tokyo. Some of the family history was shared with me, and I welcome the opportunity to put down on paper one family's history in the United States. Demonstration/Tasting times are: 12:30 and 2:30 pm. For more information on Fugetsu-Do Sweet Shop go to: http://www.fugetsu-do.com Sushi Chef Institute, Would you like to get the high quality education of Sushi making? Would you like to be a master Japanese cooking? We are sure to meet your expectations. Sushi Chef Institute (SCI) is a Sushi School for anyone who wants to learn Sushi making and Traditional Japanese cooking. The Instructor, Chef Andy Matsuda, is the first person who is authorized to serve as an instructor in California Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Institution. He had appeared on famous magazines, People magazine and New York Foody magazine. And he also had appeared on Fox 11 TV show. Now, he teaches not only regular students, but also instructors of Le Cordon Bleu, French culinary school. We hope we could support your dream and see you soon in our class at SCI. Demonstration/Tasting times are: 1:00 and 3:00 pm. For more information on Sushi Chef Institute go to: http://www.sushischool.net 2008 Target Free Family Saturday schedule |
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Summer Festival on the Courtyard
A New Spin: Past Meets PresentAugust 16, 2008, 1-7 PM (The galleries and National Museum store will remain open until 7 PM!) FREE ALL DAY! Celebrate summer at the National Museum with a day of fun activities for the entire family. FREE raffle for Japanese American National Museum Members Join or renew your membership at the event and receive a special gift! 1:00: Doors open 1:00 – 5:00: Craft activities for the entire family 4:00: Book reading and signing. 1001 Cranes, Written by Naomi Hirahara 5:00 – 7:00: Performances At just 19 years old, Andrew has performed for clients like Nordstrom, Barnes and Noble, and more. An international award winner with a fresh approach to traditional magic, his skill and talent have been featured on national television, most recently in a commercial featuring Tila Tequila. Andrew currently resides in San Francisco. To see video clips of his previous shows visit: www.MagicbyAndrew.com NSU Modern is the first competitive Nikkei dance group among Southern California's impressive collection of collegiate dance talent. The dancers are proud to represent the Nikkei Student Union of UCLA, the university's only Japanese American student association. The team is comprised of multi-ethnic Bruin students who all share the same passion for dance, performance, competition, creativity, and community. To see video clips of their previous performances visit: http://www.myspace.com/nsumodern The TAIKOPROJECT is an ensemble of premiere taiko drummers dedicated to promoting and advancing the American art of taiko. Through public performances, education, and outreach activities, TAIKOPROJECT is committed to preserving taiko as a dynamic element of Japanese American culture and heritage. In addition to maintaining taiko as a community-based tradition, TAIKOPROJECT also incorporates unconventional and innovative concepts to expand artistic boundaries. Through these values, TAIKOPROJECT seeks not only to entertain audiences, but also to inform them about the history and integrity of taiko as an evolving art form. To see video clips of their previous shows visit: www.taikoproject.com |
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Target Free Family Day: A Whale of a Tale
FREE ALL DAY Enjoy a day of family fun that explores shared traditions within the Asian American community. September's theme is folks tales. Generously sponsored by Target, these special Saturdays are filled with fun activities giving families unique ways to learn, play, and grow together. Schedule *Kamishibai, literally "paper drama", is a form of storytelling that originated in Japanese Buddhist temples in the 12th century. About our Friends: East West Players is an Asian American theatre organization in Los Angeles, founded in 1965. As one of the nation’s first Asian American theatre organizations, East West Players today continues to produce works and educational programs that give voice to the Asian Pacific American experience. For more information go to: www.eastwestplayers.org We Tell Stories is a multi-ethnic group of artists that seeks to educate, nurture, and strengthen communities by reconnecting young audiences with the ancient powers of storytelling and theatre. For more information go to: www.wetellstories.org 2008 Target Free Family Saturday schedule |
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Target Free Family Day: Brilliant Beats
FREE ALL DAY Enjoy a day of family fun that explores shared traditions within the Asian American community. November's theme is drumming. Generously sponsored by Target, these special Saturdays are filled with fun activities giving families unique ways to learn, play, and grow together. All day craft activities: Feel the beat and make some noise by decorating your own spinning drum and constructing a gobbling turkey. Plus, make an origami turkey just in time to decorate for Thanksgiving! 11:00 PM – Doors open. 12:00 PM – Drum Circle with drumtime (1 hour) 1:00 PM – Progressive Taiko performance 1:30 PM – Drum Circle with drumtime (1 hour) 2:30 PM – Poongmul performance 4:00 PM – Doors close. About our Friends: drumtime John Lacques has devoted his professional life to using music as a tool for empowerment and transformation. With Drumtime, John combines his unique talents and expertise as an educator, professional drummer and theater artist, to facilitate drum circles that encourage and support others to become creators—not just of music, but creators of joy, health, success and community. Through Drumtime, John offers drum circles customized to service the needs and goals of businesses, organizations and institutions. He has also developed and implemented a number of programs for youth, including circles for incarcerated youth and at-risk teens as well as after-school and conflict resolution programs. He also creates rhythm circles for adults and children with special needs. John has facilitated hundreds of drum circles. From corporate events, trainings and team building, to large public festivals, retreats and conferences, he brings to each circle an energetic, responsive and nurturing method of leading. His standards of musical excellence ensure that participants experience the thrill of making truly good music together, literally transforming play into achievement. For more information about drumtime, go to http://www.drumtime.net/ Progressive Taiko Progressive Taiko (or ProTa) is a small ensemble of taiko performers with a diverse background in arts, musical composition, and community campaigns and projects. ProTa’s musical background stems from mixing traditional Japanese drumming with contemporary influences such as Jazz and Hip-Hop. This music is used to help support relevant community issues within the Japanese American and greater Los Angeles Community. The mission of ProTa is to spread cultural awareness, support community issues, and educate the greater community through progressiveness in thought and artistic expression. Poongmul KCAG was formed on the UCLA campus in 1990 by a group of Korean American students who felt the need for an organization through which students can come to know more about Korean heritage and traditional culture. Hanoolim would not only set an example by excellence in academics, but also by involvement in action regarding social and political issues in the Korean American community. Throughout our 17 years of existence, we have built a strong presence both on and off campus through the four branches of our organization. Poongmul (Korean Traditional Drumming), Open Forum, Korean Culture Night, and EASTAP-East Asians Striving Towards Academic Progress, and for the continual building of strong leadership. Hanoolim operates not just by meetings, but through programs and events, traditional and new, that require active participation of the members to build a special family-like characteristic of our organization and to enrich their experience at UCLA. 2008 Target Free Family Saturday schedule 2009 Target Free Family Saturday schedule Other Family Events at the National Museum |
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Target Free Family Day: Artfully Yours
FREE ALL DAY Enjoy a day of family fun that explores shared traditions within the Asian American community. December's theme is art. Generously sponsored by Target, these special Saturdays are filled with fun activities giving families unique ways to learn, play, and grow together. All day craft activities: Inspired by pieces in the National Museum’s current exhibition 20 Years Ago Today, use a variety of materials to create your own work of assemblage sculpture. Also, make a festive snowflake window decoration to hang for the season! 11:00 PM – Doors open 12:00 PM – Girligami – fresh, fun, and fashionable origami by Cindy Ng 1:00 PM – Cartoon Workshop with Neal Yamamoto 2:00 PM – Girligami – fresh, fun, and fashionable origami by Cindy Ng 3:00 PM – Cartoon Workshop with Neal Yamamoto 4:00 PM – Doors close About our Friends: Girligami by Cindy Ng Origami is fun. But there’s a limit on how many origami cranes anyone can use in a lifetime. Fortunately, Girligami is here, ready to show cool crafters how to fold outside the box! Twenty adorable, all-new designs are perfect for anyone who loves fashion, friends, and folding. Oooh, look! Little shoes! Purses! Clothing! Adorable animals! Valentine hearts! Fortune-tellers! More! More! More! Each project comes with step-by-step directions plus preprinted origami papers to tear out and fold. A separate chapter shows great ways to use the origami crafts, like turning them into earrings and necklaces or adding them to cards and gifts. To find out more about this book visit: www.girligami.com/. Neal Yamamoto To the surprise of many, Neal Yamamoto was able to successfully rip a Bachelor's Degree in Design and Illustration away from the hungry maw that is California State University, Los Angeles. As a freelance (i.e., unemployed) artist, he has spawned a wide variety of scribblin's and scrivenin's that have appeared in over a hundred books, comics, magazines and educational publications nationwide including L.A. Parent, Backstage West, Lakeshore Learning, Asatsu America and many other companies with more okane than sense. Several of his gag cartoons have also mysteriously found their way into publications like American Legion Magazine, Medical Economics, L.A. Funnies, Animal Press, the Discover Nikkei website and others too paranoid to allow themselves to be named. Mr. Yamamoto has also been caught conducting cartooning and comic book illustration workshops at unsuspecting institutions like UCLA Extension, CSULA, Pasadena City College, Glendale Adult Education and Santa Monica City College. Since ‘84, Neal has been composed of several elements not found on the periodic table, masqueraded as a three-foot tall professional basketball hustler and repeated the palindrome “Madam, I’m Adam” to far too many women. As yet, he has not been successfully prosecuted. 2009 Target Free Family Saturday schedule Other Family Events at the National Museum |
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