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Target Free Family Saturday: Let’s Celebrate!
FREE ALL DAY! Celebrate shared traditions and family fun within the Asian American community. December’s theme is festivals! 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: *Special Toy Drive: Bring a new, unwrapped toy to the National Museum and we’ll donate it to the Children’s Hospital of L.A. Schedule: 11:00 AM: Doors open. 1:00 PM: Improv troupe, Cold Tofu, returns to the National Museum for an uproarious improvised holiday show for the whole family. 1:00 – 4:00 PM: Kidding Around the Kitchen will make a homemade edible menorah or Christmas tree. Good enough to eat but perfect to decorate holiday table or mantle. 2:00 - 3:00 PM: You better watch out, better not cry, better not pout, I’m telling you why... a Japanese American Santa Claus is coming to JANM! 3:00 PM: A special one-day Alice's Jive Bomber Concert. 4:00 PM – Doors close About Our Friends: CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: Helping a child "just be a kid" while in the hospital can be crucial to the recovery process. Through the generosity of our community supporters, approximately 500 toys per week are given to patients, based on the guidelines below: *One toy per week that a patient is in the hospital *One toy for a procedure or surgery *One toy for a birthday *Additional toys may be given if children cannot bring toys from home Please help the Children’s Hospital by bringing a toy to the National Museum. Toys have to be new, and wrapped. New books are acceptable too. For more information please call (323.361.2371) or visit: www.childrenshospitalla.org. COLD TOFU Cold Tofu is dedicated to promoting diverse images of Asian Pacific Americans through comedy and to developing multiethnic talent through education and performance. For more information about Cold Tofu visit: www.coldtofu.com/. 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. For more information on Kidding Around The Kitchen visit: www.kiddingaroundthekitchen.com. JIVE BOMBER Written by Saachiko and Dom Magwili, based on the musical “A Jive Bomber’s Christmas” This critically acclaimed musical is the story of a group of Japanese Americans who attempt to celebrate the Christmas holidays despite being behind barbed wire. For more information on the musical, visit: www.traaxproduction.com/html/jive_bomber.html . 2010 TARGET FAMILY FREE SATURDAY SCHEDULE February – Valentine's Day! March – Wear This! May 8: Theme Children's Day "Kids' Day" June 12: Theme: Exploring your Roots "Uniquely You!" July 10: Theme Travel "On the Go" Oct 9: Theme Martial Arts: "Just for Kicks" Nov 13: Theme Fall "Fall into Fall” Dec 11: Theme: Origami “Fold, Crease, and Crinkle” OTHER FAMILY EVENTS AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM |
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Target Free Family Saturday: Merry Melodies!
FREE ALL DAY! Delight in a day of family fun at the National Museum. November’s theme is music. 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: *Special Toy Drive: Bring a new, unwrapped toy to the National Museum and we’ll donate it to the Children’s Hospital of L.A. Schedule: 11:00 AM: Doors open. 12:00 PM: Learn how to play giant Taiko drums. 1:00 – 4:00 PM: Kidding Around the Kitchen will help you make a veggie soup that will be music to everyone’s taste buds. This recipe is in honor of Vivaldi’s, Four Seasons. 1:00 - 3:30 PM: Have a great time singing your favorite songs with friends and family at the Rock Star Recording Workshop. (Limited to 20 children; first come, first serve) 2:00 PM: Taiko Performance 4:00 PM – Doors close About Our Friends: CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: Helping a child "just be a kid" while in the hospital can be crucial to the recovery process. Through the generosity of our community supporters, approximately 500 toys per week are given to patients, based on the guidelines below: *One toy per week that a patient is in the hospital *One toy for a procedure or surgery *One toy for a birthday *Additional toys may be given if children cannot bring toys from home Please help the Children’s Hospital by bringing a toy to the National Museum. Toys have to be new, and wrapped. New books are acceptable too. For more information please call (323.361.2371) or visit: www.childrenshospitalla.org. ROCKSTAR WORKSHOP: Rock Star CD Recording Workshop is the mobile recording studio that turns your event into a recording session for your guests. Reading off a screen and singing along with a backing track, your guests take turns recording their favorite songs. And the end of your event, everyone will take home their very own debut CD! For more information or to book your own party, visit www.rockstarworkshop.net. 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. For more information on Kidding Around The Kitchen visit: www.kiddingaroundthekitchen.com. FAMILY TAIKO WORKSHOP: Japanese immigrants first brought taiko (“big drum”) to the United States, but today’s taiko combines traditional Japanese drumming with world influences to create a uniquely Japanese American art form. In this interactive performance, kids learn about taiko’s basic techniques and some students will try their hands at playing the drums in a call-and-answer session. Kids learn about the rhythms used in taiko and how drummers create their complex music from simple beats. 2009 Target Free Family Saturday schedule Other Family Events at the National Museum |
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Target Free Family Saturday: Toy Shoppe!
FREE ALL DAY! Enjoy a day of toys, toys, and more toys at the National Museum! 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: *Special Toy Drive: Bring a new, unwrapped toy to the National Museum and we’ll donate it to the Children’s Hospital of L.A. Schedule: 11:00 AM - Doors open. 1:00 - 4:00 PM - Kidding Around The Kitchen will help you create your own fruit buddy. This food art project is fun enough to play with but yummy enough to get them to eat a variety of fruits. 1:00 PM – Hear award winning author Ken Mochizuki read his new book, Be Water, My Friend, about Bruce Lee’s early childhood, and also Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story, which tells the inspiring story of Chiune Sugihara. 2:00 - 3:00 PM – Hula hoop Workshop! Become an expert hoop dancer. 3:00 PM – Prepare to be amazed and amused by Jersey Jim, the comedy magician. 4:00 PM - Doors close. About Our Friends: CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: Helping a child "just be a kid" while in the hospital can be crucial to the recovery process. Through the generosity of our community supporters, approximately 500 toys per week are given to patients, based on the guidelines below: *One toy per week that a patient is in the hospital *One toy for a procedure or surgery *One toy for a birthday *Additional toys may be given if children cannot bring toys from home Please help the Children’s Hospital by bringing a toy to the National Museum. Toys have to be new, and wrapped. New books are acceptable too. For more information please call (323.361.2371) or visit them at www.childrenshospitalla.org. 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. For more information on Kidding Around The Kitchen visit: www.kiddingaroundthekitchen.com. KEN MOCHIZUKI: Ken Mochizuki is a published author and a narrator of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Ken Mochizuki include Baseball Saved Us, Be Water, My Friend, Beacon Hill Boys. BE WATER, MY FRIEND By Ken Mochizuki. Illustrated by Dom Lee. Mochizuki tells the true story of the formative years of Bruce Lee's early life growing up in Hong Kong in the 1940s and 1950s, before he became an international film star. PASSAGE TO FREEDOM By Ken Mochizuki. Illustrated by Dom Lee. Afterword by Hiroki Sugihara. As a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania in the 1940s, Chiune Sugihara had a chance to help thousands of Jews escape the Holocaust through Japan, but it was against his government’s orders. When his five-year-old son Hiroki asked, “If we don’t help them, won’t they die?” Sugihara decided to assist the refugees. Based on Hiroki Sugihara’s own words, Passage to Freedom is the first fully illustrated children’s book to tell Sugihara’s heroic story, highlighting his courageous humanity, and the importance of a child’s opinion in his father’s decision. Paper: 32 pp. [Purchase a copy of Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story at the Museum Store Online] HIPHOOPS: Hiphoops are fitted from high-grade, polyethylene plastic, then hand-wrapped with specially designed cloth tape. Their large size and heavy weight makes for easy maneuverability, while cloth tape provides additional friction. Those who may never have been able to hula-hoop as children are surprised and delighted at the ease with which they are able to keep HipHoops airborne. For more information or to book your own party, visit: HipHoops.net. JERSEY JIM: Jersey Jim is very proud of his home state. "The home of Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springstein... and Tony Soprano!" When Jim first drove West, he had his mechanic check his oil, his tires, his transmission. "When he heard I was driving to Los Angeles, he checked my Karma." Jim has been a magician since the age of 12, when he received his first magic kit. By 14, he was performing at birthday parties and challenging local police officers to handcuff him like his hero, Houdini. (And, like Houdini, Jim always escaped.) Jersey Jim's Comedy Magic show is a labor of love. Jim draws on his experience as a graduate of the prestigious UCLA film school and as a working screenwriter to create original and hilarious routines that you will see from no other magician. Jim also designs and builds his own one-of-a-kind equipment. Jim is a pupil of the world-famous and famously funny British magician, Gazzo Osborne. Jim is also co-author of Gazzo's book, "The Art of Krowd Keeping," a comprehensive study in audience management, which has been hailed as a classic in the field. Jim is a member of the Writers Guild of America, holds two California teaching credentials, a BA in film production, and an MFA in screenwriting. Whether it's a black tie corporate affair, a bustling trade show booth, strolling magic in a restaurant, or a birthday party, Jersey Jim's Comedy Magic is ready to amaze, amuse, and create magical memories to last a lifetime. For more information or to book your own show, visit: http://www.jerseyjimmagic.com/. 2009 Target Free Family Saturday schedule Other Family Events at the National Museum |
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Target Free Family Saturday: Crafty!
FREE ALL DAY! Come to the National Museum for fun crafts for the whole family! All day craft activities: Generously sponsored by Target, these special Saturdays are filled with fun activities giving families unique ways to learn, play, and grow together. 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. For more information on Kidding around the kitchen go to: www.kiddingaroundthekitchen.com. 2009 Target Free Family Saturday schedule Other Family Events at the National Museum |
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Target Free Family Saturday: Books Galore!
FREE ALL DAY Come and explore with us the wonderful world of Asian American and Japanese American books. 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: 11 AM – Doors open. 12 PM – A special reading of Allen Say’s classic "Under the Cherry Blossom Tree" by our very own master storyteller Rodney Kageyama 1 PM: Take a tour of our ongoing exhibition, Common Ground: The Heart of Community , with our very knowledge core of docents. 1 & 3 PM– Digital Story Telling Workshop (PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELED) 1 - 4 PM– To celebrate summer, good books and fun foods Kidding Around the Kitchen and JANM are inviting kids of all ages to come and make a homemade maple granola fruit parfait. 2 PM– Author Nathaniel Lachenmeyer will read and sign his book, "The Origami Master." A special activity will follow! 4 PM – Doors close ABOUT OUR FRIENDS: Under the Cherry Blossom Tree Written and illustrated by Allen Say Allen Say retells a classic makura -- a short story told in Japanese joke houses to warm up the audience -- with the sharpness, vigor and timing of a stand-up comic." Under the Cherry Blossom Tree is available at the Museum store. Nathaniel Lachenmeyer Nathaniel Lachenmeyer is an award-winning author of books for children and adults. His books have been translated into six languages. The Origami Master Written by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer. Illustrated by Aki Sogabe. Shima the Origami Master lives on a mountain in Japan. He isn’t lonely, because his beautiful origami animals keep him company. One morning Shima finds a marvelous new paper elephant on his desk. Where could it have come from? The next morning, a splendid dragon is in its place. It looks real enough to fly away. That night, Shima stays awake to find out who could make such wonderful creatures. But when he discovers who the mysterious artist is, he learns a surprising lesson about friendship. The Origami Master is a Junior Library Guild Selection, a Children's IndieNext Pick, and a Booklinks Lasting Connection. Ages 7-9 Hardbound: 32 pp. The Origami Master is available at the Museum store: Museum store 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. For more information on Kidding around the kitchen go to: www.kiddingaroundthekitchen.com/ Other Family Events at the National Museum |
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