1/30/11 Lunar New Year Festival Family Day @ Museum of Chinese in America

Sunday, January 30, 2011 from 10am to 5pm

The Museum of Chinese in America

215 Centre Street

New York, NY 10013

(212) 619-4785

Subway: N, R, Q, W, J, M, Z, 6 to Canal Street

Bus: M9, M15, M103

For ages 4 and up

Cost: $10 per person; Free for MOCA members and children under 1 year of age.

Join MOCA for a full-day of family festivities in celebration of the Lunar New Year. MOCA will ring in the year of the Rabbit with storytelling with Kam Mak, celebrated children’s book author, and artist of the Lunar New Year Stamp Series , a noodle-making workshop, a special lion dance performance and workshop, and family-friendly gallery talks through MOCA’s core exhibit as well as through our newest exhibit, Chinese Puzzles: Games for the Hands and the Mind. There will also be arts and crafts activities throughout the day.

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

WORKSHOPS

11:00 am-12:00 pm Lion Dance and Workshop

Learn about why we see Lion Dancing during the Lunar New Year and participate in the ancient art of the Chinese Lion Dance with the United East Athletic Association. All 4 and up.

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Meet the Author: Celebrate Lunar New Year with Kam Mak

Kam Mak, children's book illustrator and author will present his book, My Chinatown: One Year in Poems. Learn about Chinatown using your senses as Kam Mak leads us through the neighborhood using the images and poems in his book. He will also unveil the newest image for the USPS Lunar New Year Stamp series. Ages 4 - 8.

1:45 pm – 2:45 pm Noodle Making Demonstration

Noodles are one of the many foods eaten during the Lunar New Year. Learn why it is so important to eat noodles during this holiday as Howard Li leads a noodle making demonstration. All ages

*3:15 pm – 4:30 pm Calligraphy Workshop

New Year spring couplets are simple decorations of well wishes for homes and businesses. Using basic materials such as red paper and Chinese calligraphy brushes and ink, create your own lunar new year spring couplet with Mingmei Yip, multitalented artist and children’s book author. Ages 6 and up. * All participants must pre-register for this workshop.

FAMILY FRIENDLY TOURS

*Lunar New Year Gallery Tour

Join us on a family friendly tour and learn about some customs and traditions of the Lunar New Year.

10:00 am; 1:00 pm; 2:00 pm;

3:00 pm; 4:00 pm

*Puzzles Exhibit Tours

Come on this family friendly tour of our rotating exhibit, Chinese Puzzles: Games for the Hands and Mind and try your hand with modern reproductions of classic puzzles, including: the tangram – the game that sparked the world’s first international puzzle craze.

10:30 am; 1: 45 pm; 2:45 pm; 3:45 pm

* Gallery Tours and some workshops will be limited on a first come—first serve basis. MOCA Members can sign up in advance by emailing education@mocanyc.org. The general public can sign up in-person starting at 10 am on the day of the event.

DROP IN ARTS AND CRAFTS

10:00 am-4:30 pm Drop-in Arts & Craft Activities

Celebrate the year of the Rabbit by making your own Lunar New Year decoration using traditional Chinese Arts Forms at one of our arts and crafts activity stations: Paper Folding, Tangram Collage Making & Knot Making.

2:15-2:45 pm Calligraphy Demonstration

New Year spring couplets are simple decorations of well wishes for homes and businesses. Artist, Mingmei Yip, will make spring couplets to give away.

Major support for MOCA's Festival Family Day Series is provided by:

MOCA’s Festival Family Days series is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State’s 62 counties; and the National Endowment for the Arts.

http://www.mocanyc.org/visit/events/lunar_new_year_family_day