FREE Family Event at Japanese Am. Nat'l Museum- Sat. Nov. 12th (11am-4pm)

Saturday, Nov 12, 2011
Family Festivals
Target Free Family Saturday: Planet Power!

FREE ALL DAY!

Event Information

ALL DAY CRAFT ACTIVITIES:
Go green by decorating a re-usable shopping bag

Ruthie’s Origami Corner: Using reused paper, fold an origami turkey to celebrate the season.

*Special: Visit literature tables hosted by some of L.A. County’s leading environmental organizations!

SCHEDULE:

Please Note: All workshops will be first come, first serve. Please sign up at the membership table when you arrive.

11AM – Doors open

11AM – Recycled puppets drop-in activity. Create your own puppets made from recycled resources including bottles, chopsticks, plastic utensils, cardboard, and other materials (while supplies last)

12PM – Growing green drop-in activity. Kids and families will have the opportunity to grow small plants to take home (while supplies last)

12PM – Paper Mache Planet Earth workshop. Create and paint your very own planet Earth out of paper mache (limit 20 students)

1 – 4PM – Kidding Around the Kitchen will help you make your own “Save the Planet” seasonal salad

1PM – Paper mache planet Earth workshop (limit 20 students)

1PM – Mottainai* Tenegui* workshop. Create a colorful tenegui towel of your own (limit 25 students)

2PM – Special performance! “Order to Go” is a fun show focusing on the environmental impact of single-use take out containers and utensils!

3PM – Paper mache planet Earth workshop (limit 20 students)

3PM – Mottainai Tenegui workshop (limit 25 students)

3:30PM – Learn the “mottainai” dance

4PM – Doors close

*Mottainai—a Japanese term meaning “a sense of regret concerning waste when the intrinsic value of an object or resource is not properly utilized.”

*Tenegui—a thin Japanese hand towel made of cotton.

ABOUT OUR FRIENDS:
Great Leap
Great Leap, Inc., is a Los Angeles-based, multicultural arts organization which uses art as both performance and creative practice to deepen relations among people of diverse cultures and faiths and to transform how we live on the earth. We collaborate and create with professional artists, foster new leadership in the arts by mentoring emerging artists, and build community through our workshops, residencies, and performances.

For more information about Great Leap, visit: www.greatleap.org.

Kidding Around The Kitchen
Kidding Around the Kitchen (KATK) brings a “hands on” cooking experience and lesson in which the kids actively participate in the preparation of recipes. The result of their cutting, measuring, cooking, and then eating their creations is more than simply a lesson in health. They get to see, touch, smell, and taste the fruits, vegetables, nuts, cheeses, eggs, meats, and other ingredients that they may never have previously seen in their raw form.

For more information on Kidding Around the Kitchen, visit:www.kiddingaroundthekitchen.com.