Celebrate Chinese New Year in Linn Park and Boutwell Auditorium with Chinese Food, Music, Art, Crafts and Games
Follow the Dragon Team from Linn Park into the Boutwell Auditorium for one of the southeast's largest celebrations of Chinese New Year. Sample authentic Chinese food, play games, take pictures in luxurious silken robes and try your hand at ancient Chinese games of skill and luck. See the best in local, regional and international Chinese entertainment including singing, dancing and acrobatics.
Date: January 31, 2009
Location: Linn Park and Boutwell Auditorium
Time: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Event Website: http://www.bhmchinesefestival.org/
Price: Free
Friday, January 16, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
New Hands, Native Lands
Sunday Topic Tour, January 11 @ 2pm
Birmingham Museum of Art
BMA is offering a 30-minute highlights tour of the New Hands, Native Lands exhibition, which presents recent Navajo pictorial textiles and Pueblo pottery from the American Southwest as a compelling blend of tradition and innovation in both craft and design.The Pueblos are a group of 30 Native American villages,including the well-known Hopi, located primarily in New Mexico and Arizona. The ceramics tradition in the Pueblo area began more than 2,000 years ago.For the Navajo people, who live adjacent to the Pueblos, weaving is an important part of their identity, history, culture, and economy. Traditional weavings include blankets and robes featuring geometric motifs, but weavers responded to the new market opened up by the railroad and began to create pictorial textiles. Once created for tourists, pictorial textiles have become their own important Navajo tradition, and their subject matter reflects all aspects of Navajo life.
For more information, see http://www.artsbma.org/exhibitions/new-hands-native-lands
Birmingham Museum of Art
BMA is offering a 30-minute highlights tour of the New Hands, Native Lands exhibition, which presents recent Navajo pictorial textiles and Pueblo pottery from the American Southwest as a compelling blend of tradition and innovation in both craft and design.The Pueblos are a group of 30 Native American villages,including the well-known Hopi, located primarily in New Mexico and Arizona. The ceramics tradition in the Pueblo area began more than 2,000 years ago.For the Navajo people, who live adjacent to the Pueblos, weaving is an important part of their identity, history, culture, and economy. Traditional weavings include blankets and robes featuring geometric motifs, but weavers responded to the new market opened up by the railroad and began to create pictorial textiles. Once created for tourists, pictorial textiles have become their own important Navajo tradition, and their subject matter reflects all aspects of Navajo life.
For more information, see http://www.artsbma.org/exhibitions/new-hands-native-lands
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