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The Smithsonian celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month for May 2010 with films, performances, talks, tours, demonstrations and family programs.
| CALIFORNIA | |
| Location: | Japanese American National Museum (Smithsonian Affiliate) |
| City: | Los Angeles |
| Date: | through May 30, 2010 |
| Description: | Currently on view is an exhibition on Textured Lives: Japanese Clothing from the Plantations of Hawai'i.The experiences of early Issei in Hawai'i are revealed and illuminated through exquisite examples of kimono adapted for life and labor on Hawai'i's plantations. |
| MASSACHUSSETTS | |
| Location: | American Textile History Museum (Smithsonian Affiliate) |
| City: | Lowell |
| Date: | May 15, 2010 |
| Description: | Gallery Talk with Featured Artist, Rachel Faller. This event supplements the exhibit More Than A Number—a project of Light of Cambodian Children, Inc., in collaboration with Voice of Cambodian Children, American Textile History Museum, Angkor Dance Troupe, Lowell National Historical Park, Khmer Legacies Project, Cultural Organization of Lowell, and Lowell Community Health Center. |
| NEW YORK | |
| Location: | Flushing Town Hall |
| City: | Flushing |
| Date: | May 16, 2010 |
| Description: | The museum will host an Interactive Arts Workshop: Catch the Bhangra Beat! Discover the richness of Indian culture through dance, rhythms, instruments, and language. Learn bhangra and gaarba, folk dances of India, and be introduced to the drum of Punjab, the dhol. Co-led by Sunny Jain and actress/dancer Reena Shah. |
| Location: | Rubin Museum of Art |
| City: | New York City |
| Date: | May 8, 2010 |
| Description: | Travel to the Himalayas with your imagination through a series of fun and engaging stories of the Storytelling and Movement Family Tour that will appeal to the whole family. Storytelling tours include puppets, games, and movement activities. For ages 6 and older and their adult friends. |
| WASHINGTON | |
| Location: | Wing Luke Asian Museum (Smithsonian Affiliate) |
| City: | Seattle |
| Date: | through September 19, 2010 |
| Description: | In Cultural Transcendence, five Asian Pacific Islander American artists exhibit works that focus on a step forward from traditional to new media: materials expanding beyond their inherent meanings. Their conceptual themes peer into history but do not dwell on a negative past—inequality, discrimination and alienation; instead they search the present and envision a better tomorrow. Cultural Transcendence explores the importance of technology in our modern experience and technology's influence on contemporary installation art. |
| Date: | through October 17, 2010 |
| Description: | The museum currently has on view an exhibition on Paj Ntaub: Stories of Hmong in Washington. Hmong women began weaving the Paj Ntaub (pronounced 'Pa Dau') flower cloth to stitch a record preserving Hmong history. Through family photos, cultural artifacts and first-person stories, uncover the rich history and culture of Hmong in Washington State. |
