FREE ALL DAY

Enjoy a day of family fun that explores shared traditions within the Asian American community. December's theme is art.

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: Inspired by pieces in the National Museum’s current exhibition 20 Years Ago Today, use a variety of materials to create your own work of assemblage sculpture. Also, make a festive snowflake window decoration to hang for the season!

11:00 PM – Doors open

12:00 PM – Girligami – fresh, fun, and fashionable origami by Cindy Ng

1:00 PM – Cartoon Workshop with Neal Yamamoto

2:00 PM – Girligami – fresh, fun, and fashionable origami by Cindy Ng

3:00 PM – Cartoon Workshop with Neal Yamamoto

4:00 PM – Doors close


About our Friends:

Girligami by Cindy Ng

Origami is fun. But there’s a limit on how many origami cranes anyone can use in a lifetime. Fortunately, Girligami is here, ready to show cool crafters how to fold outside the box! Twenty adorable, all-new designs are perfect for anyone who loves fashion, friends, and folding. Oooh, look! Little shoes! Purses! Clothing! Adorable animals! Valentine hearts! Fortune-tellers! More! More! More! Each project comes with step-by-step directions plus preprinted origami papers to tear out and fold. A separate chapter shows great ways to use the origami crafts, like turning them into earrings and necklaces or adding them to cards and gifts.

To find out more about this book visit: www.girligami.com/.


Neal Yamamoto

To the surprise of many, Neal Yamamoto was able to successfully rip a Bachelor's Degree in Design and Illustration away from the hungry maw that is California State University, Los Angeles. As a freelance (i.e., unemployed) artist, he has spawned a wide variety of scribblin's and scrivenin's that have appeared in over a hundred books, comics, magazines and educational publications nationwide including L.A. Parent, Backstage West, Lakeshore Learning, Asatsu America and many other companies with more okane than sense. Several of his gag cartoons have also mysteriously found their way into publications like American Legion Magazine, Medical Economics, L.A. Funnies, Animal Press, the Discover Nikkei website and others too paranoid to allow themselves to be named. Mr. Yamamoto has also been caught conducting cartooning and comic book illustration workshops at unsuspecting institutions like UCLA Extension, CSULA, Pasadena City College, Glendale Adult Education and Santa Monica City College.

Since ‘84, Neal has been composed of several elements not found on the periodic table, masqueraded as a three-foot tall professional basketball hustler and repeated the palindrome “Madam, I’m Adam” to far too many women. As yet, he has not been successfully prosecuted.

2009 Target Free Family Saturday schedule

February 14 – Be Animated!

March 14 – Say Cheese!

April 11 – What's Cooking?

Other Family Events at the National Museum

January 3: Erika-San by Allen Say

January 4: Oshogatsu (New Years) Family Festival *FREE ALL DAY

January 17: WOK and ROLL Family Cooking Adventures

March 28: SPRING ROLLS into JANM (a family cooking workshop)