FREE ALL DAY!

Help us celebrate Year of the Rabbit: Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo with a day of comics, anime, and stories for the whole family. Keep checking back for more information!

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:

• Have your picture taken in a special cutout designed by artist Stan Sakai and decorate a picture frame to go with it!


• Hop to it! Make some fun rabbit ears to wear then check out the Museum’s galleries to see if you can find all of the rabbits on display!


• Decorate a sketchbook to capture your imaginative stories and drawings.


• Ruthie’s Origami Corner: Taking inspiration for Usagi Yojimbo, learn how to fold a samurai helmet.


• SCHEDULE:
  11 AM - Doors open
  
  11 AM – 5 PM – Visit our newest exhibition and celebrate the opening of Year of the Rabbit: Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo
  
  12 – 4 PM – Special continuous screening of vintage anime films from the 1920s and 1930s, the Golden Age of Japanese silent film
  
  1 PM – We Tell Stories performs “Let Them Eat Books” -- Classic literature & poems by Sandburg, Carroll and Twain
  
  1 - 4 PM - Kidding Around the Kitchen is happy to show how to make a broccoli carrot slaw fit for a bunny, a prince or princess or just a hungry chef
  
  2 PM – Stan Sakai, author and artist of the graphic novel Usagi Yojimbo, will give a talk, demonstration, and will sign copies of his latest compilation book, Usagi Yojimbo Volume 25: Fox Hunt.
  
  3 PM – Storytelling Tea Party! Come listen! Come Tell! A storytelling tea party with tasty treats, tea, art, movement, and telling stories with each other!
  
  4 PM - Doors close
  
  ABOUT OUR FRIENDS
  We Tell Stories
  We Tell Stories is a multi-ethnic group of artists that seeks to educate, nurture, and strengthen communities by reconnecting young audiences with the ancient powers of storytelling and theatre.
  
  For more information, visit www.wetellstories.org.
  
  Kidding Around The Kitchen
  WHAT WE DO:
  Kidding Around the Kitchen (KATK) brings a “hands on” cooking experience and lesson to the classroom 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 see in their raw form. The classes reinforce math, science, reading and vocabulary all within a one hour lesson. Measuring cups and spoons help with fractions. Multiplication and division are used when recipes are reduced or increased. Solids become liquids, bread rises, pancakes expand, and science is suddenly edible. Pronouncing ingredient names and reading recipes help to enlarge vocabulary. Studying food labels promotes an awareness of natural and "not so natural" ingredients used in everyday items.
  
  WHY WE DO IT:
  At KATK we recognize that children often drive the eating habits of paring a meal, their choices instinctively move to more natural and less processed ingredients. At home, armed with a cookbook from each session, the kids ask to recreate what they’ve learned in class, (often using the same ingredients that only days before were “yuck!”).
  
  For more information on Kidding around the kitchen, visit: www.kiddingaroundthekitchen.com
  
  Patricia Bulitt
  Patricia Bulitt is a dancer/ interdisciplinary artist and storyteller from Berkeley, California. Having produced 14 years of an annual storytelling tea party, we are happy to have her for our Target Day today. Honored with numerous grants and awards including The Aurora Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and California Arts Council, Patricia was honored as guest artist in Japan in 1984 and 2010.