Sunday, April 6
Special activities from 12pm – 4pm
Music, dance, food, and art will highlight this exciting, colorful, and culturally rich event featuring members of the local Vietnamese community. Have fun honoring and sharing your own culture, or discovering the celebrations of your neighbors.
Activities:
– Make a Scroll
– Rice Cake Wrapping Demonstration
– Craft a Conical Hat
– Xich-lo
– Taste a Jackfruit
– Play Vietnamese Mancala
– Make Food Sculptures in the Art Loft
– Paint on Silk in the Wonder Cabinet Art Studio (for children aged 4 and under)
– Special Storytime in the Wonder Cabinet
Performers:
– Buu Kim Tu
– Viet Steps
– Me Linh Youth
– LD Truong Giang
– MC
Music, dance, food, and art will highlight this exciting, colorful, and culturally rich two-day event featuring members of the local Vietnamese community. Have fun honoring and sharing your own culture, or discovering the celebrations of your neighbors.
Activities are from 12:00 pm (noon) – 4pm on both Saturday and Sunday!
Activities include:
Make a Scroll
Rice Cake Wrapping Demonstration
Fruit Colalge
Conical Hat Making
Taste a Jack Fruit
Play Vietnamese Mancala
Dragon Art Rubbing
Silk Painting
Storytimes
Music, dance, food, and art will highlight this exciting, colorful, and culturally rich two-day event featuring members of the local Vietnamese community. Have fun honoring and sharing your own culture, or discovering the celebrations of your neighbors.
Students in the Museum’s award-winning BioSITE (Students Investigating Their Environment) program will show you how they monitor the health of local rivers, support citizen science, and help to keep our watershed healthy.
BioSITE is supported in part by a grant from Oracle Foundation.
Students in the Museum’s award-winning BioSITE (Students Investigating Their Environment) program will show you how they monitor the health of local rivers, support citizen science, and help to keep our watershed healthy.
BioSITE is supported in part by a grant from Oracle Foundation.
Students in the Museum’s award-winning BioSITE (Students Investigating Their Environment) program will show you how they monitor the health of local rivers, support citizen science, and help to keep our watershed healthy.
Students in the Museum’s award-winning BioSITE (Students Investigating Their Environment) program will show you how they monitor the health of local rivers, support citizen science, and help to keep our watershed healthy.
Have you ever wondered what the fastest animal on earth might be, or why stars twinkle? Find these answers and spark more questions as you celebrate the wonders of science and nature during Question Quest: A Week of Investigating Your World. Throughout the week of April 10-14, you can indulge your curiosity and engage your inner scientist as you explore the natural world around you.
See what’s cooking at Kids Food Festival on Sunday, March 11. It’s fun with food! Kids of all ages are encouraged to have a good time learning about healthy eating with delicious recipes and hands-on activities and games that will tantalize and tease more than taste buds.
• Meet the challenge of a balanced-plate scavenger hunt
• Use pedal power to whip up a healthy fruit smoothie on the Blender Bike
• Nourish the soul and nourish lives by preparing food kits for distribution with Rise Against Hunger
• Plant a rainbow
The Creative Kitchen® Kids Food Festival To-Go, in partnership with the Association of Children’s Museums and Parents and FamilyFun magazines.
See what’s cooking at Kids Food Festival. It’s fun with food! Kids of all ages are encouraged to have a good time learning about healthy eating with delicious recipes and hands-on activities and games that will tantalize and tease more than taste buds.
Highlights of the event include:
Blender Bike Smoothies
Rainbow of Tastes
Meet a Farmer
MyPlate Placemat
Plant a Rainbow
The Creative Kitchen® Kids Food Festival To-Go, in partnership with the Association of Children’s Museums and Parents and FamilyFun magazines.
Join KitaabWorld this Saturday, March 4th for some very special story times about the Indian celebration of Holi at 12:00 and 2:00 in The Wonder Cabinet for children 4 and under. Come celebrate your own culture or learn about the culture of your neighbors!
Join Jin Feng during our Lunar New Year Celebration to learn about Chinese Calligraphy!
Saturday, February 1 and Sunday, February 2 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Jin Feng received her Master’s Degree in Art in China in 2009 and the following year was accepted into the Chinese Calligraphers’ Association, the most prestigious calligraphers’ organization in China. Experienced in the five major scripts of Chinese calligraphy, she prefers official script and regular script.
Now residing in the South Bay, Jin Feng is active in local and regional art associations, and has more than five years of experience teaching calligraphy to children. In 2014 and 2015, her students were awarded top prizes in their age groups in the “Chinese Star” calligraphy contest at San Francisco State University’s Confucius Institute.
In 2010 Jin Feng established Huafeng Calligraphy Association to promote the art of Chinese calligraphy by extending its appreciation and fostering high standards.
Feng Jin received her Master’s Degree in Art in China in 2009 and the following year was accepted into the Chinese Calligraphers’ Association, the most prestigious calligraphers’ organization in China. Experienced in the five major scripts of Chinese calligraphy, she prefers official script and regular script.
Now residing in the South Bay, Jin is active in local and regional art associations, and has more than five years of experience teaching calligraphy to children. In 2014 and 2015, her students were awarded top prizes in their age groups in the “Chinese Star” calligraphy contest at San Francisco State University’s Confucius Institute.
In 2010 Jin established Huafeng Calligraphy Association to promote the art of Chinese calligraphy by extending its appreciation and fostering high standards.
The art featured in Home was created by Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose staff and volunteers. Artists use a wide range of media and concepts to reflect what home means to them.
In its third year, the annual staff and volunteer art show gives visitors a more intimate look at the creativity of the people who work at the Museum.
Students in the Museum’s award-winning BioSITE (Students Investigating Their Environment) program will show you how they monitor the health of local rivers, support citizen science, and help to keep our watershed healthy.
