Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Hao Jiang Tian: "My Wild Ride from Mao to the Met"
Chinese born opera singer Hao Jiang Tian performs the songs that highlight his tumultuous journey from the Cultural Revolution to the Metropolitan Opera.
When:
May 4, 2008 12:00am
May 4th
6:30 - 8:00 pm
Operatic bass Hao Jiang Tian reminisces about and performs the songs that highlight his tumultuous journey from the Cultural Revolution to the Metropolitan Opera. Tian is the first Chinese-born opera singer to achieve fame and a lasting success on world stages, but audiences know nothing about his childhood in a revolutionary household and his seven years of hard labor in a factory.
This program, which combines talk, music, and video, launches his biography, "Along the Roaring River: My Wild Ride from Mao to the Met" (John Wiley in association with Lincoln Center Books), co-authored with Lois B. Morris, who, with her husband Robert Lipsyte, reveal their tales of this East-West collaboration. Reception follows.
Cost:
$15 nonmembers; $12 members/seniors/students
Event Website URL:
Phone Number:
212-517-ASIA
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