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.
Music in the Chinese Garden - Qichao Liu on dizi and sheng
A different solo musician will perform each week inside the Love for the Lotus Pavilion, playing unamplified melodies on classical instruments including the dizi, sheng, pipa, erhu, and zheng.
When:
October 12, 2011 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Where
There’s something in the air in Liu Fang Yuan 流芳園, the Garden of Flowing Fragrance.
Music! Starting in October, visitors will be able to enjoy the sounds of traditional Chinese music on Wednesdays from 1 to 3 p.m. in the garden. A different solo musician will perform each week inside Ai Lian Xie 愛蓮榭, the Love for the Lotus Pavilion, playing unamplified melodies on classical instruments including the dizi 笛子, sheng 笙, pipa 琵琶, erhu二胡, and guzheng 古箏.
Let the music transport you to another time and place as you stroll through one of the most magical landscapes in Southern California.
Yunhe Liang 梁云河 on erhu – Wednesday 10/5, 11/2, 11/30, 12/28
Qichao Liu 劉起超 on dizi and sheng – Wednesday 10/12, 11/9, 12/7
Meiye Ma 馬梅椰 on pipa – Wednesday 10/19, 11/16, 12/14
Langchou Chu 朱朗洲 on guzheng – Wednesday 10/26, 11/23, 12/21
Generous support for this music series is provided by The Justin Vajna Memorial Fund for Educational Programs in the Chinese Garden.
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Phone Number:
626.405.3503
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