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Family Day Celebrating the Gullah Culture and Jonathan Green: The Artist & The Collector
Saturday, June 14, 2008, 11am–3pm

This day is a joyful opportunity to experience the Gullah culture. Museum visitors will enjoy sweet grass basket demonstrations, an African market, and Gullah food vendors. For children, there will be face painting, workshops to create Gullah inspired art and crafts, Gullah storytelling, Gullah language lessons, book tales, African drumming and dance lessons. This is a day of fun and learning for all ages.

All Day Activities

• children/family workshops to create African mudcloth-inspired wall hangings, rain sticks and African-inspired animal masks
• Gullah doll workshop with The Gullah Ooman
• Jonathan Green inspired mural for children
• sweet grass baskets with Vera Manigault
• face painting with Balloons and More
• Gullah videos
• Mancala, African board game
• African market
• hammock-making demonstrations with Willie Dereef, Jr.
• watermelon tea and sweet potato pone sampling
• walking cane carving with Frank Reid
• Gullah food for sale with Ultimate Eating
• The Ghana Connection, Don Clerico photography exhibit
• Gullah sweets for sale with Susan Armstrong
• Gullah craft vendors

• 11 a.m. - Jonathan Green: The Artist & The Collector docent tour
• 11:30 a.m. - African jewelry workshop for children with Obakunle Akinlana
• 12 noon - Ron Daise Gullah Branches West African Roots lecture
• 12:30 p.m. - drumming workshop for children with Master Drummer Gene Golden
• 12:30 p.m. - doll workshop for adults with Zenobia Washington (reservation required)

• 11:15 a.m. - Gullah language lesson with Veronica Davis Gerald
• 11:45 a.m. - poetry with Zenobia Washington
• 12 noon - Billy Shepard and the Celebration Gospel Ensemble
• 1 p.m. - Plantation Singers
• 1:45 p.m. - storytelling for children with Obakunle Akinlana
• 2:15 p.m. - Egbe Killimanjaro drumming and dancing with Master Drummer Gene Golden

Previous Free Family Days:

Family Day at the Art Museum

6th Annual Celebration of Chinese New Year

Saturday, February 2, 2008, 11am to 3pm
Our Chinese New Year celebration includes an array of events from chopstick lessons and face painting to discussions of tai chi and Chinese medicine. Participants can have their faces painted, learn to make masks, fans and lanterns, watch Chinese dance performances and play mah jong. The day begins and ends with the traditional Lion Dance.  The schedule, subject to change, includes:

ALL DAY EVENTS:

family workshops for masks, lanterns, dancing lions, noisemakers & kites (weather permitting)
chopstick lessons & noodle tasting
face painting
Big Bird in China video
ice cream tasting with Ben & Jerry’s
Chinese literature for kids
your name in Chinese
tea & fortune cookies
Chinese New Year video Guonian
mah jong
dominoes & Chinese checkers
Chinese paper cutting

SCHEDULED EVENTS:

Chinese brush painting (reservations required)
Chinese story telling
martial arts demo
chi gong demo (“energy practice”)
tai chi
acupuncture lecture with Dr. Jin Dong
Musical Instruments Talk with Bob Lauer
traditional dance with Tamiko Uemura Baka and the Miyagi Nosho: Ryukyu Dance/Music School
Lion Goes to Sleep
art, music & more!

Family Day at the Art Museum

Celebrating Día de los Muertos
Saturday, November 3, 2007, 11am to 3pm
A celebration of Mexican culture will fill the Museum and grounds with the festive atmosphere of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Visitors will enjoy an array of displays, workshops, demonstrations and events including traditional Mexican dancing, music by a Mariachi band and a children’s piñata. This traditional Mexican holiday is a delight for all ages. 2007 marks the fifth anniversary of our Día de los Muertos celebration

All Day Events

Papel Picado & Sugar Skull Workshops
Masks & Skull Maracas
Piñatas Workshop
Traditional Breads & Beverages
Bread Provided By Marisela’s Bakery
Diego Rivera Inspired Mural By Amy Chapman
José Clemente Orozco Altar
Loteria ~ Bingo
Book Tables And Talks - Kim Cantley, Socastee Branch Of Horry County Library
“Day Of The Dead” Videos
“Flickering Lights”, “Food For The Ancestors”
Kid’s Face Painting With Stacie Chapman, Balloons And More
Authentic Mexican Food And Art & Craft Vendors
Mesa Mexicana ~ Buffet With A Traditional Día De Los Muertos Menu
With Miguel Lopez Of City Café

Scheduled Events

11:00 ~ Discover The Aromas & Flavors Of Mexico Lecture-Miguel Lopez Of City Café
11:30 ~ “Day Of The Dead” Altar Lecture-José Mireles Of Coastal Carolina University
11:30-12:30 ~ Children’s Altar Workshop With Alejandro Galves
Noon-1:00 ~ Mexicali Dances With Donna Catton-Johnson
Noon & 1:00 ~ Folk Tales & Storytelling With Joan Leotta
1:00 ~ Ritual Indigenous Aztec Dance With Alejandro Galves
1:00-2:00 ~ Roaming / 2:00-3:00 Outdoor Tent Mariachi Nuevo Guadalajara
2:15-2:45 ~ Traditional Dancing With Ballet Folklorico & Mariachi Nuevo Guadalajara
3:00 ~ Children’s Piñatas Piñatas Provided By Karen And Virginia Rivera

Gullah Culture Celebration

Saturday, May 5, 2007, 11am-3pm

This day is a joyful opportunity to experience the Gullah culture. Museum visitors will enjoy sweet grass basket demonstrations, an African market, and Gullah food vendors. For children, there will be face painting, workshops to create Gullah inspired art and crafts, Gullah storytelling, Gullah language lessons, book tales, African drumming and dance lessons. This is a day of fun and learning for all ages.

On the scheduled program:

• Children/family workshops to create African-inspired animal masks, fans and rain sticks
• Gullah doll workshop with The Gullah Ooman Shop, Pawleys Island
• Sweet grass baskets with Vera Manigault
• Face painting, Gullah videos, and an African market
• Hammock making demonstrations with Willie Dereef, Jr.
• Watermelon tea and sweets
• Gullah literature with the Socastee Library
• Beaufort Shrimp and other delicious Gullah treats with Jesse Edward Gantt, Jr. and Veronica Davis Gerald
• Products from Freewoods Farm, Burgess, SC
• Saving Sandy Island Film and Talk with Betsy Newman, producer, director and writer (11:15)
• The recent translation of the New Testament into the Gullah language with Ron Daise (12:15)
• Doll workshop with Zenobia Washington (12:30)
• Gullah 101: Language and Stories with Veronica Davis Gerald (1:00)
• Drumming Workshop with Master Drummer, Gene Golden (1:15)
• Plantation Singers (1:45 and 2:45)
• Egbe Killimanjaro drumming and dancing with Master Drummer, Gene Golden (2:00)
  

Fifth Annual Free Family Day at the Art Museum Celebrating Chinese New Year - The Year of the Pig
Saturday, February 10, 2007, 11am-3pm

Years of the Pig:

1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, and now, 2007.

Our Chinese New Year celebration includes an array of events from chopstick lessons and face painting to discussions of tai chi and Chinese medicine. Participants can have their faces painted, learn to make masks, fans and lanterns, watch Chinese dance performances and play mah jong. The day begins and ends with the traditional Lion Dance. 

Other events included:

• Family workshops for masks, lanterns, fans & kites
• Musical instruments talk and brush painting
• Mah Jong, dominoes & Chinese checkers
• Tea & fortune cookies and noodle tasting
• Chi Kung Demo (“Energy practice”)
• Chinese story telling
• Literature for kids
• Chinese dance troupe
• Chinese medicine talk
• New Year video - Guonian
• Songs with Precious Jade

Travels in China talk

The Art Museum gratefully acknowledges sponsorship of our Year of the Pig Celebration by Piggly Wiggly Carolina.

Food for the Ancestors - A Mexican-American
Celebration of Día de los Muertos

Saturday, November 4, 2006 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Spooks, skeletons and cemeteries may be the stuff of nightmares for Westerners, but for Mexicans, they mean Día de los Muertos (or Day of the Dead), a lighthearted occasion celebrated each November. The Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum honors this ancient cultural tradition with a Free Family Day featuring foods, music, arts and activities for all ages. The celebration is co-sponsored by Myrtle Beach-based Latinoamericanos En Acción.

Despite its proximity to the Western holiday of Halloween, Día de los Muertos traces its origins to Mexico’s Aztecs, who honored departed relatives by inviting their spirits to visit. Homes would be gaily decorated and the deceased loved ones’ favorite foods would be prepared, along with special treats such as candy skulls inscribed with the names of the deceased, or special breads shaped like ghosts or bones.

The Museum’s celebration will give visitors a chance to sample these holiday treats, shop for Mexican arts and crafts at an outdoor market or be entertained by mariachi musicians and ballet folklorico under a tent. An altar in the main reception room will honor noted Mexican abstract painter Rufus Tamayo.

Visitors of all ages can participate in lotería (Mexican bingo). Lectures will be offered on the tradition of Day of the Dead altars and on collecting Mexican crafts. Those who really want to get into the spirit of the day can join in a salsa dance lesson provided by the Fred Astaire Dance Studio.

Events included:

LA CANASTA MAGICA (THE MEXICAN BASKET)
Collecting Mexican crafts with Princess McDuffy

“DAY OF THE DEAD” ALTAR LECTURE with Miriam Berrouët

STORYTELLING with Joan Leotta

ABOUT OUR TRADITIONS & ALTARS with Sr. Sandra G. Parra, H.C.J.S., St. Cyprian, Georgetown, SC

NICHOS WORKSHOP (TRINKET BOXES) with Shauna McGoldrick. 

MARIACHI NUEVO GUADALAJARA

RUFINO TAMAYO LECTURE with Bobbie Lawson

SALSA DANCE LESSONS with Fred Astair Dance Studio

TRADITIONAL DANCING with Ballet Folklorico & Mariachi Guadalajara

RITUAL INDIGENOUS AZTEC DANCE with Alejandro Galves

CHILDREN’S PIÑATA - Piñatas provided by Karen and Virginia Rivera

Thanks to our many special volunteers, including students from:
Coastal Carolina University, Horry-Georgetown Technical College and Socastee H.S. Spanish Club

Gullah Culture Celebration
Saturday, June 10, 2006 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Children/family workshops to create tribal bird masks, shakerees and gourd bird houses

Gullah dolls with Bunny Rodrigues

Sweetgrass baskets with Vera Manigualt

Face painting

Gullah videos

African market

Watermelon Tea

Gullah food vendors

Firewoods Farm Table from Burgess, SC

Toys, Quilts and Gullah History with Bunny Rodrigues (11:30)

Film and talk: “Remnants of Mitchelville” by filmmaker James Henderson, 15-minute film - First showing in Grand Strand area (12N)

Gullah language lessons and storytelling with Veronica Davis Gerald (12:30)

Doll workshop with Zenobia Washington (12:30/reservations required)

The recent translation of the New Testament into the Gullah language with David Frank, PhD (1:00)

Egbe Killimanjaro drumming and dancing (1:30)

Praise House with Ann Caldwell and the Magnolia Singers (2:15)

Art and Stories

From Goodnight Moon to Art Dog: The World of Clement, Edith and Thacher Hurd

Saturday, June 11, 2005 11:00am-3:00pm

All Day events include face painting, caricatures by Calvin Blassingame, mural painting with local artist Kim Clayton; KidsArt Workshops including mask making, bookmark creations and finger puppet crafting; knitting workshops; games; MoonPies on the tea porch; and an Art Dog video show.

Celebrities including Columnist Bob Bestler of the Sun News; Garth Brooks impersonator Steve Fairchild of Legends in Concert, Surfside Beach; author Thacher Hurd; Meteorologist Ed Piotrowski of WPDE; Senator Luke Rankin; author Mickey Spillane; local children's book author Donna Tyson; Gullah Lecturer Bunny Smith Rodrigues; and more will read their favorite children's books every fifteen minutes throughout the day.

For lunch, Ralph's Diner from Thacher Hurd's popular book Mystery on the Docks will be recreated with the help of Dockside and CreekRatz restaurants of Murrells Inlet and Pepsi Bottling Company. The diner will feature fish & chip baskets for $3 and will be complete with Ralph's favorite music performed by opera singer Roger Derrer.

Scheduled events will include a paper-making workshop with Millie Doud at 11:30 and 1:30 (call the Art Museum to sign-up), professional storytelling at 11:30, Swamp Band performances in celebration of Thacher Hurd's book Mama Don't Allow at noon and 2 p.m., Talks by Dr. Nelljean Rice – What Makes a Classic Children's Book at 12:15 p.m. and by Donna Tyson – Inspiration for Children's Books at 1:15 p.m., Puppet Show "The Three Sillies" sponsored by Chapin Memorial Library at 12:30 p.m., Contra Dancing at 1 p.m. and author Thacher Hurd will give gallery tours at noon and 2 p.m.

All workshops, events and talks are free. Sponsors for this exhibit include Carolyn Burroughs; Caledonia Golf, True Blue Golf and Pirateland Campground in honor of General and Mrs. Holmes B. Springs; Ben Cameransi, MD; Carolina First; The Chapin Foundation; C. L. Benton & Sons; Coastal Federal Bank; Coldwell Banker Chicora Real Estate; Jim Feldman, Attorney; Miss-Master The Children Shoppe; the Myrtle Beach Herald; The Myrtle Beach Pelicans; Myrtle Beach Travel Park; Naturally Fresh, Inc.; New South Companies, Inc.; Pee Dee Magazine; Pegram Associates, Inc.; Sea Mist Resort; Neal Shore, MD; Teer Family; Third Thursday Book Club;   Lou and Jim Watson; and Wild Water and Wheels/N. Myrtle Beach Grand Prix Family Thrill Park.